Windows Runtime (WinRT) Information Links
WINRT (as the Windows Runtime as been dubbed) was announced a while back at BUILD in California. I was super busy at the time and didn’t get to read or watch any of the sessions online. Check out the...
View ArticleAsync Data Flow Block in TPL
Check out the new System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow.dll for processing blocks of data in an asynchronous manner. I watched this video on Channel 9 and it blew me away. I hope this goes into .Net 4.5 by...
View ArticleKarateka journal about making the game
It has been a while since I read a book that I connected with on a personal level. I read Jordan Mechner’s journal from when he was a teenager at Yale and started working on Karateka (amongst other...
View ArticleKids don’t want PC’s, doesn’t look good for future
This will not come as a big surprise to many, but I think maybe my reason why is a little different than most. Microsoft is missing that gateway device for kids that are too young to get a PC or a...
View ArticleAlways be improving, or you are accruing technical debt
How healthy is your company? I spend a lot of time working with companies to help them change strategy on their technical products. Most of the time they initially view it as just “moving to the...
View ArticleTearing down the old blog
I have decided to make a clean break from the old blog and start anew with all new content and writing. I may post some of the old articles here, but most of them were really, really out of date....
View ArticlePerhaps interesting times are ahead
I have just been moved over to work within Windows Engineering here at Microsoft. I will be working on a team that is focusing on bringing developers back to Windows. Some of that will be UWP...
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