Technology Related Links for April 29 – Post #2

Edition: #2

Books

• Beginning ASP.NET MVC – FREE CHAPTER

Cloud Computing

• Bumping into a Cloud Ceiling – Tom Kaneshige, CIO Magazine

CSS

• 960 Grid System – Nathan Smith

General Technology

• iPhone “lite” and iPhone “media pad” might be Verizon Wireless devices - MSNBC
• Obama Announces President’s Council on Science and Technology – ostp.gov

Image Editing

• Handy Tweaks to Make GIMP Replace Photoshop – Blair Mathis
• 7 Icon Search Engines - SingleFunction

JavaScript – AJAX, jQuery, Prototype, and Mootools

• 20 More Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know - Glen Stansberry
• jQuery Performance Rules - ArtzStudio

.NET

• Multithreading: state, atomicity, serializability and linearizability – Luis Abreu

Podcast

• ASP.NET Podcast Show 140: ASP.NET AJAX Databinding – Wally McClure
• .NET Rocks Show 441: Shawn Wildermuth on Silverlight 3 – Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell

Social Networking

• Twitter – Is Twitter Down
• Twitter – Remember the Milk – Interact with your task lists on Remember the Milk
• Twitter - Twibs.com – Find and network with businesses.
• Twitter – Tweetlater.com and Twuffer.com – Schedule tweets for a later time.
• Twitter – Twitter Karma and Friend or Follow – Determine who follows you and who doesn’t
• Vine – Microsoft Releases Vine for Seattle

Software

• Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Vista SP2 - Microsoft

Visual Studio

• Creating Visual Studio Templates from your Web Projects – Rick Strahl

Upcoming Technology Events

• Boston, MA – No Excuses Boston Geek Dinner – April 30th, 2009
• Hartford, CT – 2nd CTDOTNET Code Camp (.NET) – June 13th, 2009
• Knoxville, TN – CodeStock 2009 – June 26th-27th, 2009
• Nashville, TN – devLINK – August 13th-15th, 2009
• Scranton, PA – WinForms to WPF/Silverlight – May 21st, 2009