Thursday, July 29, 2010
Another in the series of recordings that I have done for INETA Live.
Saturday morning: Learn about Silverlight, WPF, Win 7 Phone
Saturday afternoon: Start coding
Sunday afternoon: Demo Application
YES all these apps were built in less then 24 hrs! We had a great time learning and building all of them. Hope you enjoy watching the fruits of our labor!
Another in the series of recordings I have done for INETA Live.
In this talk Chris starts by giving us an introduction to programming in XAML, covering all the basics. Then he dives into developing Model View ViewModel (MVVM) applications for the Windows Phone 7 using MVVM Light.
Chris Koenig is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft, based in Dallas, TX. Prior to joining Microsoft in March of 2007, Chris worked as a Senior Architect for The Capital Group in San Antonio, and as an Architect for the global solution provider Avanade. As a consultant, Chris worked with a variety of clients from many vertical markets, ISVs and other solution providers on enterprise-class Windows and web-based applications. Today, Chris focuses on building, growing, and enhancing the developer communities in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.
http://chriskoenig.net
http://twitter.com/chriskoenig
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Monday, July 26, 2010
Another in the series of recordings that I have done for INETA Live.
Abstract:
The Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) came out in version 1.0 with the release of .NET 4 but most developers don't know it is there and, if they do, don't know what you can do with it. In this talk we will discuss what the DLR is and, through looking at the plethora of things you can do with it, get a taste for things the DLR allows us as developers to do with it. Many have heard of the Python and Ruby support but this is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. So come join us for a discussion of the many things you can do with the Dynamic Language Runtime.
Bio:
Eric Sowell is an avid .NET developer who gets into as many technologies as he can though with a focus on ASP.NET. He is a Senior Application Engineer at Match.com on the international platform and enjoys writing code which serves up Html millions of times on a daily basis. Eric is the father of three children and the husband of one wife. He also has fish. When not being a geek or hanging with the family, he enjoys reading, writing and doing research primarily in the realms of ancient Greek, biblical studies and early Christianity.
You can find Eric online in the following places:
• http://www.ericsowell.com
• http://www.thecodinghumanist.com
• http://www.archaicchristianity.com
• http://www.twitter.com/mallioch
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Another in the series of recordings I have done for INETA Live.
Experts in today’s leading technologies guide you through current trends. With Microsoft’s newly released Visual Studio 2010 come join Sarika and Kevin as they share their product knowledge and the culture experience at the world’s largest technology company.
SPEAKERS
SARIKA CALLA—Speaking about Microsoft from a woman’s perspective, this native born Indian holds a Masters in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and has been with Microsoft for the past eight years. Sarika is now a Team Lead on the IDE Team.
KEVIN HALVERSON—With seven years as a Microsoft employee, Kevin has expertise in LINQ Expression Trees, Code Model, and COM/Office Interop and has a background as a former Unix Sys Admin.
Friday, July 16, 2010
This is a cool website.Indeed.com searches millions of jobs from thousands of job sites.This job trends graph shows the percentage of jobs we find that contain your search terms.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
I am please to officially announce that OpenCamp Dallas has added a .NET Track, and what a .NET Track it will be.
http://www.OpenCa.mp
What is OpenCamp?
OpenCamp is the SouthWest’s first multi-platform web conference. With top speakers covering topics ranging from social media to technical development, content creation, revenue generation and more, webmasters and web developers, bloggers, podcasters and technologists on any platform are welcome.
In the morning, we’ll have general sessions which everyone will attend. The topics will include promotion, marketing, SEO, monetization, and more. Chris Pirillo, Cali Lewis and Brian Clark (aka Copyblogger) are just a few names confirmed who will speak during the General sessions. In the afternoon, we’ll break out into CMS specific sessions- WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, .NET, and New Media- where people will be able to dig deeper into their platform of choice, or learn what they can do with a new platform. The event is scheduled for August 27-29th and we’re expecting over 1,000 attendees!
What’s in the .NET Track?
Caleb Jenkins: .NET on the cheap. (Free and OSS resources from the Redmond Giant)
Chris Koenig: Windows Phone 7 Up Close
Eric Shafer: E-commerce in DotNetNuke
Jason Kergosien: Social Communities in DNN
Todd Stone: Building Web Sites with mojoPortal
Tony Valenti: Build a Basic Website with DotNetNuke
Everyone Registering for the .NET Track will be entered into a drawing to win a FREE copy of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN a $11,899 value.
What else is at the conference?
- Social Media
- Monetization
- Audio Podcasting
- Video Podcasting
- WordPress
- Joomla
- Drupal
How much does it cost?
- Student $99
- Individual $139
- Professional $169
- Business $269
Includes Lunch, WiFi and admission to all the OpenCamp Parties/Networking Events
http://openca.mp/register/
Register before July 31 and use "ugdotnetOC10" to get 20% off
Where to stay?
Attendees staying at the conference hotel have access to some “special OpenCamp hospitality”.
http://openca.mp/about/location/
The conference will include many “Parties/Networking Events” so even if live in Dallas you might want to stay at the hotel.
Help get the word out!
Feel free to forward, re-tweet this post. Also I have attached a PDF Flyer, so what are you waiting for, print it out and hang it up by the water cooler at your office.
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Thursday, July 08, 2010
I am speaking tonight at the Central TX .NET UG (http://ctxdnug.net) in Temple, TX (just south of Waco).
Utilizing .Net Generics to Write Better Code
Abstract:
Generics let you tailor a method, class, structure, or interface to the precise data type it acts upon. In this session we will discuss what capabilities Generics provide to you the developer and how to use them in collections, and with delegates. We will also talk about creating your own generic classes and methods.
Event URL:
http://ctxdnug.net/Meetings/July-2010-Meeting.aspx
Announcements PPT
http://cid-80ce78240aa8df49.office.live.com/view.aspx/.Public/20100708%5E_Ineta.ppt
Talk PPT and Notes
http://www.developerroundtable.com/Libraries/Misc_Stuff/20100708_Central_TX_Generics.sflb.ashx?download=true
Sunday, June 20, 2010
I had the great pleasure of attending the DFW Silverlight and WP7 DevCamp (Silverlightpalooza) this weekend. http://silverlightpalooza.dynamitesilverlight.com/
Big thanks goes to Teresa Burger & the entire team of volunteers that made this event possible.
Without the financial support of Microsoft WP7 Team and Improving Enterprises, the event wouldn't have happened.
And a big thanks to all the provide prizes: Microsoft WP7 Team, Agilitrain, Expression .toolbox team, telerik, Infragistics, @zainnab, Matrix Resources, Pearson, and Apress.
I also want to thank my team, James, Rap, Krishna, Ron for all your help!
We decided to build a Rovio controller for the Windows 7 Phone. The Rovio is a robotic web camera made by the folks at WowWee (http://www.wowwee.com/en/products/tech/telepresence/rovio/rovio). The Robot sports among other things a nice restful service architecture and a mini web server making sending the instructions to and getting information from the robot as easy as just hitting URL’s. As you can see by the above photo the background of the phone is a stream of camera images from the phone. On the left there are 2 progress bars, the top for WiFi signal strength, and the bottom for battery power. Just to the left of that are three arrows that instruct the robot to move forward, left and right, and a stop button that tells it to stop moving. On the right hand side of the UI are a series of buttons that allow you to put the robots head up, head middle, head down, headlights on, and to tell the robot to go home. At the bottom of the screen is some diagnostics information for the user. The final feature of our application was that since the phone emulator doesn’t have an accelerometer, we wired the emulator up to a Wii controller allowing you to steer the robot with the accelerometer in it.
All in all it was a great weekend and I cannot wait till next time. Stay tuned, I have a bit of clean up to do in the code then I will be sure to post it also.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Remember the old Word Perfect days, when we had that paper glued to our keyboard telling us what the function keys did. Well with VS 2010 there are lots of great shortcuts. Zain our local DE has a good blog series on these tips (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zainnab/), but it is helpful to have a list. Enter the Key Binding charts. You might have been lucky enough to get one from the languages team, but if not, you can print one out (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lisa/archive/2010/04/16/vs-2010-keyboard-shortcut-posters-now-available-for-vb-c-f-c.aspx).
My only question is should we read something into the pictures? F# a young attractive woman, C# a middle aged guy with some goofy grin, and VB and older gentleman. hmm, what are they trying to say. . . .
