The Technology Post for July 6th, 2009

Edition: #42

Daily Oddball – Best Buy to Sell Green Vehicles

.NET Framework

• Azure - Azure pricing: How low will Microsoft go? – Tweeted by Mary Jo Foley
• Azure - LINQPad and Azure – Tweeted by Mike Amundsen
• Azure - Looking Inside Windows Azure! – Tweeted by Mike Amundsen
• C# - Invoking IronRuby Methods from C# – Tweeted by Mohammad Azam
• VB - Sorting Arrays – Tweeted by Serge Baranovsky

Architecture and Projects

• Architecture - SubSonic 3.0 is Released – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
• Book Review - Join the CLUB (Coding Like Uncle Bob) – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
• Services – Web Services Contract First Tool – Tweeted by Don Demsak
• Testing - Hanselminutes Podcast 169 - The Art of Unit Testing with Roy Osherove – Tweeted by Elijah Manor

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.NET - Blumin’ Dynamic Data – Tweeted by Joe Stagner
• ASP.NET - By Design bugs – Tweeted by Scott Koon
• ASP.NET - Global Application settings and the web.config file – Tweeted by Joe Stagner
• ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET MVC: How to combine scripts and other resources – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
• ASP.NET MVC - AutoMapper in NerdDinner – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
• ASP.NET MVC - How not to do Dependency Injection, in NerdDinner – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
• ASP.NET MVC - Pretty Code #1 – Building SelectListItems – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
• ASP.NET MVC - What is MvcContrib, and why did it start? – Tweeted by Jeffrey Palermo
• Book Review - ASP.NET 3.5 CMS Development – Tweeted by Developer Fusion

Desktop and Server Technology

• Browser – Bored with Firefox 3.5? Here’s Namoroka (3.6) – Tweeted by Jon Galloway
• Cloud - Unified Cloud Interface Project (UCI) – Tweeted by Dana Coffey
• Mac - 25 Free Mac Apps That Will Boost Your Productivity – Tweeted by Dana Coffey
• Office - Register Office 2007 file format MIME types on servers – Tweeted by Laura Rogers
• SharePoint - Extending SharePoint: Checking if a List exists – Tweeted by Bil Simser
• SQL - How to copy data/append data into files from within T-SQL – Tweeted by Denis Gobo
• SQL - Mirroring and Clustering on SQL Server – Tweeted by Jason Massie
• SQL - New SQL Server on Vsphere Whitepaper – Tweeted by Jason Massie
• SQL - Optimizing MySQL: Performance Tuning Script – Tweeted by Umut Muhaddisoglu
• SQL - Oracle cursor injection exploit to get DBA privileges  – Tweeted by Denis Gobo
• SQL - SQL Server Index Tuning Tip: Identify Overlaps – Tweeted by Luciano E. Guerche
• Windows - Ping 19: BingTones, SilverLight & Xbox join forces, Win7 guides, IE8 controversy – Tweeted by Channel 9
• Windows - Windows 7 Family Pack Available Soon – Tweeted by Denis Gobo

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

• JavaScript - Finally… Goto in Javascript – Tweeted by Kevin Dente
• JavaScript - How to avoid switch-case syndrome – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
• JavaScript – hyphenator – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
• JavaScript - Not blocking the UI in tight JavaScript loops – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
• jQuery - Advanced keypress navigation with jQuery – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
• jQuery - Clever jQuery Selections - Speed up your Selectors – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
• jQuery - Event Pooling with jQuery Using Bind and Trigger: Managing Complex Javascript – Tweeted by jQuery
• jQuery - Form validation with jQuery from scratch – Tweeted by Umut Muhaddisoglu
• jQuery - Indexed Dropdown with jQuery – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
• jQuery - Rounding Up the Top 10 jQuery Lightbox Scripts – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
• jQuery - Simple Tabs w/ CSS & jQuery – Tweeted by Smashing Magazine
• jQuery - Update: A New & Improved jQuery Script to Automatically Preload images from CSS – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
• jQuery - Web Site Improvements Using jQuery and jQuery UI – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
• jQuery – Plugin – jquizme – Tweeted by Umut Muhaddisoglu
• jQuery – Plugin - Lightweight Rich Text Editor (RTE / WYSIWYG) for jQuery  – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
• jQuery – Plugin – timeago – Tweeted by Elijah Manor

Mobile Devices

• iPhone - Create iPhone Applications – Tweeted by Scott Galloway

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

• Silverlight - Day #1: Mouse Events in Silverlight – Tweeted by Jeff Blankenburg
• Silverlight - Day #2: Silverlight Screen Transitions – Tweeted by Jeff Blankenburg
• Silverlight - Day #3: Custom Silverlight Loading Screen – Tweeted by Jeff Blankenburg
• Silverlight - Day #4: Communicating Between Two Silverlight Controls – Tweeted by Jeff Blankenburg
• Silverlight - Day #5: Silverlight Drag and Drop – Tweeted by Jeff Blankenburg
• Silverlight - Day #6: Silverlight and the Twitter “Hello, World!” – Tweeted by Jeff Blankenburg
• Silverlight - PRISM for Silverlight – Tweeted by Peter Laudati

Visual Studio and Other IDEs

• Other IDEs – SlickEdit 2009 – Tweeted by Joe Stagner

Web Design and Graphics

• CSS - 10 CSS tricks that make website looks cool instantly! – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
• CSS - CSS Tips and Tricks – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
• CSS - Stopping the CSS positioning panic (Part 1) – Tweeted by Umut Muhaddisoglu
• Graphics - 145 Ultimate Round-Up Of Photoshop Tutorials and Resources – Tweeted by Dana Coffey
• Graphics - Great Designers Steal? – Tweeted by Dana Coffey
• Web Design - 4 Tips and 17 Examples for Spectacular Login – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
• Web Design - 10 Principles Of Navigation Design And Why Quality Navigation Is So Critical – Tweeted by Umut Muhaddisoglu
• Web Design - A Designer’s Guide To Accessibility and 508 Compliance – Tweeted by Umut Muhaddisoglu
• Web Design - An Unofficial Q&A about the Discontinuation of the XHTML2 WG – Tweeted by Mike Amundsen
• Web Design - Features over Usability : How not to design a web application – Tweeted by Pete Brown
• Web Design – HTML 5 Cheat Sheet (PDF) – Tweeted by Smashing Magazine
• Web Design – HTML 5 is a Big Deal for Enterprise Developers – Tweeted by DZone
• Web Design – HTML 5 Won’t Be Ready Until 2022. Yes, 2022. – Tweeted by Darcy Lussier
• Web Design - That’s kind of scary: .msonormal and .smalltext are among Top 20 most popular classes in markup – Tweeted by Smashing Magazine

Miscellaneous Technology News

• CompuServe Requiem – Tweeted by Chuck Urwiler
• We’re live! come check out Microsoft Hohm for yourself www.microsoft-hohm.com – Tweeted by Microsoft Hohm

Other Link Lists

• Dew Drop – July 6, 2009 – Tweeted by Alvin Ashcraft

Today’s Birthdays

• Sarah Dutkiewicz – Ohio, United States

Job Opportunities (Sorted by State)

• Boston, MA – Nuxeo –Tweeted on 7/1/2009
• Redmond, WA – Project Natal, Microsoft – Tweeted on 7/1/2009
• Redmond, WA - Software Development Engineer in Test Job, Microsoft - Tweeted on 7/1/2009

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?

• Phoenix, Az - BarCamp Phoenix – August 29th, 2009
• Des Moines, IA – Iowa Code Camp – November 7th, 2009
• Boston, MA – jQuery Conference 2009 – September 12th-13th, 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
• Austin, TX – Monospace Conference – October 27th-30th, 2009
• Dallas, TX – SharePoint Saturday – July 25th, 2009
• Appleton, WI – Fox Valley .NET Users Group – September 9th, 2009