Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Series Post #16

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

• Windows Forms – WinFormsMVC – Steve Andrews

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

• Architecture - Short and Long-Running Processes in SOA – Part 1 – Packt Publishing
• Architecture - Short and Long-Running Processes in SOA – Part 2 – Packt Publishing
• API - A Developer's First Look at Windows 7 (Suggested by Scott Hanselman)
• Security - New Templates added to Microsoft’s SDL (Secure Development) resources – Joe Stagner
• Testing - A First Look at Moq - Brett Schuchert (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Testing - A note on testing methodology (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
• Testing - Choosing A Dependency Injection Pattern - Brendan Enrick
• Testing - Time-Tested Testing Tips - Part 2 - Brendan Enrick

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.NET - ASP.NET 4 Beta 1: WebForms Routing extension methods – Scott Galloway
• ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET MVC Domain Routing - Maarten Balliauw (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET MVC HtmlHelper for Uploadify, Take One (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET MVC with Ajax - Ajax.BeginForm and PartialViews – David Hayden (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Books

• eBook - Pablo’s SOLID Software Development (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• eBook - The Practical Guide to Defect Prevention - Microsoft Press
• eBook - Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Resource Kit - Microsoft Press
• New - Beginning JavaScript and CSS Development with jQuery – Wrox (Suggested by NetTuts)
• Review - Wrox Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 – Visoft, Inc (Suggested by Wrox)

Cloud Computing

• Azure - Microsoft's Beginner's Guide To Cloud Computing – Information Week (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
• GDrive - Google's GDrive Cloud Storage Offering "Coming Soon" – Cloud Computing Journal (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
• General - The Future of Software Is The Cloud Application Marketplace – Ulitzer (Suggested by Cloudmeme)

Desktop and Server Technology

• IIS - Vulnerability in IIS Could Allow Elevation of Privilege - Denis Gobo
• Office - Office 2010 test version leaks onto Web - CNet (Suggested by Jason Gaylord)
• Sharepoint - Effective SharePoint UI prototyping using jQuery, FireBug and Greasemonkey (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Windows Media Center - Netflix comes to Windows Media Center – The Windows Blog (Suggested by Peter Laudati)

Web Design, Layout, and Graphic Design

• CSS - 25 Great Examples of Using Gradient Effects in Web Designs – Six Revisions (Suggested by Dana Coffey)
• CSS - 960 Gridder (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

• ASP.NET Ajax - FireAtlas – Firebug for ASP.NET Ajax - Joe Stagner
• General - Automatically minify and combine JavaScript in Visual Studio – Dave Ward (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery – Clean jQuery with DirtyMarkup.com (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery - Make an Animated Alphabet using Keypress Events in jQuery – Build Internet (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery Plugin - Ajaxify jQuery plugin (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery Plugin - Dock Content Tutorial with jQuery and jQuery Easing Plugin – Queness (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery Plugin - jQuery Alert Dialogs - Cory S.N. LaViska (Suggested by Dave Burke)
• jQuery Plugin - rf.Sparks – Matt Kirman (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Podcasts and Videos

• Architecture - AutoMapper with Jimmy Bogard - Polymorphic Podcast (Suggested by Craig Shoemaker)
• Entity Framework - 10-4 Episode 15: Model-First Development with the Entity Framework 4.0 – Channel 9
• User Experience - History of User Experience – Infragistics (Suggested by Developer Fusion)
• Visual Studio - 10-4 Episode 20: Downloading and Installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Suggested by PJ Forgione)

Social Networking

• Twitter - Email, Twitter and IM notifications (Suggested by Phil Winstanley)

Visual Studio and Other IDEs

• Visual Studio - Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 – and Install Fix – Peter Bromberg

Other Resources

• Dew Drop - May 20, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft

Call For Speakers (Sorted by Date)

• June 7th, 2009 - St Louis, Missouri – Day of .NET

Upcoming Technology Events (Sorted by State) – Want something listed? Post your comments. Also, what’s the best way for me to list these events? By date order or by state, then city, then date?

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• Phoenix, Az - Free WPF Training Event – June 5th-6th, 2009
• Phoenix, Az - BarCamp Phoenix – August 29th, 2009
• Hartford, CT – 2nd CTDOTNET Code Camp (.NET) – June 13th, 2009
• Dallas, TX - Dallas TechFest - June 19, 2009
• Des Moines, IA – Iowa Code Camp – November 7th, 2009
• Chicago, IL – Chicago Code Camp – May 30th, 2009
• Boston, MA – SPTechCon: SharePoint Technology Conference – June 22nd-24th, 2009
• Ann Arbor, MI - 2nd Annual Michigan Give Camp - July 17th-19th, 2009
• New York, NY – Bar Camp NYC 4 – May 30th-31st, 2009
• Portland, OR – Open Source Bridge – June 17th-19th, 2009
• Hershey, PA - New Tech Meetup of Central PA June Meetup – June 1st, 2009
• Philadelphia, PA - Higher Education Web Symposium - July 14, 2009
• Scranton, PA – WinForms to WPF/Silverlight – May 21st, 2009
• Franklin, TN - Microsoft ArcReady – June 12th, 2009
• Knoxville, TN – CodeStock 2009 – June 26th-27th, 2009
• Nashville, TN – devLINK – August 13th-15th, 2009
• Reston, VA – Silverlight FireStarter DC -  June 6th, 2009
• Vancouver, Canada – ALT.NET – June 12th-14th, 2009