Randy Walker's thoughts, stories and ideas. President of Harvest Data Corp, Microsoft MVP award winner, ASP Insider and tech enthusiast
I’m impressed by the fact that they used Silverlight to highlight Bill Gates keynote and Microsoft at CES. Note that the intro is a bit long before they actually let him speak. If you’ll notice at the bottom, they included all of the tags for their products they are highlighting. The only logo I questioned was Microsoft Office. How in the world is Office linked to entertainment?
I think my favorite bit was about Microsoft Bob
Thanks to Josh Ambrose Little for pointing out that Scott Guthrie has blogged about how to debug into the .Net Framework Library in Visual Studio 2008. I think the coolest thing is the ability to step into the Forms library (since I’m a forms guy).
I’m wondering how this will impact the MONO project. Now they have specific code they can reference, although I’m sure it violates several user agreements.
Please come join us at the Charity event “We Are Microsoft”. Throughout the weekend, starting this Friday, we will be working on charity software development. Right now Mark Leon Watson and I will be working on Irving.Net web project, and I’m looking forward to working with someone whom I’ve only ever met online.
If you live in the Northwest Arkansas area, there will be four of us going, and I’m betting we could find more room to carpool if you are interested. We will be leaving sometime Friday morning to make the trek.
Website: http://www.wearemicrosoft.com/
Schedule: http://www.wearemicrosoft.com/WAM/Schedule.aspx
Current Charity Project List: http://www.wearemicrosoft.com/Charity/Charities.aspx
Wanted to say what an awesome idea this was by fellow geek Javier Lozano. Javier started translating a C# compiler that you can write and program in Spanish. Perhaps with some community urging he could start an open source project with a full translation engine so you can select your language of choice. However I am completely bummed that it’s not in VB!
http://blog.lozanotek.com/archive/2008/01/14/Azul_Teaching_.NET_Some_Espanol.aspx
The date & location is set! May 3rd at the Addison Conference Center in Addison (Dallas suburb) Texas. This event used to be known as the Dallas Code Camp. I’m actually really excited by this event, since befitting the DFW area’s size, it will finally have a free technology event just as big.
If you’re familiar with the Tulsa TechFest event, it should be of similar format, but much bigger attendance.
More information to follow as I hear about it. I should be seeing some of the organizers this weekend so hopefully I can garner some details this weekend.
