Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - May 26-29, 2010

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - May 26-29, 2010

Web Development

• Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: StoreController - Ayende
• Building a Store Locator ASP.NET Application Using Google Maps API - Scott Mitchell
• Anti-Forgery Request Recipes For ASP.NET MVC And AJAX - Dixin
• How to Localize an ASP.NET MVC Application - Michael Ceranski
• Tekpub ASP.NET MVC 2 Starter Site 0.5 Released - Rob Conery
• How to use Google Data API in ASP.NET MVC. Part 2  - Mahdi
• jQuery.validate and Html.ValidationSummary playing nice together - simonince
• Automatic Fluent Validation Integration into ASP.NET MVC with MvcTurbine.FluentValidation - Darren Cauthon
• ASP.NET MVC with jTemplates Part 1 and Part 2 - Steve Gentile

Web Design

• Efficiently Rendering CSS - Chris Coyier
• The Best Pricing Tables Design For Your Next Projects - Wajid Khan
• Fantastic Footers: 25 Examples And Best Practices - Mike Smith
• 97 Beautiful Navigation’s for your Inspiration -Swat Chap
• Jquery SlickGrid -Mleibman
• Why and how to create Microsoft Office Minibar with jQuery and CSS3 - JankoAtWrapSpeed
• Cross-domain Ajax with Cross-Origin Resource Sharing - Nicholas C. Zakas
• The jQuery Course Prerelease - Learn More - Mark Grabanski
• Quick Tip: Pure CSS Text Gradients - Jeffery Way
• Wicked CSS3 3d bar chart  - marcofolio
• Breaking the Rules: How to Effectively Break the “Rules” of Good Web Design - Cameron Chapman

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• 20 Silverlight 4 demos in one zip file - Andras Velvart
• Silverlight Cream for May 25, 2010 - Dave Campbell

Database & Related Technologies

• OData Basics - At the AZGroups "Day of .NET" with ScottGu - Scott Hanselman
• SQL SERVER – Simple Example of Snapshot Isolation – Reduce the Blocking Transactions - pinaldave
• EF4 Sample Provider for SQL Server now available - ado.net team blog
• Data Access Practices Using Microsoft .Net: A Nerdly Comparison - Nick muhonen
• Dynamically Pass a Table Name to TRUNCATE TABLE - Suprotim Agarwal

Web Service & Related Technologies

• Great new intro article on SOA in Plain English - Sam Gentile
• RIA Services Demo from PDX Code Camp - Pete Brown

Testing

• Simplify Your Unit Tests With Auto Mocking: Part 1 – Helper Methods - Derick Bailey
• Simplify Your Unit Tests With Automocking: Part 2 - Establishing Context - Derick Bailey
• Project Greenfield: Testing the TDD Waters - Joel Cochran
• Exploring Selenium 2: Introduction & Lessons Learned in Selenium 1 - Jim Holmes
• Encouraging Negative Feedback During User Testing - Michael Wilson

Architecture, Methodology & Project Management

• 7 lessons learned while building reddit to 270 million page views a month - Todd Hoff
• Creating a Fluent Interface with C# - Deran Schilling
• IDisposable: What Your Mother Never Told You About Resource Deallocation - Stephen Cleary
• Static constructor in C# - Baldi
• 13 Strategies To Jumpstart Your Productivity – Celestine
• Creating a software product - are you doing it wrong? - JankoAtWrapSpeed
• Hands-on Labs for Enterprise Library 5.0 and Unity 2.0 Released - Grigori Melnik
• An Overview of Lean Software Practices - Jared Richardson
• 7 Must Read Life Lessons from Abraham Lincoln – Mr. Self Development
• When Mentoring Goes Bad – Dawn E. Chandler
• The Myth of Inspiration? - Echo Enduring Blog

Visual Studio

• Chirp Chirp: Visual Studio Add-In for DotLess, Js, and Css Files - Evan

Cloud Computing

• Using the ASP.NET Chart Control With Multiple Web Roles In Windows Azure - Karsten
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 5/25/2010+ - rj

Others

• Windows Phone 7 Example Application with Landscape Layout - JasonZ