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Series Post #26

Daily Humor – The new easy button (Posted by Elijah Manor)

Other Link Lists

• Dew Drop - June 9, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

• C# - C# 4.0 Dynamic Types - Mohammad Azam
• General - Regular Expressions for Regular Programmers – Jeff Atwood (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• General - Visual Studio 2010 Exams Are Changing – Gerry O’Brien (Suggested by Rafael Van Dyke)

Alternate Languages – Java, Rails, and other Languages

• Ruby - DoS Vulnerability in Ruby – Ruby on Rails (Suggested by Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Ruby - When all you need is a rake – Stephen Balkum (Suggested by Eric Hexter)

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

• Communication - WCF defaults stifles loose coupling – Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz (Suggested by Thomas Johansen)
• General - A Crash Course on the MEF Primitives – Glen Block
• General - Lets build an Application Together. – Joe Stagner
• General - OpenID Security Best Practices – OpenID (Suggested by David Recordon)
• ORM - My Oslo DSL Article Part 1 is Updated for May 2009 CTP - Shawn Wildermuth
• Project Management - Zen and the Art of Project Management – Nate Kohari (Suggested by James Avery)

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET MVC Installer For Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 And Roadmap – Phil Haack
• ASP.NET MVC - More ASP.NET MVC Best Practices - Maarten Balliauw (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC - Opinionated Input Builders for ASP.Net MVC using partials – Part I – Los Techies
• ASP.NET MVC - Opinionated Input Builders for ASP.Net MVC - Part 2 Html Layout for the Label - Los Techies
• ASP.NET MVC - Troubleshooting the MVC installer for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Suggested by Phil Haack)

Books

• New - Murach's ADO.NET 3.5, LINQ, and the Entity Framework with VB 2008 – Joe Stagner

Cloud Computing

• General - The state of cloud computing – Google (Suggested by Kevin Dente)

Desktop and Server Technology

• Browser - 13 Must-Have Add-ons To Strengthen Firebug - Umut Muhaddisoglu
• Office - Google to Reveal Apps Enhancements – PC World (Suggested by George Dearing)
• Search – Bing Maps World Tour – Bing (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Search - comScore Study: Bing Is Off To A Very Good Start – TechCrunch (Suggested by George Dearing)
• Search - How to remove URLs from our index (expanded edition) - Bing
• Search - My Bing experiment: Can it be the default search engine? – ZDNet (Suggested by Peter Laudati)
• Search - The Complete Google Analytics Power User Guide – VKI Studios (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
• Sharepoint - SharePoint Integration with Dynamics CRM – Eric White (Suggested by Laura Rogers)
• SQL - Changing exec to sp_executesql doesn't provide any benefit if you are not using parameters correctly – Denis Gobo
• SQL - SQL Server TempDB – Number of Files – The Raw Truth (Suggested by Denis Gobo)
• Windows - 40+ awesome free Windows apps you can download in 2 seconds – Download Squad (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)
• Windows - Unlock & Unhide Windows 7 Hidden Themes for Regional Countries – BlogsDNA (Suggested by Jon Galloway)
• Windows - Write PowerShell Scripts for YOU! – Sapien Technologies (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)

Web Design, Layout, and Graphic Design

• CSS - Adaptive CSS-Layouts: New Era In Fluid Layouts? - Smashing Magazine
• CSS - Coding Calendars (again) - Lists and Sprites Oh My! – The Design O’Blog (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
• CSS - CSS Beginners Do’s and Dont’s Part 2 – Soh Tanaka (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• CSS - CSS Redundancy Checker (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)
• CSS - Ten CSS tricks you may not know – Web Credible (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Design - Design With Intent – Frog Design (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
• Design – Redmark - An easy way to markup a design & track changes – Redmark (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
• Graphic Design - 30 Illustrator Videos To Turn You Into An Expert – Creative Nerds (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)
• Web Design - 20 Tools to Make the Life of a Web Developer Easier – Nettuts (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

• ASP.NET AJAX - FireAtlas ASP.NET AJAX Viewer – Info Q (Suggested by Simone Chiaretta)
• General - jQuery vs MooTools – Aaron Newton (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)
• JavaScript - 14 Javascript Resources And Plugins For Creating A Stylish Chart – Web Design Booth (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery - 11 keystrokes that made my jQuery selector run 10x faster (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)
• jQuery - Announcing Uniform (Suggested by jQuery)
• jQuery - JQuery: Waiting for Multiple Animations to Complete – Ganesh (Suggested by jQuery)
• jQuery - Setting cookies with jQuery – Chris Hope (Suggested by jQuery)
• jQuery - Sexy Drop Down Menu w/ jQuery & CSS – Noupe (Suggested by jQuery)
• jQuery - Simple Page Peel Effect with jQuery & CSS – Soh Tanaka (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery Plugin - 4 jQuery plugins you should know about – Olio Design (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery Plugin - jQuery Gestures (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery Plugin - jQuery idleTimer plugin – Paul Irish (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery Plugin - jQuery pager plug-in – Rik Lomas (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery Plugin - Jquery wait plugin – iNet411.com (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery Plugin - New jQuery plugin: linkNotify() - An inline link click notification – Brian Cray (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• MooTools - Captures the attention of an object with e24SpotLight to mootools – AJAX24 (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)

Mobile Devices

• Windows Mobile - A Developer speaks – Why develop for Windows Mobile – WMPowerUser (Suggested by G. Andrew Duthie)

Podcasts and Videos

• ASP.NET MVC - Phil Haack - ASP.NET, MVC, and Ninjas On Fire - Channel 9
• Azure - Interview on Windows Azure, hosted by David Giard – Jennifer Marsman
• Deployment – Dimecasts # 116 - Learning Hudson: Setting up to run and report Unit Test results – Dimecasts (Suggested by Derik Whittaker)
• NetFX - .NET Framework++: Moving Forward and Staying Compatible with the Past - Channel 9
• NetFX - Ian Carmichael: The History and Future of the CLR – Channel 9
• Office - Webcasts & Podcasts – Microsoft (Suggested by Laura Rogers)
• Silverlight - Silverlight powered Photosynths for NASA - Channel 9

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

• RIA - .NET RIA Services roadmap update – Tim Heuer
• RIA - RIA Services RoadMap – Shawn Wildermuth
• Silverlight - SilverLight 2.0: Setting the Background of a Button – Michael Neel
• Tools - Blend Artboard Exceptions and Loaded Event – Andy Beaulieu (Suggested by Silverlight News)

Social Networking and Community Platforms

• Blog - How To Approach Categories and Navigation in Blogging – UX Booth (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
• General - Collaborative Networks vs Social Networks – Oliver Marks (Suggested by George Dearing)
• Twitter - Why I Love twitt(url)y – Dana Coffey

Visual Studio and Other IDEs

• Visual Studio - The strange case of Visual Studio getting "out of memory" - Carlos Quintero (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Visual Studio - What is the “VSIX Project” template? – Aaron Marten (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)

Call For Speakers (Sorted by Date)

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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?

• -- Events This Week – June 8th, 2009 – G. Andrew Duthie
• 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
• Boston, MA – SPTechCon: SharePoint Technology Conference – June 22nd-24th, 2009
• Ann Arbor, MI - 2nd Annual Michigan Give Camp - July 17th-19th, 2009
• Columbus, OH - PyOhio: Python-related Event - July 25th-26th, 2009
• Portland, OR – Open Source Bridge – June 17th-19th, 2009
• Allentown, PA – TECHbash 2009 – September 26th, 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
• Seattle, WA - BarCampSeattle09 - June 13th-14th, 2009
• Vancouver, Canada – ALT.NET – June 12th-14th, 2009