What Are Your RSS Habits?
On daily bases I read many blogs. Most of these I subscribe to and others I find through Google looking for information. I use FeedDemon as my preferred reader. Somehow none of the online readers work well with me. My subscription list has grown over last few years. I started with the Aussie Bloggers OPML […]
Review - Empire Of The Stars
Empire Of The Stars is a book about people, physics, rivalry, jealousy and to an extent motivation. Mostly it is a book about Subramaniam Chandrashekhar also known as Chandra. Chandra won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 for his lifetime work on Physics. Chandra always felt that the prize should have been about […]
Review - Guns Germs And Steel
Today I finished reading Guns Germs And Steel by Jared Diamond. I picked up the author’s name few years ago by watching an interview of Bill Gates where he said that he was reading a book by Jared Diamond. I went to Amazon and saw what Diamond was all about. I must say that […]
Its WPF Week On Channel 9
For all ya WPF fans out there. Don’t forget to tune into WPF week on Channel 9.
Video - PowerCommands for Visual Studio
PowerCommands is a set of extensions for Visual Studio. It adds some nice-to-have features to Visual Studio. I selected this toolset as the subject of my first ever published video. I have done a lot of presentations and public speaking but this is my first go at producing a video. Boy! was I nervous with […]
Databinding In Silverlight With New ItemContainerStyle
Recently on OzSilverlight mailing list a question was asked about data-bindings. The issue was how do you use data-binding once you have replaced ItemContainerStyle for a ListBox.
The answer is that you can replace the entire Template by giving it a new ControlTemplate and specify your bindings within the new template. I have created this example […]
Intellisense Filtering In Visual Studio
While working with WPF I got an idea about intellisense shortcuts. Instead of pressing Ctrl + . where we get the entire list how about something like this:
Ctrl + . + p - Display only properties
Ctrl + . + e - Display only events
Ctrl + . + m - Display only methods
I have created a […]
Post Presentation Thoughts
Last week I presented Silverlight at NCG. I have never been to Newcastle, only drove by when going up to Coffs Harbour few times. The turnout at the meeting was great and I enjoyed every moment of flaunting Silverlight. I always enjoy the wow expression people have when they look at XAML.
Yesterday I presented […]
TechEd 2008 USA - How To Get Your Boss To Send You
TechEd an yearly event for Microsofties will happen in US from June 3 - June 6. Microsoft released few very important products for their eco-system for both developers and IT professionals. So for those who want to grasp heaps of useful information on the new products TechEd is the place to be. This is my […]
Recruitment Company With A Real Difference
Recently I met Mark Wallis who has started a recruitment service called Peer Placement. Why is his service different and why does it deserve a plug on my blog? Firstly because Mark himself is a developer and he understands the unpleasant experience of dealing with so called IT recruiters who measure programming skills in years […]
