Category Archives: Opinion
Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
Suddenly I’m talking to a lot more inanimate objects. I recently pulled a muscle in my shoulder, and I’m not supposed to type Thus DragonDictate and I have become good friends. DragonDictate is almost magical, I speak in the words … Continue reading
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Cost vs. Size of Books
My newest book, Programming Reactive Extensions and LINQ, is released. I’m very excited about this book, and believe that it provides high-quality information that would otherwise be hard to find, clear explanations, and useful examples. Paul Betts and I worked … Continue reading
Catching up on some flicks
It’s August and it’s hot, and it’s time for a few movie recommendations… I assume you’ve seen The Matrix and Memento. If not, stop reading and go watch those right now. If you did see them and you liked them, … Continue reading
Music of the Day–Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy
Turned on to this album by a buddy, it has some of the best St. Louis Blues I’ve heard. Truly brilliant. Incredible music, incredible performances. W.C. Handy (1873-1958) was known by some as the father of the Blues. This album … Continue reading
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What’s In Your Laptop Bag?
Jeff Blankenburg, Microsoft Evangelist, (and my co-author on the forthcoming book Migrating To Windows Phone) recently wrote a great blog post on the contents of his Laptop bag. He asked me to follow up with the contents of my bag. … Continue reading
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Yet Another Podcast #44–Charles Petzold
Talking with Charles Petzold about writing, computers and his career. Charles Petzold is the author of numerous books, including Programming Windows, Code, The Annotated Turing, and Programming Windows Phone Charles Petzold’s Web Site Ada’s Technical Books Any sufficiently advanced technology … Continue reading
Getting Organized–Again. Top Tips
One thing that I’ve learned in my attempt at getting organized is that whatever works today may stop working after a while. But even more deadly than fleeting fads is the woulda’ coulda’ shoulda’ effect in which you set out … Continue reading
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One From the Vault: Bayesian Probability
[Originally posted Oct. 12, 2009] Spent the early hours of this morning reading a great blog post by Jeff Atwood which makes reference to a Elizer S. Yudkowsky’s Intuitive Explanation of Bayesian Probability. The timing was good as I had … Continue reading
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Changing Teams But Not Focus
Change is always difficult and exciting. I’ve been with the Developer Division since I started at Microsoft, working in the same role (Community PM) for a number of different managers. I have now moved to the Windows Phone Team as … Continue reading
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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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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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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