ballmer gets me fired up

July 20th, 2008 by admin under microsoft

i love listening to steveb at conferences… especially internal ones. no one can ever claim that he lacks the courage of his conviction. he has a way of exciting the crowd and promoting what is msft. i always walk away from listening to him feeling even more excited about being a part of this company. [...]

tricking my rss feed into using social bookmarks

July 20th, 2008 by admin under blogs

i am pretty anal when it comes to details with my web properties and my blog is no different. i love the blogengine.net engine because of the ease of customizing some really great templates already available. but one thing has been irking me about my rss feed. i have added a really cool extension called [...]

dreamspark is dreamy

July 20th, 2008 by admin under microsoft

if you are a student and you have not heard of dreamspark, you need to check this out! under the dreamspark program, students will be able to download microsft’s developer and designer tools to jump-start their development. so what do you get? students can download visual studio professional edition (yah… that is pro, not express), [...]

presenting at the chicago launch event

July 20th, 2008 by admin under events

it was my pleasure to present yesterday at the chicago launch event. the crowd was energetic (even being after lunch) and the content was what i am most passionate about… building rich internet applications. for those looking for the presentation i gave, you can find it here or sign in to view the virtual launch [...]

preparing for another event tomorrow

July 20th, 2008 by admin under events

i have just whipped up a pretty cool silverlight 2.0 sample that we will be walking through tomorrow at the next event in cleveland, oh. there were things i was really surprised with how easy they were to implement and there were things that were not. more on that tomorrow, but we will really dissect [...]