Category Archives: Opinion
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
Posted in Community, Data, Languages, Mango, Opinion, Patterns & Skills, Podcast, WindowsPhone
Tagged YapCast
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You Comment and I’ll Reply
I’ve been talking for a long time about creating a conversation with the community, but at the same time I’ve been missing a prime opportunity: the comments section on my own blog. New policy: you comment and I’ll reply asap. … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #33–Mobile Game Development
Talking with Eric Mork and Kelly White about developing games and applications on Windows Phone, iPhone and Android. Kelly’s Blog Kelly’s Company Erik’s Company Reference information from show Microsoft ecosystem iOS apps Listen | Return to Yet Another Podcast … Continue reading
Mix, Silverlight and Windows Phone
A very exciting time at Mix this year, especially if your focus is Windows Phone or Silverlight. On the Windows Phone front, the next release, code name Mango was announced. Mango brings Windows Phone fully up to Silverlight 4, and … Continue reading
Posted in Full Stack, Languages, News, Opinion, Patterns & Skills, WindowsPhone
Tagged HTML, Silverlight, Windows Phone
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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
Posted in Community, Opinion
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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
The Work I Think I Do And The Work I Do.
Periodically, I step up my organizational skills or tools or both (usually after being yelled at for missing something!). Lately, I’ve been doing this more intensively as I’m working on a number of different projects and I need to ensure … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Opinion
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Silverlight Sans Xaml?
Are we far enough along in the development of WYSIWYG tools, specifically both the design surface in Visual Studio, and even more so, Expression Blend, that the right way to teach Silverlight and Windows Phone programming is without Xaml? I … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #21–Jeremy Miller
IOC Containers, .NET, Alt.NET and much more with Jeremy Miller Jeremy is the Chief Software Architect at Dovetail Software, the coolest ISV in Austin. Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered … Continue reading
12 MORE Insanely Essential Utilities For Programmers
In July I published a list of 12 Insanely Essential Utilities for Programmers. That list is still current and I’m still using every one of the twelve. The list, however, has become popular enough, and there are enough great utilities … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Essentials, Opinion, Tools and Utilities
Tagged BestPractices, Tips, Tools
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Product Review: Rosetta Stone Spanish (Latin American)
I recently purchased and began using the Rosetta Stone Spanish for Latin America computer training course. I’ve found interest among other geeks to be very high, so here is a quick review and some important information about purchasing the course.
6 Steps To Presentations That Don’t Suck
1 Your Slides Do not read your slides aloud Use few transitions and keep them simple Do Not give out your slides in advance. Key: Everything on your slide must be there for a reason. That includes animation, colors, gradients, … Continue reading