Contagious Curiosity

My curiosity often takes me down new pathways.  Just like a typical dev, after stating the business case, writing out the problem, writing the key use cases and ‘hiring’ a designer, I am ready to open up Visual Studio and start coding my first multi...

Ah but this isn’t a simple consideration.  As I’ve been digging in, getting ready to build my first Windows 7 multi touch application, I’ve found out just how much I have to learn!  For starters I am by no means an expert in WPF (Windows Presentation...

Now that I’ve written a rough application spec, (see previous blog post), am I finally really to start coding?  Nope, not yet.  I want to mockup my UI and also to build my database.  For the former task, I’ve decided to enlist an experienced...

Here’s the deck from my prezo at SoCalCodeCamp in San Diego (UCSD) – enjoy!  Examples included have the following availability – SmallBasic is a free download, Kodu is NOT available to the general public on the PC.  Kodu will be released as...

My session is at SoCalCodeCamp at UCSD room 105 at 2:00 pm – I am looking forward to showing and telling a good number of my developer friends about the joy of multi touch application development in Windows 7 as I know it so far.  I’ll post the deck...

Enjoy this short video shot by one of the attendees of the recent demofest at MS Irvine, CA.  Woody Pewitt is demoing the MS Surface here.  Thanks to Philippe Lewicki for the video.