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• Speaking at Code Mash 2009

  Very proud to say that I will have two presentations at CodeMash 2009 Skinning Silverlight Controls   In Silverlight (which I will extend, time allowing to Creating Skinnable Custom Controls and dive into Dependency Properties and the Parts and States... Posted Nov 13 2008, 11:00 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Presentations, Community

• Pixellated – Podcast Radio Interview and Silverlight

  I had a great time discussing Silverlight with Craig Shoemaker on his PodCast Pixel8.   Craig is a terrific interviewer; well informed, passionate, smart, Microsoft MVP , ASP Insider, developer, podcaster, blogger, co-author of Beginning ASP... Posted Aug 29 2008, 02:39 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Presentations, Recommended Resources, Podcast, Community

• Sparkling Client – Monthly Podcast Guest

  I’m very proud and excited to announce that I’ve been invited to be a monthly guest on the Sparkling Client Silverlight Podcast. Details to follow very soon, but our initial shows include a discussion of Templates on September 23rd and of Databinding... Posted Aug 27 2008, 07:16 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Presentations, Recommended Resources, Opinion, Community

• Green Eggs and Blend

  I’m pleased to say that the accident of not recording my first ( new series ) Webcast led to the opportunity to reformulate it as a video, which is now available for viewing or download. This is a brief, somewhat  tongue in cheek overview... Posted Jul 11 2008, 08:57 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Presentations, Recommended Resources, How Do I Videos, Blend For Programmers

• Live From Redmond – And Responsive To You

  In response to your feedback, a couple minor changes to the schedule… 1. I will enhance the presentation on July 9 on Data binding with the material originally scheduled for July 23 (Data Templates).  2. The presentation on Visual State Manager,... Posted Jul 04 2008, 03:13 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, Webcast

• Zen Presentation

  Another in a series of ruminations about how to Present Silverlight . One of the brighter Silverlight coders and MVPs asked me tonight “what is all this about your changing how you present at conferences and web casts.”  In answering him, I realized... Posted Jul 02 2008, 11:32 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Presentations, Webcast, Opinion, Community

• Fan Mail

  When you work in public, and you invite people to tell you what they think, they will. It often isn’t pretty, but you better listen up. My previous posting elicited an email (name withheld since it was an email and not a public comment) quoted here in... Posted Jun 26 2008, 09:05 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Presentations, Opinion

• Presentations 2.0

  Today I had the pleasure (and technical glitch frustration) of delivering the first in a new series of webcasts.  I’m trying a number of new things in response to changes I’ve observed in the last few years, 1. I think the days of “here’s how you... Posted Jun 25 2008, 04:01 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Presentations, Webcast, Opinion

• Green Eggs and Ham Webcast Presentation

  I presented the first of a new series of live web casts today in which a number of resources were mentioned. As promised, here are links to all of them Silverlight.net Getting Started Page Learn Page Silverlight Microblog Scott Guthries’s blog entry on... Posted Jun 25 2008, 03:03 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, Webcast, Recommended Resources, Digging Deeper, Blend For Programmers

• This Ain’t No Ordinary Webcast

  I know flogging your own webcast is bad form, but I’ve been working on this first new webcast for much of the day, and I have to say that if you’re free on Wednesday, you really want to sign up – especially if you attended one of my old webcasts. Just... Posted Jun 23 2008, 11:55 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, Webcast, Blend For Programmers

• New Live Presentation Series – Starts 6/25

  I am pleased to announce a new series, blending Conference-quality presentations delivered through Live Meeting via the Live From Redmond Series. Audience, Goal and Purpose Each presentation will provide a thorough overview of a Silverlight 2 topic with... Posted Jun 18 2008, 08:02 PM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, Webcast, Digging Deeper, Beta 2

• Boston .NET Users Group Meeting

  Last night I had the opportunity to talk to a packed room at the Boston .NET User’s Group; an incredibly welcoming and most friendly group of some 150,000 screaming fans of all things Microsoft. I promised at the time to provide a few links; including... Posted Jun 12 2008, 06:25 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, silverlight 2.0

• Coming soon - better HDI Videos?

  I'm 2/3 through Daniel Park's surprisingly excellent book Camtasia 5: The Definitive Guide and have found more than enough I didn't know and am glad to have learned to justify reading it. I've also ripped through Timothy J. Koegel's... Posted May 24 2008, 01:54 AM by Microsoft Weblogs Filed under: Presentations, Webcast, Recommended Resources, Random Ramblings, How Do I Videos

• Slides and Code from Presentation in Atlantic City

  I very much enjoyed my double presentation at the Microsoft Health and Life Sciences Conference in Atlantic City,     where I promised, as always, to post my slides and source code. Here are the slides  for the introductory session Here... Posted Apr 25 2008, 03:00 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, silverlight 2.0

• How do you know INotifyPropertyChanged is Working

  Today I had the great enjoyment to make two presentations to the Microsoft Health and Life Sciences Conference here in Atlantic City. While showing DataBinding, I became interested in demonstrating the effects of INotifyPropertyChanged, The basic mechanism... Posted Apr 23 2008, 05:45 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, silverlight 2.0, Data Binding