Date registered: January 16, 2011
Aug
11
Last week, I had the privilege of writing the Foreword for Sara Ford’s forthcoming book, Microsoft Visual Studio Tips, which is based on her popular Visual Studio Tip of the Day blog posts. Whether you’re a veteran of multiple versions of Visual Studio, or you are using Visual Studio for the first time, this book …
Aug
05
If you don’t have your Strunk & White handy, this covers some of it. Purdue University maintains an online writing lab and I spent some time digging through it. Originally the goal was to grab some good tips that would help me out at work and on this site, but there is simply too much …
Aug
04
Found this post on The Graphic Design Blog over the weekend with links to a lot of great info: Well it took me a lot longer than I had originally expected but I was able to track down the original links to more than thirty PDF documents that I have collected over the past couple …
Jul
23
In the US, middle school starts with Grade 6. How would seeing stuff like this when you were about 12 years old have influenced your decision to pursue software development as an occupation? I think back on the first computer course I took in the early 80s and remember learning BASIC with an Ohio Systems …
Jun
04
Andrew Cook just tipped me to this webcast coming later this month. It’s always refreshing to see a webcast presented by someone outside of Microsoft. It feels less like an echo chamber, and I’m more likely to hear something I haven’t already heard. I’m registered. The term Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is attracting significant attention …
Jun
03
One of the books I added to my permanent collection earlier this year is Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter) by Garr Reynolds. This was around the time I attended VizThink, which filled my head with ideas of how presentations can be more compelling and engaging experiences. In March, …
Jun
02
I attended Nancy Duarte’s presentation at the VizThink conference in San Francisco earlier this year and really enjoyed it. If you want to learn more about creating compelling presentations, I highly recommend this webinar from VizThnk: Mark your calendars to join us on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 for another VizThink webinar. Join Nancy Duarte, presentation …