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About Jesse Liberty

Jesse Liberty has three decades of experience writing and delivering software projects and is the author of 2 dozen books and a couple dozen online courses. Liberty is a Senior AI Engineer at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and was a Team Lead and Senior Software Engineer for various corporations, a Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, a Distinguished Software Engineer for AT&T, a VP for Information Services for Citibank and a Software Architect for PBS. He is a 21 year Microsoft MVP.

Published 3rd Pluralsight Course: WPF For the Enterprise From Scratch

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

Incredibly proud to say I’ve released my 3rd Pluralsight course: WPF For the Enterprise From Scratch.  WPF is and remains the premier framework for building Line of Business/ Enterprise Windows applications. This course will teach you all you need to … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Podcast #96–John Papa on SPA and Public Speaking

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

Talking with John Papa and Jon Galloway about Single Page Applications (SPA) and also about public speaking. John’s blog John on Pluralsight Listen | Yet Another Podcast

Posted in ASP.NET, JavaScript, Opinion, Podcast | Tagged | 1 Comment

Yet Another Podcast #95–Rey Bango on Testing IE

Posted on April 14, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

Talking with Microsoft’s Rey Bango on Open Web standards and testing IE.    Modern IE WebPlatform Rey’s Blog     Listen | Yet Another Podcast

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Published Second Pluralsight Course: Windows 8 From Design to Delivery

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

I’m incredibly proud to say that I’ve published my second Pluralsight course, Windows 8 Application Development With XAML and C# From Design to Delivery. This course follows the design and development of a real project: Conference Buddy, that I’ve been … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Podcast #94–Phil Haack: Git

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

Talking with Phil Haack and Jon Galloway about Git, GitHub, GitHub for Windows, organizational structure and much more. Campfire GitHub How GitHub Works GitHub for Windows SeeGit GitFlow Phil’s Blog Think Like (A) Git Emoji TedExScottafb How Great Leaders Serve … Continue reading →

Posted in Podcast, Tools and Utilities | Tagged | 3 Comments

Windows 8 Store Applications Vs. WPF Applications

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

Today’s Windows Developer faces a crucial decision: whether to build for the new (shiny!) Windows 8 Store or to build for the Desktop.  There are significant advantages to each, and they are, more or less, mutually exclusive.

Posted in Windows 8, WPF, XAML | 20 Comments

Pluralsight Course: Windows 8 From Start to Store

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

Shameless self-promotion warning! I have released my first (but not last) Pluralsight course, Windows 8 From Start To Store .  This XAML and C# – based course covers everything from design fundamentals to data to getting your app in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Data, Design, Essentials, Learning, News, Tools and Utilities, Windows 8, WinRT | 1 Comment

Yet Another Podcast #93–Shawn Wildermuth

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

Talking with Shawn and Jon Galloway about Windows 8 Development, XAML, HTML5, tools, training and much more.  Shawn’s Blog Wilder Minds HowToWat.ch Listen | Yet Another Podcast  

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Windows 8 Storing Data With SQLite

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

In a previous blog post, I showed the repository pattern with local or remote data storage.  In this blog post, based in part on work done for my upcoming book Pro Windows 8 With C# and XAML by Jesse Liberty … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Podcast #92–Jeremy Likness on Windows 8

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

  Discussion with Jeremy Likness about the state of Windows 8, where things are going and what to expect in the near future.  Jeremy also discusses his existing and forthcoming books and the Sterling Database.  Jeremy’s blog Sterling Database Building … Continue reading →

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Windows 8 Conference Buddy–Be A Sharing Target

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

Yesterday, we looked at being a sharing source.  This was surprisingly easy.  Being a target would be more complex except that Visual Studio provides a template that greatly simplifies the process.

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Windows 8 Conference Buddy–Be A Sharing Source

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

Everybody loves to share.  (At least after they are beaten into doing so in pre-school.) The ability to share from one application to another can be anything from useful to critical.  Historically, we’ve seen a number of ways of doing … Continue reading →

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