December happenings

jfoscoding — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 21:17:00 GMT

We have a new PM on our team - Jim Nakashima - he’s got lots of interesting things to say: his older blog was here, and his new blog is here.

The Cider team has published its very first CTP – congrats to Brian, Chuck, Chad, Jim, Subhag et al. For an intro on the Cider designer - check out MSDN TV and Channel 9.

Finally, I’m changing gears a bit. The only fundamental constant in life is change, and that’s especially true when starting up a new product cycle at Microsoft. Starting in January, I’ll be working on the Cider team helping to build designers for WPF (“Avalon”).

What does this mean for “jfo’s coding”? That’s a good question. I’ve not moved very far from the Windows Forms team, and I’m sure it’s going to be a while before I can usefully post stuff on either Cider or Avalon. So in the short run, you may not even notice.

I’ll try to be good about splitting up my posts. If you’re interested in Windows Forms only, then you can just subscribe to this feed. If you’re interested in Cider, happily subscribe to this one. And if you don’t care, then by all means continue to use the main feed for this site.

It's not orange this time....

jfoscoding — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 01:42:00 GMT

Top 3 reasons I've moved my blog...

Ragha was tired of answering comments for me.
I was tired of getting subtle hints about the color orange.
Maybe Jeff will feel that I am worthy to link to now. (Eh, who am I kidding.)

...I guess introductions are in order. My name is Jessica, and I am a developer on the Windows Forms team [borgspeak:.Net Client Team]. I've been kicking around this particular team since Everett - mainly focusing on developing new controls for the Whidbey runtime. My nickname is "JFo" which was given to me by Cap'n, who felt that 3 syllables was prime fodder for shortening.

Blogwise, I've been writing about Windows Forms for the last year - some months there's been lots of stuff, some months, not so much. For a look back - here's some of my older articles...

How When Where and Why to use Dispose
Painting Best Practices
Understanding DockLayout and Splitters
Building NotifyIcon Applications/Understanding the Application class
How to make a readonly controls collection

jfo's coding : About

December happenings

It's not orange this time....