Random .NET Ramblings

MSDN has created a wiki site that will allow anyone to post along side of the normal MSDN content. Way cool I hope this takes off, I know I will start submitting code there.

I know wikis can be a bit of a challenge to edit but I think they have done a good job of making as easy as it can be.

http://msdnwiki.microsoft.com

tags: wiki, msdn

I found this picture on flickr...

tags: OCCON06, OCCON2006, Portland

I found this picture on flickr...

tags: OCCON06, OCCON2006, Portland

Here at OSCON they have opened OSCAMP a open space that people can post a topic for a time and anyone who is interested can show up. They have even let people who are not attending the conference to come in and participate. Me and some other people from Microsoft thought we should contribute to this and we posted this as our topic:

Yep it reads (originally) "Why We Suck: Come chat w/Microsoft 7 Tell Us" Tim/Woody@MSFT

We were assailed as soon as we posted this, this is when the topic was "modified" to read "Why Unwitting Agents Suck: Come Chat w/Microsoft" by a guy who we later found out was Jair who refused to identify himself being the ultimate wimp, in my opinion if you make comments anonymously then your comments are not worth making. Yes there is a place and time for anonymity but when someone is threatening to get you fired (yes that is what he did) then you need to take a stand.

Over all at the time today it was a good conversion and I got to see some points of view that I had not considered. I thank all the people who came and wanted to have a good two-sided dialogue.

tags: OSCON, OSCON2006, OSCON+2006, OSCAMP, OSCAMP2006, OSCAMP+2006, Jair

There is going to be a online guided hands-on webcast titled "Creating Managed Applications for Windows Mobile 5.0 Powered Devices"

For more information see the MSDN event site for the event MSDN Webcast: Guided Hands-On: Creating Managed Applications for Windows Mobile 5.0 Powered Devices (Level 200).

This is the first time I have seen this type of training offering offered and am quite interested to see how it is received so please let me know if you attend it.

Yesterday Tim, Jason did a killer road trip from Portland to Seattle so we could attend a meeting of Developer Evangelists from around the world. I always enjoy these types of meetings, there is very few opportunities for me to interact with others that do this job and to say the least it tends to be a "interesting" time.

After the meeting we went to the Microsoft main campus so we could do some downloading (the remote office have crappy connections to the redmond domain). While we were there we found this...

TalkingRain Lemon - Lime Windows Vista water

OK I am going to be a bit inappropriate here...

Jason Mauer took this picture of me pointing to a massive pile of beans as I was saying what to I care I am in Portland and my wife is back home so... beans beans :)

Yesterday I attended the Portland Code Camp all I can say is wow! It was great. I got to do a presentation on the Compact Framework.

There were a whopping 5 people in the room but we had a good walk through my pubsDemo project and we looked at the OrientationAwareControl from the p&p Mobile Client Software Factory. I had an extensive slide deck that I said I would post here but instead I will just list the three URLs that were in it. Before I list them I did want to thank any of you who attended.

• pubsDemo site
• MSDN Mobile Client Software Factory Site
• GotDotNet patterns and practices Mobile Client Software Factory

Pictures:

Water Fountain	Geek Band
The Headliner Band Mars Retrieval Unit	Fun Sprinkler Issues

If you are not familiar with the "Live from Redmond" webcasts I would check them out. They are a series of webcasts by the product team members so the information is coming from the best source it can be had from.

Check out Simon Muzio's blog entry with the full schedule Upcoming team webcasts - Live From Redmond series.

I have gotten a few questions about how I did the panoramic image from the Stand Down post. I found a great little utility called Autostitch it is "first fully automatic 2D image stitcher" you point it at a number of images and it dose the rest. You don't need to do anything with aligning the images, it could not be any easer.