Tuesday 18 December 2007

Silverlight Christmas Source

I have just uploaded the source for my section of the Silverlight Christmas session we did at NxtGenUG Cambridge and Coventry.

You can now download the source from here

Wednesday 12 December 2007

Last Night in Cambridge

Last night in Cambridge myself and Richie did our Silverlight Christmas session again.

I think it went really well once more. It was nearly a little bit of a panic as the projector knackered up, and it was looking very bad for us indeedy.

In the end, Rachel and Ben of Red Gate were superb once more, and managed to find us another room with a projector.

We started late, and finished late (and didn't cover everything we wanted to), but in the end I think it went very well.

One thing that was very weird (this does not happen on my laptop, but i was using Richies laptop), Isolated Storage between Internet Explorer and Firefox seemed to be sharing with each other. This made me look like a little bit of a pillock as I did say it wouldn't share (and it doesn't on my laptop). So I think i need to look into this a little more and find out what happened.

Thanks to everyone who turned up, and have a Merry Christmas and see you next year.

Tuesday 11 December 2007

VMDK (VMWare) to Virtual PC (VHD) Converter

This is a neat little tool that allows you to convert VMWare images to Virtual PC format

Silverlight Christmas in Coventry

Myself and Rich, did a joint session on Silverlight in Coventry last night for nxtgen.

What a great night, i had to admit i had a brilliant time, and just laughed myself silly with Rich. It was a very light hearted evening, not going into Silverlight in too much depth, but trying to cover lots of little nuggets and demos.

Rich had built an amazing Silverlight advent calendar to give away Swag and pick the demos :)

My only complaint is that due to time constraints (there was also a nugget on), I didn't get to do as many of my demos as I would have liked, there were more of Richies :( , and therefore it got a little rushed towards the end.

However it was a great evening, and I am looking forward to Cambridge tonight, where we do the same session but with more time.

Thursday 6 December 2007

PDC 2008

PDC 2008 has just been announced.

LA Convention Center October 27 - 30th.

The last time i went to a PDC was 2003 (it was superb). There was a lakers game on one night (which I should have went to), but I didn't realise that the lakers played next door. I thought the Staples Center was a giant photocopy shop :)

I will definately be at this one

I now have my MSDN Subscription

yaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyy.

This has been holding me back so much, pratting around with trial editions etc.

I can now get on and do what i need to :)

Wednesday 5 December 2007

Silverlight Christmas (NxtGenUG Cambridge) (Me and Rich)

Tuesday 11 December 2007

I'm dreaming of a...NxtGenUG Cambridge: St Johns Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge

I'm dreaming of a Silverlight Christmas. Just like the ones I used to know. Where the buttons glisten and attendees listen to hear, great demos in the show.I'm dreaming of a Silveright Christmas With every web Page I write. May your devs be merry and bright And may all your pages not be white. I'm dreaming of a Silverlight Demo With Chris and Rich on Stage. May your SWAG be expensive and bright And may all your Pizza be large. Chris Hay and Richard Costall will present a variety of Silverlight nuggets, aimed at highlighting the pitfalls with Silverlight 1.1. This will be a demo heavy session, so fasten your seatbelts.

http://www.nxtgenug.net/viewevent.aspx?eventid=91

Silverlight Christmas (with me and Rich) at Coventry

NxtGenUG: Coventry Region


Monday 10 December 2007

I'm dreaming of a ...NxtGenUG Coventry: Coventry Flying Club, Rowley Road, Coventry

I'm dreaming of a Silverlight Christmas. Just like the ones I used to know. Where the buttons glisten and attendees listen to hear, great demos in the show.I'm dreaming of a Silveright Christmas With every web Page I write. May your devs be merry and bright And may all your pages not be white. I'm dreaming of a Silverlight Demo With Chris and Rich on Stage. May your SWAG be expensive and bright And may all your Pizza be large. Chris Hay and Richard Costall will present a variety of Silverlight nuggets, aimed at highlighting the pitfalls with Silverlight 1.1. This will be a demo heavy session, so fasten your seatbelts.

http://www.nxtgenug.net/viewevent.aspx?eventid=89

INETA Silverlight Competition

This is the UK region of the INETA Silverlight Competition. (thanks to Ben Hall for this one).

I think I will enter a couple of my apps into this, prizes look good :)