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
.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