Pete Brown's Blog (POKE 53280,0)
Pete Brown writes on a variety of topics from XAML with the Windows Runtime (WinRT), .NET programming using C#, WPF, Microcontroller programming with .NET Microframework, .NET Gadgeteer, Windows on Devices, and even plain old C, to raising two children in the suburbs of Maryland, woodworking, CNC and generally "making physical 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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Twitter
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When I interviewed for the position on Scott Hanselman's
team, one of the questions Scott asked me was if I'd be able to
handle working from home, with the isolation that usually entails.
Telecommuting (I hate that word) isn't for everyone, so the
question was actually very important.
Prior to joining Microsoft in October, I actually worked from
home a fair bit. I'd still get out to c...
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As a Windows Client (WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone, Native, XNA,
Surface) community guy on Scott Hanselman's team at Microsoft, I am
constantly on Twitter. I've found twitter to be pretty
indispensible for keeping up with the community, and for keeping
myself sane while working from home.
First, a little on my working setup
I have three displays and two computers that I use daily....
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The editor (or some other code) in umbraco does a few things I
strongly dislike. One of them is removing the target="_blank" from
url's I add. I like all external urls to open in a new window so
the visitor doesn't forget about my site. I'd add it back into the
html and the editor would strip it back out again. Annoying.
I've never written a line of jQuery before, but tonight, with
so...
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One one of many pre-sales visits to different clients over the years, I found myself at a local dotcom in DC. It was filled with early-20’s VPs and fresh out of college developers who had a head a little too big for their skills. I love passion, but non-academic experience counts too, especially when you’re leading the work. I asked them how they did development. The first response I got was “...
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There are a number of other places I hang out where we can have two-way conversations rather than just a publish-subscribe relationship. Follow me on Twitter. Twitter is a fun place to hang out and get the news before folks have time to blog about it. FriendFeed is similar, but I’m only on that rarely – my tweets get automatically posted there. By far, this is the most active group ...
