So today (or yesterday as it is past midnight) was the first day of New England Give Camp. We met all the charities and the developers that are making their projects a reality. My team is building an application to deliver messages to the children at the hospital. These messages will appear as balloons that... Continue Reading →
Giving Back
So I haven’t done a good job blogging lately, in face I have pretty much blown my goals out of the water. I am hoping that will change in the near future (more on that in a later post). This weekend is the New England Give Camp and I decided to blog about my experience. ... Continue Reading →
Predicting The Future!
So it has been a while since I have posted and I am not doing so hot on my goals for the year. Work has kept me pretty busy an I have not had time to play but when I heard about Windows Phone 7 Series from Microsoft I had to make time to talk... Continue Reading →
My 2010 Goals
Happy New Year all! I meant to write this blog last week but was too busy to do it. It has been a snowy start to the new year. Shoveling has taken the time I wanted to spend writing this post. I am already behind in my goals, not a good way to start the... Continue Reading →
MEF, MVVMLight and Silverlight…Oh My!
Well, it is the last day of 2009 and I am posting my last coding post of the year. Nothing like waiting until the last day of the year to complete my goal of three substantial coding post before the end of the year. In the coming days I will be putting a post together... Continue Reading →
Silverlight 4 Data Binding: String Format
This is the second substantial coding post to reach my goal of three by the end of the year. In this post I will demonstrate the new string formatting functionality in Silverlight 4 data binding. There have been a lot of new functionality in data binding. The string formatting functionality will help save time and... Continue Reading →
Bing Maps SilverLight Control
Yesterday I attended a lunchtime session on the new Bing Maps Silverlight Control. I went to this session for fun. It was pretty cool, even if I won’t get a chance to use it anytime soon. There is a lot of functionality out of the box. The biggest piece of functionality is the Deep Zoom.... Continue Reading →
RIA Magic
The title says it all. I went to a couple of sessions around WCF RIA Service (renamed because of the close relationship with WCF) sessions today and say the slight of hand behind the magic. Why do I say its magic? Well there is a lot code generation and attribute magic. Microsoft has built an... Continue Reading →
WCF 4 – What is Coming
I am sitting in a WCF session and there are some cool things coming in WCF4. Some of the highlights are:Routing Service: this allows systems to place a routing service in front of services allowing for the ability to configure backup endpoints. It also convert messages to different bindings, for instance the service is configured... Continue Reading →
Embracing the Light- Silverlight 4
I spent most of the day yesterday in Silverlight 4 session. At the beginning of the conference they hand out conference schedule. After the first Keynote it is half useless and after the second Keynote it isn’t worth the paper that it was printed on. This is so they don’t give away the big announcements.... Continue Reading →
Dave's Two Cents 