Ā Iād say less than a single hour goes to writing new code now. I get up, in a haze I remember the list of bugs from the day before, I fix one and trigger three others, then I go on google and research a problem with our SVN server
On fans and fanboys
To say that people have some opinions about Windows 8 would be an understatement. To say that the majority of these opinions are educated would be generous. Today Gizmodo published an article, as they often do:
If you're not intrigued by Windows 8 and Metro, if you can't recognize that
Here's the .Net Framework namespaces you get to build Windows 8 Metro apps
[This documentation is for preview only, and is subject to change in later releases. Blank topics are included as placeholders.]The .NET APIs for Metro style apps provide a set of managed types that you can use to create Metro style apps for Windows using C# or Visual Basic. The
Mercurial's addremove, now for Git
If you've been raised on mercurial, there are a few commands you just take for granted, "hg addremove" being one of them. Unfortunately, git has no equivalent built in, splitting the adding & removing into two separate commands.
If you're like me, this cannot stand. Nor should it,
Obvious to you, amazing to others
Do you think that you don't have anything good to blog, because what you want to say, or what you've been working on is so simple, it's not worth your time? Avoided trying to speak at conferences, because you think there's some magic formula to creating that session content? A
Slides & code from SharePoint Saturday: The Conference DC
For all of those that attended my session, and especially those that ducked out early as soon as I told them this stuff would be online (you folks are totally on The Listā¢ by the way), I present my slides (via slideshare) and code (via the magic of the anchor
SharePoint Saturday - What is it, and why do we do it?
I've had this conversation here and there among my fellow SharePoint Saturday speakers and organizers, but rarely to anyone outside of the SharePoint community (my wife being the primary exception). But today, I came across the first time I've seen the tech media intersect our ever growing circle, and it
MADExpo session details: slides & code available now!
Had a great time presenting at the Mid Atlantic Developer Expo (MADExpo), and as promised, here are my slides and code from my Custom Applications: When, Why, and How session:
The code is here (VS2010 and SharePoint Tools for VS2010 required)
The slides are being processed by SlideShare as I
Tomorrow, tomorrow...
Lots of .Net people, the kind that comment on Channel 9 posts at least, are upset about this HTML5/JS turn of events. Ex-Silverlight PM Scott Barnes (aka @MossyBlog) had this to say to them:
FromĀ https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/A-quick-look-at-Windows-8#c634425768270000000:
The sun..will come out tomorrow...you
Windows 8. Web developers, start your engines.
Not you, "ASP.Net developers". Web developers. The ones that bothered to learn HTML, CSS, and JavaScript without it being wrapped up in tidy lil' controls. The ones that saw XAML for the first time in 2003 and thought to themselves, "this looks like HTML for Web