Lightkeepers: The Technology Post for May 21st

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The Technology Post for May 21st

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Series Post #17

Daily Quote - "A bad workman will never find a good tool." (Posted by Jon Galloway)

.NET Languages C# and Visual Basic

Alternate Languages Java, Rails, and other Languages

Rails - Installing Ruby on Rails: Windows (Suggested by Scott Koon)

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

Design Patterns - Can you justify your actions with regards to this pattern? Oren Eini
EF - Entity Framework minimum permission considerations - Muhammad Mosa (Suggested by Chris Love)
Logging - Back to Basics: Using Fusion Log Viewer to Debug Obscure Loader Errors Scott Hanselman
Testing - Art Of Unit Testing (The Samurai Book) Get it now, its done. Roy Osherove
Testing - Using ELMAH with ASP.NET MVC Phil Winstanely

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET - 20 Image Resizing Pitfalls Nathanael Jones
ASP.NET - An Ultra-Simple Sum of Numbers Captcha UserControl Peter Bromberg
ASP.NET - Displaying SQL Server Data using a Linq Data Source Packt Publishing
ASP.NET - Dont use Response.End() with OutputCache Rick Strahl
ASP.NET MVC - 25+ Best ASP.NET MVC Tutorials and Articles Ajax Line (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
ASP.NET MVC Controls Scott Hanselman

Books

Cloud Computing

Azure - Ray Ozzie Asserts Microsofts Position In The Cloud Tech Crunch (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
Azure - Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 5/19/2009+ (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
Kumo - Microsoft Kumo Search Engine Coming Next Week - Michael Horton (Suggested by Cloudmeme)
S3 - Moving Large Data Sets into Amazon S3 with AWS Import/Export - Stefan Tilkov (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
SQL Data Services - Provisioning an SDS Database - SQL Data Services Team (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
VMWare - VMware vSphere 4 Delivers First Cloud Computing OS Tech Fragments (Suggested by Cloudmeme)

Desktop and Server Technology

Firefox - Introducing Jetpack, Call for Participation Mozilla (Suggested by Scott Watermasysk)
General - How-To: Ping, Ping, Ping, Trace Route! (Part 1) Web Hosting Guy
SQL - SQL Backup Cleanups(or Did your Moneybags Make it to Tape?) - Jason Massie
Windows - How Will Apple Respond to Windows 7? (Suggested by Jon Galloway)
Windows - Less Virtual, More Machine - Windows 7 and the magic of Boot to VHD Scott Hanselman

Web Design, Layout, and Graphic Design

Layout - 8 Layout Solutions To Improve Your Designs Smashing Magazine
Web Design - 25 Important Web Design Tools - Pelfusion
Web Design - Web Design Industry Jargon: Glossary and Resources Smashing Magazine

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

JavaScript - 12 JavaScript 3D carousel collections Dream CSS
JavaScript - How to Easily Create a JavaScript Framework, Part 1 Admix Web
JavaScript - Scaling JavaScript to Large Web Applications (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
jQuery - 7 ways to load content via Ajax Free AJAX Codes
jQuery - jQuery Function Builder (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery - How to access iframe in jQuery (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery Plugin - jGrowl - jQuery plug-in to create pop-up notifications like OS Xs Growl Framework Dream CSS
jQuery Plugin - jQuery Progressbar (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery Plugin - Step By Step To Create Content Slider using jFlow, A Minimalist jQuery Plugin Web Design Booth
Mootools - ByCropper - Image cropper script using mootools Free AJAX Codes
Mootools ByZoomer Free AJAX Codes

Podcasts and Videos

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

Silverlight - Chart tweaking made easy [How to: Make four simple color/ToolTip changes with Silverlight/WPF Charting] (Suggested by SilverlightNews)
Silverlight - Flipping Items in Listbox (Suggested by SilverlightNews)
Silverlight - TreeView Advanced Scenarios (TreeViewExtended) Justin Angel (Suggested by SilverlightNews)
Silverlight - Visual Studio helper files Tim Heuer (Suggested by SilverlightNews)

Social Networking

General - Web 2.0: Managing Corporate Reputations Business Week
Twitter - Twitter contest: what can you code in 130 characters? Bertrand Le Roy

Technology Deals

VSLive Vegas (June) early Brid discount (-$200) ends tomorrow May 22. Nice Venetian room rate too: $119 http://bit.ly/5eMQW (Suggested by Wrox)

Visual Studio and Other IDEs

Miscellaneous Technology Announcements and News

General - Real-Time as a Service? Check Out What Notify.me is Working On Read Write Web (Suggested by George Dearing)
Open Source - The state of Open Source in the .NET ecosystem: A five year summary Oren Eini
Silverlight - Microsoft Says Silverlight Installed More Than Firefox, Safari and Chrome Combined Tech Crunch (Suggested by Chris Love)

Other Resources

Dew Drop - May 21, 2009 Alvin Ashcraft
Ning CodeTown (Suggested by Kevin Tunis)

Call For Speakers (Sorted by Date)

June 7th, 2009 - St Louis, Missouri Day of .NET

Upcoming Technology Events (Sorted by State) Want something listed? Post your comments. Also, whats the best way for me to list these events? By date order or by state, then city, then date?

--- Hands On MVC Training (Philadelphia, PA) May 29th
--- XamlFest
Phoenix, Az - Free WPF Training Event June 5th-6th, 2009
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
Chicago, IL Chicago Code Camp May 30th, 2009
Boston, MA SPTechCon: SharePoint Technology Conference June 22nd-24th, 2009
Ann Arbor, MI - 2nd Annual Michigan Give Camp - July 17th-19th, 2009
New York, NY Bar Camp NYC 4 May 30th-31st, 2009
Portland, OR Open Source Bridge June 17th-19th, 2009
Hershey, PA - New Tech Meetup of Central PA June Meetup June 1st, 2009
Philadelphia, PA - Higher Education Web Symposium - July 14, 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 19, 2009
Reston, VA - MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow - June 2nd, 2009
Reston, VA Silverlight FireStarter DC - June 6th, 2009
Richmond, VA - MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow - June 4th, 2009
Vancouver, Canada ALT.NET June 12th-14th, 2009

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