BTW, Ryan’s pretty darn prolific on Longhorn and I recommend his blog in general. Also, if I remember correctly, he’s 19, so you’re getting pure enthusiasm and uncensored truth. Recommended.
Sometimes I get aspiring programmers stumbling onto my web site and asking me how to get started having no programming background. I can't really tell them to do what I did, i.e. spend 4 years programming Applesoft Basic, so instead I recommend “The Visual Basic .NET Coach,” which is supposed to introduce .NET programming from the ground up, assuming no previous programming experience. Does anyone have any experience with this book or other similiar titles?
Ian Griffiths has a very nice piece about the new drawing model in Avalon and how it differs from the drawing model that's we've known and loved since 16-bit Windows. It also includes such tidbits as a reference for the currently under-documented Path.Data attribute. Highly recommended.
Since it’s inception, I’ve been a big fan of the .NET Show and I’ve seen most of the episodes. Now, the host, Robert Hess, has got himself a .NET Show-related blog. Subscribed.
“The selling point of the Indigo Service model is that it is simple and easy to use. The benefits for developers is that they get all the benefits of enterprise-quality features such as transactions, reliable messaging and security without having to write any code. Letting Microsoft do the plumbing allows developers more time to write code that focuses on solving complex and interesting business problems.”
My ReplayTV has made me such a bigot that I can’t even watch normal TV w/o turning up my nose in disgust anymore. Also, I love download into MS lectures and playing them back at 1.5 speed while I’m on my treadmill; exercising my mind and my body at the same time. All media should be timeshifted. *All* *media*.
