Archive for February, 2009

XamlFest in Redmond

Published at February 16, 2009 in Technology. 0 Comments

I’m attending XamlFest at Microsoft today and tomorrow.  XAML stands for Extensible Application Markup Language.  Picture 50+ geeks in a room with laptops taking a close look at the XAML technology by way of walking through sample code,  slides and videos.

Bonus:  every attendie received a copy of Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Studio 2.


Android RC33

Published at February 8, 2009 in Mobile. 0 Comments

I received my Over The Air (OTA) system update from Google today. Let’s just say that it was a very exciting moment at my house (for me). My wife on the other hand is still waiting for RC33 to be pushed out to her phone.


talk nerdy to me

Published at February 4, 2009 in Life. 2 Comments

today, my wife sent me a message that goes something like this

Howto: Multitouch + Tethering + Task Manager for Android G1

Upon further examining the article, I realized just how awesome this bit of news really is and so I plan on rolling up my sleeves this weekend and reconfiguring my phone. From here, only two things can happen.

  1. Things go well and I end up with an awesome phone able to run circles around the iPhone :-)
  2. Things don’t go so well…

I love it that she knows about Multitouch, Tethering, Task Managers and about hacking in general!


the paper version of the web

Published at February 3, 2009 in Design. 0 Comments

It’s easy to under estimate the power of a pen and paper.

here is a simple web design rule:

don’t forget to sketch it out on paper before typing a single line of code!

This is more or less a reminder to myself!

The guys at deeplinking have a blog post titled, the paper version of the web with sample sketches.