July 2009 - Posts

SoCalDevGal shares her Windows 7 for Developers Presentations
29 July 09 12:57 AM | llangit | 0 Comments   

Tomorrow I start the journey over to Africa, TechEd Africa in Durban, South Africa on August 2-5, to be exact.  While there, in addition to other presentations, I am scheduled to make three presentations about Windows 7 for Developers.  In the Read More...

Filed under: Windows 7, Win7DevSeries

SoCalDevGal is studying and recommends the Windows 7 Developer Training Kit
27 July 09 11:41 PM | llangit | 0 Comments   

As I am putting the final preparations on my 3 Windows 7 Developer sessions for Tech Ed Africa, I’ve been looking at all possible resources.  One that that I particularly like (and recommend) is the Windows 7 RC Developer Training Kit .  It’s Read More...

Filed under: Windows 7, Win7DevSeries

SoCalDevGal answers ‘What’s on your Windows 7 Demo Machine?
25 July 09 06:59 PM | llangit | 1 Comments   

Many of you have asked me what applications and tools I have installed on my primary Windows 7 demo machine.  I’ll remind you that I am using a HP TouchSmart tx2 (dual AMD 42) w/4 GB RAM.  I’ve installed Windows 7 RC 64-bit. I thought the easiest Read More...

Filed under: Windows 7, Win7DevSeries

SoCalDevGal says can you name all of the SoCal User Groups?
19 July 09 01:29 AM | llangit | 3 Comments   

User Group Day of the Month 1 Inland Empire .Net User Group 2 nd Tuesday - Every Month 2 L.A. .Net Developers Group 1 st Monday - Every Month 3 L.A. .Net Geek Dinners 4 th Thursday – Every Month 4 L.A. C# Developers Group 1 st Tuesday - Every Month 5 Read More...

DigiGirlz Summer Camp 2009
16 July 09 04:38 AM | llangit | 0 Comments   

We hosted around 20 girls over the past two days at Microsoft’s Irvine, CA office.   The global DigiGirlz program is funded by Microsoft and supports annual hosting of either one-day spring events or multi-day summer camps.  The goal of Read More...

Filed under: Southern California, Fun, Helping

SoCalDevGal does the social
14 July 09 02:43 AM | llangit | 0 Comments   

What’s going on with my Windows 7 blog series, you might be wondering?  Well, I am still working on it, in fact I’ve broadened the scope of my studies to include ALL AREAS of Windows 7 development (in preparation for my upcoming trip and talks in Read More...

Filed under: Fun

SoCalDevGal is checking out the new FrontRunner site (support for ISVs developing for Windows 7)
10 July 09 06:00 AM | llangit | 0 Comments   

Our newly launched FrontRunner site for ISVs nicely pulls together many of the resources I’ve been using to learn how to write applications for Windows 7.  I decided to try it out.  Sign up is simple, just use a Windows Live ID and fill in one Read More...

Filed under: Windows 7, Win7DevSeries

SoCalDevGal wants to utilize Windows 7 UX features
03 July 09 05:55 PM | llangit | 0 Comments   

As I continue my work on learning / using Windows 7 as a platform for application development, I’ve (finally!) gone beyond the multi touch features that I’ve written about to date.  I’ve done this for two reasons: 1) Writing a Windows 7 applications Read More...

Filed under: Windows 7, Win7DevSeries