Category Archives: Community

Some hobbies are made for geeks…

…A couple month’s ago, my daughter’s friend wanted me to take 3 feeder goldfish that were no longer needed after the fish appeared on stage in a college production.  No problem, we had a 5 gallon tank and filter, how … Continue reading

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Silverlight Animation– Bird Hunt

Jeff Paries appears on Silverlight TV talking about the Bird Hunt game that was documented here in this posting and this followup.  Great guy, great game, great show, and very valuable information about animation in Silverlight.

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Windows Phones for $0.01–With Plan

Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile are offering new Windows Phones for a penny with a new two-year service/data contract.  The offer is good until July 2. More information here.

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Yet Another Podcast Show 38–What’s New In Mango

Larry Lieberman, Product Manager – Windows Phone Team, who works on the Developer Platform joins us to discuss what’s new in Mango for Consumers and for Developers.  Larry provides a vital overview of the newest features in Windows Phone. Listen … Continue reading

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Yet Another Podcast #37 Silverlight HTML5 & Developers Part 2

Part 2 of a conversation with Shawn Wildermuth, president of Agilitrain and author of the forthcoming  book Essential Windows Phone 7 about Mix, Silverlight, Windows Phone, HTML5 and the state of .NET development Listen | Return to Yet Another Podcast … Continue reading

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Mango Announcement

Andy Lees today announced the Mango release, and the availability of the development tools.  Read more here.

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Yet Another Podcast #36 Mary Jo Foley

Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 25 years, and has been following Microsoft for the past ten years.  She has written for ZDNet, eWeek and Baseline among other publications and web sites and is the author of … Continue reading

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Yet Another Podcast #35–Silverlight, HTML5 and Developers

Part 1 of a conversation with Shawn Wildermuth, president of Agilitrain and author of the forthcoming book Essential Windows Phone 7 about Mix, Silverlight, Windows Phone, HTML5 and the state of .NET development Listen | Return to Yet Another Podcast … Continue reading

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Developing for Windows Phone?? Bookmark This Site

My colleagues in Developer Guidance have created 22 topic/scenario-focused web pages on App Hub, the Windows Phone developer website, that provide a comprehensive view of all the resources available for Windows Phone development. The pages are self-contained, single-page search targets, … Continue reading

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About This Blog and Recent Changes

Due to a virulent attack on this blog by a very nasty bit of Malware, I was forced to take extreme measures, which included changing themes, and reinstalling every post and page. As you will see, there will be rough … Continue reading

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Yet Another Podcast #30 Abby Fichtner–Microsoft Evangelist

Abby Fichtner is a Microsoft Evangelist specializing in startups in the New England area.  She joined Microsoft recently after a fateful discussion with Jesse at CodeMash 2010, and discusses Startups, Agile programming and being a Microsoft Evangelist. Abby’s Blog Microsoft … Continue reading

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Conway’s Life In the Marketplace

I’m pleased to report that the first iteration of Conway’s Life, documented here, is now in the marketplace.  [ Updated March 24 with Faster/Slower Buttons ] Following the conventional rules of Conway’s Game Of Life, the screen is divided into … Continue reading

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