My friend and Silverlight MVP, Eric Mork, is coming to Boise to lead a FREE, one day, 10-hour workshop for developers wanting to learn to program for Windows Phone 7. I am looking forward to attending as a student, myself. The coolest part? Cash prizes, baby! $500 for the coolest app written in class that […]
Read MoreListen Now! [48:11] Windows Phone 7 is poised to soon move beyond walls of Microsoft and into consumers hands. That means we developers can start to think about actually writing apps for the device and this show introduces us to the developer experience for Windows Phone 7. Adam Grocholski Adam is a Technical Evangelist at […]
Read MoreI was experimenting recently with the .Net implementation of OData and ran across one of my pet peeves. ?Magic Strings?. Apparently, the .Net community?s definition of magic strings is close but seems slightly different from Wikipedia. Therefore the magic strings I?m talking about here are what you?ll find on such posts as ?Functional .Net ? […]
Read MoreListen to this episode! [41:06] In this episode, Ade Miller discusses the newly released book from Microsoft Patterns and Practices, Parallel Programming with Microsoft? .NET. Ade takes us beyond the Task Parallel Library and into a the world of design patterns the team has discovered and documented to help us all use the parallel capabilities […]
Read MoreListen to this episode! [41:23] Have you been hearing the chatter about Visual Studio LightSwitch? It is a new technology from Microsoft targeted at quickly building line of business apps. And for a bit more sweetness, it builds tiered Silverlight apps for us! LightSwitch is currently in Beta 1, but seems destined for being […]
Read MoreListen to this episode! [31:30] If you think ASP.NET Web Forms automatically results in boilerplate, procedural code, this show is for you. Turns out, there are some techniques we can apply to Web Forms (like a salve) that make them creamier and delicious. Keith tells us how Pluralsight.com gets built, along with the tools, […]
Read MoreFriday morning, one of my colleagues asked, “What do you consider to be the difference between a junior, mid-level, and senior developer?” Being a .NET shop, the obvious answer would be to head over to Scott Hanselman’s blog and pull up this post: What Great .NET Developers Ought To Know (More .NET Interview Questions). Scott […]
Read MoreThis spring I had the distinct honor of teaching a .Net programming course at Boise State University. Going into the course I was definitely unsure of what to expect. From David Starr’s horror stories of burning ERD’s to cautious skepticism from other professors I entered this senior level class half wondering if I’d be teaching […]
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