Lightkeepers: The Technology Post for May 22nd

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The Technology Post for May 22nd

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Series Post #18

This Day In History - On 22 May 1990 Microsoft releases the Windows 3.0 operating system (Courtesy of David Penton)

.NET Languages C# and Visual Basic

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

EF - Complex Types in the EDM Designer in EF4 and a look at updating complex types in code Julie Lerman
EF - Customizing EDM Code Gen in EF4 Julie Lerman
EF - Final release of ADO.NET provider for Firebird with Entity Framework support Julie Lerman
EF - The much improved EDM Wizard Pluralization in VS2010 Julie Lerman
EF - Upgrading EF projects to EF4? Don't forget to target .NET 4.0 Julie Lerman
General - Jumping The 20 Fence Rob Conery
REST The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)
Testing - Sending ELMAH Errors Via GMail Scott Mitchell
Testing - Time-Tested Testing Tips - Part 3 - Brendan Enrick
Testing - Time-Tested Testing Tips - Part 4 - Brendan Enrick

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET - Picasa Style Photo Album Using ListView Control in ASP.Net 3.5 Code Digest
ASP.NET - The Top 10 Things Web Developers Still Get Wrong After All This Time (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET MVC and T4 Templates Code Generation Screencast David Hayden (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Books

New - Beginning JavaScript and CSS Development with jQuery Wrox
Review - Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework - .NET Answers (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Cloud Computing

Azure - Create and Deploy your Windows Azure Service in 5 Steps - Ryan Dunn (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
General - Announcing The Cloud Computing Newswire Service - Reuven Cohen (Suggested by Kevin Tunis)
General - The time is now for Mozy and cloud backup services ZDNet
General - U.S. Federal Cloud Computing Market Forecast 2010 2015 Market Research Media (Suggested by Cloudmeme)

Desktop and Server Technology

Surface - Surface Development Part 5: Futures and Resources Jennifer Marsman
Windows - Microsoft dumps 3-app limit from Windows 7 Starter - Lee Mathews (Suggested by Jon Galloway)

Web Design, Layout, and Graphic Design

Adobe - Fourth Annual Layers 100 Wicked Tips Layers Magazine (Suggested by Guy Kawasaki)
CSS - 10 Image Free Sexy CSS Menu and How to Create One Desizn Tech (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

AJAX - Create a New Custom Extender Joe Stagner
AJAX - Survey: Ajax usage among .NET developers Bertrand Le Roy (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery - 7 JQuery and CSS based Accordion Menus Online Tech Tips (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery - 12 jQuery based chart Dream CSS
jQuery - 20 jQuery Tutorials Collection (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery - 31 mind blowing collection of jQuery light box - Dream CSS
jQuery - Create a Resizable Image Grid with jQuery Web Design Ledger (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery - Create A Tabbed Content Rotator Using jQuery - Raymond Selda
jQuery - Dynamic Tooltips with ASP.NET & jQuery Egg Head Cafe (Suggested by Keyvan Nayyeri)
jQuery - Update on jQuery Ribbon - Mikael Sderstrm (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery Plugin - 6 Flexible jQuery Plugins To Control Webpage Layouts Easily Web Resources Depot
jQuery Plugin - prettyPhoto a jQuery lightbox clone - Stphane Caron (Suggested by jQuery)
jQuery Plugin - Valid8 - Amazingly easy input validation jQuery plugin - Jan Jarfalk (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Podcasts and Videos

Social Networking

Facebook - Pope 2.0: Vatican launches Facebook application Newsvine (Suggested by George Dearing)

Visual Studio and Other IDEs

Visual Studio - Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit - May Preview Microsoft (Suggested by Wally McClure)
Visual Studio - VS2010 Code Editor helps you navigate around your code - DevLife

Miscellaneous Technology Announcements and News

Other Resources

Dew Drop - May 22, 2009 - Alvin Ashcraft

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
Okemos, MI - TechSmith Take Your Customers To Work Day - May 28th, 2009
New York, NY Bar Camp NYC 4 May 30th-31st, 2009
Columbus, OH - PyOhio: Python-related Event - July 25th-26th, 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
Seattle, WA - BarCampSeattle09 - June 13th-14th, 2009
Vancouver, Canada ALT.NET June 12th-14th, 2009

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