XAML and UI, whever it is found. Phone, Surface, Silverlight or WPF
Posted in .Net, Conferences, MIX, Shazzam on Apr 15th, 2011
Trade conferences are a steady companion for the tech industry. And it not just for tech people. Gathering together in crowd for annual events is a human need. We all do it. Look at the thousands of different conference held each year. Las Vegas’s economy is anchored to this obvious pattern. Well, Vegas also caters [...]
Posted in Conferences, Silverlight, WPF on Mar 16th, 2009
Attend a keynote at a big Microsoft conference and at some point in the presentation you will hear a musical fanfare followed by a breathless product announcement. Depending on the show and the time of year the announcements can be hum-drum or spectacular. Do you remember when Microsoft announced a new development framework called .NET [...]
Posted in Conferences, MIX on Mar 14th, 2009
Mix09 is coming next week. I can’t wait to be there and see all the announcements about Silverlight 3. Since this is the main Microsoft RIA event it is loaded with enough Silverlight and WPF content to keep even an aged RIA veteran happy. Mix is more than just technology news however. The Mix team [...]
Posted in Conferences, Presentations on Nov 11th, 2008
Once again the Seattle developer community is holding the Seattle Code Camp at the DigiPen campus in Redmond, Washington. The Digipen site has proven very popular at previous camps. Thanks Digipen! The event is scheduled for November 15-16, 2008. That’s this weekend! There are a lot of interesting topics this year. A quick look at [...]
Posted in Conferences, PDC on Oct 27th, 2008
Apparently the entire Tuesday keynote at PDC will about the client side. My guess is there will be a lot of demos of Windows 7. I wonder if Ray Ozzie will talk about RIA’s too?
Posted in Conferences, PDC on Oct 24th, 2008
The PDC 2008 web site has a nice Session planner tool. You can see all the sessions for the entire day or one time-slot, plan your schedule, see only your chosen sessions etc. Now available is a PDC 2008 Session PDF document that is more suitable for printing. Talk about overload, it’s fourteen pages of [...]
Posted in Conferences on Oct 22nd, 2008
This is a first for me. 2008 is the first time I’ll be going to all of the big three Microsoft conferences. Mix08, TechEd Florida and PDC. Plus I narrowly missed giving a session at TechEd Barcelona. Yes, it’s been a busy year.
Posted in Conferences on Oct 21st, 2008
Planning your day at PDC is fun and frustrating. There is ~200 sessions for the week, approximately fifty per day. What to choose, what to do? If you are interested in the future of graphics on the Windows platform you might want to add “Windows 7: Writing Your Application to Shine on Modern Graphics Hardware” [...]
Posted in Conferences, Silverlight on Apr 22nd, 2008
Ah, summer is coming to Seattle. Warm weather, mountain views, and the sun glinting off the lakes. Best of all, if you are a Silverlight fan, our first Silverlight dev camp is now official. There have been a few of these mini conferences already (Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Washington DC) and now we’re having one [...]
Posted in Conferences, Presentations, Silverlight on Apr 9th, 2008
Portland Oregon is home to a batch of dedicated techies. There seems to be an interesting programming event or conference every month in the Rose City. A couple months ago I heard about a new family oriented conference, called PDX Webfoot, that is happening on April 12th. The idea is to have a conference with [...]
