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Are you a developer? Want to get your hands on a Windows Phone 7 device?
Then you MUST read the following post from Brandon Watson, in which he discusses just how many people are asking for them, and more importantly, lays out some guidelines for how YOU can get noticed by the Windows Phone 7 team (hint: DO EPIC SH*T), and Read More...
.NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2010 Road Trip In RIchmond – This Wednesday!
If you are a geek, and you listen to the .NET Rocks podcast (and if you haven’t, you should), you owe it to yourself to see Carl and Richard do their thing live and in person. And you have just such an opportunity THIS WEEK in Richmond, VA ! Carl and Read More...
Thank You, Orlando!
A big thank you to the developer community in the Orlando, Florida area for a great day. I had the pleasure of helping out with the Visual Studio 2010 Launch event yesterday, and folks were great. Really good turnout, great questions, and a fun time pair Read More...
The Channel 9 Live GeekLympics at MIX10
One of the fun things about MIX10 this year was that the folks from Channel 9 were broadcasting live throughout the conference from The Commons: Channel 9 Live Day 1 Channel 9 Live Day 2 One highlight of my time at MIX this year was getting the opportunity Read More...
iMo 7” USB Sub-Monitor Unboxing
I’m a big fan of multi-monitor as a way of getting a broader view of all the applications I’m working with at any given time. I have 4 monitors on my primary desktop machine, so when I’m on the road it can be difficult to deal with the limitation of a Read More...
Freescale Sensor Badge – Fun Gadget!
If you attended the DC Windows 7 Launch yesterday in Tyson’s Corner, VA, you may have gotten a chance to see a very cool gadget in action, the Freescale Flexis JM Badge Board. It’s a sensor board that contains an ambient light sensor, 3-axis accelerometer, Read More...
Use Bing Search Background Photos As Windows 7 Wallpaper
A co-worker sent this to me via email…way cool use of the new slide show feature of the Windows 7 desktop wallpaper, which apparently supports downloading images via RSS: Daily Bing search engine images consist of awesome collection of photos from amazing Read More...
Tampa Bay Nerd Dinner Tomorrow
As some folks may be aware, I’m in Tampa, Florida for some team meetings this week. I and my peers were looking for an opportunity to get together with folks from the local developer community, and thankfully, Nikita Polyakov stepped up to organize a Read More...
5 Years!
Hard to believe, but I’ve been at this job for 5 years as of today. I’ve definitely had my ups and downs as a Developer Evangelist, but it’s a measure of how great this job is that it hardly seems possible that 5 years have passed already. I am enormously Read More...
Herding Code: Drag n Drop Debating?
This has to be my favorite podcast description in a long while, and not just because I’m in it. As backstory, Alan Stevens (he of # AlanStevensAvatarWeekend fame, among other things) and I have occasionally had some spirited tussles on twitter about myriad Read More...
Nerd Dinner Tonight in Reston, VA
Shawn Wildermuth is in town, and will be hosting a nerd dinner tonight: I am in Washington, DC doing a Silverlight Tour stop and I am having a little get-together out in Reston, VA.  If you want to come by and have dinner, drinks and conversation, Read More...
LOL DE
Fun with photo manipulation from Frank La Vigne at MIX09: (this one’s for you, Darcy !) Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...
MIX09 Day 1
Wow. Quite a day. I’m not going to try to summarize all the information that came out, as there have been many posts on it already this one from Alvin Ashcraft does a nice job of summarizing the announcements succinctly ). But I did want to share my impression, Read More...
Rebel DE Yell
I may regret this at some point, but for those who missed my growl-fest at the MVP Summit last week, here’s the video, as recorded by W. Kevin Hazzard . There are at least two other videos floating around out there, but this is the first one I was able Read More...
Why I Love My Job (and wouldn’t want to do anything else)
In this industry, we have a lot of acronyms. But I’d like to introduce one more, borrowing from some local folks: TBDCOTP . It stands for The Best Damn Community On The Planet. That’s who I work with, here in Mid-Atlantic, and it’s why I love my job. Read More...
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