Category Archives: Community
Creating An Open Source WP7 Application
There has been some thrashing about the HyperVideo player. This note is both an update and an invitation for you to participate.
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12 Absolutely and Insanely Essential Utilities For Programmers
In every era in recent times there has been one profession that for a short while you could enter without formal training. Autodidacts in the 19th century could read the law without recourse to formal education (see Abe Lincoln). In … Continue reading
Awarded Silverlight Cream’s Best Blog Post of 2010
I’m incredibly proud that Silverlight Cream (required reading for anyone interested in Silverlight) rated one of my blog posts #1 for 2010. The pride results only from the fact that Dave does such an incredible job every day culling … Continue reading
HyperVideo & Windows Phone 7 Project Update
This is a quick update on the next steps for the HyperVideo Project that will touch on the following three sub-projects scheduled to be completed in the next six months: Update to the web-based project (HVP v2) Initial “port” … Continue reading
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The Kinney And I – Boston Thursday May 13
I’m very pleased to announce that Adam Kinney and I will be at a Special Boston Spark event, Mix 2010 Recap
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UK and Ireland Slides and Links
I promised to post the slides I used during my SLHVP and Robust (MVVM/TDD) Silverlight Applications presentations. As noted at the time, they don’t stand on their own terribly well, and beyond that, they make extensive use of images that … Continue reading
Diary of a trip to the UK & Ireland – The Final Chapter
The ferry to Belfast was uneventful, and Belfast itself is a beautiful, scarred city, caught between decades of violence and flickering hope for the future.
Diary of a trip to the UK and Ireland – Thanks for all the fish
This is the penultimate entry in my on-going diary, a 90 second recording, in which I take a moment to thank everyone and capture for a good laugh, my absurd tendency to unconsciously modify the way I speak, wherever I … Continue reading
Help Wanted
I’m hoping to find volunteers to help me catalog and create a comprehensive, up to date guide to Silverlight resources. Specifically, I’m hoping you’ll take on the task of itemizing resources for one of the following areas Getting Started With … Continue reading
Diary of a trip to the UK and Ireland – Pain in the Ash
Dateline 21-April-2010 St. Andrews Scotland The User Group meeting in Dundee (“Silverlight From Zero”) and in the shockingly beautiful city of Edinburgh (“Silverlight LOB Applications Development with MVVM and TDD”) both went very well. The turnout was good at Dundee … Continue reading
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Diary of a trip to the UK and Ireland – User Groups
Dateline: Newcastle Upon Tyne, 17-April 09:44 BST Another terrific experience last night, speaking at a room in Newcastle University to a group of professional and intrepid coders. I’m told that setting a meeting on Friday night is a recipe for … Continue reading
Diary of a trip to the UK and Ireland – Continued
Dateline Hetton, near Skipton. The presentation in Cambridge was great fun, preceded by a quick walking tour with Rachel Hawley (who, it turns out, I’ve known thrice without understanding she was all the same person! She was involved in hiring … Continue reading