The Technology Post for May 26th
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Edition: #20
Phew! After an extra day off, there’s so many more links. Can’t wait to see the post when I take off two days in the middle of June.
Daily Joke - Video parodies Microsoft’s vision of the future (Suggested by Thomas Johansen)
.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic
- C# - Code Contracts - Patrick Cauldwell (Suggested by Scott Hanselman)
- C# - Comparing XML files in C# Using Microsoft’s Diff and Patch Tool - Tom Hearn
- NetFX - A quick analyze of the .NET Fx v4.0 Beta1 - Patrick Smacchia (Suggested by Scott Hanselman)
- General - Why Is The Return Type Parameter Last? – Eric Lippert (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)
Alternate Languages – Java, Rails, and other Languages
- Regular Expressions, Your Job Requires Them - Tim Barcz (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing
- Design Patterns - Database Optimize patterns - High Scalability (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
- ORM - Microsoft “Oslo” - May 2009 CTP – Microsoft
- Testing - Make .NET Reflector come alive with IronPython – Ben Hall (Suggested by Scott Koon)
- Testing - TDD: Making the test green quickly - Mark Needham (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- WF - Comments on the WF 4.0 Designer - Tomas Restrepo
ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC
- ASP.NET - Setting the Default Input Focus and Default Button with JQuery: Thin ASP.NET 5 – Chris Love (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- ASP.NET MVC - Running a ASP.NET MVC project on Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 - Tanzim Saqib (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- ASP.NET MVC - Supporting complex route patterns with the ASP.NET (MVC) routing engine – The Code Junkie (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- ASP.NET MVC - Testing a custom Authorize filters (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Desktop and Server Technology
- Chrome - Google Chrome 2 is 20% faster than Chrome 1 in physical speed tests - BetaNews
- MySQL - Introduction to MYSQLi and Prepared Statements – PHP Tutorials (Suggested by Nettuts)
- SQL - SQL Server does support regular expressions in check constraints, triggers are not always needed – Denis Gobo
- Sharepoint - Adding Custom Menu Item to MOSS/WSS List Actions Menu - Tom Hearn
- Windows - SBS and EBS 2008 Courses Now Available – Microsoft Press
- Windows - Top 10 Windows 7 Features #3: XP Mode - BetaNews
- Windows - Windows 7 - Seamless Apps in Windows Virtual PC (Virtual XP) and Application Compatibility – Scott Hanselman (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- Windows - Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 and Windows Vista Service Pack 2 - Microsoft (Suggested by Nick Berardi)
Web Design, Layout, and Graphic Design
- CSS - CSS contents and browser compatibility (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- CSS - CSS Quick-Question Edition – Smashing Magazine
- CSS - Top 10 CSS Table Designs – Smashing Magazine (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries
- JavaScript - 8 Javascript solutions to common CSS problems (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- JavaScript - Automatically minify and combine JavaScript in Visual Studio – Dave Ward (Suggested by Wally McClure)
- JavaScript - Computer science in JavaScript: Bubble sort - Nicholas Zakas (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
- JavaScript - JSPlacemaker - Geo data extraction in pure JavaScript – Ajaxian (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- JavaScript - Yet Another JavaScript Testing Framework – Google Testing (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- jQuery - 5 Must-Have jQuery Plugins - Jim Danko (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- jQuery - 30 Best jQuery Plugins - May 2009 – AJAX Line
- jQuery - GridView Confirmation Box Using JQuery BlockUI – High On Coding (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- jQuery - jQuery Selectors – DZone Refcardz (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- jQuery - Namespace your JavaScript function and variable with jQuery – jQuery HowTo
- jQuery – Sammy – Quirkey (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- jQuery - Smart Columns w/ CSS & jQuery - Soh Tanaka (Suggested by jquery)
- jQuery - Useful jQuery: a Compilation of jQuery Utilities – Devkick (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- jQuery - Working with jQuery, Part 3: Intermediate JQuery: Creating your own plug-in - Michael Abernethy (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- jQuery Plugin - 4 Superb jQuery Plugins (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- jQuery Plugin - Creating a quick and dirty jQuery contentEditable Plugin – Rick Strahl
- jQuery Plugin - jQuery Blox (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- jQuery Plugin - jQuery crossSelect plugin demo (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- jQuery Plugin - jQuery Drag to Select Plug-in (Suggested by jquery)
- jQuery Plugin - jQuery HTML Truncator (Suggested by jquery)
- jQuery Plugin - Major update on jQuery Ribbon - Mikael Söderström (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- jQuery Plugin - What is the best back button jQuery plugin? – Stack Overflow (Suggested by jquery)
- Microsoft AJAX - How to use the AJAX Control Toolkit to create a new custom AJAX Control Extender – Joe Stagner
Mobile Devices
- Zune – Zune HD (Suggested by G. Andrew Duthie)
Podcasts and Videos
- Creation - 10 Free Screen Recording Softwares For Creating Attractive Screencasts – Web Resources Depot (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
- Creation - How to Create Screencasts – Nettuts (Suggested by TechSmith)
- General - Announcing FuncWorks and the Feel The Func Podcast - Michael C. Neel
- NetFX - CLR 4: Debugging and Profiling Enhancements – Channel 9
- NetFX - Maoni Stephens and Andrew Pardoe: CLR 4 Garbage Collector - Inside Background GC – Channel 9
Social Networking and Community Platforms
Technology Deals
- 20% off any Dell Outlet Latitude™ Laptop or Tablet PC. Enter code PHTK5R655CZZWX at checkout at https://jasong.us/2CPGtjt - exp 6/1/09 (Suggested by Dell Outlet)
Visual Studio and Other IDEs
- General - 22 Neat Code Editors for Windows - Nettuts
- Visual Studio - New Microsoft Connect and MSDN forum for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 extensibility – Carlos Quintero (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)
Miscellaneous Technology Announcements and News
Other Resources
- .NET Twitter Stream – Managed Assembly (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Call For Speakers (Sorted by Date)
- June 7th, 2009 - St Louis, Missouri – Day of .NET
Upcoming Technology Events (Sorted by State) – Want something listed? Post your comments. Also, what’s the best way for me to list these events? By date order or by state, then city, then date?
- -– Hands On MVC Training (Philadelphia, PA) – May 29th
- 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
- Tampa, FL - The Day of DotNetNuke – 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
- Ann Arbor, MI - 2nd Annual Michigan Give Camp - July 17th-19th, 2009
- Okemos, MI - TechSmith Take Your Customers To Work Day - May 28th, 2009
- New York, NY – Bar Camp NYC 4 – May 30th-31st, 2009
- Columbus, OH - PyOhio: Python-related Event - July 25th-26th, 2009
- Portland, OR – Open Source Bridge – June 17th-19th, 2009
- Hershey, PA - New Tech Meetup of Central PA June Meetup – June 1st, 2009
- Malvern, PA – MSDN Roadshow – June 12th, 2009
- Philadelphia, PA - Higher Education Web Symposium - July 14th, 2009
- Pittsburgh, PA – MSDN Roadshow – June 15th, 2009
- Scranton, PA - .NET Valley Live! – June 18th, 2009
- Franklin, TN - Microsoft ArcReady – June 12th, 2009
- Knoxville, TN – CodeStock 2009 – June 26th-27th, 2009
- Nashville, TN – devLINK – August 13th-15th, 2009
- Dallas, TX - Dallas TechFest - June 19, 2009
- Reston, VA - MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow - June 2nd, 2009
- Reston, VA – Silverlight FireStarter DC - June 6th, 2009
- Richmond, VA - MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow - June 4th, 2009
- Seattle, WA - BarCampSeattle09 - June 13th-14th, 2009
- Vancouver, Canada – ALT.NET – June 12th-14th, 2009