The Technology Post for June 29th, 2009

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Edition: #38

Daily Oddball – World Record Attempt – Largest Slab of Fudge (Posted by Betsy Weber) – Record Broken! (Pic here)

Other Link Lists

Dew Drop – June 29, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft

.NET Framework

General - Ever wonder how .NET finds the assemblies that you reference? – Joe Stagner
General - Multithreading: load and store reordering – Luis Abreu
General - Work-Stealing in .NET 4.0 – Jennifer Marsman
General - Workflow 4.0 Is Disappointing – Kathleen Dollard (Suggested by Serge Baranovsky)
IronRuby - Consuming RSS Feeds Using IronRuby with WinForms Application - Mohammad Azam

Alternate Languages – Java, Rails, and other Languages

PHP - 40+ Invaluable PHP Tutorials and Resources – net.tuts+ (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

Testing - Unit Testing Business Logic in .NET RIA Services (Suggested by Craig Shoemaker)
Testing - xUnit.GWT - Given When Then (GWT) extension for xUnit.net – Ben Hall (Suggested by Brad Wilson)

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET MVC & jQuery Part 1: Adding jQuery Intellisense to VS 2008 - Elijah Manor
ASP.NET MVC - Guiding Principles For Your ASP.NET MVC Applications – K. Scott Allen (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
ASP.NET MVC - Principles, Code-Behind, & View Engines – K. Scott Allen (Suggested by Luis Abreu; though he disagrees with Scott)
ASP.NET MVC - RESTful Services With ASP.NET MVC - Aaron Skonnard (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
ASP.NET MVC – T4 Template – David Ebbo (Suggested by Scott Koon)
ASP.NET MVC - Useful jQuery Tips, Tricks, and Plugins with ASP.NET MVC - Elijah Manor

Desktop and Server Technology

Browser - Firefox 3.5 is coming soon! – Mozilla (Suggested by Simone Chiaretta)
Browser - Native JSON Support in IE8 and Tracking the ECMAScript Fifth Edition Draft Specification – JScript Blog (Suggested by Scott Koon)
Office - Microsoft Defends Its Empire – Business Week (Suggested by George Dearing)
SharePoint - Demos: A six-part series on getting the most out of SharePoint Designer 2007 - Laura Rogers
SharePoint - Supply Chain Visibility and Collaboration Using SharePoint 2007 (Suggested by Laura Rogers)
Surface - Five More Killer Apps for Microsoft Surface – Fast Company (Suggested by Vishal R Joshi)
Windows - Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About – Freeware Genius (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)
Windows - Windows 7 Pricing: Good News, Mostly – Gizmodo (Suggested by Kevin Dente)

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

ASP.NET AJAX - Never worry about ASP.NET AJAX’s .d again – Encosia (Suggested by Craig Shoemaker)
JavaScript - 10 Impressive JavaScript Animation Frameworks – Six Revisions (Suggested by Keyvan Nayeri)
JavaScript - JavaScript Shortcuts – MyViewState.NET (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
JavaScript - KeyTable – Keyboard Navigation & Event Binding For HTML Table – W3Avenue (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)
JavaScript - Launching Sputnik into Orbit – Chromium Blog (Suggested by Scott Koon)
jQuery - 55 Jquery Tutorials, Resources, Tips And Tricks: Ultimate Collection - Dainis Graveris (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery - Create a Bar Chart Plug-in for jQuery – 9A (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery - FireQuery is a collection of Firebug enhancements for jQuery (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery - Simple Modal + Google map, easy modal map boxes with jQuery (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery - Understanding the Context in jQuery – Brandon Aaron (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery - Useful jQuery Tips, Tricks, and Plugins with ASP.NET MVC - Elijah Manor
jQuery Plugins - jSlickmenu: A jQuery plugin for slick CSS3 menus (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
JSON – CloudKit: An Open Web JSON Appliance – CloudKit (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)

Mobile Devices

iPhone - Determine iPhone orientation using CSS – The CSS Ninja (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
iPhone – Mono (C#) Support – Mono Project (Suggested by Wally McClure)

Podcasts and Videos

.NET Framework - Inversion of Control - Jeff Diercks (Suggested by Developer Fusion)
.NET Framework - Resources for learning the ADO.NET Entity Framework – Joe Stagner
Desktop and Server Technology - Yochay Kiriaty - Windows 7 Developer Training Kit – Channel 9
Social Networking and Community Platforms - Open Spaces and unmeetings – The Thirsty Developer (Suggested by Developer Fusion)

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

Flash - A printed magazine for Flash & Flex developers (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
Flash - SWFObject and Best Practice Implementation – Scott King (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)
Silverlight - Deep zooming on the fly – Silverlight Show (Suggested by Alan Le)
Silverlight - Silverlight Geek - An interview with Jesse Liberty – Adam Kinney (Suggested by Channel 9)
Silverlight - Silverlight Validation and ViewModel (Suggested by Steve Presley)
WPF - Creating WPF TextBox UserControl to Perform Custom Validation - Mohammad Azam

Social Networking and Community Platforms

General - Understanding Social Media Guidelines for Employees – Ziff Davis (Suggested by Guy Kawasaki)
Twitter - Keyword-based twitter image aggregation – Steve Andrews
Twitter – Twittermatic – Schedule Your Tweets - Maarten Balliauw

Web Design, Layout, and Graphic Design

CSS - 15 Must Read Articles for CSS Beginners – Line 25 (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)
CSS - Best Practices to optimize CSS – an academic exercise - Reinhold Weber (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Web Design - 15 Interesting online presentations for web developers – Dream CSS (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Web Design - 45 Incredibly Useful Web Design Checklists and Questionnaires – Smashing Magazine
Web Design - An Honest Open Discussion on Web Standards and HTML 5 – David Tucker (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
Web Design – HTML 5 Doctor – Html5Doctor.com (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)

Miscellaneous Technology Announcements, News, and Deals

Job Opportunities (Sorted by State)

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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 – 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
Southfield, MI – 4th Annual Architecture Summit – July 31st, 2009
Columbus, OH - PyOhio: Python-related Event - July 25th-26th, 2009
Allentown, PA – TECHbash 2009 – September 26th, 2009
Philadelphia, PA - PhillyXAML.org – July 23rd, 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

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