Technology Related Links for May 5th, 2009

Edition: #6

News of the Weird - World’s Largest Hamburgers in Clearfield, Pennsylvania (Posted by VisitPA)

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

• .NET Fireside Chats - Bill Evjen on Professional ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 - Alvin Ashcraft
• Top 10 Open Source Projects for .NET Developers - Alvin Ashcraft

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

• Castle Windsor 2.0 RTM Released - Oren Eini
• Common Logging 2.0 for .NET Released - Erich Eichinger (Suggested by Glenn Block)
• HTTP cookies explained - Nicholas C. Zakas (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
• Lightweight Test Automation Framework for ASP.NET (Suggested by K. Scott Allen)
• Multithreading: what’s the stack for? - Luis Abreu
• On Engineering and Design: An Open Letter - Bill Buxton (Suggested by Chris Woodruff)
• Web Deployment: Web.Config Transformation - WebDevTools (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

• Adding Default Assemblies, Namespaces and Control Prefixes in Web.Config - Rick Strahl (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC vs WebForms - Advantages/Disadvantages - Chintan Prajapati (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC Validation with Ajax and Json - Hadi Eskandari (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Creating jQuery plug-ins from MicrosoftAjax components - Bertrand LeRoy (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Editing in jqGrid with asp.net mvc - Eric Schoneveld (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• GZip and Deflate Compression Filter for ASP.Net MVC – 58bits (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Put Your Pages and Views on Lockdown - Phil Haack
• Upgrading the default ASP.NET MVC project with IoC and the Unity Controller Factory - Kevin Hoffman (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Why does ASP.NET MVC have to be a ‘web application’? - Peter Mourfield (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Books

• Five Windows 7 chapters free to all - Microsoft Press
• RTM’d today: Windows PowerShell 2.0 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant - Microsoft Press

Web Design and Layout

• CSS Drop Caps, the @font-face tag, sIFR and Cufon - Texas Web Developers
• List of Really Useful Tools for CSS Developers - Khan

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

• 10 great jQuery Form plugins - ThinkFlick (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• 12 jquery tooltip for web developer - raj
• 20 More Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know - Glen Stansberry (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery and JavaScript Coding: Examples and Best Practices - Smashing Magazine
• jQuery & MicrosoftAjax “happy together” (Suggested by G. Andrew Duthie)
• Localizing client side JavaScript - Imar Spaanjaars
• Make Fancy Light up RSS button with jQuery Fading - Design Notes(Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Plugin - jQuery Biggerlink 2 (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Plugin - jQuery sexy-combo (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Plugin - jQuery Star Rating Widget (Suggested by jQuery)
• Plugin - jQuery UI.Layout (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• The Best Way to Call Server-Side Functions with AJAX - Jeff Way (Suggested by NetTuts)

Microsoft Desktop and Server Technology

• SharePoint Server 2007 Virtual Labs (Suggested by Dana Coffey)
• Windows 7 Content on Channel 9 (Suggested by Eric Porter)

Podcasts and Videos

• DimeCasts #107 - Testing MVC Routes - Kyle Baley (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Hanselminutes Podcast 160 - JavaFX and the Web’s Four Virtual Machines – Scott Hanselman
• I. M. Wright podcast: “It starts with shipping” - Microsoft Press
• Microsoft Enterprise Developer & Solutions Conference Live Stream - G. Andrew Duthie
• My MVC Best Practives Talk - Ian Smith (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
• Windows 7 Graphics Architecture Overview - Part 2 - Yochay Kiriaty (Suggested by Channel 9)

Social Networking

• Social Content Management (SCM)? - Eric Sauve (Suggested by George Dearing)

Technology Announcements and News

• Amazon Kindle DX to feature 9.7-inch display? Update: Pictures! - Nilay Patel
• Apple set to buy Twitter, say reports
• CloudDB - Give it a try – Scott Cate
• Microsoft Layoffs - Cinco de Fire-O
• Open Office 3.1 Released
• Share your Tips & Tricks for Jing - Win a T-Shirt! - Anton Bollen
• Windows 7 Release Candidate Released to the General Public

Miscellaneous

• 12 Reasons Startups Hate Microsoft - Michael C. Neel
• Is Technology Producing A Decline In Critical Thinking And Analysis? - Science Daily (Suggested by Robert Scoble)
• The text/plain Semantic Web (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
• What Can You Do with XMPP? - Kathryn Barrett (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)

Other Resources

• Dew Drop - May 5, 2009 - Alvin Ashcraft

Call For Speakers (Sorted by Date)

• Las Vegas, NV – Open Force ‘09 – Due May 8th, 2009
• Tample, FL - Day of DotNetNuke – Due May 13th, 2009

Upcoming Technology Events (Sorted by State)

• -–Events This Week (and next) – G. Andrew Duthie
• -–May 2009 NY/NJ/CT/PA Area Microsoft User Group Meetings - Peter Laudati 
• 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