Dave is a Principal Technical Evangelist for Microsoft focused on Windows, Windows Phone, Windows Azure and the Web. Based out of the Greater Philadelphia Area.
The first Dev2Dev Video is now live!Sharepoint Development - Making Sense of it All.The video covers:- Sharepoint Overview- The different types of Sharepoint Development- Changing Sharepoint with Sharepoint itself- Sharepoint Designer- How to setup a Sharepoint Dev Environment- Coding in the VPC- Webpart creation and deployment- Adding NextWeb content to Webparts - a working Silverlight Webpart.- Some Blend coding and debugging. =)Grab Part 1 here
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Developer to Developer is a place filled with tips, tricks, and stories of battle from your fellow coders. Some of the best stuff you can pick up in your career doesn't come from a book or a presentation. It comes from your fellow developer and his experiences. A quick hallway conversation, 15 mins at someone's desk after a "Hey come check this out!".. these are the things that can make a difference!
It's a great way to network with fellow Microsoft folks in your area as well as people from the community.
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News.com is running an article on the 25th Anniversary party The Computer History Museum threw last night for the Commodore 64. Jack Tramiel, Commodore's Founder, made a rare public appearance!
""The only difference was the price," Tramiel said. "Because it seems that in this country, if you sell something cheaper, it couldn't be as good. If it's more expensive, and it's the same product, that must be a better product. That didn't stop me. I still wanted to sell it for a low price. If a person pays three times as much for a computer, he has to be proud of it, because he paid for it."
As I mentioned on my blog previously the Commodore Vic 20 and then 64 is where it all began for me. I can still remember opening the manual and entering the first commands in BASIC. Memories filled with hours spent writing my own programs or connecting to the BBS's that were out there (at 300 baud modem lightning speeds!).
For any of those out there from the Commodore generation I'd recommend reading On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore .
It is filled with behind the scenes insight into the creation of the Vic 20, the 64, the 128 and the Amiga. With stories told by the employees who lived it, it held my interest the entire book. The business lessons learned still apply today and it may even give you some flashbacks to your old computing days like it did for me. Enjoy!
This is a list of Silverlight resources I have been compiling. It is in no way definitive but figured you might find it useful. Good reading material for the Holiday break. Enjoy. =)
Sites
· Official Microsoft Site.
· Community site (Best site to get training, quickstart guides, videos, samples and a strong community presence)
· Mix conference
Experiences & demos
· Getting started with Silverlight
· "How Do I?" with Silverlight 1.0
· "How Do I?" with Silverlight 1.1
· Using Blend with Silverlight 1.0
· Community Gallery
Blogs
· Scott Guthrie – amazing blog, lots of tutorials on many .net technologies
· Tim Sneath – chief Client Evangelist
· Jim Hugunin - chief architect of the DLR
· Mike Harsh – Silverlight team
· Lutz Roeder – Expression Blend team
· Shawn Wildermuth - Silverlight guru
· Delay of silverlight airlines demo
· Ironpython
Tech talks/Videos
· All recorded mix07 sessions
· ScottGu’s mix keynote and great overview
· ScottGu’s Channel9 interview
· Building Rich Web Experiences using Silverlight and Javascript for Developers
· Deep Dive on Silverlight Media Integration
· Developing ASP.NET AJAX Controls with Silverlight
· Creating and Delivering Rich Media and Video on the Web with Silverlight, Expression Studio, and Windows Server
· Building Silverlight Applications using .NET (Part 1)
· Building Silverlight Applications using .NET (Part 2)
· Extending the Browser Programming Model with Silverlight
· Just Glue It! Ruby and the DLR in Silverlight
Papers
· Getting started whitepaper
· Silverlight Architecture Overview
· Silverlight Enterprise Deployment Guide
Books
· Adam Nathan's Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed
Bob Familiar recently interviewed Professor Mark Frydenberg of Bentley College of Massachusetts. Professor Frydenberg has created a course that leverages PopFly to teach software architecture and development to his business major students. Professor Frydenberg's unique approach allows students to grasp complex distributed computing concepts, build and share sophisticated mashups while working with information (photos, news, music) that is relevant to them.
More info on Bob's blog here and you can view the video off Channel 9 here.
For those who do not know, Bob is also a musician and created all the original music for our Boston Remix Event. Not only that, he coded up a player for the music entirely in Silverlight!
Check out his entry on how the player works here and sample some of his music here.
After Remix, I consider myself a Bob Familiar music fan - it's really great stuff.