The Technology Post for May 18th

Edition: #15

Daily Quote – “Real men don’t use backups, they post stuff on public ftp server & let the rest world make copies.” (Posted by Elijah Manor)

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

• Mutable Linq Expressions – Oren Eini
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET FX 4 Beta 1 ships! – Soma

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

• Agile Adoption: Reducing Cost – DZone
• Five Reasons for using an ORM Tool – Iqbal M. Khan (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• How to survive an audit or code review – Aidan Fitzpatrick (Suggested by Developer Fusion)
• LINQ to SQL and alternate Providers – Rick Strahl

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.NET MVC Partial Views and Strongly Typed Custom ViewModels
• Comparing a S#arp Architecture ASP.NET MVC Project to Classic ASP.NET with LINQ to SQL – Billy McCafferty (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Books

• Robust ASP.NET Exception Handling – Wrox
• Microsoft ASP.NET and AJAX: Architecting Web Applications – Microsoft Press

Cloud Computing

• AT&T to Offer Cloud Computing for Enterprises – Reuters (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
• HP, Sun, Dell, and Microsoft Are Among Cloud Computing’s Losers – Cloud Computing Journal (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
• New Features for Amazon EC2: Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and Amazon CloudWatch – Amazon Web Services Blog (Suggested by Scott Watermasysk)
• Security expert says the Cloud is the way to go for B2B – ITWire (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
• Will Google Outage Derail Cloud Computing? – Seeking Alpha (Suggested by Cloudmeme)

Desktop and Server Technology

• Surface Development Part 1: What is the Microsoft Surface? – Jennifer Marsman
• Using Search Folders in Outlook to Search SharePoint Document Libraries – Tiffany Songvilay (Suggested by Bill Simser)

Web Design and Layout

• 8 Excellent Solutions for Creating Tooltips – raj
• 9 Tips to Make Your Website Load Much Faster (Part 1)
• 100+ Massive CSS Toolbox
• Best Gimp Web Design Tutorials (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

• 5 JQuery and ajax social bookmark widget tutorials – raj
• 6 Flexible jQuery Plugins To Control Webpage Layouts Easily (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• 8 jQuery and Ajax based tag clouds for web developer – raj
• 10+ beautiful jQuery and Ajax photo gallery – raj
• 17 ASP.NET AJAX AutoComplete tutorials – raj
• 20+ beautiful JavaScript and Ajax photo gallery – raj
• 25 awesome Yahoo! UI Prototype JavaScript Components – raj
• Adding Client-Side Form Validation with JQuery: Thin ASP.NET Part 3 – Chris Love
• Beginners guide to Jquery + Ruby On Rails (Suggested by jQuery)
• Create a Slick and Accessible Slideshow Using jQuery – Six Revisions (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• CSS styleable jQuery mp3 player plugin – raj
• Debugging AJAX using Microsoft AJAX Library, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox
• Extend Google Analytics with jQuery – Ian Harris (Suggested by jQuery)
• Guiding User Input with the JQuery Masked Edit Plugin :Thin ASP.NET Part 4 – Chris Love
• jQuery plugin detector – James Padolsey (Suggested by Scott Watermasysk)
• RETRIEVE GIVEN PROPERTY FROM A JSON
• Styling File Upload Inputs with ButtonReplacement.JS – Martin Ivanov
• Tip#62: Did you know… How to add Ajax Control Toolkit to the toolbox?
• Use jQuery to “turn off the lights” while watching videos – Janko Jovanovic (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Mobile Devices

• 10 Apple iPhone Apps for Cost Conscious Businesses – eWeek (Suggested by George Dearing)
• Purchase an app in the Windows Marketplace, put it on five phones – WMExperts (Suggested by Chris Woodruff)

Podcasts and Videos

• Being Dynamic about IronPython with Harry Pierson – Part 1 – Deep Fried Bytes: Episode 31 (Suggested by Chris Woodruff)
• Being Dynamic about IronPython with Harry Pierson – Part 2 – Deep Fried Bytes: Episode 32 (Suggested by Chris Woodruff)
• Ping 12: Mac vs Microsoft, Ipod vs Zune: The Ad Campaign War – Channel 9
• Social Media is Good Business – Solid Cactus (Suggested by Scott Sanfilippo)
• This Week C9 at TechEd 2009 with Jeff Hadfield and Greg Duncan – (Suggested by Keith Elder)

Social Networking

• Twitter: 25 Twitter Apps to Manage Multiple Accounts (Suggested by George Dearing)
• Twitter: Linq 2 Twitter (Suggested by Stan Spotts)

Technology Announcements and News

• CodeStock 2009 Sessions Announced
• Only two weeks left to enter 2009 WebAwards – Be sure to mention that you were referred by Jason Gaylord!

Miscellaneous

• Speaking tip: Rehearse! – Michael Eaton (Suggested by Chris Woodruff)

Other Resources

• Dew Drop – May 18, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft
• Edge of Links no.27 – The world of CSS and jQuery

Call For Speakers (Sorted by Date)

• None

Upcoming Technology Events (Sorted by State) – Want something listed? Post your comments.

• 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
• Dallas, TX – Dallas TechFest – June 19, 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
• Ann Arbor, MI – 2nd Annual Michigan Give Camp – July 17th-19th, 2009
• New York, NY – Web2NewYork – May, 19th 2009
• Portland, OR – Open Source Bridge – June 17th-19th, 2009
• Philadelphia, PA – Intro to ASP.NET Model View Controller – May 20th, 2009
• Philadelphia, PA – Higher Education Web Symposium – July 14, 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