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Series Post #33

Daily WTF – Developer attention deficit history: From Books -> Articles -> Blog Posts -> Twitter. What's next? (Posted by Rick Strahl)

Other Link Lists

• LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 6/15/2009+ – Oak Leaf Systems (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 6/22/2009+ – Oak Leaf Systems (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

• General - Multithreading: the ISynchronizeInvoke interface – Luis Abreu

Alternate Languages – Java, Rails, and other Languages

• Java – Java and .NET Interop Project – Apache Stonehedge
• PHP - 22 Open Source PHP Frameworks To Shorten Your Development Time – Web Design Booth (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
• Yahoo - YUI 3: Lighter, Faster, Easier to Use – Site Point (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

• Design Patterns - 10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To - Smashing Magazine
• ORM - Feature CTP Walkthrough: Code Only for the Entity Framework – ADO.NET Team Blog (Suggested by K. Scott Allen)
• Testing - Back to Basics - Trust Nothing as User Input Comes from All Over – Scott Hanselman (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.NET - Creating a Background Thread to Log IP Information - Chris Love
• ASP.NET - Creating a Background Thread When the Web Site First Starts - Chris Love
• ASP.NET - Making a Sharp Dressed Web Form – Thin ASP.NET 8 – Chris Love
• ASP.NET MVC - .NET Fireside Chats - Nick Berardi on 'ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Website Programming' – DZone (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC - A new and improved ASP.NET MVC T4 template – David Ebbo (Suggested by Scott Hanselman)

Books

• Free - All OCS all the time! – Microsoft Press
• New - 2007 Microsoft Office System and Your Windows-Based PC: A Real-Life Guide to Getting More Done is now available! – Microsoft Press

Desktop and Server Technology

• Browsers - Native JSON Support in IE8 and Tracking the ECMAScript Fifth Edition Draft Specification – JScript (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
• Browsers - Serializing the value of empty DOM elements using native JSON in IE8 - JScript (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
• Office - Excel 2007 Named Ranges and Data Validation - Steve Smith
• SQL - Optimizing MySQL: Log Slow Queries – Web Development Stuff (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
• SQL - Top 12 Smart Tips To Work With SQL – Mind Tree (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
• Windows - Engineering Changes to ClearType in Windows 7 – Engineering Windows 7 (Suggested by Microsoft Press)
• Windows - What is svchost.exe And Why Is It Running? – the How-To Geek (Suggested by Luciano E. Guerche)
• Windows - Windows 7 RTM: Scheduled for July 13, 2009! – UX Evangelist (Suggested by Alvin Ashcraft)

Web Design, Layout, and Graphic Design

• CSS - 100+ Massive CSS Toolbox – Tripwire Magazine (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• CSS - CSS3 Unleashed – Tips, Tricks and Techniques – W3Avenue
• CSS - CSS: Get rid of dashed border on focused elements – Joel Varty (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Graphic Design - ColourGrab: extracts colors from an image & generates the Adobe PS Swatch file (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

• JavaScript - jQuery and JavaScript Coding: Examples and Best Practices – Smashing Magazine (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• JavaScript - Loading JavaScript without blocking - Nicholas C. Zakas (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
• JavaScript - V8-GL: 3D Graphics - Nicolas Garcia Belmonte (Suggested by K. Scott Allen)
• jQuery - 10 Ways to Instantly Increase Your jQuery Performance - net.tuts+
• jQuery - 12 jQuery tooltip for web developer – Dream CSS (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery - Animate Image Filling Up Using jQuery – Build Internet (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
• jQuery Plugin - JHeartbeat 0.1.1 Beta (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
• jQuery Plugin - Scroll to Top v2 – Ph.Creative (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Podcasts and Videos

• Alternate Languages - Hanselminutes Podcast 165 - Working Effectively with Legacy Code with Michael Feathers – Scott Hanselman
• Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing – DimeCasts # 120 - Learning the Decorator Pattern (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries - Expert to Expert: Web Programming with Flapjax - A Javascript Framework – Channel 9
• Miscellaneous Technology Announcements and News - Ping 17: Microsoft sues over ClickFraud, Soapbox scales down, Project Natal & Bing on Fallon – Channel 9

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

• Silverlight - Silverlight 3 on XBox 360 – Steve Smith

Social Networking and Community Platforms

• DotNetNuke - DotNetNuke 5.1.0 Released - Joe Brinkman 
• Graffiti - 404 Widget Version 1.0.0.3 – Scott Cate

Miscellaneous Technology Announcements and News

• Discover Bing 411 - 1.800.BING.411
• INVESTing in User Stories – Steve Smith
• Telligent Announces Telligent Community™ 5.0 and Telligent Enterprise™ 2.0 and Previews New Analytics Application - Telligent

Job Opportunities (Sorted by State)

• District of Columbia - AIS is looking for 2 cleared SharePoint/.NET Developers to work in DC. Go to http://bit.ly/ZpJgB – Added 6/10/2009
• Pennsylvania - VB6/VB.Net Developer. Contact James Colley at 888.768.3946. – Added 6/11/2009

Call For Speakers (Sorted by Date)

• None

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 23rd, 2009 - G. Andrew Duthie
• Phoenix, Az - BarCamp Phoenix – August 29th, 2009
• Des Moines, IA – Iowa Code Camp – November 7th, 2009
• New Orleans, LA – MS Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 – July 13th-16th, 2009
• Ann Arbor, MI - 2nd Annual Michigan Give Camp - July 17th-19th, 2009
• Columbus, OH - PyOhio: Python-related Event - July 25th-26th, 2009
• Allentown, PA – TECHbash 2009 – September 26th, 2009
• Knoxville, TN – CodeStock 2009 – June 26th-27th, 2009
• Nashville, TN – devLINK – August 13th-15th, 2009
• Dallas, TX – SharePoint Saturday – July 25th, 2009
• Appleton, WI – Fox Valley .NET Users Group – September 9th, 2009