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February 2008 - Posts

A Fistful of Quarters in Vegas
"The King of Kong - A Fistful of Quarters".  Quite the title, eh?  I had heart the buzz about this movie, but didn't get to see it myself until recently.  Totally awesome!  Being a child of the 80s, a gamer, and a father Read More...
An exciting first look at Silverlight 2.0 with Scott Guthrie
Scott Guthrie has done it again and posted an amazing first look at Silverlight 2.0. Make sure to hop on over to his blog and check out the detailed tutorials he has on what to expect in Silverlight 2.0. Some highlights in this updated release of Silverlight Read More...
Dreamspark - Full versions of Windows, Visual Studio, Expression and SQL Server FREE for students!
This is an awesome program and something a lot of us inside Microsoft have been pushing a while for. Looking back at my own career as a developer I never really had exposure to Microsoft Dev Tools until after college when I was working for a Solutions Read More...
Putting on a different Skin - why XAML rocks!
One of the points I stress in my talks about Silverlight and WPF is that there is true separation now between the look and feel of your applications and the functionality of it thanks to XAML. Think about the Tree view control in Winforms you may have Read More...
MIX08 is sold out!
Mix08 is sold out! Official announcement here . I am lucky enough this year to be attending in person (and it is also my first time to Vegas). Shoot me an e-mail if you will be out there as well and would like to meet up. For those of you who cannot attend Read More...
Lessons learned from a father of two...
Well, I am back to work today. =) One of the great things about working for Microsoft is that they give fathers a month off paid leave for having a new baby. I was nervous about doing this - how I was going to handle a 3 year old all day long let alone Read More...
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