The Technology Post for June 1st

Edition: #23

Daily Fact – Just realized COBOL is over 50 years old! http://tinyurl.com/7uvd8 (Posted by Jason Gaylord)

Other Link Lists

• May 30th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio – Scott Guthrie
• New and Notable 325 – Sam Gentile

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

• Tools – SubMain acquires GhostDoc – SubMain (Suggested by Serge Baranovsky)

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

• ORM – LINQ to SQL Database Synchronizer – CodeProject (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
• Services – REST and HTTP services as a business advantage (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.NET – Control TextBox’s AutoComplete Action – Chris Love
• ASP.NET MVC – Building your ASP.NET MVC application with Subsonic 3.0 (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Books

• New – ASP.NET 3.5 Website Programming: Problem – Design – Solution – Developer Fusion
• New – Microsoft® ASP.NET Internals – Developer Fusion
• New – The Well-Grounded Rubyist – Developer Fusion
• New – Windows PowerShell 2.0 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant – Microsoft Press

Cloud Computing

• General – Sun Announces New Professional Services Designed to Build Global Customers’ Clouds – CommunityOne West Conference (Suggested by Cloudmeme)

Desktop and Server Technology

• Browser – Bosom Buddies: How to make Google Chrome use Microsoft Bing for Search – Scott Hanselman
• Hardware – AMD to ship its six-core Opteron server CPU – BetaNews
• Server Software – Synchronize with SharePoint under the hood – Microsoft Access Team Blog (Suggested by Laura Rogers)
• Windows – Top 10 Windows 7 Features #2: Device Stage – BetaNews
• Windows – Windows 7 – Learning Portal – (Suggested by Microsoft Press)

Web Design, Layout, and Graphic Design

• CSS – 15 Extremely Useful CSS Grid Layout Generator For Web Designers – Web Design Booth
• CSS – Rounded Corners in CSS3 – James
• CSS – Shorthand CSS: Margins – Andrew Turner
• CSS – The Shadow effect in CSS3 – James
• General – 20 Inspiring Uses of Data Visualization – Single Function
• Web Design – Twelve Things Most Sites Need – Part I – WPDFD (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Web Design – Twelve Things Most Sites Need – Part II – WPDFD (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Web Design – Useful Glossaries For Web Designers and Developers – Smashing Magazine

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

• JavaScript – New JavaScript Popup Box –TinyBox – Dream CSS
• jQuery – 36 Eye-Catching Jquery Navigation Menus – Dainis Graveris (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery – A jQuery inline form validation, because validation is a mess – Cedric Dugas
• jQuery – Advanced docking using jQuery (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
• jQuery – Table of Qontents (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
• jQuery Plugin – CrossSlide (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery Plugin – Introduction to the JQuery BlockUI Plugin – Mohammad Azam

Mobile Devices

• Apple – Apple: A Verizon Deal Could Double iPhone Sales – Tech Trader Daily
• Palm – Don’t panic: Verizon will get Palm Pre, too – BetaNews

Podcasts and Videos

• General – Ping 14: Bing, VPlay, Zune HD, Celebrifeed, Mediaroom – Channel 9
• NetFX – Erika Parsons and Eric Eilebrecht : CLR 4 – Inside the Thread Pool – Channel 9 (Suggested by Developer Fusion)

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

• Flash – Cool Flash Tip of the Week
• General – Microsoft Silverlight vs Google Wave: Why Karma Matters – Zoho Blogs

Social Networking and Community Platforms

• Messenging – Comparison between Mac Messenger 7, Office Communicator 2007 & Communicator Web Access – OCSPedia.com (Suggested by Microsoft Press)

Miscellaneous Technology Announcements and News

• Breaking News – A eulogy: DevelopMentor, RIP (Suggested by Pete Brown)
• Gaming – Microsoft announces “Project Natal” motion controller for Xbox 360! – Engadget
• Gaming – Microsoft’s ‘One More Thing:’ Full game downloads – BetaNews
• Search – Badda-Bing Indeed. TechCrunch
• Search – Bing vs. Google face-off, round 1 – BetaNews

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?

• — Post: Events This Week – June 1st, 2009 – G. Andrew Duthie
• 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
• Boston, MA – SPTechCon: SharePoint Technology Conference – June 22nd-24th, 2009
• Ann Arbor, MI – 2nd Annual Michigan Give Camp – July 17th-19th, 2009
• Columbus, OH – PyOhio: Python-related Event – July 25th-26th, 2009
• Portland, OR – Open Source Bridge – June 17th-19th, 2009
• Allentown, PA – TECHbash 2009 – September 26th, 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