June 2009 - Posts

SoCalDevGal demos Windows 7 multi touch (and WoodyP shows off MS Surface)
27 June 09 02:13 AM | llangit | 0 Comments   

Enjoy this short video shot by one of the attendees of the recent demofest at MS Irvine, CA.  Woody Pewitt is demoing the MS Surface here.  Thanks to Philippe Lewicki for the video. Read More...

Filed under: Windows 7, Win7DevSeries

SoCalDevGal will be speaking on Windows 7 multi touch app dev in at San Diego Code Camp tomorrow
26 June 09 09:13 PM | llangit | 0 Comments   

My session is at SoCalCodeCamp at UCSD room 105 at 2:00 pm – I am looking forward to showing and telling a good number of my developer friends about the joy of multi touch application development in Windows 7 as I know it so far.  I’ll post the deck Read More...

Filed under: Windows 7, Win7DevSeries

SoCalDevGal shares…’Teaching Kids to Code’
26 June 09 09:04 PM | llangit | 0 Comments   

Here’s the deck from my prezo at SoCalCodeCamp in San Diego (UCSD) – enjoy!  Examples included have the following availability – SmallBasic is a free download, Kodu is NOT available to the general public on the PC.  Kodu will be released as Read More...

Filed under: Fun, Helping

SoCalDevGal wishes to decide - .NET 3.5 or .NET 4.0 for Windows 7 multi touch application development
15 June 09 08:27 PM | llangit | 1 Comments   

Ah but this isn’t a simple consideration.  As I’ve been digging in, getting ready to build my first Windows 7 multi touch application, I’ve found out just how much I have to learn!  For starters I am by no means an expert in WPF (Windows Presentation Read More...

Filed under: Windows 7, Win7DevSeries

SoCalDevGal wants you to be an expert in Windows 7 Touch and Multi Touch capabilities
07 June 09 09:06 PM | llangit | 3 Comments   

My curiosity often takes me down new pathways.  Just like a typical dev, after stating the business case, writing out the problem, writing the key use cases and ‘hiring’ a designer, I am ready to open up Visual Studio and start coding my first multi Read More...

Filed under: Windows 7, Win7DevSeries

SoCalDevGal wonders who will really design your Windows 7 UI?
02 June 09 02:36 AM | llangit | 1 Comments   

Now that I’ve written a rough application spec, (see previous blog post), am I finally really to start coding?  Nope, not yet.  I want to mockup my UI and also to build my database.  For the former task, I’ve decided to enlist an experienced Read More...

Filed under: Windows 7, Win7DevSeries