The Technology Post for May 27th

Edition: #21

Daily Joke – How to Motivate Programmers (Suggested by Jeff Atwood)

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

• C# - Retrieving the SID of a user or group account using the Win32 SDK and C# - Tom Hearn
• General - Multithreading: condition variables – Luis Abreu

Alternate Languages – Java, Rails, and other Languages

• Java - Microsoft to give its first JavaOne keynote – InfoWorld (Suggested by Joe Stagner)
• PHP - 40+ Invaluable PHP Tutorials and Resources – Nettuts (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

• Entity Framework - A Look at Lazy Loading in EF4 – Julie Lerman
• Entity Framework - Another clever pattern for dealing with EF Change Tracking across processes – Julie Lerman
• Entity Framework - Upgrading EF projects to EF4? Don’t forget to target .NET 4.0 – Julie Lerman
• TDD - How TDD and Pairing Increase Production (Suggested by Brad Wilson)

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.NET - Accessing Invisible Columns of GridView Control – High On Coding
• ASP.NET - GridView Confirmation Box Using JQuery BlockUI – High On Coding
• ASP.NET - Setting the Default Input Focus and Default Button with JQuery: Thin ASP.NET 5 – Chris Love
• ASP.NET - Using Lightbox in an ASP.NET Application (C#) - C# Corner
• ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET MVC Opinionated Software – Elegant Code
• ASP.NET MVC - Combine/Compress/Minify JS and CSS files in ASP.NET MVC - Brian Rush
• ASP.NET MVC - Silverlight in ASP.Net MVC Framework - C# Corner (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Books

• New - Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 3 – Microsoft Press
• New - Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Administrator’s Companion – Microsoft Press

Cloud Computing

• How to Build a Hybrid Cloud Computing Strategy – Computer World (Suggested by Cloudmeme)

Desktop and Server Technology

• Database - Compression tools are a must for any DBA (Suggested by Denis Gobo)
• Hardware - Beyond RAID – Jeff Atwood
• Hardware - Intel Unveils Nehalem-EX Octal-Core Server CPU – Hot Hardware (Suggested by Scott Galloway)
• Web Server - IIS 7 Error Pages taking over 500 Errors – Rick Strahl
• Windows - Searching LDAP on Windows Server – Jason Gaylord

Web Design, Layout, and Graphic Design

• Adobe - Professional Tips for Improving Photoshop’s Performance – PSD Tuts (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
• General - 20 Time-Saving Tips to Improve Designer’s Workflow – Smashing Magazine
• General - 45+ Really Essential Free HTML [Form] Enhancements – Tripwire Magazine
• General – Google Web Elements (Suggested by Scott Koon) 

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

• jQuery - 15 Awesome jQuery plug-in – Dream CSS
• jQuery - jQuery and AIR: Creating a new AIR project in Aptana – Andy Matthews (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery - Puffing Smoke Effect in jQuery – Gaya Design  (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery - Targeting Advanced Elements in jQuery – Design Reviver (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery Plugin - Top 5 jQuery Modal Plugins – Elijah Manor
• Mootools - Introducing MooTools ScrollSpy – David Walsh (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)

Podcasts and Videos

• Desktop and Server Technology - SQL Server Encryption – Paul Mooney
• Languages - Axum! - .NET Rocks!
• Languages - Raja Krishnaswamy and Jesse Kaplan: CLR 4 - Inside No-PIA – Channel 9

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

• RIA - .NET RIA Services: Get your metadata from anywhere! – Brad Abrams
• Silverlight - Clearing some air in Silverlight, Blend and Visual Studio Beta land – Tim Heuer (Suggested by Silverlight News)
• Silverlight - Creating Rich Data Forms in Silverlight 3 – Validation (Suggested by Silverlight News)
• Silverlight - DataSet and Silverlight – ADO.NET Team (Suggested by Don Demsak)
• XAML - Dependency properties and collections combined with XAML – Developers 42 (Suggested by Silverlight News)

Social Networking and Community Platforms

• General - Microsoft Announces Social Enterprise Alliance – Microsoft (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)
• General - When Word of Mouth Got a Permalink - Companies, Customers and Twitter – Scott Hanselman
• Twitter - Following jQuery on Twitter - jQuery

Technology Deals

• GET 10% OFF All Ink & Toner for Dell .* Use coupon code: SAVE10 - http://www.abacus24-7.com/home.aspx

Visual Studio and Other IDEs

• Team Suite - Team Suite 2008 Developer Machine Install - Benjamin Day (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Tools - My Dot Net Developer’s tools list, and more… - Latish Sehgal (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Visual Studio - Get VS2010 Extensions easily with built-in Extension Manager (and checking out a VS2010 T4 editor) – Julie Lerman
• Visual Studio - Using Microsoft AJAX Control Toolkit with Visual Studio 10 Beta 1 – Visual Web Developer Team Blog

Miscellaneous Technology Announcements and News

• Acrobat.com Presentations (Suggested by Darcy Lussier)
• Google Bets Big on HTML 5: News from Google I/O – Tim O’Reilly

Other Resources

• Dew Drop - May 27, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft
• New and Notable 323 – Sam Gentile

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 19th, 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