I’m using Twitter. Follow me @rrinaldi As a developer it’s of super duper importance that we understand what each and every line of code that we write does and how it works. While a lot of code that we write leverages libraries to provide wonderful abstractions over complex implementations we owe...
Rearchitected from the ground up Hardware Architecture Capacitive touch – 4 or more contact points Sensors GPS Accelerometers Compass Light Proxmity Camera Multimedia Memory GPU CPU Only 2 resolutions Software Architecture Built on WinCE MS is writing almost all of the device drivers instead of OEM App...
Some of the new super cool things on the block are Distributed Version Control Systems and being somebody that is into super cool new things I figured I would spend some time and get to know them. A couple months ago Steve and I had a hack-a-thon weekend and he introduced me to Git . I have to say that...
Presented by Jon Galloway ( Twitter , Blog , Podcast ) 2 different templates for MV2 MVC 2 Web Application MVC 2 Empty Web Application (BTW, this is code heavy demo so there might not be a lot of notes.) I’m going to point out that Jon couldn’t get his first demo to compile. :P We are building...
Design is composition Everything needs to work together and support each other “Unity” Determines the total impact of a design Unity is relationships Manage relationships so the work together Order Simple Triumph of design is Complex Seems Simple Grid Things that are close together and aligned are implicitly...
Just arrived in my first workshop. (And yes, I was able to knock the cobwebs loose and I remembered which workshops I signed up for!) Presentation is by Robby Ingebretsen – Created KAXAML ----- Design is everywhere and design touches everything. The process of design is the process of creating. We all...
Just like every other conference I go to, I will be writing a blog post for each session I attend. My coworkers Steve and Angela (no url for her, yet!) are in this session with me and I believe Steve will also be blogging a bit during MIX so feel free to check out his site for more info....
Getting all set for a day of pre-con sessions. Already caffeinated and just waiting for my lazy coworkers to get downstairs so we can get all registered!
I hope the tell me what pre-con sessions I signed up for. I completely forgot what which one I have this morning!
Today is day 3 of our first Sprint. Yesterday was our first Daily Scrum and so far I’m digging it but I don’t have enough experience to really know if Scrum “is working” yet. When we were doing our Sprint Planning meeting it became exceptionally clear to me that it’s really, really hard to create 4-16...
At work we are in the process of implementing Scrum (actually tomorrow is our first Sprint Planning meeting. Really looking forward to it.) Everybody on the team has read the books on Scrum and we are all very excited to finally be formalizing our processes but we are in disagreement about how best to...
