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Freescale Sensor Badge – Fun Gadget!

If you attended the DC Windows 7 Launch yesterday in Tyson’s Corner, VA, you may have gotten a chance to see a very cool gadget in action, the Freescale Flexis JM Badge Board. It’s a sensor board that contains an ambient light sensor, 3-axis accelerometer, Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 05, 2009 10:49 AM by gduthie | 1 Comments
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Use Bing Search Background Photos As Windows 7 Wallpaper

A co-worker sent this to me via email…way cool use of the new slide show feature of the Windows 7 desktop wallpaper, which apparently supports downloading images via RSS: Daily Bing search engine images consist of awesome collection of photos from amazing Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 15, 2009 9:29 AM by gduthie | 0 Comments
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Tampa Bay Nerd Dinner Tomorrow

As some folks may be aware, I’m in Tampa, Florida for some team meetings this week. I and my peers were looking for an opportunity to get together with folks from the local developer community, and thankfully, Nikita Polyakov stepped up to organize a Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 11, 2009 3:43 PM by gduthie | 0 Comments
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5 Years!

Hard to believe, but I’ve been at this job for 5 years as of today. I’ve definitely had my ups and downs as a Developer Evangelist, but it’s a measure of how great this job is that it hardly seems possible that 5 years have passed already. I am enormously Read More...
Posted Friday, July 17, 2009 3:37 PM by gduthie | 0 Comments
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Herding Code: Drag n Drop Debating?

This has to be my favorite podcast description in a long while, and not just because I’m in it. As backstory, Alan Stevens (he of # AlanStevensAvatarWeekend fame, among other things) and I have occasionally had some spirited tussles on twitter about myriad Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 01, 2009 2:19 PM by gduthie | 1 Comments

LOL DE

Fun with photo manipulation from Frank La Vigne at MIX09: (this one’s for you, Darcy !) Read More...
Posted Friday, March 20, 2009 6:48 PM by gduthie | 0 Comments
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MIX09 Day 1

Wow. Quite a day. I’m not going to try to summarize all the information that came out, as there have been many posts on it already this one from Alvin Ashcraft does a nice job of summarizing the announcements succinctly ). But I did want to share my impression, Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:25 AM by gduthie | 0 Comments
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Rebel DE Yell

I may regret this at some point, but for those who missed my growl-fest at the MVP Summit last week, here’s the video, as recorded by W. Kevin Hazzard . There are at least two other videos floating around out there, but this is the first one I was able Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 11, 2009 9:04 AM by gduthie | 1 Comments
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Why I Love My Job (and wouldn’t want to do anything else)

In this industry, we have a lot of acronyms. But I’d like to introduce one more, borrowing from some local folks: TBDCOTP . It stands for The Best Damn Community On The Planet. That’s who I work with, here in Mid-Atlantic, and it’s why I love my job. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 10, 2009 9:40 AM by gduthie | 1 Comments

What was *THAT* All About?

Folks who follow me on Twitter (or those who follow a number of other folks) might have noticed something a little weird going on this weekend. Following a series of “retro” avatar pics that I posted, from my childhood and college (and early post-college) Read More...
Posted Monday, February 23, 2009 12:04 PM by gduthie | 0 Comments
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SOLID Development in Pictures

While I can’t claim to be a huge adherent of any particular set of development principles (I admire others’ passion in this area, but I’m very pragmatic when it comes to getting a given task done…there are lots of ways to do it, many of which can be “right” Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 12, 2009 10:08 AM by gduthie | 0 Comments
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Pattern or Anti-Pattern? The Big Ball of Mud

It’s lengthy, and I haven’t had the time to read through the whole thing, but this is a delightful look at the most common pattern in application architecture, the Big Ball of Mud : Abstract While much attention has been focused on high-level software Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2009 11:53 AM by gduthie | 0 Comments
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When Presentations Attack!

Scott Hanselman has shared a great story about the things that can happen before (and during) a technical presentation , particularly a complex one. My personal favorite demo-gone-bad moment from my 12+ years as a presenter was the Visual Studio Launch Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 04, 2009 5:01 PM by gduthie | 1 Comments
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SideSight – DO WANT!

This looks very cool: h/t NewScientist Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 10, 2008 9:15 AM by gduthie | 1 Comments

Time Out for Fun

I’ve been having a great time traveling for some cool events over the last few weeks. I’ve gotten to present a couple of MSDN Events in Reston and Richmond, VA. Along with my peers Zhiming Xue and Ashish Jaiman , I presented at MSDN Roadshows in Roanoke, Read More...
Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 2:03 PM by gduthie | 3 Comments
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