Recently, Adam Kinney came by my office to interview me for a Channel 9 episode discussing ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 4. I’ve known Adam for a long time, even before he joined Microsoft. I think we met (in person) at Tech-Ed 2003. In any case, we talk a bit about ASP.NET MVC and Preview 4, all the while I tried very hard not to put my foot in my mouth. At the end there are some outtakes of me impersonating Scott Hanselman doing an impersonation of Sean Conery. That wasn’t to make fun...
Remember the book I mentioned that I was writing along with a few colleagues? Well it is finally available for pre-order on Amazon.com! If you love me, you’ll buy five copies each. No. Ten copies! Or, you could wait for the reviews and buy the book on its own merits, which I hope it warrants. But what’s the fun in that? All kidding aside, this was a fun and tiring collaborative effort with Jeff “Coding Horror” Atwood, Jon Galloway, K. Scott Allen, and Wyatt Barnett. The book aggregates our collective wisdom on the topic of building web applications with...
Charlez Petzold makes the following lament in response to Jeff Atwood’s review of two WPF books, one being Petzold’s. I’ve been mulling over Coding Horror’s analysis of two WPF books, not really thrilled about it, of course. The gist of it is that modern programming books should have color, bullet points, boxes, color, snippets, pictures, color, scannability, and color. Does that remind you of anything? Apparently the battle for the future of written communication is over. Prose is dead. PowerPoint has won. With all due respect to Mr. Petzold, and he certainly deserves much respect, I...