Thoughts about .NET. Thoughts about code.
Posted in Conference on Apr 27th, 2006
I had a great time at the VSLive conference.
I met a lot of interesting people. Most of the attendees I talked to were local to the Toronto area. Some of the projects they were working on sounded very exciting. The biggest take-away I heard was that they can’t wait to get started using the [...]
Posted in .NET, Conference on Apr 27th, 2006
Abstract
Creating your own controls is a great way to augment your UI development. There’s more to creating user controls however than dropping a few constituent controls on a designer and crafting a few properties or methods. This session illustrates the techniques you need to elevate your user controls to the next level. Since other developers [...]
Posted in .NET, Conference on Apr 23rd, 2006
Alright, I love giving this talk. I’ve always liked graphics programming, wrote my first animation piece on an Apple II. Avalon, now with BORING and DRAB name Windows Presentation Framework (WPF), is very cool. The places where Avalon touches your UI is everywhere.
Abstract
The next version of Windows (Windows Vista) will include a completely new graphics [...]
Posted in .NET, Conference on Apr 22nd, 2006
Time to explain what I’m doing with my second talk at Toronto VSLive 2006.
Abstract
AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) has been getting lots of press lately. It provides a very Windows-like experience for web applications. AJAX is a mixture of technologies (DHTML, script, XML and more) that produce highly-performant and scalable UI’s by leveraging [...]
Posted in .NET, Conference on Apr 21st, 2006
I thought I would write about each of the talks I’m giving next week at VSLive Toronto. My first talk is Smart Data Clients 2.0. It’s part of the Smart Client track, a track that focuses on building applications that run on your OS. Yes, I’m talking about Windows applications here.
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Working with data is a [...]
Posted in .NET, Conference on Apr 20th, 2006
Next week I will be in Canada, more precisely I’ll be in Toronto. I’m going to be talking at the VSLive conference there. This is my second trip to the city. Last year, I was there and spent a a day hanging out with Jeremy Wright. Another night I wandered about the city with a [...]
Posted in .NET, Conference on Oct 23rd, 2005
It’s over, the first ever Seattle Code Camp in officially over. I spent Saturday and Sunday down in Federal Way Washington participating in sessions and workshops, meeting people and presenting several talks about programming. There were nearly 70 sessions scheduled in eight separate rooms. There were LOTS of sessions that I wanted to attend. Like [...]
Posted in Conference on Oct 19th, 2005
This is cool. We are expecting some kids and young adults (8-18 years old) to show up for the Seattle Code Camp. At the Portland Code Camp there were a number of young ones attending the sessions. This is a great opportunity to show your tech oriented children the world of programming. Real programming, not [...]
Posted in Conference on Oct 6th, 2005
Seattle Code Camp - Presenters List
Have you signed up for Seattle Code Camp yet? The sessions are starting to fill up, we’re getting a lot of interesting talks for the weekend. We still haven’t posted the session details yet but I see that Jason Mauer posted the list of presenters last night.
Wow. We’ve got ~50 [...]
Posted in Conference on Oct 5th, 2005
I’ve been busy the last couple of days working on the Seattle Code Camp. If you haven’t heard about it — it’s a weekend long developer conference that is put together by local developers. See details on the camp manifesto here Code Camps started in Boston and have proven very popular with developers - they’re [...]