The Technology Post for June 11th, 2009

Edition: #29

Daily Deed – Microsoft donating 8 meals to Feeding America for every Internet Explorer 8 download at http://browserforthebetter.com (Posted by Microsoft Press)

Other Link Lists

• Dew Drop - June 11, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

• C# - AfterWork HTML Parser in C# – Code Project (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

• Design Patterns - Design Patterns and Dependency Injection - Elijah Manor
• ORM - Entity Framework 4.0 Beta 1 – POCO, ObjectSet, Repository and UnitOfWork – Devtalk (Suggested by Craig Shoemaker)
• ORM - Implementing Repository Pattern With Entity Framework – Code Project (Suggested by Craig Shoemaker)
• ORM - NHibernate – Automatic change tracking for aggregate roots in DDD scenarios - Ayende
• Testing - Better Unit Tests with Test.Assert() for NUnit/VSTT/SUTF – unfold (Suggested by Silverlight News)

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.NET - Why System.Net.WebException comes up post .NET Framework 3.5 SP1? – IIS.net (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
• ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET MVC and SOLID Programming Principles June 2009 - Steve Smith
• ASP.NET MVC - Opinionated Input Builders for ASP.Net MVC – Part 5 the Required input – Los Techies

Desktop and Server Technology

• Browser - The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection – Jeff Moser (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
• Search - Microsoft Translator Instant Answers Now On Bing – Microsoft Research (Suggested by Microsoft Press)
• Windows - Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard: Why 7 Is More Substantial – OS News (Suggested by Microsoft Press)

Web Design, Layout, and Graphic Design

• CSS - 10 best CSS hacks – Stylized Web (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• CSS - 24 CSS (in some cases with jQuery) Navigation and Menu Tutorials – Specky Boy (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)
• CSS - Adaptive CSS-Layouts: New Era In Fluid Layouts? - Smashing Magazine
• Web Development – Web Development Timeline (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)
• Web Development - Why Web Developers Don’t Need A Mac - Smashing Magazine

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

• ASP.NET Ajax - Using the Ajax control toolbox with jQuery (and ASP.NET MVC) – Jay Kimble (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• JavaScript - Datejs is an open-source JavaScript Date Library (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• JavaScript - Javascript beautifier (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
• jQuery - Create Beautiful jQuery sliders tutorial – Dream CSS (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)
• jQuery - Find & select all external links with jQuery – jQuery Howto (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)
• jQuery - Interactive jQuery selector tester (Suggested by jQuery)
• jQuery - Lazy - The on-demand jQuery plugin loader - Jan Jarfalk (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Podcasts and Videos

• General - MSDN Bytes - Today’s Random Silly Hanselman Video – Scott Hanselman (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

• RIA - Bing Search RSS with Silverlight 3 RIA Domain Service – Peter Bromberg
• Silverlight - Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #12 – Developers 42 (Suggested by Silverlight News)
• Silverlight - SilverLight 2.0: Setting the Background of a Button – Michael Neel (Suggested by Silverlight News)
• Silverlight - Virtual Earth Silverlight Control Part 2: Locate Me – Silver Enlightment (Suggested by Silverlight News)

Visual Studio and Other IDEs

• Visual Studio - What’s New with Dotfuscator in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 – Preemtive Solutions (Suggested by Serge Baranovsky)

Miscellaneous Technology Announcements and News

• Gaming - XNA Game Studio 3.1: What’s new? – XNA (Suggested by Chris Woodruff)

Job Opportunities (Sorted by State)

• District of Columbia - AIS is looking for 2 cleared SharePoint/.NET Developers to work in DC. Go to https://jasong.us/3fd0Unr – Added 6/10/2009
• Pennsylvania - VB6/VB.Net Developer. Contact James Colley at 888.768.3946. – Added 6/11/2009

Call For Speakers (Sorted by Date)

• None

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?

• -- New Community Megaphone Event Tools – 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