Dear Computer Manufacturers, Ok, in 1989 my family bought a computer. A Tandy 1000RL. This thing had 512Kb of RAM, an 8 Mhz Processor and a 20 MB Hard Drive. I was stoked! I was going to be able to play F-15 Strike Eagle II and Silent Hunter II from Microprose! We got this baby... Continue reading →

I’m all about the Windows Phone 7, the interface, the features, the possiblities of a cleaner, easier to develop against phone is really high on my “Cool to Have” list. But no multi-tasking (at all, is there a background something?), and no out of box copy and paste is a really really bad idea on... Continue reading →

I’ve got some Windows Phone 7 work lined up so thought I’d run through the most recent setup for SDK, Toolkit, and other such items needed for development. I’m working based on the assumption that Visual Studio 2010 is already installed. I’m also assuming the following items are installed, if not, install these before moving... Continue reading →

Tomorrow (Thursday) at Blue Moon Burgers in Fremont will be a nerd lunch. If you’re interested you should definitely head over that way and introduce yourself. Continue reading →

I’ve been working through an architecture scenario recently. This is what I have so far. Multiple external web services, some SOAP and some REST, and some data sources in a SQL Server Database, Azure Table Storage, and flat files of some sort. All of these sources need to be accessed by a web site for... Continue reading →