The Technology Post for June 3rd

Edition: #25

Other Link Lists

• Dew Drop – June 3, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

• API – More Training for Office 2007, VBA, and Office Open XML – Microsoft Press

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.NET MVC – ASP.NET MVC Training Kit – Microsoft (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Desktop and Server Technology

• IIS – IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit – Scott Guthrie
• Search – Introducing PoshBing – The PowerShell library for Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine – DevCentral (Suggested by Jon Galloway)
• Virtualization – VMWare Not Playing Nice with Server 2008 SP2 – Keith Elder
• Windows – Windows 7 Versus Mac OS X Leopard: The Feature-by-Feature Showdown – Lifehacker

Web Design, Layout, and Graphic Design

• Layout – 960 Gridder – Smashing Magazine

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

• JavaScript – Data Visualization Toolkit (Suggested by K. Scott Allen)
• jQuery – Flexible and Semantic Forms with a Little jQuery – Trevor Davis (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Podcasts and Videos

• NetFX – Rick Byers and Simon Hall: CLR 4 – Side-by-Side In-Process – What. How. Why. – Channel 9 (Suggested by Developer Fusion)

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

• Silverlight – Silverlight DataGrid Control – Available Free-of-Charge – Dana Coffey
• Silverlight – Virtual Event: Microsoft Silverlight Kits 6/9/2009 – Michael S. Scherotter (Suggested by Brian Henderson)

Visual Studio and Other IDEs

• Code Generation – CodeDom vs T4: two approaches to Code Generation – David Ebbo

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
• 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 – 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