Random Technology Ramblings

LA event next week… sorry for the late heads up. ARE YOU INTERESTED IN LEARNING ABOUT THE NEXT GENERATION OF THE WEB?Come join our Web Experience Events where you can learn about design tools, web building and web management software! Friday, June 08, 2007 8:00 AM – Friday, June 08, 2007 6:00 PM Pacific Time […]

I was in front of 40+ developers and designers and none of them had heard of the MSDN Flash the flash is our primary communication method we have for the developer audience. You can customize it for your location and then you will get all the local events from Microsoft, User groups & third party’s in your location. […]

I loved working with Visual Basic, I stared with VB 1 just after spending more then 6 months learning to program Windows 3.0 with C and the Windows API (yes that C not even C++) so naturally VB was a great thing for front end programming. The VB “hello world” app was 0 lines of code vs. Petzold’s  HELLOWIN.C […]

My life after 4 out of 5 weeks of the road have been filled with Silverlight all the time. My boys and wife are cursing Silverlight every day now as I just keep running them out of my office so I can work on more Silverlight 1.1 alpha. While looking for more information on I found this cool mind […]

I am sitting in on a Software Deign Review (SDR) by the Connected Systems Division. I was not invited but they have yet to kick me out and thank goodness! I am getting exposed to the great work and ideas they have been working on for .NET 3.5. The exciting thing is that unlike every other SDR I […]

It’s here in all of it’s glory! There are a lot of write ups of what the MIX keynote was like but the big thing for me was the announcement about Silverlight 1.1 having a cross platform CLR. For more information checkout the new Silverlight web site Link to Silverlight. Technorati tags: Silverlight, MIX, CLR

I just had a wow moment… I was not paying attention to the presentation I should be paying attention to and catching up on blog reading and found this entry by Adam Hems Link to A British Geek in Texas Pontificates : Caching in Winforms / SmartClient Apps. The interesting thing he suggests is to use the System.Web.Caching namespace […]