jQuery Essentials

An excellent presentation addressing jQuery Essentials by Marc Grabanski.

jQuery Essentials

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Worldwide Launch: ‘Make it Great’ with Microsoft Office 2010

Input from 9 million beta downloads went into creating Office 2010, now available on new computers and in more than 35,000 retail outlets around the world.

Virtual Press Kit:   Office 2010

Feature:  Top 7 Reasons to Try

Try or Buy:  Make It Great Website

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How To Permanently Delete Your Account on Popular Websites

Cameron Chapman is a professional Web and graphic designer with over 6 years of experience. She writes for a number of blogs, including her own, Cameron Chapman On Writing. She’s also the author of Internet Famous: A Practical Guide to Becoming an Online Celebrity. Today she is talking about how to delete your accounts on popular websites.

She has rated the difficulty level of removing your account on the scale of 1-5, five being the most difficult. According to her, removing your account from Wikipedia and WordPress is impossible, while the easiest one is PayPal. Facebook on the other hand is the most difficult one rated five, whereas, MySpace stands at four.

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Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tool Extensions

Another news from Scott Gu, who just blogged about the cool new VS 2010 Productivity Power Tool Extensions.
Highlight of this is the Add Reference Dialog:

This new Add Reference dialog caches assembly information – which means it loads within a second or two (note: the very first time it still loads assembly data – but it then caches it and makes it fast afterwards). The new Add Reference dialog also now includes searching support – making it easier to find the assembly you are looking for.

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Office is now live on SkyDrive!

Today, Office Web Apps on SkyDrive are now available to everyone in the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland. Still more to share next week when Office 2010 is released to consumers, including how Office 2010 + SkyDrive + Office Web Apps give you the best productivity experience across the PC, phone, and browser.

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Defensive Database Programming (Free eBook)

The goal of Defensive Programming is to produce resilient code that responds gracefully to the unexpected.
To the SQL Server programmer, this means T-SQL code that behaves consistently and predictably in cases of unexpected usage, doesn't break under concurrent loads, and survives predictable changes to database schemas and settings.

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CodeRush Xpress for C# and VB

CodeRush Xpress is freely available to all Visual Studio 2010 developers and offers a comprehensive suite of tools that enable you and your team to simplify and shape complex code - making it easier to read and less costly to maintain.

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Claims–based Identity and Access Control

Imagine a world where you don't have to worry about authentication. Imagine instead that all requests to your application already include the information you need to make access control decisions and to personalize the application for the user.
In this world, your applications can trust another system component to securely provide user information, such as the user's name or e-mail address, a manager's e-mail address, or even a purchasing authorization limit. The user's information always arrives in the same simple format, regardless of the authentication mechanism, whether it's Microsoft® Windows® integrated authentication, forms-based authentication in a Web browser, an X.509 client certificate, or something more exotic. Even if someone in charge of your company's security policy changes how users authenticate, you still get the information, and it's always in the same format.
This is the utopia of claims-based identity that A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control describes. As you'll see, claims provide an innovative approach for building applications that authenticate and authorize users.

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Hands-on Labs for Enterprise Library 5.0 and Unity 2.0 Ship

An updated set of hands-on labs were released for C# and VB.NET enterprise developers, including exercises for application blocks, Unity, interception and complex configuration scenarios. 

The set contains a guide to learn about the application blocks included with Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 and practice how to leverage their capabilities in various application contexts. It includes Caching, Configuration Sources, Cryptography, Data Access, Exception Handling, Interception, Logging, Security, Validation, and Unity Hands-on Labs.

You can download the hands-on lab using this link, however to download Enterprise Library 5.0 please use this link.

An Introduction to Enterprise Library 5.0

Microsoft Enterprise Library is a collection of reusable application blocks designed to assist software developers with common enterprise development challenges. 

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Twitter what and how to do...

The other day I was talking with one of my senior colleague about web presence. We discussed the need of Twitting and thus I promised him to collect some resources about Twitter. Here are some links that discuss about Twitter, what and how to do...

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LinkedIn Launches URL Shortener, Enhances Sharing Options For Content

LinkedIn brings sharing to the professional conversation. Professional social network LinkedIn has been steadily expanding its presence outside of its platform through integrations with Twitter, and Microsoft Outlook and opening up the platform's API.

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An interesting Windows Twitter Client

Seems very promising, looks great, the MetroTwit is out as beta. MetroTwit is a Windows application you'll love to use.

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Facebook Clickjacking Attack Spreading Through ‘Likes’

A new clickjacking worm is spreading through Facebook via the ‘Like’ feature. The attack, which is said to have hit hundreds of thousands of users, uses a combination of social engineering and clickjacking exploit makes it appear as if a user has “liked” a link.

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