January 2008 - Posts
I became a father of two early Tuesday evening. My second daughter, Ava Rose, was born at 5:25 am. 8 lbs 7 oz, 21.5 inches long and a solid bundle of joy! The women officially outnumber me 3 to 1 in my house now - hehe. It is amazing how something that
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One of the ideas we are floating around for this year's Health & Life Sciences Developer and Solutions Conference is "Open Spaces Technology" or OST . " Open Space Technology (OST) is a way to convene people for a conference, retreat or meeting. "Technology"
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With all of the Silverlight Training resources I posted recently it is now time for some WPF love. =) Be sure to check out the WPF Bootcamp at Mix University . With over 20 hours of hands on labs, customer examples, and a plethora of topics it will take
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There is a new training series from MIX University out around Silverlight. The entire application is written in Silverlight itself and really well done. You even get access to the source code if you want to see how they did it! There are a lot of training
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Overview This event will offer developers, architects, technical and business decision makers in the healthcare industry a chance to learn how Microsoft is making a big bet in the enablement and delivery of Software + Services in Health & Life Sciences.
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Ruby on Steel Text Edition allows Ruby developers to code using all the power of the VS IDE. The All In One Solution Includes a free copy of Visual Studio 2008 (Ruby language only), and a simple setup program to install Ruby, Rails, Visual Studio, MySQL
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Martin Normark has written an excellent guide on how to debug a Silverlight application running on OSX through a local Visual Studio 2008 session on Windows. I originally saw this during the Scott Guthrie keynote at MIX 2007 and then a similarly amazing
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If you have ever been to PDC or TechED you probably have seen some of the funny videos Bill puts on. I saw this last night while watching the Live CES feed, absolutely hilarious. Brian Williams, Steve Ballmer, Matthew McConaughey and many others all make
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Check out this great video showing off the work Cynergy Labs has done using Windows Presentation Foundation, a Wii Remote and some custom gloves. In just over a week they were able to reproduce the functionality of Microsoft Surface but doing it through
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I got hit with Xbox Live flakiness over the weekend myself. I had two friends pick up an Xbox for Christmas so this was their first time using XBL. They both had problems signing up and wound up doing it over the phone. Then we had problems trying to
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As originally posted on the Developers for Developers discussion group. Be sure to check it out today! Using PopFly on Facebook One really cool thing I like about Popfly is the mashups you create can be added to your Facebook profile so that your friends
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March 12-13, 2008 Marriott Marquis Hotel New York, NY here Event 03 As always, conference attendance is FREE. Breakfast and lunch for both days is provided as well as a welcome reception on the first night of the event. You are responsible for all other
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