The Technology Post for May 14th
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Daily Quote – RT @MikeG1: http://www.google.com/appsstatus# is handy, except….they should host it somewhere else. (Posted by Scott Hanselman)
.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic
- C# 4 language spec (Suggested by Scott Koon)
- Edit Microsoft Word Document From Your Application – Rudra Sankar (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing
- .Net Services White Papers Updated – Nicholas Allen (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
- EF4: What is and is not supported – Julie Lerman
- NH Prof: Persistence Format – Oren Eini
- Out of process session state vs. explicit state management – Oren Eini
- PDB Files: What Every Developer Must Know – John Robbins (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- The fallacy of the always-valid entity – Jeffrey Palermo
- The Stripper Pattern – Oren Eini
ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC
- ASP.NET MVC 1.0 – Nerd Dinner with Cliff Notes – Keith Burnell
- ASP.NET MVC Subdomain Routing – Juliën Hanssens
- Creating Dynamic ASP.NET SiteMap using LINQ – Malcolm Sheridan
- Emulating the UpdatePanel in ASP.NET MVC 1.0 with AjaxHelper – Dan Wahlin
- Six Common Mistakes DotNet Guys Always Do – Rakesh Sharma
- SqlDataSource Insert Edit Delete record in GridView using ItemTemplate
- Twitter from ASP.NET (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- Using ASP.NET Routing Without ASP.NET MVC – Scott Mitchell (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Cloud Computing
- Azure .NET Services – A Twitter Service Bus
- New “GenealogyCloud” Brings Cloud Computing to the Family Tree (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
- PHP SDK for Windows Azure – Ryan Dunn (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
Desktop and Server Technology
- An annoying IE position: Relative and OverFlow-Y Bug – Rick Strahl
- Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File – David Penton
- PowerShell Snap-in: Configuring SSL with the IIS PowerShell Snap-in – (Suggested by Drew Miller)
- Google Docs Gets Full Find & Replace, Drawing Tools – Kevin Purdy (Suggested by Don Makoviney)
- IE: The tastiest dog food yet – IEBlog
- The SQL Server Driver for PHP is now available via the Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta! – Joe Stagner
- Thirty “Nice-To-Have” Firefox 3.0 Add-ons – Rakesh Sharma
- Useful IO profiles for simulating various workloads – Tony Voellm (Suggested by Jason Massie)
- Website Design Tips For Beginners
- Why Do Computers Suck at Math? – Jeff Atwood
Web Design and Layout
- 5 Tips to improve the Performance of your Website (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- 30 Excellent Creative Pagination
- 30 HTML Best Practices for Beginners – Jeffrey Way (Suggested by Nettuts)
- 50 Incredible Tutorials from the Tuts+ Network (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- How to Know What Text and Images People Copy from Your Site – Guy Kawasaki
- List of Really Useful Website Design Showcases – W3Avenue
- Photoshop Tutorial: The Best Way to Convert Colored Photos to Black and White
- Styling Your Lists – DevSnippets Library
- Weekday Tip: CSS Shorthand pt.1 – Margin and Padding
- Weekday Tip: CSS Shorthand pt.2 – Background
- Weekday Tip: CSS Shorthand pt.3 – Font
JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries
- Seven new AJAX Videos on www.asp.net/learn – Joe Stagner
- 7 Most Desirable Collection Of powerful Ajax – raj
- 8 jQuery and Ajax based tag clouds for web developer – raj
- 10 beautiful Sliding Panel with jQuery Tutorials – raj
- 10 jQuery Datagrid Plugins – PHP Team (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- 13 useful Mootools plugin and tutorial – raj
- 15 Ajax Calendar collection – raj
- 25 useful jQuery plug-in and tutorial – raj
- 27+ Handy Javascript Techniques for Web Designer
- AJAX Scripts Collection 2008-2009 – Martin Ivanov
- jQuery Dropdown Search Panel – Gilbert Pellegrom
- jQuery Selectors – (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- Mootools – Get Class of an Instance
- New release of the Ajax Control Toolkit – Bertrand Le Roy
- Plugin: jQuery – expose 1.0.1
- Plugin: jQuery – Horizontal Accordion (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- Simple Guide: How To Get Started With jQuery – Jon Phillips (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Mobile Devices
Podcasts and Videos
- 10-4 episode 19: Service Discovery with WCF – Channel 9
- 165. Creativity – Boagworld (Suggested by Developer Fusion)
- Herding Code 47: Joe Brinkman on Webforms vs ASP.NET MVC (Suggested by Joe Brinkman)
- Kenn Scribner on REST – .NET Rocks (Suggested by Developer Fusion)
- Moving into the role of Scrum Master – Jill Tubaugh (Suggested by Developer Fusion)
- pixels2soundBytes Show #11 – Jay Fields (Suggested by Developer Fusion)
- StackOverflow.com Podcast #53 – Jeff Atwood (Suggested by Developer Fusion)
Silverlight, WPF, and RIA
- Examining Various Silverlight Containers – Brian Mains
- Flash – Imagin – Flash Galley – Love Ajax
- ViewModel + .NET RIA Services Part 2: Testability, Server Mocking and Dependencies – Nikhil Kothari
Social Networking
- 27 Twitter Tools To Help You Find And Manage Followers – Dainis Graveris
- 100 Geeks You Should Be Following On Twitter – Ken Denmead (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- How to protect your Community Server site from spammers – Blake Niemyjski (Suggested by George Dearing)
- Industry-specific guides to Twitter (Suggested by George Dearing)
- Kindle Publishing Now Open To All Blogs – TechCrunch
Technology Announcements and News
- Industry Analyst Report Finds Application Development on Force.com Cloud Computing Platform 4.9 Times Faster Than on JAVA or .NET
- Introduction to .NET Charts for Reporting in ActiveReports - ActiveReports Blog
Technology Deals
- Development Deals and Discounts of Summer’09 – Martin Ivanov
Visual Studio and Other IDEs
- Server Explorer in Visual Studio Disappeared (Suggested by Craig Shoemaker)
Miscellaneous
Other Resources
Call For Speakers (Sorted by Date)
- None
Upcoming Technology Events (Sorted by State) – Want something listed? Post your comments.
- —May 2009 NY/NJ/CT/PA Area Microsoft User Group Meetings – Peter Laudati
- Phoenix, Az – Free WPF Training Event – June 5th-6th, 2009
- 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
- Downers Grove, IL – MSDN Events Unleashed – May 20th, 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
- Franklin, TN – Microsoft ArcReady – June 12th, 2009
- Knoxville, TN – CodeStock 2009 – June 26th-27th, 2009
- Nashville, TN – devLINK – August 13th-15th, 2009
- Reston, VA – Silverlight FireStarter DC - June 6, 2009