Technology Related Links for May 1, 2009

Series Post #4

I’ve streamlined the categories a bit more. I’m also going to add suggestions that I come across on Twitter. Do you have any suggestions for my link series? Let me know by leaving a comment here. Whether it is additional resources to find links or changing the format – all suggestions are welcome!

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

• An Introduction to Mixins for C# – Justin Etheredge
• Assigning from Nullable Types – StackOverflow Post
• Extension Method to Imitate Times() in Ruby – D. Patrick Caldwell
• Implementing a simple genetic algorithm – Mark Rasmussen
• Singletons vs Static Classes – Lee Dumond
• Queuing in the .Net Services CTP – Nicholas Allen

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

• Adding Rhino.Security Support to S#arp Projects – Bill McCafferty
• Let us burn all those pesky Util & Common libraries – Oren Eini
• NHibernate – The difference between Get, Load and querying by id – Oren Eini
• NHibernate Validator – Oren Eini
• Practical .NET Unit Testing – Free paper released – Jason Young
• Project Cards – Agile Project Management – App suggested by Alan Stephens
• To mock or not to mock – Gabriel Schenker

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

• ASP.NET MVC Action Filter Collection – Suggested by Scott Hanselman
• Creating a RequiredTextBox Web Server Control in ASP.NET – AzamSharp
• Geographic Data with Crystal Reports – Jeff McWherter
• Should ASP.NET Developers Learn ASP.NET MVC? – Jon Arild Tørresdal

Web Design and Layout

• 6 Website Fixes to Make Now – Mike Werling
• 10 Best jQuery Plugins for working with Tables – AjaxLine
• 10 Great CSS Selectors you must know – Rakesh Sharma
• CSS Sprites Merging Images to Achieve Better Performance – Azamsharp
• Definitive List of CSS Frameworks – Pick Your Style – Khan
• HTML, CSS, PHP and jQuery Killer Tutorials – Jarel Remick
• Use CSS Borders for 3D Effects – Sean McArthur

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

• 5 CSS3 Techniques For Major Browsers using the Power of jQuery – Noupe
• 15 Excellent jQuery Navigation Techniques and Solutions – Henry Jones
• Ajax Libraries API – Google
• Build Rich User Interfaces with jQuery – Dino Esposito
• Easy Fading Using jQuery – John Bloomfield
• MooTools based FileManager – Christoph Pojer
• Plugin – Masked Input jQuery Plugin – Josh Bush
• Plugin – Twitter API for jQuery – jQuery HowTo
• This Week in jQuery Volume 6 – Cody Lindley, jQuery
• Using jQuery Validation in ASP.NET Master Pages – Harsh Bardhan
• VS2008 AJAX Profiling Extensions – S. Somasegar

Microsoft Servers (Exchange, IIS, SQL, Server 2008)

• Are Commercial Databases Worth It? – James Devlin
• IIS 7 Error Pages taking over 500 Errors – Rick Strahl
• Ruby on Rails in IIS 7.0 with URL Rewriter – RuslanY

Podcasts and Videos

• A Thorough Look At How To Implement ECM – George Dearing
• Channel 9: 10 4 Episode #17: F# Intro
• Cloud Computing Show #11 – Guest: Jake Sorofman, Vice President of Marketing at rPath discusses application delivery
• Jason Olson: Composing Programming Languages, F# and OO – Channel 9
• 7 Valuable Visual Studio Hidden Features – Hatim
• Tip #60: Did you know… How to profiling an asp.net site? – Xinyang Qiu
• Scott Allen’s AJAX with ASP.NET MVC – Recommended by Fritz Onion
• Sod This 4 – Now with 100% less swearing! – Dino Esposito

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

• Drawing with Ink in ASP.NET using Silverlight – Harsh Bardhan
• Expression Blend 3 is Sweeeeeeeet – John Papa
• Locate Me and Virtual Earth Sample for Silverlight – Nikhil Kothari
• Regex Hero – An Online Silverlight Regular Expression Validator
• Silverlight Animation Tip – G. Andrew Duthie

Social Networking

• 8 Must Read Articles – Social Computing in the Enterprise – Barb Mosher
• http://www.twitzap.com/

Visual Studio

• 7 Valuable Visual Studio Hidden Features – Hatim
• Tip #60: Did you know… How to profiling an asp.net site? – Xinyang Qiu

Other Resources

• 5 Very Weird URL Shorteners – Stan Schroeder
• Exceptioneer – Handling and Reporting Exceptions – Jason Gaylord
• Twiddla – Free Online Whiteboard – Suggested by Scott Watermasyk
• URLAgg – Jeff Schoolcraft
• http://www.alvinashcraft.com/2009/05/01/dew-drop-may-1-2009/
• http://samgentile.com/Web/new-and-notable/new-and-notable-316/

Upcoming Technology Events

• Boston, MA – No Excuses Boston Geek Dinner – April 30th, 2009
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