Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Series Post #18

This Day In History - On 22 May 1990 – Microsoft releases the Windows 3.0 operating system (Courtesy of David Penton)

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

• C# - Visual Studio 2008 Built-in Code Snippets (C#) - John Sheehan
• General - XmlSerializer FileNotFoundException – Steve Smith

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

• EF - Complex Types in the EDM Designer in EF4 and a look at updating complex types in code – Julie Lerman
• EF - Customizing EDM Code Gen in EF4 – Julie Lerman
• EF - Final release of ADO.NET provider for Firebird with Entity Framework support – Julie Lerman
• EF - The much improved EDM Wizard Pluralization in VS2010 – Julie Lerman
• EF - Upgrading EF projects to EF4? Don't forget to target .NET 4.0 – Julie Lerman
• General - Jumping The 20 Fence – Rob Conery
• REST – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Testing - Sending ELMAH Errors Via GMail – Scott Mitchell
• Testing - Time-Tested Testing Tips - Part 3 - Brendan Enrick
• Testing - Time-Tested Testing Tips - Part 4 - Brendan Enrick

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.NET - Picasa Style Photo Album Using ListView Control in ASP.Net 3.5 – Code Digest
• ASP.NET - The Top 10 Things Web Developers Still Get Wrong After All This Time (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET MVC and T4 Templates Code Generation Screencast – David Hayden (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Books

• New - Beginning JavaScript and CSS Development with jQuery – Wrox
• Review - Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework - .NET Answers (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Cloud Computing

• Azure - Create and Deploy your Windows Azure Service in 5 Steps - Ryan Dunn (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
• General - Announcing The Cloud Computing Newswire Service - Reuven Cohen (Suggested by Kevin Tunis)
• General - The time is now for Mozy and cloud backup services – ZDNet
• General - U.S. Federal Cloud Computing Market Forecast 2010 – 2015 – Market Research Media (Suggested by Cloudmeme)

Desktop and Server Technology

• Surface - Surface Development Part 5: Futures and Resources – Jennifer Marsman
• Windows - Microsoft dumps 3-app limit from Windows 7 Starter - Lee Mathews (Suggested by Jon Galloway)

Web Design, Layout, and Graphic Design

• Adobe - Fourth Annual Layers 100 Wicked Tips – Layers Magazine (Suggested by Guy Kawasaki)
• CSS - 10 Image Free Sexy CSS Menu and How to Create One – Desizn Tech (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

• AJAX - Create a New Custom Extender – Joe Stagner
• AJAX - Survey: Ajax usage among .NET developers – Bertrand Le Roy (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery - 7 JQuery and CSS based Accordion Menus – Online Tech Tips (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery - 12 jQuery based chart – Dream CSS
• jQuery - 20 jQuery Tutorials Collection (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery - 31 mind blowing collection of jQuery light box - Dream CSS
• jQuery - Create a Resizable Image Grid with jQuery – Web Design Ledger (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery - Create A Tabbed Content Rotator Using jQuery - Raymond Selda
• jQuery - Dynamic Tooltips with ASP.NET & jQuery – Egg Head Cafe (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)
• jQuery - Update on jQuery Ribbon - Mikael Söderström (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery Plugin - 6 Flexible jQuery Plugins To Control Webpage Layouts Easily – Web Resources Depot
• jQuery Plugin - prettyPhoto a jQuery lightbox clone - Stéphane Caron (Suggested by jQuery)
• jQuery Plugin - Valid8 - Amazingly easy input validation jQuery plugin - Jan Jarfalk (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Podcasts and Videos

• Agile - Tips and Advice - Retrospectives (Suggested by Developer Fusion)
• API - Taskbar and Libraries .NET Library for Windows 7 – Channel 9 
• API - Multi-touch .NET Library for Windows 7 – Channel 9 
• Testing - Episode 7 A Tour Around Exploratory Testing (Suggested by Developer Fusion)

Social Networking

• Facebook - Pope 2.0: Vatican launches Facebook application – Newsvine (Suggested by George Dearing)

Visual Studio and Other IDEs

• Visual Studio - Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit - May Preview – Microsoft (Suggested by Wally McClure)
• Visual Studio - VS2010 Code Editor helps you navigate around your code - DevLife

Miscellaneous Technology Announcements and News

• Events - International CES launches new apps section, doubles space in iLounge pavilion (Suggested by CES)
• Events - Publishers Offering Support for User Groups – G. Andrew Duthie
• Gaming - Xbox team's E3 activity on Twitter – Larry Hyrb

Other Resources

• Dew Drop - May 22, 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?

• --- 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
• Okemos, MI - TechSmith Take Your Customers To Work Day - May 28th, 2009
• New York, NY – Bar Camp NYC 4 – May 30th-31st, 2009
• Columbus, OH - PyOhio: Python-related Event - July 25th-26th, 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
• Seattle, WA - BarCampSeattle09 - June 13th-14th, 2009
• Vancouver, Canada – ALT.NET – June 12th-14th, 2009