Craig Shoemaker

Earlier this week Scott Guthrie announced the release of WebMatrix – a new developer tool and development stack based off ASP.NET. I’ve been playing around with WebMatrix and the new view engine called Razor by experimenting with an upcoming jQuery rating control from Infragistics as well as building a personal website.

Author, Microsoft MVP and accomplished pianist Josh Smith, Sr. UX Developer at IdentityMine, joins the show to discuss some of Model View ViewModel’s more advanced scenarios.

Working with beta software is hazardous to any developer’s machine, but betas are also a way of life. Therefore a good virtual machine strategy is important in order to keep those beastly betas at bay. XP-More is a open source tool that helps ease the pain of creating and managing VMs.

CSS Specificity is the litmus test used to decide which of the ‘cascading’ styles in CSS will ultimately take precedence when the page is rendered in the browser. This short video demonstrates a quick way to quantify CSS specificity making it easy for you to know which CSS rules will render and which are overridden.

Big thanks to Mike Vincent and David Wells of the Southern California .NET Architecture User Group for inviting me to speak this evening! If you are looking for the code and the slides you can download them here.

Josh Blake of Infostrat joins Pixel8 to discuss NUI development in .NET. Josh is the author of the upcoming book Multitouch on Windows from Manning. Reaching far beyond theory and the niche market of Microsoft Surface, NUI development is now possible with Silverlight and WPF development on Windows 7 and Windows 7 Mobile devices.