Since I am a Trainer for Telerik now and have been trying to read up on training techniques and knowledge I thought I might start blogging about what I am learning. I don’t know who is interested but this is also a way for myself to keep information I find interesting and also my ideas [...]
Read MoreI am tired of being bored and unmotivated. This comes from the fact that my previous job really gave no excitement or made me passionate for our industry. That is the foundation of why I joined Telerik and why I am very excited today. So excited that I am giving myself a personal challenge each [...]
Read MoreI wanted to get out to the public the slidedeck and source code for the talk I did at the Cloud and Virtualization Live! event this week of December 10, 2012. Slidedeck can b downloaded here http://sdrv.ms/RpRIR5 The project source code can be downloaded here http://sdrv.ms/TPEQzc
Read MoreIssue Your application does not function properly on Windows Phone 8 at the set memory caps. Solutions 1. You can make changes to your application so that it functions properly below the set memory caps. 2. You can choose to update the manifest of your app with ID_FUNCCAP_EXTEND_MEM. See details below. Memory Cap Details There [...]
Read MoreThis morning I formally resigned my position with Perficient as Sr. Technical Architect and Microsoft Cloud Practice Lead to join Telerik as their first official Trainer. I am very excited to be going to work for a world-class organization to help them improve the teaching, coaching and mentoring around their products and services. Being the [...]
Read MoreI have had a few days to recover from the last 10 days of launches, releases, announcements and presentations from Microsoft and after catching up from the sleep deprivation, I have had an epiphany. Everything you knew about Microsoft has not changed but everything you knew about Microsoft has been turned upside-down. First let’s look [...]
Read MoreHearing the 2 keynote speakers this week at the BUILD conference made me very excited for the future of Microsoft. It also gave me some time to reflect on the history of Microsoft, as well as the history of Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft. Ballmer has been Chief Executive Officer for about 12 years now [...]
Read MoreI found a strange bug in Windows 8 when I snap an app and have the desktop shown in the primary area of Windows 8. Using IE10 and looking at the drop down menus shows menus that are very wide under the snapped app.
Read MoreI was up this morning reading about TypeScript and getting some knowledge around it while also getting ready to kick off a new Windows Store app project for a client this morning. It just is amazing how Microsoft really does have dissociative identity disorder and how this causes the community (including myself) to scratch our [...]
Read MoreI was awarded for the 5th year (not concurrent with a 3 month gap between the first and second years) as a Microsoft MVP. I was moved from the Data Platform Development group to Visual C# and could not be more happy about the move. I have a lot of friends both in the C# [...]
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