January 2008 - Posts
A blog post from Chris Bowen has been making the rounds. It contains quite a few technology posters available. Here is a short sampling...
- .NET 3.5 Namespace
- Exchange Component Architecture
- Visual Basic 2008 Keybinding Poster
- Visual c++ 2006 Keybinding Poster
- Visual C# Keybinding Poster
- and many more...
Check it out at http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/2007/12/09/got-tech-posters.aspx
Scott Guthrie will be speaking at the fifth annual AZGroups meeting on Tuesday March 11, 2008.
This is the fifth annual Arizona .NET User Group (100% free) event Hosting Mr. Scott Guthrie. Scott is the manager of all things developer related at Microsoft having over 600 developers that report to him. Scott is most famous for inventing/creating ASP.NET. If you have ever heard of Visual Studio, Silverlight, ASP.NET, IIS, Expression Tools - you have Scott Guthrie to thank :)
Scott is a great great speaker - traveling the world talking about his passion - which is developers. If you have anything to do with developing software - this is a free event not to be missed.
Scottsdale Center for the Arts
7384 E 2nd St
Scottsdale, Arizona 85251
Microsoft and Seagate want to hear your IT / Development stories. Tell them your story and you could be a comic. I wonder how I would look?
http://www.itdevcomics.com/
I came across some cheat sheets from the Microsoft Ajax library. They were created by Millan Negovans.
I started a .NET user group for people of the Southeast valley this week. Meetings will be held on the 4th Thursday of the month. The first meeting will be on January 24th, 6:00 for networking with the presentations starting around 6:30pm.
Our kick off meeting will be held at the Ocotillo Corporate Center (Building B) in Chandler,
AZ in the Golden Nugget room, Google Map. This is located at 2600 South Price Road, Chandler, AZ 85286, just south of the 101 and 202 (San Tan Freeway) and just north of Queen Creek.
For more information on the group check out the Southeast Valley .NET User Group.
The first meeting will cover the following:
- Log4Net Overview
- Maybe some nUnit
- Maybe some Visual Studio 2008 tips
- Then an open forum.
Future possible topics might cover:
- TDD, DDD and MVP(C) development
- Windows Presentation Foundation
- Windows Communication Foundation
- Workflow Foundation
- nHibernate
- "Object Oriented Programming 101"
- Continuous Integration
- Comparison of Database / ORM technologies like netTiers, nHibernate, LINQ, LLBGen, Paul Sheriff's, and others.
Contrary to what I though when I originally got this book it is not related to the ASP.NET Ajax Control toolkit for which you find many articles and web sites dedicated to, instead this book is about the library behind the scenes that makes Microsoft Ajax work. This is good thing because there are a limited number of locations to get some details about underlining JavaScript libraries.
Some of the pros of the book.
- The author provides in depth break down of the code with step by step explanations of what the source code is doing. This makes it easier to follow along.
- Many of the code samples are written out with comments, verbal explanations and UML / class diagrams.
- The first three chapters are on Ajax development without any ties to Microsoft technologies.
Some of the cons of the book.
- A lot of large fonts were used, which makes it a bit unreadable at times.
On to the book content...
Chapter 1 starts off with an introduction of why Ajax is needed and the components involved at a high level. Chapter 2 goes into more detail of the foundation of Ajax covering the DOM, CSS, XMLHTTPRequest object. This is a good overview of Ajax technology that is not tied to Microsoft technologies.
Chapter 3 contains a overview of adding some object oriented programming (OOP) to JavaScript.
Chapter 4 recreates the examples Ajax application the was created in chapter 2 using the Microsoft Ajax library. This is a good example to demonstrate the benefits of using the Microsoft Ajax library.
Chapter 5, which makes the book worth it weight in gold, goes into using Microsoft Ajax library to create "true" OOP JavaScript objects which works across many if not all modern browsers.
Chapter 6 goes into creating controls and components utilizing the library and Chapter 7 build on 6 with providing two component a timer and an enhanced text box control.
Chapter 8 goes into debugging Ajax application with either Firefox or Internet Explorer.
Overall
The book is a good reference book to have if you want to learn more about the Microsoft Ajax library or how Ajax works.
What me to review your book on this blog and my web site (http://www.josephguadagno.net), contact me at http://www.josephguadagno.net/about.aspx
Packt Publishing recently contacted me to review their latest book, LINQ Quickly, so like any techie with three weeks off I decided to catch up on some reading... Well actually I read this book on the flight to NY (5 hours).
Chapter 1 starts off with an brief introduction to LINQ, the rest of the chapter goes into detail of the new .NET 3.5 framework features created to enable LINQ. The next few chapters cover LINQ to ... Objects, XML, SQL, and XSD. Chapter 6 describes how to use LINQ within you ADO.NET DataSets.
Chapter 7, which is worth the purchase price of the book covers all of the new Operators that are available to LINQ queries. This makes the book worthy of purchasing a desktop reference guide for those just getting up to speed on LINQ.
What me to review your book on this blog and my web site (http://www.josephguadagno.net), contact me at http://www.josephguadagno.net/about.aspx
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