Just a quick post to talk about the Smart DJ feature in the latest release (Version: 4.0.740.0) of the Zune software. There are several web sites that read from a database of music-listening user preferences, and display music maps based on an artist or song (music-map.com, for one). Zune has taken that one step further with their Smart DJ feature, which allows you to select an artist, album, or a song, and have the Smart DJ create a playlist based on similar songs, artists, genres, or whatever black...
Clint Edmonson called me out on this trip down memory lane and, since I want to use up as much of his Google juice as I can, I thought I would jump in.Initially, this very much reminded me of those "Surveys" that go around in chain e-mails and (gasp!) MySpace pages, but this idea quickly caught my interest. Here is the current link(ed) list: Michael Eaton (post) —> Sarah Dutkiewicz (post) —> Jeff Blankenburg (post) —> Josh Holmes (post) —> Larry Clarkin (post) —> Brian Moore (post)...
Very happy to announce that the KC .Net User Group site is live! The site is intended to announce upcoming meetings and presenters at the User Group, and to promote the adoption and use of the Microsoft .NET framework and related technologies to the Kansas City community. It will be evolving as future needs arise, but I think it's a great starting point for keeping local developers in touch with all things .NET! So... what are you waiting for? Check it out now! Register! Post a thread on the forum!...
Software developers! Graphic designers! Database developers! We need you! There is one month left until Coders 4 Charities happens! We've got the charities, we've got the sponsors... we need more developers! We had an excellent turnout at the Microsoft Heroes Happen Here event yesterday, March 25, 2008, and we hope that we reached a lot of developers during the day. If we spoke to you, and you want to accept the challenge, register now for the event!! What is Coders4Charities? It is a 3-day charity...
Congratulations to the Winners of the We Are Microsoft Charity Challenge Weekend! First Place - Texas Cares - mission and proposal here Second Place - North Park Missionary Baptist Church - mission and proposal here Third Place - Texas Response Unit Search & Rescue - mission and proposal here Technorati Tags: We Are Microsoft,Charity Challenge Weekend,Texas CARES,North Park Missionary Baptist Church,Texas Response Unit Search & Rescue...
We've finally launched all of the podcasts we recorded this weekend at the We Are Microsoft Charity Challenge Event in Dallas, Texas. Many thanks go out to Jeff Julian, Chris Koenig, Toi Wright, Amber Weiss and the folks at BravoTech, the huge team of developers that volunteered their time, and of course, all of the charities, who do the hard work day in and day out. To take a look at all of the podcasts, have a peek at Jeff Julian's blog. Technorati Tags: We Are Microsoft,Charity Challenge Weekend...
We are at mile marker 229 on I35 North, coming home from We Are Microsoft in Dallas, TX. I am using Jeff Julian's MacBook pro via bluetooth, to his SmartPhone, which is connected to the internet. Thought you should know
I had a chance to run around for a little while yesterday and snap some photos of the developers in action at the We Are Microsoft - Charity Challenge Weekend event in Dallas this weekend. Take a look at the photos here. Technorati Tags: We Are Microsoft,Charity Challege Weekend,Dallas,Flickr...
This weekend, Jeff Julian and I have been given the privilege of recording podcasts at Microsoft's We Are Microsoft event, called the Charity Challenge Weekend. We are in Dallas, TX, the location of many wonderful things (light bulbs and elevators), most notably the extremely delicious Baja Burrito at Baja Fresh Mexican Cantina. I have to admit that I was not too aware of what this event was all about, but after learning, I quickly jumped in with both feet. The Charity Challenge Weekend is all about...
Just did the November Microsoft DevCares with John Alexander and Jeff Julian yesterday. We presented on the new release of Visual Studio 2008, and all of the new cool features therein. If any of the attendees would like copies of the demos or talking points, feel free to contact me. Doug
Today is Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007. This morning at 9:00 - 11:00am, John Alexander and I did some presentations at a Microsoft DevCares event, on LINQ. The event took place at New Horizons training center in Overland Park, KS. John gave an excellent and very enthusiastic presentation on what LINQ is, from an overview level, and tackled some of the baked-in syntax such as query operators and lambda expressions. Be sure and check out his blog, as he will be sharing his presentation, as well as links...
For those of you who attended my Oct. 23, 2007, 6:00pm presentation (and even those of you who didn't) on Windows Presentation Foundation with a focus on XAML and the Provider Model, I promised to put some links up for your reference. I'm trying to upload the actual PowerPoint presentation , but I don't think the GWB upload tool likes pptx's, or zip files for that matter. To give a brief description of presentation I gave, I talked about WPF, XAML, code-behind (using C#) and the Provider Model. WPF...
My oldest child, Katie, is 3. She absolutely loves playing on the computer, and she's starting to learn her ABC's and 123's. My wife and I get her set up on either Disney's, Sprout's or Noggin's (parents with young children know what I'm talking about) websites, but they just don't seem too navigable for kids, especially at Katie's age. She just wants to point and click, without any real context as to what she is doing. I thought I would take her love of computers (and mine too!), and my desire for...
WOW. I'm really excited about this. I've been customizing and maintaining a “fat client” membership management system for a few years now. It's essentially a client-side .exe (built in VB6) framework that invokes GOBS of ActiveX dlls as needed (we decided to put GUIs inside DLLs. That is an entirely different topic, altogether. “that is an entirely different topic”). Zucker humor, anyone? Anyway, I found something in John Alexander's blog on VBRun, and there's an MSDN article...