Mike Taulty and I hosted a 3.5 hour Silverlight bootcamp at MIX11 this year (Mike will be posting all of the slides and demos on his site soon, including mine. I’ll link to it when it is up. For the record, I held him up .)
The topic for the last hour of the bootcamp was MVVM and “Hooking Up”. I demonstrated some quick tips on MVVM concepts and then walked through a scenario … more
Want to optimize how a list of images loads and scrolls in your Windows Phone application? Jobi Joy, UX Architect with IdentityMine and key contributor to the IRC chat app in the MIX11 Day 2 keynote, returns to Silverlight TV to discuss with John how he handles image scenarios such as this, as well as how he ekes out extra performance. Jobi has a blog post that explains how such optimization works … more
Laurent Bugnion of IdentityMine appears on the show to discuss his latest additions to the MVVM Light toolkit for both Silverlight, WPF, and Windows Phone. Laurent covers several new features, including IoC (Inversion of Control) containers, new ways to implement INotifyPropertyChanged using lambdas and/or reflection, and changes to the Messenger class.
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I’ll be taking a trip to Florida this summer and presenting at a few local user groups. I locked up one at the Tampa Silverlight User Group (which I posted a few days ago). But I also schedulde one in Orlando for the ONETUG group The event is from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm on July 7th. Register now! Feel free to stop by early too for some casual conversation.
I'll talk about the MVVM pattern, why … more
Last week in Germany at DevConnections, I presented a session on 10 cool features in Silverlight 5. This presentation was a combination of demos that both I and Pete Brown had put together over the past few weeks. You can download the slide deck and the sample code right here. The 10 topics I chose to demonstrate are: I also presented a talk on MVVM, which uses the same BookShelf app demo I used … more
Want to chat about MVVM with me live? You can tune into a 1 hour live webcast this Thursday morning as I'll be talking about the MVVM pattern, why it exists, when it works well, and what parts you may want to use or not use. I'll also discuss common and important scenarios including messaging, testing with design timed data, and how to apply these principals to both Silverlight desktop and Windows … more
I loved writing my Data Points column in MSDN Magazine … sometimes I find it hard to believe I wrote for them for over 11 years! Since I love writing, and specifically I love writing columns, I recently started writing a column for Visual Studio Magazine called Papa’s Perspective. I’ll be writing a short column each month about cutting edge technologies and I invite you to … more
I’ve been writing again after what amounted to a 2+ year break. In the past 3 months I’ve written 10+ articles, many of which are published for Visual Studio Magazine in my new 1 page editorial column Papa’s Perspective. I’m enjoying the column so far as I get to write about a variety of technologies and burning hot topics, all from my view in the cheap seats.
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I love data, data binding and development patterns. So it should be no surprise that my next course to be released with Pluralsight is on KnockoutJS. I recently released an Introduction to Building Windows 8 Metro Applications course with my good friend Dan Wahlin for Pluralsight. Thanks to all of you who have been watching it! I’ve been asked what else is on my list for Pluralsight videos, so I … more
Long ago, in a galaxy far far away I met with Jon Galloway and Jesse Liberty to brainstorm on some MVVM ideas. I had forgotten about this video recording, and I guess they did too. But now, many months later they dug it up and you can now check it out at Channel 9 on their show, The Full Stack. more
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