Category Archives: Community

HR == Happy Reorg.

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Jesse Liberty

  Many of you have been writing to ask why it is taking so long for me to be reorganized this year, and sure enough I’ve been remiss in keeping you up to date.  My new position is as a … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Podcast Shows #6 – Live from the WP7 Dev Tools Launch With Joe Healy

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Jesse Liberty

Talking with Joe Healy, Principle Developer Evangelist. SPECIAL RELEASE == LIVE From the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Launch in Boston Listen | Return to Yet Another Podcast Call in comments:  1-347-YAP-CAST

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Yet Another Podcast – Show 5 – Programming Windows Phone 7

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Jesse Liberty

Talking with Jeffrey Blankenburg – Microsoft Field Evangelist for the Heartland, about Windows Phone 7 programming. 31 Days of Silverlight 31 Days of Windows Phone Windows Phone 7 Developer Resources Augmented Reality SPECIAL RELEASE TO CELEBRATE TODAY’S ANNOUNCEMENTS. Listen | … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Podcast Show #3 – John Papa on MVVM and Patterns

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Jesse Liberty

Talking with John Papa, Senior Technical Evangelist, about MVVM and Patterns 5 Simple Steps for MVVM Keeping up with the community Top blogs MVVM Light Ward Bell’s photos Grok. Verb: To fully understand.  See Stranger In A Strange Land by … Continue reading →

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Free Windows Phone 7 Training – Coast to Coast

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Jesse Liberty

To celebrate the release of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools, we’re launching two days of free fast-paced learning. The first day takes you inside the all-new Metro interface with fundamentals of Windows Phone 7 application development. The next day … Continue reading →

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!!WOW!! Run out and buy an SSD.

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Jesse Liberty

Wow!  I added an SSD to my computer and made it my startup disk.  Shazow!  My disk rating in Windows went from 5.4 to 7.4 (that is unreal).  Load time for Visual Studio is under 2 seconds. Load time for … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Podcast Show #2 – Erik Mork Discussing Windows Phone 7

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Jesse Liberty

Talking with Erik Mork of The Silverlight Podcast about Windows Phone 7 and the Smart Phone Market. Erik’s Podcast Silver Bay Labs Products Mentioned: iTeleport Listen

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Great Silverlight Competency Test Part 4 (Answer)

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Jesse Liberty

This is an answer to Part 4 of the Great Silverlight Competency Test. Scoring below.  The tasks were to demonstrate usage of the DataGrid, DataPager and TreeView. Here is one approach…  

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The Great Silverlight Competency Test #5

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Jesse Liberty

This is the Fifth 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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Yet Another Podcast Show #1 – Alt dot net & Open Source

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Jesse Liberty

Talking with Jon Galloway of Herding Code & Microsoft, about Alt.net and Open Source and the role of technical evangelists. Products mentioned: Audacity Show1

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Great SL Competency Test Part 3 (Answer)

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Jesse Liberty

This is an answer to part 3 of the Great SL Competency Test, in which you were asked to demonstrate Printing Right Mouse Click Clipboard Interaction

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The Great Silverlight Competency Test – #4

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Jesse Liberty

This is the fourth 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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