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For those not at the MSDN Freedom Roadshow in Scranton, PA today, you are missed a good show. Here’s what happened: David Solivan – David presented a talk called UI, UX, U confused? The purpose was to show the various options we have and to explain when one option may be better than another by stepping through the design process. There’s a URL ...

I finished up my talks at ASP.NET Connections yesterday and wanted to get the code posted as well as links for the additional topics covered in the Silverlight animation session.  Here they are: Building N-Tier ASP.NET Applications with LINQ Code Silverlight 2 Animations Code SilverlightFX Farseer Physics Engine for ...

I’ve had the opportunity to speak at a lot of cool places around the world but you can’t beat speaking in Hawaii!  I’ve looked forward to this trip for quite awhile since I get to talk about a brand new technology in a great location. For those able to attend (or those who are interested but can’t attend), you’ll find the slides ...

Arizona's Desert Code Camp is this Saturday (May 31st) at the University of Advanced Computing building.  Here's the address: University of Advancing Technology 2625 W. Baseline Road (map) Tempe, Arizona 85283 It looks like there are a lot of great talks scheduled covering everything from iPhone development to game development to ...

Apologies for the sparseness of my posting the last few weeks - work and life have been busy here lately.  Below is a new post in my link-listing series to help kick things up a little.  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ...

I've been getting more and more interested in how folks extend their applications using plugins and things. In my new ongoing quest to read source code to be a better developer, Dear Reader, I present to you twenty-sixth (half a year!) in a infinite number of posts of "The Weekly Source Code." Sometimes when I read code, I kick myself ...

I'm in Orlando this week speaking at the DevConnections conference on 3 different topics.  It's my personal favorite as far as conferences go and features a lot of cool technologies, people and events.  This week I'm covering custom ASP.NET AJAX controls, building N-Layer applications that leverage LINQ and new networking features in ...

I'm one of those developers that likes to build things myself mainly because the challenge is fun.  However, lately I've been taking time to look at some of the 3rd party controls out there mainly because some of the things I've needed to do are already done (and done well) and I'd save time and money by using them.  I'm not against ...

Thanks to everyone that attended the Visual Studio 2008 course yesterday.  It was a lot of fun talking about all of the new stuff available in VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 and hearing the different projects people are working on.  As promised, here's the lab code from the ...