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January 2008 - Posts

Who's that girl?
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 Read More...
Open Spaces at Microsoft Conferences?
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" Read More...
Over 20+ hours of free WPF training videos!
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 Read More...
Become a Silverlight guru in one day with the Silverlight Fire Starter Kit!
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 Read More...
Announcing the 2nd Annual Microsoft Health & Life Sciences Developers and Solutions Conference - April 22nd-24th in Atlantic City, NJ
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. Read More...
Ruby in Steel - Ruby Development using VS2008 Shell
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 Read More...
Mac OSX debugging a Silverlight App using VS2008!
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 Read More...
Funny Video of Bill Gates' last day at Microsoft
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 Read More...
Cynergy Labs: Project Maestro - Minority Report becomes reality!
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 Read More...
Xbox Live Service over the Holiday
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 Read More...
Facebook + PopFly + C# = Fun!
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 Read More...
Announcing the 2008 Financial Services Developer Conference
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 Read More...
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