The Technology Post for May 29th

Edition: #23

Daily Joke – Dilbert (Suggested by J. Ambrose Little)

Alternate Languages – Java, Rails, and other Languages

• PHP - Introduction to Silverlight and the HTML DOM – Joe Stagner
• PHP - PHP Payment Library for Paypal, Authorize.net and 2Checkout (2CO) – PHP Four (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

• Architecture - I Love Code Generation – Why Don’t You? – Chris Love
• Design Patterns - Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – Monster Objects – Chris Missal
• ORM - Why Defer Loading in Entity Framework isn’t going to work - Ayende Rahien
• Testing - ELMAH for Error Logging and Reporting in ASP.NET & ASP.NET MVC – Billy McCafferty (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Testing – NBuilder (Suggested by Craig Shoemaker)
• Testing - Pex 0.13 Released: Unit Tests as Inputs, Fuzzing and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1, F# Beta 1 support – Nikolai Tillmann (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Testing - Using Gallio with NCover - Andre Loker (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.NET - ASP.NET CheckBoxList Align When Wrapping - Elijah Manor
• ASP.NET - Writing A Page To A String – Phil Haack
• ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET MVC and iWantGreatCare.org – Mike Ormond (Suggested by Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET MVC Forms Authentication with Active Directory (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Books

• New - Regular Expressions Cookbook in PDF Format (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)

Desktop and Server Technology

• Hardware - Kicking AMD’s Dead Carcass - Jason Massie
• Surface - Developing UI for Microsoft Surface – Joe Stagner
• Virtualization - Installing VisualSVN in a Virtual PC – Jason Gaylord

Web Design, Layout, and Graphic Design

• CSS - TopStyle 4.0 Final Release – Nick Bradbury
• Graphic Design - Designing with Type – Layers (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

• JavaScript – JSCoverage (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
• jQuery - 18 jQuery scripts and tutorials to improve your portfolio (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery - Corners, gradients and shadows with jQuery (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery - How to implement a news ticker with jQuery and ten lines of code - Antonio Lupetti (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery - JQuery jqGrid Export to Excel Using ASP.NET MVC Framework – Mohammad Azam
• jQuery - jQuery Logging – Jabbering Giraffe (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery - jQuery Resource Collection – Elijah Manor
• jQuery Plugin - jquery week-calendar – Red3 (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery Plugin - New jQuery Ribbon release! - Mikael Söderström (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery Plugin - ‘Notify Bar’ plugin (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Podcasts and Videos

• RIA - Multi-touch in WPF 4 Beta 1 – Channel 9
• Tools - Nicholas Blumhardt on Autofac - .NET Rocks!
• Visual Studio - 10-4 Episode 21: Web Tooling Improvements – Drew Robbins

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

• Silverlight - Document Toolkit: a better document service – First Floor (Suggested Silverlight News)
• Silverlight - Interacting with charts-2 (Suggested Silverlight News)

Social Networking and Community Platforms

• DotNetNuke - XMod Pro 01.00.00 (Suggested by Joe Brinkman)
• Twitter - Twilver: A new Silverlight Twitter App – Sarah Perez (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Twitter - Using Twitter for sending server downtime alert - Emran Hasan (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)

Miscellaneous Technology Announcements and News

• Hulu Desktop
• June’s Toolbox Column Now Online – Scott Mitchell
• Regex Hero (Suggested by Scott Watermasysk)
• Skynet runs on Windows/MFC (Suggested by K. Scott Allen)

Other Resources

• Dew Drop - May 29, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft

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?

• 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
• 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