The first speaker was Windows and Windows Live Division President Steven Sinofsky. He started out talking about how they went about developing Windows 7. The key points that he covered was the feedback that they received during development. The key point he was driving at was that user are not developers. He showed some of... Continue Reading →
Three Screens and a Cloud
The official Day One of PDC started off with a bang. Ray Ozzie started off the Keynote by touting his Three Screens and a Cloud (mobile, pc, TV) vision. The goal is develop rich experience across the spectrum of devices available. Microsoft is facilitating this by giving developers the tools to make targeting multiple devices... Continue Reading →
Full Day of Silverlight
This is my fist post from PDC 2009. I attended an all day workshop on Silverlight. It was presented by a couple of Brits who came here to teach me! Overall the presentation was pretty good. The first session was just a general overview of Silverlight presented by Ian Griffiths. This was a little more... Continue Reading →
Writing Custom Exceptions
Source Code: DownloadThis is the first post on my goal of writing 3 substantial posts by the end of the year. I decided to write this post on exception handling more specifically writing a Custom Exception. Why would we want to have custom exceptions. The first reason to create an exception is because the exception... Continue Reading →
You Learn Something New Everyday
I was playing around with Microsoft Word 2007 and to my surprise found that you can use it to publish blogs. I don't know if this is new in Word 2007 but it is the first time that I have noticed it. I am using it to write this post. Usually I use Live Writer... Continue Reading →
Side Project – On Hold
So life at work got a little hectic so I had to put my side project on hold for now. I hope to pick it up again in the future. In the mean time I am going to try and write 3 substantial blog posts before the end of the year.
Side Project – Software Architecture Process Manager
I have started reading The Process of Software Architecting by Peter Eeles and Peter Cripps. So far this is has been a great read. It is nice to see a book focus on the process in a concise manner. In each chapter there are great process diagrams and the chapters are broken down by steps. ... Continue Reading →
Relearning Leadership
I have 12 years experience with military leadership. Each leg along the way you attend leadership training. You also get to work with some of the best and worst leaders in the world. Hopefully grab the good traits and learn the consequences of the bad traits to make yourself a better leader. It is understandable... Continue Reading →
Going to Party With Palermo!!
I will be attending the Party with Palermo: PDC 2009 Edition. This event will be held November 16th The Westin Bonaventure Hotel And Suites in Los Angeles, Ca. I attended one Teched in Orlando and it was great. I look forward to seeing you there.
LINQ – Deferred Query Evaluation
I have recently started reading Programming Microsoft LINQ. I am still in the first few chapters but came across a aspect of LINQ that could cause a frustrating bug in a developer’s code. I have not used LINQ that much in my day to day development so I have not had a bug caused by... Continue Reading →
Dave's Two Cents 