Technology Related Links for May 8th, 2009
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Daily Quote - The Rule of Software Development… “Fast, good, cheap: pick any two.” (Posted by Elijah Manor)
.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic
- Microsoft Axum – A .NET language for safe, scalable and productive parallel programming through isolation, actors and message-passing – Greg Duncan (Suggested by Jon Galloway)
Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing
- Making the untestable testable with Anonymous Methods and Dependency Injection - Karl Seguin (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- NUnit 2.5 had been Released - Mark Levison (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)
- Pseudocode or Code? – Jeff Atwood
- The BIG Merge – Oren Eini
- The S#arp framework: the SharpModelBinder - Luis Abreu (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)
ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC
- Databind a Combobox to an Enum Property – Version 2.0 – Marcus Wyatt (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)
- I’m a Web Developer At Heart – Phil Haack
- Modifying the default unit tests for an ASP.NET MVC project to use Moq - Kevin Hoffman (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- Using complex types to make calling services less… complex – Dave Ward (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Books
- ASP.NET MVC book: Chapter 1: Plumbing – Jeff Putz (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- Technical Book Club: Code Complete – Software Construction: Building Software - Software for Students (Suggested by MSPress)
- Technical Book Club: How to Participate – Software for Students (Suggested by MSPress)
Cloud Computing
- Eight Best Practices for Building Scalable Systems (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
- How much Azure juice am I drinking? (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
- Spending on Cloud Computing Going Up, Up, Up - Ann All (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
Web Design and Layout
- 3 CSS Coding Tips That Will Save You Hundreds of Wasted Hours (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- 10 Great CSS Selectors you must know - Rakesh Sharma (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- Make your forms beautiful with CSS – Dave Harfield (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries
- 3 ways to define a JavaScript class - Stoyan Stefanov (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- 15+ Excellent jQuery Plugins To Enhance HTML Forms (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- 15 Exceptional JQuery Resources And Tutorials - Patrick Lin and Karthik Viswanathan (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- Ask JW: How do I Make AJAX Requests With jQuery? – Jeffrey Way (Suggested by jQuery)
- Create A Tabbed Content Rotator Using jQuery - Raymond Selda
- How to implement a Post-to-Wall Facebook-like using PHP and jQuery - Antonio Lupetti (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- How to: jQuery Driven Social Bookmark Counters – Tripwire Magazine
- How to Make AJAX Requests With Raw Javascript - NetTuts
- jQuery Edge: Versatile .index() – Brandon Aaron (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- Plugin: jquery-jsonp - (Suggested by jQuery)
- Plugin: jQuery – Galleriffic (Suggested by jQuery)
- Preventing Form Caching With Javascript And jQuery - Ben Nadel (Suggested by jQuery)
- Why I moved from Prototype to jQuery – Quark Ruby (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Microsoft Desktop and Server Technology
- 4 Essential Utilities for Windows Netbooks - Samuel Dean (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Podcasts and Videos
- Emerging Innovation
- Inside Windows 7: Animation Manager Deep Dive and Tutorial – Channel 9
- Windows 7 Sensor and Location Platform Overview – Channel 9
Silverlight, WPF, and RIA
- Add Windows GridView control in WPF dynamically in C# - Raveen Rasaiyah (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)
- Matchingo - A Silverlight Memory Game (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Social Networking
- 12 Rules For Bringing ‘Social’ To Your Business - Dion Hinchcliffe (Suggested by George Dearing)
- Twitter: bDule by Sobees (Suggested by Scott Hanselman)
Technology Announcements and News
- Should You Freelance in a Recession? – Freelance Folder (Suggested by Dana Coffey)
- The Steve Ballmer Memo: Microsoft cuts 3000 jobs – Davey Winder
Other Resources
Call For Speakers (Sorted by Date)
- LAST CALL: 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)
- -–Announcing the Summer 2009 MSDN “Suburban” Roadshow Series
- -–West Michigan Tech Events (Suggested by Chris Woodruff)
- -–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
- Reston, VA – Silverlight FireStarter DC - June 6, 2009