Enigma to Debut at the PDC
I’ve been away from the blog for a while enduring several straight weeks of travel, two of them overseas. Now I’m back home readying for the PDC by porting Silverlight […]
All Roads Lead to Silverlight 2
It may be the dog days of summer, but things are hopping here at Wintellect. We just finished another successful Devscovery Redmond, where attendees soaked in lots of Silverlight love […]
Silverlight Controls and the Visual State Manager
If you’re interested in writing custom controls for Silverlight but need a step-by-step tutorial to get you started, check out my latest column in MSDN Magazine: Craft Custom Controls for […]
Me Meme
Charles Petzold tagged me and challenged me to answer the following questions as part of a software development meme that’s going around. How old were you when you first started programming?I […]
Microsoft, Open Source, and the Meaning of Life
Jeff Atwood wrote a great blog post about why Microsoft can’t use open source in their products. Jon Galloway wrote a complementary post providing some specifics from a Microsoft insider […]
Lightning Strike, Silverlight 2 Beta 2, and Winamac
You may have noticed that our blog was down for a couple of days last week. Lightning struck our server and our IT folks worked around the clock to get […]
It’s TechEd Time!
TechEd was split into two weeks this year–one for developers and one for IT folks (a formula that has worked well at TechEd Europe the last couple of years)–and Monday […]
Groundhog Day in Hyderabad
I’m in Hyderabad, India preparing to work on the Microsoft campus this week and I feel like I’m in the movie “Groundhog Day.” My luggage didn’t make it with me. […]
Silverlight Page Turning Made Simple
My latest Wicked Code column is now online at MSDN Magazine. Titled “Silverlight Page Turning Made Simple,” it presents a Silverlight 1.0 framework for building slick page-turning applications. I mentioned […]