WPF for Developers and Lead Designers Course Launch

I’m excited to be launching a WPF training course through Toronto-based consultancy ObjectSharp. The course is called “Windows Presentation Foundation for Developers and Lead Designers,” and, as the title suggests, it offers a hands-on experience designed to give developers and lead designers the knowledge, background, tips and references they’ll need to build smart client [...]

Mike Holmes Makes it Right

I’ve pretty much decided that Mike Holmes is my new idol. If you’re reading this from Canada, you know who Mike is: the contractor who arrives at botched renovation jobs and works his magic. So why is this guy my new idol? 1. He knows everything there is to know about construction. He seems to have deep [...]

Toronto DevTeach on WPF - what would be useful for you?

I’m in the lineup to speak at the DevTeach conference, which is taking place in Toronto from May 12-15. My presentation is going to be WPF-centric, but I have deliberately left the abstract flexible. What would you like to hear about WPF at DevTeach from someone who’s been consulting in WPF and Silverlight? Building a WPF [...]

Legend of the Greasepole, Silverlight 2 Beta Edition

The Legend of the Greasepole is a game that began its life on July 1st, 1996, when a group of Engineering students from Queen’s University in Canada decided they’d create a way to re-live their unexplainable annual tradition from the comfort of their long-suffering computers. After last year’s XNA port, the release of the Silverlight 2 [...]

Off to Vegas!

Thanks to everyone who came out to my WPF and Silverlight presentation at the Toronto CodeCamp event yesterday. It was great to have a chance to speak with so many interested and enthusiastic people who hung around after the talk. Because the presentation was a riff on my What’s New in WPF 3.5 and Silverlight [...]

User Experience in Toronto and Las Vegas

I’m presenting at the Toronto Code Camp on Saturday about What’s new in Visual Studio 2008 for WPF 3.5 and Silverlight developers. My presentation will be an updated version of the presentation I gave at ObjectSharp’s Visual Studio 2008 At the Movies event, which hopefully you’ll find interesting and useful if you’re doing client-side [...]

WPF at the Movies: Follow-Up Links

It was great to be part of ObjectSharp’s VS2008 at the Movies event this morning. Thanks to all of you who braved a quintessentially Canadian snowstorm to be there! My favourite part of the WPF/Silverlight presentation was being able to show some of the work ObjectSharp has been doing with WPF and .NET 3.5 at Thermo [...]

Learn WPF by example (a recipe)

Ever wonder how the experts build clever things into their WPF applications? Here’s one way to find out which uses a few of my favourite tools for building WPF and Silverlight apps. Required Ingredients: 1. Snoop, an excellent utility that lets you visualize and probe a running WPF application. 2. Lutz’s tried and true Reflector utility, which [...]

O# at the Movies

  I’ve been knee-deep in code for the past month, and in the process I’ve refined my proverbial code pipeline and learned heaps about what it’s really like to build line-of-business WPF applications with Visual Studio 2008. So I’m excited to have the chance to talk WPF and Silverlight at ObjectSharp’s “VS2008 at the Movies” event on [...]

Great White North

I’m back in Canada. I’ve gone from 28 degrees and kitesurfing to -2 and this: …Kitesurfing, anyone? In addition to snow, life here already involves code and consulting. So, after being quite involved with the developer community in Ireland, I’m looking forward to attending my first Canadian .NET Usergroup meeting tomorrow night. I’m in the middle [...]