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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - Posts

  • PDC2008: A Day in the Life #1

    As the PDC2008 Content Owner and a member of the Core Team, my days are filled with PDC-related activities. I thought I'd blog about some of these activities in a series called A Day in the Life . My hope is that I'll be able to post more of these as we approach PDC2008 this October . So, if you're interested in behind-the-scenes insights, keep checking back. First off, let me explain the Content Owner role. My job is to drive the themes, tracks, sessions, and overall direction of the content at the event. This extends to many other areas, including the keynotes, the pre-conference training sessions, the hands-on-labs where you can play with the technologies, the bits that we hand out (referred to as The Goods ), and the panels and symposia. Ultimately, we have role owners that are responsible for each major activity, and without them, there would be no way to pull of an event with the scope, size, and magnitude of PDC. It's definitely a team effort. PDC is a different kind of conference. Read More...
  • 50 New Silverlight Screencasts - Short and Snappy

    I haven't seen these training videos receive nearly the coverage they deserve, so I wanted to try and "bump" them onto the radar. My erstwhile UK colleagues Mike Taulty and Mike Ormond have been hard at work over the last few weeks recording an amazing series of Silverlight 2 training screencasts . All free for the taking, these fifty videos provide a comprehensive guide to all matters Silverlight: from basic topics such as layout, controls, data binding, and styling to advanced topics like sockets, cross-domain requests, multi-threading and HTML interop. If even that's not enough, there are some great tips and tricks that go beyond the documentation: loading assemblies dynamically, embedding fonts and creating custom splash screens. Many screencasts are too long or too ponderous - they don't suit the rapid-fire medium of the Internet. These are all short - mostly just a couple of minutes in length, and they're well edited to remove anything extraneous. Highly recommended - please produce Read More...

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