The Technology Post for June 24th, 2009

Edition: #35

Daily Comic – IE8 Comparison – Brad Colbow (Posted by Elijah Manor)

Other Link Lists

• Dew Drop – June 24, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

• C# - Multithreading: AsyncOperationManager and AsyncOperation helpers – Luis Abreu
• Interop - Reading a Microsoft Project file (mpp) in C# – Tom Hearn

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

• Design Patterns - Kate Oneal: Funding Susan’s Projects (Suggested by Eric Landes)
• Design Patterns - Patterns and Practices of Lean Software Development – Joe Stagner

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.NET - ASP.NET 3.5 CMS: Master Pages, Themes, and Menus - Packt Publishing
• ASP.NET - ASP.NET Master Page Advice, Tips, and Tricks – Scott Mitchell (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC - Application-wide action filters in ASP.NET MVC - Maarten Balliauw (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC - MVC vs. WebForms, A Clear Loser Emerging (Suggested by Wally McClure)
• ASP.NET MVC - Tip For Keeping ASP.Net MVC Views Easy To Read – Steve Horn (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC - Using PostSharp and log4net to Set Up Controller Logging in ASP.net MVC – Alex Cuse (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC - Webforms vs. MVC, the desire to rewrite everything, an unexpected benefit (Suggested by Wally McClure)

Books

• eBook - The PHP Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks, 2nd Edition – net.tuts+
• New - jQuery in Action, Second Edition – Manning (Suggested by jQuery)

Desktop and Server Technology

• Browsers - Chrome and Firefox 3.5 Memory Usage – Dot Net Perls (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)
• Mac - How I Set Up My Mac – Scott Reynolds (Suggested by LosTechies.com)
• Office - 10 Useful Outlook 2007 Plug-ins and Tricks - .NET Curry (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Gaming

• Xbox - Accidental Prescience and the Secrets of Project Natal – Scott Hanselman

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

• ASP.NET AJAX - ASP.NET Ajax - Script Combining and moving ScriptResource.axd’s to Static Scripts - Scott Hanselman
• jQuery - 10 Ways to Instantly Increase Your jQuery Performance – net.tuts+ (Suggested by jQuery)
• jQuery - Handy jQuery Plugins/Snippets – Adam Royle (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery - jQuery custom selectors with parameters – jQuery HowTo (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• jQuery - Multi-level Menus with jQuery and CSS – Jarel Remick (Suggested by net.tuts+)
• jQuery Plugin – jQuery tinyjs (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
• jQuery Plugin - PeriodicalUpdater plugin for jQuery (Suggested by jQuery)

Mobile Devices

• Development - Resources for designing and building mobile applications and websites (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)

Podcasts and Videos

• .NET Languages - How to use a delegate – Jennifer Marsman
• Cloud Computing - Introducing Microsoft Hohm - Save Energy & Money – Channel 9

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

• Silverlight - Binding a Silverlight DataGrid to dynamic data Part 2 – editable data and INotifyPropertyChanged - Colin Eberhardt (Suggested by Silverlight News)
• Silverlight - Pushing Data From the Server to Silverlight 3 using a Duplex Wcf Service – Ian Blackburn (Suggested by Silverlight News)
• Silverlight - Resizing Childwindow (Suggested by Silverlight News)
• Silverlight - SilverBullet #4 – System.Windows.ApplicationIdentity - Timmy Kokke (Suggested by Silverlight News)

Social Networking and Community Platforms

• Blogging - These are the little bugs that lead to madness - Scott Hanselman

Visual Studio and Other IDEs

• TFS - TFS Adoption at Microsoft – May 2009 – Grant Holliday (Suggested by Steve Andrews)

Web Design, Layout, and Graphic Design

• CSS - On CSS3: ‘Graceful Degradation’ or ‘Progressive Enhancement’
• Graphic Design - Draw Fairy Tale Characters in Photoshop – Grafpedia (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)
• Graphic Design - Inside Adobe Illustrator – Adobe (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)
• Web Design - 7 Dos and Don’ts in Getting Started in User Centered Design – Infragistics (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
• Web Design - Module Tabs in Web Design: Best Practices and Solutions – Smashing Magazine
• Web Design - Stop Password Masking (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)

Miscellaneous Technology Announcements, News, and Deals

• Packt’s 2009 Open Source CMS Award will begin on August 3. Prize fund increased to $24,000 + more details at http://tinyurl.com/maf4kv - Packt Publishing

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?

• -–  Events This Week – June 23rd, 2009 - G. Andrew Duthie
• Phoenix, Az - BarCamp Phoenix – August 29th, 2009
• Des Moines, IA – Iowa Code Camp – November 7th, 2009
• New Orleans, LA – MS Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 – July 13th-16th, 2009
• Ann Arbor, MI - 2nd Annual Michigan Give Camp - July 17th-19th, 2009
• Columbus, OH - PyOhio: Python-related Event - July 25th-26th, 2009
• Allentown, PA – TECHbash 2009 – September 26th, 2009
• Knoxville, TN – CodeStock 2009 – June 26th-27th, 2009
• Nashville, TN – devLINK – August 13th-15th, 2009
• Dallas, TX – SharePoint Saturday – July 25th, 2009
• Appleton, WI – Fox Valley .NET Users Group – September 9th, 2009