Archives
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Fundamentals of HTML5 Talk at SoCal .NET User Group
I had a great time last night presenting the Fundamentals of HTML5 to the friendly faces at the SoCal .NET User Group. Lionel Wong and Art Villa run a great group!
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ASP.NET Sprite & Image Optimization Framework Intro in WebForms
The ASP.NET team released a preview of the Sprite and Image Optimization framework yesterday. Here's a quick video to get you started.
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Software Craftsmanship with David Starr
David Starr (@ElegantCoder) is the Curriculum lead on Developer Tools and Practices with Pluralsight. His enthusiasm and passion for raising the bar in software development makes him perfect to join the show to discuss software craftsmanship. David explains what craftsmanship is, how it’s related to the agile movement and how to get started. When he’s not busy leading classes for Pluralsight David hosts Pluralcast podcast and is the founder of ElegantCode.com.
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How a User Group Gave Away Over $65,000 in Prizes with Class
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Professional Activity August 2009 to Date
Every year around this time I turn my attention to what I’ve done over the past year in order to update my MVP profile. While the engine Microsoft provides has many ways to list accomplishments and activities, I’ve always had a difficult time trying to find the right way to list my activities over the year.
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Podcast: HTML5, CSS3 and More Developer Enhancements in IE9
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Quiz: Is WebMatrix Right for You?
Last week I published a few posts on WebMatrix and Razor. The first was a preview of a jQuery Rating Control in WebMatrix with Razor from Infragistics and the other was a fun post displaying my imagined cover for the WebMatrix book.
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The Fundamentals of WebMatrix
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.
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Podcast: MVC Turbine with Javier Lozano
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Podcast: Advanced MVVM with Josh Smith
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.
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Painless Virtual Machine Management with XP-More
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.
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Understanding CSS Specificity
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.
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Presentation: ASP.NET Ajax Library at Southern California .NET Architecture User Group
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.
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Podcast: The Invisible UI : Natural User Interfaces with Josh Blake
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.
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Episode 3 of ‘Mastering ASP.NET Ajax Library’ Now Available
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Mastering ASP.NET Ajax Library on TekPub
When Rob Conery (@robconery) and James Avery (@averyj) announced TekPub, I remember thinking, "why didn’t I do something like that!?" :)
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Presentation: ASP.NET Ajax Library at the Los Angeles .NET User Group
Thanks to all who joined my tonight at UCLA for my talk on the ASP.NET Ajax Library. If you are looking for the code to download from the talk you can get it here.
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Presentation: ASP.NET AJAX 4 at the Orange Country .NET User Group
Thanks to everyone who came to my ASP.NET AJAX 4 talk at the Orange Country .NET User Group. Special thanks to Reza Madani for organizing the talk and running such a great group!
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Podcast: Portable Areas with Jeffrey Palermo and Eric Hexter
In this episode of the Polymorphic Podcast Eric Hexter (@ehexter) and Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) join Craig Shoemaker (@craigshoemaker) to discuss Portable Areas. The Portable Areas contribution to MVC Contrib are an option for building single component or multi-page components for ASP.NET websites.
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Amazon Kindle When You Don’t Own a Kindle
You don’t need to shell out the $250+ for a Kindle – use your iPhone, netbook or PC!
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ASP.NET Ajax Library Beta with Stephen Walther
Stephen Walther (@swalther) and Craig Shoemaker discuss the latest announcements surrounding the ASP.NET Ajax Library during PDC09.