The Technology Post for June 8th

Edition: #26

Daily Humor – DRY - Don’t Repeat Yourself – Motivator (Posted by Steve Smith)

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

• API - Microsoft Releases Bing API - With No Usage Quotas – Programmable Web (Suggested by Chris Woodruff)
• API - Project Silk Road: Bing APIs, Tools, Services, and More – Bing (Suggested by G. Andrew Duthie)
• Deployment - Basic Microsoft Web Deployment Tool Setup For Visual Studio 2010 – Visual Web Developer Blog (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Deployment - Embedding JavaScript and Other Resources In a .NET Assembly – Brian Dukes (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• NetFX - What’s New in Globalization in .NET 4 Beta 1 – BCL Team Blog (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

• Architecture - Should We Return Null From Our Methods? – Lee Dumond (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Architecture - When Do I Use Interfaces? – K. Scott Allen (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Protocols - REST - What the Heck Is It? – Mike Simpson (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.NET MVC - A T4 based approach to creating ASP.NET MVC strongly typed helpers – David Ebbo (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET MVC 2.0 and VS 2010 plan now public – Jeffrey Palermo
• ASP.NET MVC - Setup ASP.NET MVC with Spark View Engine in 5 minutes or less – Just In RAM (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Books

• New - Programming for Unified Communications with Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 R2 – Amazon (Suggested by Microsoft Press)
• Preview - Sneak Peek at ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Website Programming: Problem - Design – Solution – Nick Berardi
• Research - Scan Your Books And Search Them On Google – TechCrunch (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Suggested - 15 Books You Must Have If You Are Doing ASP.NET Web Development – Dot Net Curry (Suggested by Microsoft Press)

Desktop and Server Technology

• Office - Microsoft Virtual Lab Express: Microsoft Office 2007 Overview – Microsoft (Suggested by Laura Rogers)
• Windows - Windows Mobile Medicine (Suggested by Laura Rogers)

Web Design, Layout, and Graphic Design

• Web Design - When can I use… Compatibility tables for features in HTML5, CSS3, SVG and other upcoming web technologies – Smashing Magazine

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

• jQuery - Show plain text in a password field and then make it a regular password field on focus – Chris Hope (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery - jQuery and AIR: Writing content to the file system via drag and drop – Andy Matthews (Suggested by jQuery)
• jQuery Plugin - Announcing Uniform – Pixelmatrix (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Mobile Devices

• Apple - How to Get Started with iPhone Dev – Web Designer Depot (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)
• Apple – iPhone 3Gs Preorder Online – Apple (Suggested by Alan Le)
• Apple - iPhone OS 3.0 Launching June 17th - MMS, Tethering in Some Countries – MacRumors.com

Podcasts and Videos

• .NET – Server Controls - World of .NET (Suggested by Developer Fusion)
• General - Eric Lee Builds Great Demos and WF2WPF - .NET Rocks
• General - Ping 15: Project Natal, Win 7 launch, SEO toolkit, Dev Kit for WinMo, Netbooks – Channel 9
• Silverlight - Creating a Silverlight Blog Badge, Part 2: Countdown Calendar – Jennifer Marsman
• Visual Studio - First Look at the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 - Mohammad Azam

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

• WPF - Code to HTML converter using WPF (Suggested by Brian Henderson)
• WPF - Did you know that if you’re an MSDN Subscriber you can get Telerik WPF controls FREE ? – Joe Stagner

Visual Studio and Other IDEs

• Hosting - VS2010 and Web Deployment Tool Beta Program – Orcsweb (Suggested by Brad Kingsley)

Miscellaneous Technology Announcements and News

• Apple - Live Coverage of WWDConference 2009 – MacRumors.com

Call For Speakers (Sorted by Date)

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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?

• -- Events This Week – June 8th, 2009 – G. Andrew Duthie
• 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
• Seattle, WA - BarCampSeattle09 - June 13th-14th, 2009
• Vancouver, Canada – ALT.NET – June 12th-14th, 2009