Software. Startups. Outer Space.
I wrote this example in conjunction with the lightning talk I gave at SHDH #40 on MVVM for Noobs, and I thought that developers who are new to developing in Silverlight or for Windows Phone 7 might benefit from it.
One of the major issues I had in moving...
I'm at Microsoft's Silicon Valley Campus this weekend where we're hosting SuperHappyDevHouse #40 - I'm going to be giving a lightning talk on MVVM for Noobs in the next hour or so and I wanted to post my presentation online as I think some of you might find it...
I'm attending DEMO 2010 this week up in (somewhat) sunny Santa Clara, and during the early parts of last night's social media lounge event some members of DEMO's social media team shot a quick interview with me regarding Microsoft's BizSpark program. If you're not familiar with BizSpark...
I alluded to a change in my employment circumstances in my previous blog entry, and now that I'm an official Microsoft employee as of Monday I feel extremely comfortable making this information public.
My role is Developer Evangelist for the BizSpark program; Microsoft recruited me for this position after...
Today was my last official day at SmartDraw – I’ve worked for this great company for two years and saying all of my goodbyes was bittersweet.
Were it not for the fact that my new employer graciously dropped an irresistible opportunity at my feet[footnote:I'll make a public announcement about...
I’ve been teaching myself WPF / Silverlight as part of my next big project at StannardLabs: a line of trivia games for WinMo7 / Android / iOS phones. It’s mostly an exercise for learning how each of those platforms work, how they differ, and some of the application marketing...
I showed up at BarCamp7 this morning and saw that absolutely no presentations were up on the board whatsoever, so me being me I spent most of the day putting together a presentation at the last minute.
I spoke for an hour about How to Design Applications People...
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I finished this extension up last night but I was reluctant to deploy it to my own blog given that there was a major flamewar in progress on my recent post about Why .NET Adoption Lags Among Startups. Having actually tested this extension on that very post, I feel confident sharing my...
One of the other things I took away from Code Camp was a bit of .NET culture shock. As you can tell by glimpsing around on this blog, I am somewhat enamored with the idea of starting my own business. I’m a natural entrepreneur and it is my wont...
This time last weekend I was in the middle of the second session of Southern California Code Camp. Ever since I came to the realization that no man is an island and I’m going to ultimately need to work with other programmers in order to be successful in this...