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Last night I was able to give my ‘Lap around MEF’ talk to the Charlotte Enterprise Developer’s Guid . I think the session went well, the demo’s worked (which is great since there was a large bit of code creation during the talk) and the audience asked some great questions. I thought I would...
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I’ll be at the Alabama Code Camp this weekend in Mobile, AL, along our very own Alan Northam . Like all code camps, this is a free event. If you are anywhere in the area I recommend attending. The schedule is posted on the site and there are a lot of great sessions. I’m doing two presentations: one on...
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In case you are not familiar with MIX , it is a conference from Microsoft focusing on the collaboration of design and development. Admittedly, the sessions tend to favor the developer, but there is always excellent design and UX content. There was an open call for presentations this year and the community...
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Filed under: WPF, Game Development, fun, XNA, Software Architecture, web, Silverlight, MVC, Presentations, UI, UI Patterns, XAML, UX, Caliburn, viewmodel, mvvm
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I want to thank everyone that came out to my session at the Jacksonville Code Camp . I had a great time and it was definitely worth the drive. Here are my slides from the presentation. They are really only useful with the accompanying notes, with are available on the slideshare site . You have to select...
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I appreciate everyone who came out for my session on game development in Silverlight. Here is the code we wrote during the session. It's not pretty, and if you weren't at the present, I expect it will be hard to follow. I hope to have a cleaner version published soon. (So much to do!) Some...
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The new year has already gotten away from me and it's only 7 days old. ( Come back, Baby Happy! ) In less than 2 weeks from now, we're going to a have full day of TDD in Tampa, FL. The event is designed so that everyone will find value, whether you are merely curious about methodology or a veteran...
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I had a great time at the conference yesterday. I really appreciate everyone who attended our sessions as well as all the positive feedback. For those of you in other cities,Orlando was just the 2nd conference. The rest are still to come . For anyone interested in the materials from our sessions: MapDotNet...
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I had a couple of requests for my slide deck. It's short and mostly pictures, but here it is . Additionally, the xaml-only font viewer is here . (You might want to do a right-click, save as). The binding example (old way vs. wpf way) is here . I want to thank everyone that came to my presentation...
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12.06 @ Tampa Code Code Expect lots of good content at this code camp. My session description is... An Introduction to WPF - A session for those who would like to know what WPF is all about. We’ll cover the basic concepts of WPF, discuss where the technology is useful, and follow it up with a handful...
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Last night I had the opportunity to do my 'Taking your tests to the next level with Mocks' session to the TriNug user group. I would first like to say thanks to Doug Wilson and his entire group. They had a great turn out (45ish people) and they asked a ton of great questions. To kick off the...
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I thought I would just drop a little note on some speaking engagements I will be doing over the next month or so. Oct 30th - Lake County (IL) .Net Users Group - Gorking the Asp.Net MVC Framework Nov 12th - TriNug - Raleigh .Net Users Group - Taking tests to the next level with Mocks (will dive into AutoMockers...
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Last night I had the pleasure of making the trip out to the Rockford .Net users group and presenting on TDD/Unit testing. The group was great, they asked a ton of great questions ranging from testing, to Mocking and finally about IoC/DI. If fact there was actually so much dialog and conversation I had...
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As I posted a while back ( here ) I will be presenting TDD tonight at the Rockford .Net Users group. This is a 150 level overview of TDD and will dive into Mocking, IoC/DI and CI towards the end. The meeting starts at 6pm and should be a good time. Swing on by if you are in the area and say hey, or simply...
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On Tuesday I presented Mocking at the WI .Net Users group in Milwaukee and I wanted to thank Scott and the group for allowing me the time to come in and present Mocking. I thought we had a great turn out considering the weather, we got 3-5 inches of snow that day. We have somewhere around 40 to...
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As I posted a while back ( here ) I will presenting Mocking tonight at the Wi-Ineta group. The meeting starts at 7 and should be a good time. Swing on by if you are in the area and say hey, or simply stop by to heckle me (always fun). See everyone tonight. Till next time,