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Pete Brown writes on a variety of topics from .NET programming using WPF, Silverlight, XNA, and Windows Phone, to raising two children in the suburbs of Maryland, to woodworking, CNC and generally "making real stuff". Oh, and Pete loves retro technology, especially Commodore (C64 and C128). If the content interests you, please subscribe using the subscription link to the right of every page.
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Events
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Join Frank LaVigne on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 7:00 PM for a great BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) Hands-on-Lab session. If you can’t find time to play with the bits at work, or all that pesky summer outdoor stuff is cramping your geek time, this will really help you get your feet wet. More information here.
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Our world-famous DE, Andrew Duthie, (aka the .NET DEvHammer, twitter @devhammer) just pointed out to me that we have a great set of roadshows coming to the area next week (Reston and Richmond). If you want to get the skinny on developing for Windows 7 and IE8, these are can’t-miss sessions. I’m always impressed with the amount of free, quality training coming out of the local Microsoft field o...
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Join us on May 19 at the Microsoft office in Pittsburgh for a double-dose of Silverlight 3: First we’ll talk about all the great new things coming out with Silverlight 3, then we’ll take a quick lap around the Silverlight 3 Commodore 64 emulator I wrote as a proof of concept. This is an INETA sponsored event. Join us at Pittsburgh .NET!
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Reminder to come join us at Lehigh Valley .NET for an INETA Sponsored Event: A Programmer’s Introduction to Silverlight 2 and 3, with a focus on the basics of two, and all the new interesting things coming out in Silverlight 3. Lehigh Valley .NET See you there!
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Thanks again to Marc Schweigert for hosting last night’s DevDinner in Reston. My blog is at www.irritatedVowel.com/Blog and you can follow me on twitter, or message me on twitter via @pete_brown. Below are demos I used and links I mentioned or wanted to mention. Tons of good Silverlight links and information below, even for folks who didn’t attend the DevDinner. Introduction The “Hello Wo...
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.NET, Silverlight, Events, RIA, Expression-Encoder, Expression-Blend, Business-Applications, Seema-Ramchandani, Silverlight-Business-Applications, scottgu, WorldWide-Telescope, Marc-Schweigert, MIX09, Synthesizer |
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Here are the upcoming public events where I’ll be speaking on Silverlight topics: Tuesday April 21, 2009 12:00pm (TODAY!) INETA Live Webcast INETA Event Online A Lap Around Silverlight 3 We’ll do a whirlwind tour of the new features in Silverlight 3, plus the basics of Silverlight 2/3. Bring your Silverlight 3 ques...
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I’m excited to be speaking on Silverlight at a number of upcoming user groups and code camps over the next two months. If you’re local, or want to make the trip, please join us! .NET Valley User Group April 16, 2009 Pennsylvania INETA Event A lap around what’s new in Silverlight 3, covering all the great stuff announced at mix09 ...
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Tonight’s inaugural meeting of the CapArea.NET Silverlight SIG has been postponed to Feb 25, 2009 due to icy weather.
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I’m proud to announce that I have been recently selected as an INETA North America Speakers Bureau member. INETA has fewer than 100 speakers that cover the North America region, and I’m honored and humbled to be included in a group that includes some really impressive speakers and well-known names. If you run a user group and are looking for someone to speak on Silverlight or cover the Express...
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If you’re interested in some of the great things Microsoft is working on to make Silverlight business applications easier to build in the post-Silverlight-2 timeframe, join Marc Schweigert and me for a great forward-looking Developer Dinner in Reston on Thursday January 15, 2009. Details and registration link here. Note that the dev dinner is not at the Microsoft Reston facility. Thursday,...
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Join me, Frank LaVigne and others for the first meeting of the Cap Area .NET Silverlight Special Interest Group on January 28, 2008 in Vienna, VA Event details on Community Megaphone Frank took on most of the duties in getting the SIG set up after Marc Fredericson expressed an interest at a dev dinner, so kudos and thanks to him for starting a much-needed group in the DC area. The group is f...
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Jan 16, 2009 - Save the date! I’ll be speaking at the Washington DC stop of the MSDN Developer Conference on January 16, 2009. The topic is Building Business-Focused Applications Using Silverlight 2 Building Business-Focused Applications Using Silverlight 2 What if you could develop your solutions with the ease pioneered by Microsoft Office Access, deploy them like an Internet applica...
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For those of you not going to the PDC, be sure to join us at TechDays at the Sheraton National Hotel in in Arlington, VA next week. This is a pretty big event with lots of great content. Oct. 28th – WebDev Fundamentals – Moving Beyond ASP.NET Topic 1: Introduction to ASP.NET AJAX Topic 2: Introduction to Silverlight 2 Topic 3: Servers and Services for Web Developers Oct. 29th – ...
