Technology Related Links for May 11th

Edition: #10

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

• F#: Regular expressions/active patterns – Mark Needham (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Getting a Jump-Start with IronPython – Darrell Hawley (Suggested by packtpub)
• Singletons vs. Static Classes – Lee Dumond (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Snippet: Format a String in TitleCase (C#) – Genesio Lini (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

• Community for ASP.Net MVC – http://CommunityForMvc.Net (Suggested by Eric Hexter)
• Creating Your First MVC ViewEngine – Nick Berardi
• Easy Compression with ASP.NET MVC – The Grubbsian (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Getting Started with db4o: Persisting .NET Object Data – DZone
• Send me your questions for the ASP.NET Feature Team !!! – Joe Stagner
• Tip of the day #198 – ASP.NET MVC – ListBox controls – Cirilo Meggiolaro (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Unit of Work with Unity and ASP.NET MVC – Michael Valenty (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Cloud Computing

• A Cloud In Every Garage – Russ Daniels (Suggested by George Dearing)
• Cloud Computing Unites Torry Harris & SalesForce.com – (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
• Data center survey: Cisco’s server push sparks interest; VMware, EMC, NetApp shine – Larry Dignan
• Interop Preview: Cloud Computing, ROI In Spotlight – Paul McDougall (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
• It’s Not Just the Data, But What You Do With It – Om Malik (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
• Obama’s Cloud Computing Strategy Takes Shape – John Foley (Suggested by Cloudmeme)

Desktop and Server Technology

• 10 handy Firefox about:config hacks – Jack Wallen (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• An annoying IE position: Relative and OverFlow-Y Bug – Rick Strahl
• Application Request Routing (ARR) Version 2 (B1) for IIS7 – Joe Stagner
• Engineering Windows 7 (Suggested by David Yack)
• The Ultimate Guide to .htaccess Files – Joseph Pecoraro (Suggested by Nuttuts)
• Windows 7 and VMWare Network Issue after Upgrade – Keith Elder

Web Design and Layout

• Nick’s Top User Experience Books – Nick Finck (Suggested by Chris Woodruff)

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

• 10 Password Strength Meter Scripts For A Better Registration Interface (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• A Better Javascript Memoizer (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• AjaxView – Javascript profiling – Paul Glavich (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Bookmarkable Tabs with jQuery UI – (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Create a jQuery Popup Bubble (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Custom Events in jQuery – (Suggested by jQuery)
• CustomValidationControl and jQuery – Dave (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Exceptioneer JavaScript exception handling – Phil Winstanley
• jQuery…Worst Practices – Steve Wellens (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Podcasts and Videos

• <BBSs and Wildcat! from Mustang Software/> – Scott Hanselman
• Chris Sells: On the History of DevCon, DSLs and Oslo – Channel 9
• Coding QA Podcast: Episode 5 – Coding QA (Suggested by Developer Fusion)
• Does DAB have a future? – CNET UK Podcast (Suggested by Developer Fusion)
• Facebook’s Josh Elman on the platform – IBM Developer Works (Suggested by Developer Fusion)
• Kyle Simpson’s SWFObject presentation from JSConf – WebDev Radio (Suggested by Developer Fusion)
• Ping 11: Mundie & Obama, Swine Flu, Win7 RC1, Windows Ambassadors – Channel 9
• The Java Posse (Suggested by Developer Fusion)
• Unpacking the PaaS Concept – Dana Gardner (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
• WPF & Silverlight for Decision Makers (1/3) – (Suggested by Chris Woodruff)

Social Networking

• Twitter: Tweetparty (Suggested by George Dearing)

Technology Announcements and News

• Microsoft Office 2010 Preview by July
• Overclocking AMD’s Phenom II X3 720 BE – Richard Swinburne (Suggested by Paul Mooney)
• SQL Server Kilimanjaro becomes SQL Server 2008 R2
• The New York Times, 31 Years From Now – Stan Schroeder (Suggested by George Dearing)

Technology Deals

• 15% off any Dell Outlet Studio 1737 laptop priced $600+ (before fees). Enter at checkout: SGW78LHWPR?NL5 – exp. 5/12 (Dell Outlet)
• Get a second chance to pass your Microsoft Certification exam — free offer! Offer Ends June 30th! – http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/offers/secondshot/default.mspx

Visual Studio and Other IDEs

• Integrate FxCop 1.36 & VS 2008 – Vadim Kreynin (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Miscellaneous

• Events This Week – Tech-Ed 2009 Edition (May 11th, 2009) – G. Andrew Duthie

Other Resources

• Dew Drop – May 11, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft

Call For Speakers (Sorted by Date)

• — NotAtTechEd
• Tample, FL – Day of DotNetNuke – Due May 13th, 2009

Upcoming Technology Events (Sorted by State)

• —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
• Des Moines, IA – Iowa Code Camp – November 7th, 2009
• Chicago, IL – Chicago Code Camp – May 30th, 2009
• Boston, MA – SPTechCon: SharePoint Technology Conference – June 22nd-24th, 2009
• Portland, OR – Open Source Bridge – June 17th-19th, 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