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Series Post #17

Daily Quote - "A bad workman will never find a good tool." (Posted by Jon Galloway)

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

• C# - C# 4 and the dynamic keyword - Whirlwind Tour around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1 – Scott Hanselman
• General - .NET 4.0 Security (Suggested by Kevin Dente)
• General - A pessimistic HTML sanitizer -  Thomas Johansen
• General - Encrypting Data in .NET Applications – Dan Wahlin
• IronPython - IronPython 2.6 CTP for .NET 4.0 Beta 1 – DevHawk (Suggested by Scott Koon)

Alternate Languages – Java, Rails, and other Languages

• Rails - Installing Ruby on Rails: Windows (Suggested by Scott Koon)

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

• Design Patterns - Can you justify your actions with regards to this pattern? – Oren Eini
• EF - Entity Framework minimum permission considerations - Muhammad Mosa (Suggested by Chris Love)
• Logging - Back to Basics: Using Fusion Log Viewer to Debug Obscure Loader Errors – Scott Hanselman
• Testing - Art Of Unit Testing (The Samurai Book)– Get it now, it’s done. – Roy Osherove
• Testing - Using ELMAH with ASP.NET MVC – Phil Winstanely

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.NET - 20 Image Resizing Pitfalls – Nathanael Jones
• ASP.NET - An Ultra-Simple Sum of Numbers Captcha UserControl – Peter Bromberg
• ASP.NET - Displaying SQL Server Data using a Linq Data Source – Packt Publishing
• ASP.NET - Don’t use Response.End() with OutputCache – Rick Strahl
• ASP.NET MVC - 25+ Best ASP.NET MVC Tutorials and Articles – Ajax Line (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC – Controls – Scott Hanselman

Books

• New - Inside Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 – Microsoft Press
• New - MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-433): Microsoft SQL Server 2008—Database Development – Microsoft Press
• New - Regular Expressions Cookbook – Tim O’Reilly
• New - Using the Google App Engine (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)

Cloud Computing

• Azure - Ray Ozzie Asserts Microsoft’s Position In The Cloud – Tech Crunch (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
• Azure - Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 5/19/2009+ (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
• Kumo - Microsoft Kumo Search Engine Coming Next Week - Michael Horton (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
• S3 - Moving Large Data Sets into Amazon S3 with AWS Import/Export - Stefan Tilkov (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
• SQL Data Services - Provisioning an SDS Database - SQL Data Services Team (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
• VMWare - VMware vSphere 4 Delivers First Cloud Computing OS – Tech Fragments (Suggested by Cloudmeme)

Desktop and Server Technology

• Firefox - Introducing Jetpack, Call for Participation – Mozilla (Suggested by Scott Watermasysk)
• General - How-To: Ping, Ping, Ping, Trace Route! (Part 1) – Web Hosting Guy
• SQL - SQL Backup Cleanups(or Did your Moneybags Make it to Tape?) - Jason Massie
• Windows - How Will Apple Respond to Windows 7? (Suggested by Jon Galloway)
• Windows - Less Virtual, More Machine - Windows 7 and the magic of Boot to VHD – Scott Hanselman

Web Design, Layout, and Graphic Design

• Layout - 8 Layout Solutions To Improve Your Designs – Smashing Magazine
• Web Design - 25 Important Web Design Tools - Pelfusion
• Web Design - Web Design Industry Jargon: Glossary and Resources – Smashing Magazine

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

• JavaScript - 12 JavaScript 3D carousel collections – Dream CSS
• JavaScript - How to Easily Create a JavaScript Framework, Part 1 – Admix Web
• JavaScript - Scaling JavaScript to Large Web Applications (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
• jQuery - 7 ways to load content via Ajax – Free AJAX Codes
• jQuery - jQuery Function Builder (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery - How to access iframe in jQuery (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery Plugin - jGrowl - jQuery plug-in to create pop-up notifications like OS X’s Growl Framework – Dream CSS
• jQuery Plugin - jQuery Progressbar (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery Plugin - Step By Step To Create Content Slider using jFlow, A Minimalist jQuery Plugin – Web Design Booth
• Mootools - ByCropper - Image cropper script using mootools – Free AJAX Codes
• Mootools – ByZoomer – Free AJAX Codes

Podcasts and Videos

• .NET - Inside .NET 4: Meet the BCL Team – Channel 9
• Architecture - Podcast #54 – Stack Overflow (Suggested by Developer Fusion)
• ASP.NET MVC - Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 1.0 – Dan Wahlin
• RIA - An overview of WPF 4 Beta 1 – Channel 9
• RIA - XAML in .NET 4 – Channel 9
• Windows - Hanselminutes Podcast 162 - PowerShell 2.0 – Scott Hanselman

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

• Silverlight - Chart tweaking made easy [How to: Make four simple color/ToolTip changes with Silverlight/WPF Charting] (Suggested by SilverlightNews)
• Silverlight - Flipping Items in Listbox (Suggested by SilverlightNews)
• Silverlight - TreeView Advanced Scenarios (TreeViewExtended) – Justin Angel (Suggested by SilverlightNews)
• Silverlight - Visual Studio helper files – Tim Heuer (Suggested by SilverlightNews)

Social Networking

• General - Web 2.0: Managing Corporate Reputations – Business Week
• Twitter - Twitter contest: what can you code in 130 characters? – Bertrand Le Roy

Technology Deals

•   VSLive Vegas (June) early Brid discount (-$200) ends tomorrow May 22. Nice Venetian room rate too: $119  http://bit.ly/5eMQW (Suggested by Wrox)

Visual Studio and Other IDEs

• Visual Studio Plugins - Demo Dashboard and IDE Extensions - Whirlwind Tour around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1 – Scott Hanselman
• Visual Studio Plugins - The Weekly Source Code 42 - Tree Trim, Plugins, and MEF – Scott Hanselman

Miscellaneous Technology Announcements and News

• General - Real-Time as a Service? Check Out What Notify.me is Working On – Read Write Web (Suggested by George Dearing)
• Open Source - The state of Open Source in the .NET ecosystem: A five year summary – Oren Eini
• Silverlight - Microsoft Says Silverlight Installed More Than Firefox, Safari and Chrome — Combined – Tech Crunch (Suggested by Chris Love)

Other Resources

• Dew Drop - May 21, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft
• Ning CodeTown (Suggested by Kevin Tunis)

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?

• --- Hands On MVC Training (Philadelphia, PA) – May 29th
• --- XamlFest
• 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
• Tampa, FL - The Day of DotNetNuke – June 13th, 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
• Franklin, TN - Microsoft ArcReady – June 12th, 2009
• Knoxville, TN – CodeStock 2009 – June 26th-27th, 2009
• Nashville, TN – devLINK – August 13th-15th, 2009
• Dallas, TX - Dallas TechFest - June 19, 2009
• Reston, VA - MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow - June 2nd, 2009
• Reston, VA – Silverlight FireStarter DC -  June 6th, 2009
• Richmond, VA - MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow - June 4th, 2009
• Vancouver, Canada – ALT.NET – June 12th-14th, 2009