The Morning Brew

A little bit of a career focused edition today as there were a larger than usual number of posts around that topic today I thought I’d feature it today at the end of the post.

Software

• Gordon: Flash Runtime Implemented in JavaScript – Ajaxian highlights some work by Tobias Schneider in creating a Flash runtime which runs in the browser, and is written completely in JavaScript and HTML5 – impressive stuff, and I particularly like the name too.
• DotNet JQuery (DNJ) : new features in version 0.4.0 – Alaa-eddine KADDOURI shares the latest version of this ASP.NET Control library which adds controls for the common jQuery Controls such as Sliders, Accordion, tabs, panels, etc, making it easier to work with these jQuery controls in Visual Studio.

Information

• Visual Studio 2010 Tricks and Tips – Zain Naboulsi picks up Sara Ford’s daily Visual Studio tip posting responsibilities, and looks to be off to a good start. This looks like on that will be worth keeping a regular eye on.
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 3. How to resolve arrays – Mike Hadlow continues his series of posts on Advanced Windsor Container use with a look at how you can get Castle Windsor to resolve arrays of services when you have multiple components registered for that service.
• Take your MVC User Controls to the next level – David Ebbo takes a look at making ASP.NET user controls more like Render Helpers when working with ASP.NET MVC
• Fooling the Query Optimizer – Ben Nevarez shares some useful tricks which allow you to find out what the query execution plan will look like when your tables have different (larger) numbers of rows.
• Favor – Help Us Test .NET 4 Beta 2 on Windows Update (WU) – Scott Hanselman asks for community help in testing the Windows Update deployment of the .NET 4 Client Profile, before its release. In order to do so, you will need a machine without any .NET 4, and you have to edit the registry to make Windows Update show it
• Limitations of MVC2’s ModelValidatorProviders – Jeremy Skinner talks about some of the problems he ran into working with the ASP.NET MVC 2 ModelValidatorProvider API when trying to write a provider for the FluentValidation library.
• The Weekly Source Code 47 – ASP.NET 3.5 Dynamic Data: FilterRepeaters and Dynamic Linq Query Generation – Scott Hanselman resumes his Weekly Source Code series with a look into some of the ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 Dynamic Data features

Careers Special Feature

• Career Advice For Young Developers, Part 2 – Davy Brion shares some advice for up and coming developers keen on advancing up the Software Development Career ladder
• Selling Yourself: Why? (Part 1) – John Sonmez talks about the very difficult skill of selling yourself and your skills, and follows up with a <2nd Part looking at ways of marketing yourself
• If You’re Graduating Soon, Consider Working For The ASP.NET Team – Since today seems to be a careers oriented edition, Phil Haack and the ASP.NET Team are looking for a fresh graduate to bring into the team, and are also looking for a Ninja Quality Assurance person.

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