I am please, excited and terrified to announce that Yet Another Podcast will be launching on September 20, 2010.
This is not your momma’s podcast.
Here are my guiding principles:
- Do not waste the listener’s time
- This is not radio
- Discuss, don’t interview
- Focus, focus, focus
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This is the third of twelve questions in The Great Silverlight Competency Test – each of which I believe a competent Silverlight Programmer ought to be able to complete within no more than 1 hour.
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Go to First Tutorial
In this tutorial, we’ll expand upon the work done in the previous tutorial and we’ll look more closely at a few key issues.
MVVM
As an iPhone Developer your thinking is adapted to and influenced by the Model-View-Controller pattern. The very good news is that the pattern for Windows Phone 7 (WP7) development, MVVM, is very closely related to MVC.
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On August 23rd I published part 1 of The Great Silverlight Competency Test. The key tasks were to…

…write a Silverlight program mimicking a problem report system, that allows you to go to your db and call up a record by phone number and view and/or edit all of the following fields. Do not implement membership or roles feel free to prepopulate the db with randomized data.
- Full name
- Address
- Email(s)
- Phone(s)
- Date of first contact
- Date of last contact
- Reason for calling (1 of 5 possible)
- Product (1 of 20 possible)
- Computer(s) running on
- Description of problem
The idea was to be able to do this in under an hour. This posting will review one solution.
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I want a program that I can say “Watch what I do to this file” (change properties, unblock, etc.) and then be able to say “now do this for all the other files in the directory.” Can’t be too hard to write, can it?
In this posting I will show how to create Feedburner feeds based on queries in Word Press using the Feedburner plugins.
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I have ADD, (“oh look, something shiny!”) which means getting organized is a challenge, and making sure I can put my hands on any given piece of information a huge life-long effort, but technology has helped a lot, and after trying, discarding, returning to and otherwise manipulating every conceivable combination, I have a system that works so well i thought I’d share it.