7th Pluralsight Course: Telerik WPF Controls

Very proud to announce my latest Pluralsight course: Telerik WPF Controlswpf

This course is a bit of a departure from my “From Scratch” series; it focuses on reviewing the WPF controls from Telerik and how to use them. 

Telerik is a leading vendor in high-performance controls for WPF. These controls include editors, navigation, layout, scheduling and much more.  This course will walk you through the control suite and show you how to use each in turn.

I look forward to your feedback and comments.  Thanks again!

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Yet Another Podcast #100–Jeremy Likness

Jeremy returns to blow my mind talking about TypeScript and Angular.  He is Jeremy Likness an incredible font of information and I learned more in 1/2 an hour than I have reading a dozen articles.  Brilliant, erudite and a truly nice guy, it was just an incredible pleasure to have him on again.

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6th Pluralsight Course: Telerik Win 8 XAML Controls

Very proud to announce my latest Pluralsight course: Telerik Win 8 XAML Controls TelerikWin8

This course is a bit of a departure from my “From Scratch” series; it focuses on reviewing the Win 8 controls from Telerik and how to use them. 

Telerik is a leading vendor in high-performance controls for Windows 8. These controls include bullet graphs, charts, gauges, grids and more. This course will walk you through the control suite and show you how to use each in turn.

I look forward to your feedback and comments.  Thanks again!

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What’s On My Desk?

In July of 2011 I shamelessly followed Jeff Blankenburg’s lead in writing What’s In Your Laptop Bag?  Today I do it again. On May 30, Jeff wrote a post What’s On Your Desk?

That seemed like such a great idea, that I present to you, What’s on my desk?

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5th Pluralsight Course: C# From Scratch

Incredibly proud to say I’ve released my 5th Pluralsight course: C# From Scratch. csharp

C# is one of the most popular languages on the planet and with good reason. It is the language of choice for .NET and for Windows 8 programming and it is a blast to use.  C# is a fully mature language, that can handle virtually any application programming task.

In this course, you will learn all you need to know to get started programming with this powerful language. This course assumes no prior programming experience.

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Yet Another Podcast #99–John Bristowe

John Bristowe joins John Galloway and me to talk about HTML5 and also to talk john bristoweabout putting the web on a diet.  John is a fascinating and very passionate ex-Microsoft Evangelist and current Telerik Evangelist. 

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4th Pluralsight Course: JavaScript From Scratch

Incredibly proud to say I’ve released my 4th Pluralsight course: JSFSJavaScript From Scratch. 

JavaScript is one of the most popular languages on the planet. In this course, you will learn all you need to know to get started programming with this powerful language that can be used for creating web applications or Windows 8 applications. This course assumes no prior programming experience.

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Yet Another Podcast #98–Jeff Fritz and ASP.NET, HTML5, more…

Jeff Fritz joins Jon Galloway and me to discuss ASP.NET, MVC, HTML5, JavaScript, Agile programming Fritzand a whole lot more. 

Jeffrey T. Fritz – or simply “Fritz” is an ASPInsider and Developer Evangelist for Telerik with over 15 years of experience building large-scale multi-tenant web applications in the software-as-a-service model.  He is a Penn State graduate with a degree in Management Sciences and Information Systems, and speaks regularly at developer events through the INETA speaker program

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Back in Israel after 40 years

Today, I find myself in Tel-Aviv in preparation for the SELA conference this week.Flag_of_Israel_svg  It has  been 40 years since I have been in Israel. 

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Yet Another Podcast #97–Chris Sells and the last 20 years

Jon Galloway and I are joined by Chris Sells, VP of Telerik, to discuss Chris’ ChrisSellsPreferredillustrious career spanning a couple decades and some of the most important companies in the industry, including Intel, DevelopMentor, Microsoft and Telerik. 

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

Incredibly proud to say I’ve released my 3rd Pluralsight course: WPF For the Enterprise From Scratch.  wpf

WPF is and remains the premier framework for building Line of Business/ Enterprise Windows applications. This course will teach you all you need to know, from absolute scratch through advanced skills in building WPF applications.

The emphasis is on best practices and the needs of enterprise application developers. Skills covered include the fundamentals of XAML, layout, controls, panels, asynchronous programming, data binding, data display and much more.  This course is concise, approachable, comprehensive and complete.

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

Talking with John Papa and Jon Galloway about Single Page Applications (SPA) and alsoJohnPapa about public speaking.

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