Technology Related Links for May 4 – Post #5

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Quote of the day - “Requirements are like water. They’re easier to build on when they’re frozen.” (Posted by Elijah Manor)

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

Are Helper Classes Evil? - Nick Malik (Suggested by Brad Wilson)
Choosing the Right Scrum Management Tool - Tommy Norman (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
NHibernate Filters - Oren Eini
NHibernate Search – Oren Eini
Philip Wadler and Erik Meijer: On Programming Language Theory and Practice – Charles (Suggested by Channel 9)

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET MVC Best Practices (Part 1) - Kazi Manzur Rashid
ASP.NET MVC Tip: Turn on compile-time View Checking - Adrian Grigore (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Custom Error Pages in ASP.NET – Bean Software
Hierarchical GridView With Clickable Rows - Srikanth Reddy
Letting ASP.NET Handle Image File Extensions in IIS 6 - Jason Gaylord
Leverage ASP.NET Control Adapters for a (slightly) Better UX - Jess Chadwick (Suggested by Craig Shoemaker)
REST Based WCF Service in ASP.NET 3.5 - Kalyan Bandarupalli
Yet Another Forum v1.9.3 Released (Suggested by Dave Burke)

Cloud Computing

Azure Developer Challenge – Steven Martin (Suggested by MicrosoftPress)
Google Aims to Woo the Enterprise With Its Cloud - Stacey Higginbotham (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
Internal clouds: The storm is coming, corporate IT be prepared - NetApp (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
Resources for learning programming in The Cloud - Joe Stagner
The Real Meaning of Cloud Security Revealed - F5 DevCentral (Suggested by Cloudmeme)

Web Design and Layout

13 Great Free Text Editors For Programmers & Web Developers - Anoop Engineer (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
40 Outstanding CSS Techniques And Tutorials - Ar-bent-ing (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

12 jquery tooltip for web developer - raj (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
25 Open Source JavaScript Libraries And Frameworks - Open Source Release Feed (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
How to build a personal mashup page with jQuery - The EZPZ Way
jLinq (Suggested by Scott Hanselman)
jQuery 1.3 Cheat Sheet Wallpaper - G. MeanTime (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery Tabs Plugin with Images - Code Zest (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Simulate Gravity with jQuery - Gaya Kessler (Suggested by jQuery)
yUML and jQuery for Large Diagrams - Tobin Harris (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Microsoft Desktop and Server Technology

Mobile Devices

5 Tips for Making Great iPhone Photos – Chase Jarvis (Suggested by Dana Coffey)

Podcasts and Videos

ASP.NET QA Podcast (Suggested by Phil Haack)
Executive Strategies for Agile Transition - Charlie Kennedy and Tom Paider (Suggested by devpodcasts)
John Rose: Static Managed Runtimes and Dynamic Byte Codes – Going Deep on Channel 9 (Suggested by devpodcasts)
WebDropDown Multi-Select - Selections Handled on the Client - Craig Shoemaker on Infragistics Community
WebDropDown Multi-Select - Selections Handled on the Server - Craig Shoemaker on Infragistics Community
Will Windows 7 be pure win or utter fail? – CNET UK (Suggested by devpodcasts)

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

A Quick Note on XAML Namespaces in Silverlight/WPF - Frank LaVigne (Suggested by SilverlightNews)
Silverlight DataGrid Control - Mahesh Chand (Suggested by SilverlightNews)
Silverlight Game Gallery – Joe Stagner
The first version of the WPF Model-View-ViewModel Toolkit is available - Adam Kinney (Suggested by Scott Cate)

Social Networking

Here’s a Reason to Rethink Community Building - Judy Shapiro (Suggested by George Dearing)

Technology Announcements and News

10 Most Anticipated Ultraportables and Netbooks of 2009 - PCWorld on MSN
FCC gives go-ahead for DirecTV transfer to Liberty Media - Scott M. Fulton
New Amazon Device Debuts Wednesday
Verizon to Offer Free Wi-Fi to Broadband Subscribers
Why text messages are limited to 160 characters - LA Times (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)

Miscellaneous

Tutorials for Visual Effects & Motion Graphics – Video Copilot (Suggested by Tim Heuer)

Other Resources

Get to know… Steve Andrews – NINE Questions with Chris Williams
Dew Drop – May 4, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft

Upcoming Technology Events (Sorted by State)

Events This Week (and next) – G. Andrew Duthie
Phoenix, Az - BarCamp Phoenix – August 29th, 2009
Hartford, CT – 2nd CTDOTNET Code Camp (.NET) – June 13th, 2009
Chicago, IL – Chicago Code Camp – May 30th, 2009
Boston, MA – SPTechCon: SharePoint Technology Conference – June 22nd-24th, 2009
Scranton, PA – WinForms to WPF/Silverlight – May 21st, 2009
Knoxville, TN – CodeStock 2009 – June 26th-27th, 2009
Nashville, TN – devLINK – August 13th-15th, 2009

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