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The snow has arrived (here in Redmond, at least), and people are starting to wind down for the holidays. No doubt you're dreading the arrival of Aunt Mabel for an extended stay and are planning an opportunity to escape to a remote hideaway cave and finally get a chance to explore some new technologies! Two groups want to capitalize on the extra free time you may have, and have announced a couple of pretty neat contests to which you might well want to pay attention. First up is Lab49 . I don't think I've written about this company before, but they're one of the hottest WPF development houses out there. Based in New York and London, they focus on the financial sector and have a very healthy business creating WPF applications that visualize complex data sets. Today they announced a WPF innovation contest with some awesome prizes including a top-notch Alienware developer workstation, two nights in New York, an Xbox 360 Elite, a signed T-shirt from the WPF team (I must get round to organizing Read More...
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People frequently ask me how they can learn WPF quickly. Now the technology has been on the market for a while, there are a number of different choices: books from the likes of Petzold , Moroney , Nathan , MacDonald , Anderson and Sells/Griffiths , classroom training from companies like Pluralsight , Wintellect , Developmentor and IdentityMine , and online tutorials like those from Nibbles or lynda.com . I'm excited to announce another choice today: we've made available a three-day virtual training course that covers all aspects of WPF as part of MIX University, and it's completely free ! This course was delivered here on campus in Redmond earlier this year for a small invited audience, and as we drew up the syllabus and speaker list, we realized we had something special on our hands. You'll hear a keynote from Ian Ellison-Taylor , the general manager responsible for WPF, Silverlight and client platform tools; introductory sessions on core WPF topics from external luminaries like Ian Griffiths Read More...
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A couple of months ago, we conducted an experiment where we offered our lab facilities and technical resources here in Redmond to companies building Silverlight sites or applications that wanted assistance in resolving issues. We were really delighted with the results of this venture; we saw some great Silverlight projects and found a few key last-minute bugs. The feedback from the developers who attended was also extremely positive, as the following verbatim examples indicate: "[I] got more accomplished in three days than I did in the past two weeks and now have a clear path to completion" "We enjoyed having access to key team members (both on products and evangelists) and they were more than willing to hear our concerns and help solve our problems." "The hope was to gain further insights into Silverlight technology and to have a chance to spend some focused time with Silverlight. My expectations were met and exceeded." Based on the positive reaction, we've Read More...
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From time to time, we run development labs in Redmond where folk can bring their applications in and work on them in a secure lab environment, with hands-on support from ourselves and other members of the product group. The next one is taking place on three days commencing July 23rd. These are not training labs - there won't be a full agenda of sessions. Instead, they're issue resolution labs, this one focused on Silverlight 1.0. We'll have some early release candidate builds available for testing and porting beta code; you'll have a private office with multiple machines already set up (plus the ability to bring in your own machines), along with an Internet connection, telephone, and plenty of food and drink available throughout the day. You can work as late as you like - the facility is open until you leave the building. We'll provide great support and technical assistance - you can have someone sit down alongside you to help you with your questions; if you've got a thorny bug, we'll pull Read More...
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Summer's here, and that usually means a bit of a slow-down in the office as folk take off on vacation. It's also a great time for some new skills development and training, and as there's a smorgasbord of WPF and Silverlight-related courses taking place over the next few months, I thought I'd take the opportunity to highlight a round-up of the choices available to you, presented in the form of an events calendar: Date Location Course June 28th-29th Los Angeles, CA Designing Windows Experiences with Expression Blend July 2nd-August 10th Bay Area / Online Windows Presentation Foundation (Foothill College) July 16th-18th Atlanta, GA Silverlight Workshop (Dunn Training) July 16th-20th Boston, MA Essential WPF (Developmentor) July 18th-20th Brussels, Belgium Programming with WPF (U2U) July 24th-25th London, UK Windows Presentation Foundation (JBI Training) July 30th-August 1st Sydney, Aus. Silverlight (Readify) August 2nd-3rd Atlanta, GA Designing Windows Experiences with Expression Blend August Read More...
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Sorry - I temporarily fell off the blogging wagon. It's tough to keep it going - there's always new stuff to blog about, but finding the time to write and polish is more challenging. It's been a busy month with all the follow-up from MIX, a brief vacation, preparation for a European tour and lots of planning for our next financial year - it's a weak excuse, but I just got out of the rhythm. Anyway, I've got a whole heap of cool material queued up now and ready to post, so I'll start to push that out over the next few days. Anyway, I'm now in Europe for a couple of weeks, talking to customers and presenting Silverlight at a few different events. As I write this, I'm in Madrid, presenting at a local MIX-style event (given my background, there's a certain irony in that today my session was competing against the WPF session in the same time slot for developers). On Thursday June 7th, I'm in Dublin speaking at the Irish Microsoft Technologies Conference . I'll be delivering two sessions there, Read More...
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