kevmoo @ Work

One of the things that sucks about being on the outside is the surprises.

Sample code: LockHelper.cs [6KB] Debugging threading issues is painful.

On Thursday, I wrote about the importance of software patterns, specifically the event pattern in C#.

Amar was my GPM (manager's manager) in the Longhorn days.

I've been pulling my hair out on IDisposable, Dispose() and protected virtual Dispose(bool disposing) the last 24 hours.

Threading is pretty scary.

I kinda forgot I wrote this article in August.

On Monday, Fil made a note on Facebook listing the ~10 people he knew who had left MS this year.

Starting the new job, you start with a new machine.

You read that correctly.

While it's not KevinButton, I do spend some time walking through what's new and what's better in our next release.

5 tickets left when I signed-up.

Do you deploy the .NET Framework 3.0 with your application installation?

From Rob's blog, I found a discussion about WPF support in CSLA.NET, specifically what to subclass for the containers.

I use CompositionTarget.Rendering a lot in the bag-o-tricks.

All of an hour ago, I made a post trying to bring sanity to the problem of finding the latest bag-o-tricks.

As I update the Bag-o-Tricks, I wanted to keep one URL for people to check to make sure they have the latest hotness.

I'm sure many have heard discussions about the DLR and IronRuby coming out of MIX07.

People are always looking for deep content on WPF.

I have a tongue-in-cheek thing I say a lot about WPF compared to Windows Forms: In Windows Forms, there are two ways to do everything: a good way and a bad way.

For more information: http://www.savetheinternet.com/ To promote the cause yourself: http://www.savetheinternet.com/=promote

We've heard a lot about the meeting of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. 9 Parts, I'm through part 3...cool stuff, via YouTube.

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ Let us talk about hotness.

(This silliness assumes you haven't jumped into the beauty that is WPF development.

Well, it's been live for a while, but I was in Iowa last week.

For those that came to my talk, thanks!

I fly out tomorrow morning for Mix07.

Hello WPF fans, glad you found your way to my new blog.