Like many other developers before me, I’ve been hit with a pretty bad case of Carpal Tunnel. Expected recovery is 7-10 days (we hope, we hope), so I won’t be blogging a lot or creating many videos until the end of the month. (Carpal Tip: while a track ball is not much better than a mouse for the affected hand, it is much easier to control with your non-dominant (submissive??) hand.)
I do have a few things to let you know about, however…
Turing Project Focus for September
During the next six weeks the Turing Project will provide the focus and opportunity to explore a number of technologies, from data to UX. Exploring these topics will spin out a number of stand-alone (but related) videos. The principal topics for the coming weeks include:
- Data Entity Framework
- RIA Services Framework
- DataGrid Control
- Behaviors
- Visual State Manager
- Sample Data
Though, the amount of time spent on each technology will vary as the project evolves, as shown in this full color sophisticated predictive simulation:
[ A walkthrough of this very simple Silverlight application can be found here
Brief Interlude As We Change Topics…
Blog Audience Targeting – Your Opinion Requested.
I was told recently that my blog seems to target the novice and intermediate Silverlight programmer. That sounds right to me, but the question is whether I should broaden my approach or solidify behind that definition of what this blog is all about.
Silverlight Geek (More Signal : Less Noise)
Vital Information For Novice and Intermediate Silverlight Programmers
What do you think?
Note, I would define intermediate vs. advanced as follows: in the bullet list of topics I’ll be focusing on (above), there would be at least one or two topics an intermediate Silverlight programmer hasn’t fully explored yet.
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