Shooting the Sh*t with Scott (part 1 of 2)

Scott came over to my house and we made up a topic (“Software: The Last Fifteen Years and the Next Fifteen Years” in two parts), but it’s really...

WPF/E == Silverlight

If you haven’t already heard about Microsoft’s new high fidelity, cross-platform application development platform, you just haven’t been paying...

My Foreword To ChrisAn’s “Essential WPF”

Now that Chris Anderson’s most excellent Essential Windows Presentation Foundation has transitioned to the physical world, I thought I’d share my...

Best WPF Resources?

I’d like to provide a list of the best WPF resources, including real-world apps, free web resources, SDK docs, samples, blogs, etc. If you’ve got...

Show Me The Templates!

Show Me The Template is a tool for exploring the templates, be their data, control or items panel, that comes with the controls built into WPF for...

“Student who needs to interview a programmer”

Jimmy, a very polite 14-year old student of Washington Manor Middle School in California had an assignment to interview a computer programmer. I...

The Microsoft “Sells” Department

So, I’m sitting in my office pair programming with Geoff Kizer when my phone rings. It says “Microsoft” on the display, so I figure it’s one of my...

Name Sara Williams’s Baby Girl

Today, Sara Williams, ex-Developer Relations Group (the folks at MS that were allowed to speak to developers before we had blogs), ex-MSDN head and...