Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Series Post #21

Daily Video – The Vendor Client relationship - in real world situations (Suggested by Wally McClure)

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

• C# - Resizing Images in C# - Tom Hearn
• NetFX - Pattern Matching in .NET 4 - Jonathan Allen (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Win32 - Bitmask values for Win32 File Permissions – Tom Hearn

Alternate Languages – Java, Rails, and other Languages

• PHP - Diving into PHP: Day 16 – Jeffrey Way (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

• Design Patterns - Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – The Arrowhead Anti-Pattern - Chris Missal (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• ORM - More Designer Improvements - Deleting Entities from the model and from the store schema – Julie Lerman (Suggested by Serge Baranovsky)
• Technique - A short introduction to SOLID and DRY for the heads down dev – Greg Duncan (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Testing - How To Read .NET Performance Counters Correctly - Alois Kraus (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Testing - PDB Files: What Every Developer Must Know – John Robbins (Suggested by James Crowley)

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.NET MVC - A RESTful Framework for ASP.NET MVC - Assembla
• ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET MVC Action Filter - Ajax Only Attribute (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET MVC and Localization (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET MVC UI Components (Continued) – Kazi Manzur (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC - MVC ASP.NET grid - Editable rows. Using html table, jQuery and Ajax – Phoenix Software (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC - Pass JSON object from Javascript code to MVC controller (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Books

• New - Programming for Unified Communications with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 - Microsoft Press
• Review - IronPython in Action – Scott Koon
• Upcoming - Regular Expressions Cookbook – Steve Smith

Cloud Computing

• Amazon - Rumor: Amazon to open source Web Services APIs – CNET (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
• Azure - May CTP of the Windows Azure Tools and SDK - Now Supports Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Suggested by G. Andrew Duthie)
• Azure - New Windows Azure Storage Features – May 2009 – Windows Azure

Desktop and Server Technology

• Google - Customize Google Using Server-Side Scripts (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Hardware - Fast Food Apple Pies and Why Netbooks Suck – Joey deVilla (Suggested by Brad Wilson)
• Search - Bing! Microsoft Prepares For War With A Revamped Search Engine (Screenshots) – TechCrunch (Suggested by George Dearing)
• Search - Microsoft’s New Search at Bing.com Helps People Make Better Decisions – Microsoft (Suggested by Jennifer Marsman)
• Search - Woz-Bing! Apple Co-Founder a "Big Fan" of Microsoft's New Search Engine – Yahoo!
• SQL - Pivots to the Rescue – Providing Flexible SQL Server Queries – Dan Wahlin
• Surface - Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 – Surface Blog (Suggested by Jennifer Marsman)
• Windows - Tab Your Applications and Work More Productively With WindowTabs (Suggested by Scott Hanselman)
• Windows - Vista Disconnect From Network Share or UNC Path – Steve Smith

Web Design, Layout, and Graphic Design

• CSS - Lightweight CSS Fisheye Menu
• General - Best web-based FTP managers – AJAX Lines
• HTML - Google Chrome gets HTML video support – CNET (Suggested by Jeff Atwood)
• Web Design - Modal Windows In Modern Web Design – Smashing Magazine
• Web Design - 40 Really Awesome Resources for Design Inspiration - Jarel Remick (Suggested by Nettuts)
• Web Design - Design and Code a Slick Website from Scratch – Part I - Felix Boyeaux
• Web Design - Modal Windows In Modern Web Design – Smashing Magazine

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

• jQuery - Introduction to jQuery Events – Gilbert Pellegrom (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery - jQuery & jFlow – HV Designs (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery - Mixing ASP.NET, jQuery and JSON (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery - Multi-Row Carousel and Image Loader with JQuery – Scripty Goddess (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery - Parsing Strings With jQuery – Devkick (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery - Setting Focus to Control in an IFRAME using JQuery – Thomas Williams (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery Plugin - 15 jQuery Plugins to enhance your HTML form elements – Dream CSS
• jQuery Plugin - 36 Eye-Catching Jquery Navigation Menus – 1st Web Designer
• jQuery Plugin - CalendarView for jQuery - Alex Ganov (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
• jQuery Plugin - Google Feeds API - jQuery plugin – jQuery HowTo (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery Plugin - jQuery BlockUI Plugin (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Mobile Devices

• Windows Mobile - Windows Mobile 7 User Interface to be built from Silverlight – WMPowerUser.com (Suggested by Chris Woodruff)

Podcasts and Videos

• Cloud - Jennifer Marsman on Windows Azure – Jennifer Marsman
• General – StackOverflow Podcast #55 – StackOverflow (Suggested by Developer Fusion)
• Live Services - Chris Pendleton - Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control – Channel 9
• MVC - # 113 - Saying Hello to the Spark View Engine (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• NetFX - Surupa Biswas: CLR 4 - Resilient NGen with Targeted Patching - Channel 9
• Testing - Hanselminutes Podcast 163 - Software Metrics with Patrick Smacchia – Scott Hanselman
• Web - Episode #1 of the Misfit Geek Podcast is now LIVE ! – Joe Stagner

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

• Flex - Efflex - Designer Effects for Flex (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
• Silverlight - Silverlight 3 and Expression Studio 3 launching July 10 – Ars Technica (Suggested by Pete Brown)

Social Networking and Community Platforms

• General - Don’t Miss This One: “31 Days to Build a Better Blog” Workbook – Daily Blog Tips (Suggested by Simone Chiaretta)
• General - Skype 4.1 beta: Share your Windows screen – CNET
• General - Social Networking Media ROI Calculator (Suggested by George Dearing)
• Twitter - 50 Web 2.0 Twitter Applications & Sites
• Twitter - TweetDeck vs. Seesmic - Elijah Manor
• Web 3.0 - Web 3.0 Might Be Really Stupid – Read Write Web (Suggested by Dana Coffey)

Technology Deals

• 25% discount code on June Headspring training (Suggested by Jeffrey Palermo) - :  Call 512-459-2260 and ask for Talisha.  Give her the super-secret coupon code “palermo” to register with a 25% discount. - http://www.headspringsystems.com/

Visual Studio and Other IDEs

• Visual Studio – BackgroundPatchExtension (Suggested by Ryan CS)

Miscellaneous Technology Announcements and News

• AOL Spinoff Approved Last Night by Time Warner Board: Here Are the Inside Details (Not in the Press Release) – All Things Digital (Suggested by Kirk Allen Evans)
• Application Development: 19 Reasons Why Microsoft Is Huge with Developers (and 1 Reason Why Not) – eWeek (Suggested by Jeff Sandquist)
• Gears 0.5.21.0 Released (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
• Google Wave: What Might Email Look Like If It Were Invented Today? – Tim O’Reilly (Suggested by Alan Stevens)
• How To Create A Modern Press Release - Brandon Eley (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
• Refactory.org
• The Future of the Parallelism and its Challenges (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)

Other Resources

• Dew Drop - May 28, 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
• 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
• 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
• Malvern, PA – MSDN Roadshow – June 12th, 2009
• Philadelphia, PA - Higher Education Web Symposium - July 14th, 2009
• Pittsburgh, PA – MSDN Roadshow – June 15th, 2009
• Scranton, PA - .NET Valley Live! – June 18th, 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 19th, 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