Category Archives: Patterns & Skills

Yet Another Podcast #89–Laurent Bugnion on MVVM and Windows 8

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

Talking with Laurent Bugnion about MVVM in detail, including the ins and outs of commanding and managing events in Windows 8. MVVM Light Laurent’s blog IdentityMine Behaviors for Windows 8 (Joost van Schaik, uses Rx) Jesse’s book on LINQ … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Podcast #88–Chris Bowen on Game Development for Windows 8

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

Talking with Chris Bowen, Principal Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, about developing games for Windows 8 Store. Chris’ Blog 30 Days to a Windows 8 Game – Resources & Guidance (See both the Games and App Frameworks sections) Introduction to JavaScript … Continue reading →

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Windows 8: Adding An AppBar to Conference Buddy

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Jesse Liberty

In an earlier postings I described the project that I’ll be creating with Phil Japikse and Michael Crump, code-named Conference Buddy. In the most recent posting, we looked at a wire-frame that illustrated some of the data we’ll be collecting. … Continue reading →

Posted in Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, Windows 8 | Tagged Mini-Tutorial | 4 Comments

Yet Another Podcast #85–Fritz Onion of pluralsight

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Jesse Liberty

Fritz Onion, one of the founding members of pluralsight, joins me to discuss on-line learning, pluralsight’s business model, where the opportunities are for instructors and students and much more. Fritz is Editor in Chief at pluralsight, and the author of … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Podcast #84–Chris Eargle Discussing Advanced C# and LINQ

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Jesse Liberty

Chris Eargle, Technical Evangelist for Telerik, joins me in a discussion of C#, advanced LINQ and some of the esoteric corners of C# and functional coding. Chris’ Blog Chris on Twitter Chris’ Profile INETA Listen | Yet Another Podcast … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Languages, Linq, Patterns & Skills, Podcast, Tools and Utilities | Tagged YapCast | 1 Comment

Creating A Win8 App From Scratch–A Scrolling Home Page

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Jesse Liberty

In a previous article I discussed the project that I’ll be building in Windows 8. We started with a couple screen mock-ups and then passed these to the designers who came back with preliminary designs. While these designs were not … Continue reading →

Posted in Essentials, Metro, Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, Windows 8 | Tagged Mini-Tutorial | 1 Comment

Yet Another Podcast #83–Jon Galloway on Azure and ASP.NET–What’s New.

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Jesse Liberty

Jon Galloway joins me for a wrap up of what is new in Azure, ASP.NET and surrounding technologies. A /build wrap up that starts with the Day 2 Keynote and walks through all the new cool stuff coming out of … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, Essentials, HTML5, JavaScript, Mobile, MVC, Observations, Open Source, Patterns & Skills, Podcast, Visual Studio, Windows 8 | Tagged YapCast | 1 Comment

Creating A Windows 8 Application From Scratch

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Jesse Liberty

Phil Japikse, Michael Crump and I set out to create three related applications from scratch. That is, a Windows 8 version written in XAML with C# (me), a Windows 8 version written in JavaScript (Phil) and a Windows 8 Phone … Continue reading →

Posted in Essentials, Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, Windows 8 | Tagged Mini-Tutorial | 1 Comment

Yet Another Podcast #80–Miguel de Icaza & Mono

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Jesse Liberty

Miguel joins Jon and me to discuss Mono and Xamarin and the future of open source C# coding for iOS and Android. Related links: Core Mono: http://github.com/mono The Mono organization on GitHub http://mono-project.com The Mono web site. http://xamarin.com Miguel’s company … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile, Essentials, Languages, Migration, Mobile, MVC, MVVM, Observations, Open Source, Patterns & Skills, Podcast, WindowsPhone | Tagged YapCast | 2 Comments

Windows 8 App Bars

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Jesse Liberty

In my previous posting I said that I’d be distilling parts of my presentations into blog posts. This post continues that idea, focusing on the App Bar. If we are going to place Content Before Chrome and remove as much … Continue reading →

Posted in Essentials, Metro, Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, Windows 8, WinRT | Tagged Mini-Tutorial | 2 Comments

Yet Another Podcast #76–Glenn Block on Node.js & Technology in China

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Jesse Liberty

Talking with Glenn Block, Senior Program Manager for Microsoft currently working in Shanghai China and Jon Galloway, Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, about Node.js and about life in China. Listen | Yet Another Podcast