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Once of the interesting elements of this year’s MIX is the complete domination of Twitter as a medium for distributing updates. If you have been following me on Twitter (I’m @LACanuck), then you will already have heard a lot about the Windows Phone 7
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One of the first questions that arose from the announcement of off-browser Silverlight was “What will happen to WPF?” The obvious source of this concern is that since Silverlight 3 can run either as part of a Web page or installed in an off-browser mode,
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I’ve just come home from spending the last three days in Redmond at the MVP Summit. For those who might not be aware, the Summit is an annual event that Microsoft hosts for Most Valuable Professionals (MVP). The MVP designation is given to people who
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So to set up this problem, an application that I'm currently working on needs to process data that is stored in an Excel spreadsheet. The creation of the spreadsheet is actually performed by a scientific instrument, so my ability to control the format
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Now that the holidays are over (which weren't particularly fun for me this year, due to a persistent bout with sinusitis), it's time to get back to the posting. And to start things off, let me offer any of you who might be thinking about going to DevTeach
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In the excitement of PDC, it slipped my mind to let everyone know that the book on which I was a co-author was actually shipped at the beginning of October. The title is the terse, yet incredibly descriptive MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-503):
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I've been a fan of Malcolm Gladwell since I read The Tipping Point. And after following that up with Blick, it is clear that Mr. Gladwell is a fascinating author on subjects that are quite interesting, even when it falls outside my normal range of reading
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One of the more farsighted thoughts on the implications of cloud computing is the concern about vendor lock-in. Tim Bray mentioned it in his Get in the Cloud post Big Issue · I mean a really big issue: if cloud computing is going to take off, it
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So it's the last few hours of PDC for this year. Which means that pretty much all of the information that can be shoved into my brain has been. It also means that it's a pretty decent moment to be summarizing what I've learned. Obviously (from its presence
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I just got out of the WPF Roadmap talk. I found the future for WPF less interesting that the present, although that could very well because the speed of innovation coming from that group has been very high over the past couple of years. In fact, the 'roadmap'
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