Great development tools are always sought out by great developers. One tool I found recently has kicked me off to start a list of my own cool tools that help me produce great software. This first tool is ReSharper by Jetbrains software. Go check it out at Jetbrains. My list is available on a continuing... Continue reading →

As I sat in the Silverlight session this morning in Vancouver, Washington for the Portland area’s Code Camp I stumbled on some odd thoughts and questions. The more I hear about Silverlight, XAML, and these other things that Microsoft is pushing the less I see this promised code once and start deploying to web or... Continue reading →

Jason Mauer took a different approach to this particular session. Instead of having a set outline he decided to just present off the cuff. This approach created an interesting session atmosphere. Right off he dived into creating various 3D objects, dealing with the vertexBuffer, and other various aspects of getting something drawn on screen via... Continue reading →

So I went to hit up my second session which is about XNA Development. I caught the tail end of the Speech Server Session (Code Camp Link) by Mithun Dhar. In hat short 10 minute tail end of that I must say I am very interested in the voice recognition, the Windows Workflow, and other... Continue reading →

With Erik Mork presenting the Silverlight or WPF/e presentation went well. He provided good sample material and a nice overview of what Silverlight is, what problems it solves, and what could be done or should be done with Silverlight. The major point, besides the cool examples, was that Silverlight is a XAML kick up from... Continue reading →