The Technology Post for June 2nd

Edition: #24

Daily News – Windows 7 to launch October 22

Other Link Lists

• Dew Drop – June 2, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft
• Revenue Streams In Social Networking // Links for 2009-06-01 – George Dearing

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

• C# – Multithreading: running tasks at a specific time – Luis Abreu
• NetFX – Free Web Hosting to try ASP.NET 4 Beta1, VS 2010 Beta1 and MS Web Deployment Tool RC1 – Visual Web Developer Blog (Suggested by Jason Gaylord)
• NetFX – The Problem With Code Folding – Jeff Atwood

Alternate Languages – Java, Rails, and other Languages

• General – Microsoft Contributing to PHP Open Source Projects – Weird ? – Joe Stagner
• Java – Getting Started with JavaFX – DZone Refcardz

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

• API – Bing API, Version 2.0 – Bing
• Architecture – Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – Utils Class (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Design Patterns – Is Code Complete? – CodeProject (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• ORM – LINQ to SQL changes in .NET 4.0 – Damien Guard (Suggested by Scott Guthrie)

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.NET – How To Get to the Profile Object in an ASP.NET Web Application – Rafael Van Dyke 
• ASP.NET MVC – A BuildProvider to simplify your ASP.NET MVC Action Links – David Ebbo (Suggested by Brad Wilson)
• ASP.NET MVC – An Alternative Approach To Strongly Typed Helpers – Phil Haack
• ASP.NET MVC – ASP.NET MVC Performance (Suggested by Alan Stevens)
• ASP.NET MVC – Multiple buttons in the same form – David Finley (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Web Platform Installer – Microsoft Web Platform Installer – Scott Guthrie

Books

• New – Mastering Web Content: Structure and Presentation with XHTML and CSS, DVD (Voices That Matter) (Suggested by Developer Fusion)
• New – Programming for Unified Communications with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 – Microsoft Press
• New – Using Google App Engine (Suggested by Developer Fusion)

Cloud Computing

• Azure – Update on Windows Azure – Joe Stagner
• Azure – Windows Azure June Round-up – Ryan Dunn (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)

Desktop and Server Technology

• Browser – Bing Search Add-On for IE8 (Suggested by Bing)
• Browser – Firefinder for Firebug 0.91 (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• CMS – Create a RSS viewer in WSS (Suggested by Laura Rogers)
• CMS – Fixing SharePoint error Log with “Preserving template record” – Tom Hearn
• CMS – Free custom master pages – Friday cool content – Microsoft Office SharePoint Blog (Suggested by Laura Rogers)
• CMS – jQuery for Everyone: Hourly Summary Web Part (Suggested by Laura Rogers)
• CMS – Reading Digital Signatures from InfoPath Forms in MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 Workflow – Tom Hearn
• CMS – Use SharePoint Designer to Send Intelligent Email Alerts (Suggested by Laura Rogers)
• Email – Gmail Notifier Plus 1.1 for Windows 7 – Neowin (Suggested by Alan Le)
• General – Git For Windows Developers – Git Series – Part 1
• General – Lifehacker Pack 2009: Our List of Essential Free Windows Downloads (Suggested by Dana Coffey)
• Office – Time To Uninstall Office 2007 (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
• Search – First look at Bing.com – David Yack
• Search – User Needs, Features and the Science behind Bing – Bing

Web Design, Layout, and Graphic Design

• CSS – 1 line CSS Grid Framework (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• CSS – What is “Float”? – CSS Tricks (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• General – Essential Guide To Regular Expressions: Tools and Tutorials – Smashing Magazine
• Graphic Design – Color Psychology in Logo Design –
• Web Design – 10 HTML Tag Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit – Line 25 (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Web Design – 15 Extremely Useful CSS Grid Layout Generator For Web Designers – Web Design Booth (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Web Design – 50 Great Examples of Data Visualization – Web Designer Depot (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

• JavaScript – JavaScript language advanced Tips & Tricks – Smashing Magazine
• jQuery – 45+ New jQuery Techniques For Good User Experience – Smashing Magazine
• jQuery – How to implement a news ticker with jQuery and ten lines of code (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery – Interactive Webdesign with CSS and jQuery – Web Standard (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery – jQuery Edge: Simplified .hover() – Brandon Aaron (Suggested by jQuery)
• jQuery – Unit Testing JavaScript Using JQuery QUnit – Mohammad Azam
• jQuery – What a heck is a (function ($){ … })(jQuery) – jQuery HowTo (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery Plugin – A jQuery inline form validation, because validation is a mess (Suggested by jQuery)
• jQuery Plugin – jqDock v1.2 … a jQuery plugin (Suggested by jQuery)
• jQuery Plugin – jqPlot – A Versatile and Expandable jQuery Plotting Plugin! (Suggested by jQuery)
• jQuery Plugin – jQuery Highlight Plugin (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery Plugin – jsTree (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery Plugin – Using JQuery BlockUI Plugin with Ajax – Mohammad Azam 

Mobile Devices

• Apple – Bing! the iPhone OS 3.0 release is coming! – Al Pascual

Podcasts and Videos

• Gaming – Video: Microsoft’s Project Natal in action – CNET (Suggested by Brad Wilson)
• jQuery – Creating a jQuery Image Gallery with Fading Text
• ORM – Dan Simmons Talks EF Version 4 – .NET Rocks! (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• RIA – Creating a Silverlight Blog Badge, Part 1: Animation to Catch the Eye – Channel 9 (Suggested by Jennifer Marsman)
• Tools – New Enhancements to Jing & Jing Pro – TechSmith

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

• Expression – SketchFlow: Rapid prototyping that works – Silverlight News
• RIA – Implementing Rich Interaction Application Design Presentation – Brian Henderson
• Silverlight – Using WCF + Silverlight 2 + PRISM : Gotchas (Suggested by Silverlight News)

Social Networking and Community Platforms

• Twitter – Insert Tweets Into Your Blog Post – Tod Birdsall (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Twitter – Twitter API From C#: Getting a User’s Time Line – Guy Burstein (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Technology Deals

• Giveaway of the Day – Tree Menu 2.9 (Posted by Dana Coffey)

Visual Studio and Other IDEs

• Tools – What’s in the shop for GhostDoc? – SubMain (Suggested by Scott Hanselman)
• Visual Studio – Daily Dev Speedup – Selecting and Dragging Lines – Brendan Enrick

Miscellaneous Technology Announcements and News

• Gaming – Microsoft Whacks the Wii: A First Look (Suggested by Larry Hyrb)
• Hosting – DiscountASP.NET Invites Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 Users to Experience Next-Generation Web Application Packaging and Deployment Using Free Sandbox Hosting Platform – DiscountASP.NET
• Training – DevelopMentor is Open for Business Afterall

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