Monthly Archives: February 2009

Transitioning to WPF, part 9

Let’s talk about organization. First off, if you just cowboy-code and don’t give two shits about organization then you better start doing it. Here’s some reasons why: Thoughtful code organization is a tell-tale sign of a good developer Others can more easily read and understand your code Reacclimating yourself to your own code becomes easier [...]
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So, you want to win PhizzPop Miami 2009?

Phenomblue won Microsoft’s PhizzPop Design Challenge in Miami and received the Peoples Choice Award. I’m on the three man team and was also the one to present. This was my first ever tech presentation and it was held in the gigantic Adrienne Arsht Performing Arts Center in front of hundreds of FOWA convention-goers. It doesn’t [...]
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Transitioning to WPF, part 8

Going into this post I know I’m probably going to catch some flak. But, I feel that being a beginner at WPF and seasoned at display programming gives me a position to complain. Settin’ up the scenario First off, I’m learning the code side of WPF, not XAML. Mainly because I’ve decided doing the majority [...]
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