Today I received an email informing me that I have been awarded the Microsoft Community Contributor Award. This is the second time I have been awarded this particular award and it feels just as good this time as it did last time. I?m not sure how you go about getting nominated for this award, but […]
Read MoreI have a need for fax (yes, fax!) in an application I’m working on and ran across a cool little startup called Phaxio. Phaxio takes a different approach to fax than most of the dinosaurs competitors in the field. The fax API for devs. We make faxing as simple as an HTTP POST and have […]
Read MoreI would like announce the creation of a new developer webcast that focuses on Xaml application development called Xaml TV. The purpose of Xaml TV is to provide quality Xaml content through interviews with individuals, community leaders, and technology experts in the fields of WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone, and WinRT/Metro. If it is Xaml we […]
Read MoreEarlier this month after @BoiseJS (Boise Javascript) Jason Denizac, Brett Adler and I started discussing the need for a ‘more than talking’ type of meet-up. We are all working on products/projects and wanted to create an opportunity where we can help out each out, learn, network and create a sense of ‘Hacker Culture’ here in […]
Read MoreA few of weeks ago, I ran into this awesome article ?Understanding process.nextTick()? on the How To Node blog. In this article, the ever friendly Kishore Nallan shows a couple of common use cases for the process.nextTick() function of the core Node.js library. You should read this blog post three times, at the very least. […]
Read MoreI had a blast presenting on Backbone.js at Boise Code Camp this weekend. Thanks to all who attended! I received a lot of positive feedback and as such will be presenting the same talk at the Boise Web Technologies Group Thursday, April 26, 2012, 6:00 PM. RSVP here Slides & Source http://bit.ly/bcc12_backbonejs Blog post Resources […]
Read MoreEarlier this week, I ran across this incredibly helpful utility called npm-police. It analyzes all packages that are specified in a package.json file and reports which packages need to be updated. It also leaves you with a couple of suggestions on how to improve the content of the analyzed package.json file. Another great tool in […]
Read MoreIf you have done any WPF application development I am sure you have used and fallen in love with the Static markup extension. If you?re are not familiar with it, the Static markup extension allows you to reference static fields and properties in your XAML markup. For example; let?s assume we have a class with […]
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