Microsoft recently released the Release Preview of Windows 8 on their way to a final release later in the year. This new reimagining of Windows is the most radical change to Windows in a long time. There has been a lot of talk about the new design, some good and some bad. I recently delivered... Continue Reading →
It appears that the the Windows 8 Release Preview may be being released earlier than announced. Microsoft has previously announced that the Release Preview would be released in the first week of June. According to a blog post on an new blog, the Windows 8 Hardware blog, it looks like it is going to be... Continue Reading →
Well the weekend of fun is coming to an end. Another GiveCamp is almost in the books. New friends were made and a good time was had by all. Cinco-De-Mayo celebration was a nice break. This weekend, my team an I worked with Respond, Inc. to redesign their website and update all the content. Here... Continue Reading →
Well it is that time of year again. I am once again volunteering for New England Give Camp. For one weekend, over a hundred volunteers will help over 20 Non-Profit organizations solve there technical needs, getting help that most of these organization would not otherwise get due to cost. Over the coarse of the weekend... Continue Reading →
Update: The LayoutAwarePage is no more in Windows 8.1. Check out my new post What Happened to My LayoutAwarePage?The other day Microsoft released the Consumer Preview of their next version of Windows. The next version of Windows will bring Microsoft in direct competition with iPad and the various Android tablets. I was excited about this release... Continue Reading →
Recently I have been using the Developer Preview of Windows 8. Back in September Microsoft announced how developers can build the next generation Windows applications. So Microsoft is trying to revamp its tablet industry while moving their operating system forward. They are developing an operating system that is attempting unify their operating system across platforms... Continue Reading →
Recently a colleague of mine at BlueMetal Architects presented to the following trend image: State of The Environment I find it funny how these things go in cycles. It is like the cycle of Client/Server –> Desktop –> Distributed. If you think about it the technology of the time dictates the paradigm flavor of the... Continue Reading →
If you have programed against any of Microsoft’s Xaml based user interface frameworks then you might have heard about the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) pattern. One of the benefits of this pattern is the separation of the view from the view model. All of the logic lives in the view model which is then bound to the... Continue Reading →
What can you do with 48 hour and over 120 volunteers. I will tell you what we did. We helped out over 25 charity with variety technical projects. Projects that would normally not get done because of lack of budget and lack of skill but desperately needed none the less. This weekend was the second... Continue Reading →
A while ago I wrote a post called “Silverlight Child Window With MEF and MVVM Light” where I laid out an approach on how to implement a child window in Silverlight while following MVVM. Some of the challenges of using MVVM center around keeping UI specifics out of the view model. Keeping UI out of... Continue Reading →
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