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Intro to Knockout JS Videos

Joe — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 07:24:50 +0000

This is a presentation I gave on 7/14/2011 at the Utah .NET User Group. I’ve been meaning to get these uploaded for quite a while! Source code and presentation files used in the videos are available on github. Please excuse my gaffe on the need for json2 in IE. ;]

Intro to Knockout JS Part 1 from Joe McBride

Intro to Knockout JS Part 2 from Joe McBride

Going to //Build/? Let’s Talk.

Joe — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:46:04 +0000

Are you going to be at //Build/ this week? Ping me on twitter or contact me and lets meet and talk about what you’re working on. I’m interested in pursuing new opportunities in the XAML or HTML5/javascript space.

Building Windows 8 Metro Applications with C# and XAML – Slides & Demos

Joe — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:13:55 +0000

Thank you to everyone at the Utah .NET User Group who attended my presentation on Building Windows 8 Metro Applications with C# and XAML. Here is a link to download my slides and demos. Thanks again to John Papa who let me utilize some of his slides and demos.

Download: Win8Demos.zip

Join Me Tomorrow for KnockoutJS and the WCF Web API

Joe — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:38:44 +0000

Tomorrow I’m going to be giving a presentation at the Northern Utah .NET User group on KnockoutJS and the WCF Web API.

Knockout is a javascript framework that can help you simply building dynamic UIs by applying the Model-View-View-Model (MVVM) pattern. In this presentation we’ll go over the basics of Knockout to bind data to html elements, including how to use jQuery templates. We’ll then quickly build out a small application using the new WCF Web API to provide our application a JSON service to work with.

Hope to see you there!

And yes, we may even cover the HTML5 vs. Silverlight debate!

(Parking is free and ample)
Weber State University Davis Campus, Room 114
2750 N. University Park Blvd.
Layton, Utah
84041

Topic: KnockoutJS
Presenter: Joe McBride
Date: Thursday July 07, 2011
Time: 6:00pm Birds of a Feather Round-table; Session starts at 6:30pm

Consuming WCF Web APIs in Windows Phone

Joe — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 06:41:56 +0000

UPDATE 1/8/2013: Code now on github: http://github.com/joemcbride/HttpContrib

At MIX, Microsoft released Preview 4 of the WCF Web APIs. They also provided an updated Async CTP that brings async Task support to Windows Phone. So, as a follow up to my “Consuming WCF Web APIs in Silverlight” I have updated the existing Silverlight sample to Preview 4 (with the help of Dustin Metzgar), and added a Windows Phone sample. The sample was built using the Mango Tools (get the tools).

The sample code is in a Mercurial repository and is a fork of the WCF Web API Contrib project. You can use a client such as Tortoise Hg to get the source. You’ll also need to have the Async CTP installed. After you compile the contrib project (using build.bat from the VS2010 command line), place the async libraries in the bin/debug folder that is created in the root of the solution folder.

Get the sample source.

Enjoy!

Push Notifications and Tiles – Slides & Demos

Joe — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:30:35 +0000

Thank you everyone for coming to my presentation, and thank you again to Telerik for having the webinar series! Here are the links from my slides and a download for my slides and demos.

Download: Windows Phone Push Notifications Slides & Demos

Push Recipe: http://joem.me/WP7PushRecipe

XML Messages Documentation: http://joem.me/WP7PushXML

The one question I didn’t have off the top of my head is about the file size of tiles. According to the documentation, the maximum allowed size of the Tile image is 80 KB, with a maximum download time of 15 seconds.

If you have any other questions feel free to ask them here or on twitter!

Upcoming Presentations on Windows Phone, Silverlight, and Agile

Joe — Sat, 14 May 2011 23:36:13 +0000

I’m going to be giving several presentations in the coming weeks. Hopefully some of you can join me!

May 19th 4:00 PM MST

I’ll be giving this presentation at the Agile Executives monthly meeting.

Discovering Intrinsic Motivation

Veracity Solutions
6770 South, 900 East, Suite 202
Midvale, UT 84047

May 25th All Day Event

Windows Phone 7 Unleashed is an event sponsored by Microsoft, Utah Geek Events, and Veracity Solutions for free Windows Phone Training. Check out the Utah Code Camp website for more information.

Windows Phone 7 Unleashed

Microsoft offices
3400 N. Ashton Blvd., Suite 300
Lehi, UT 84043

June 1st 9:00 AM MST

Telerik has started a Windows Phone Wednesdays (REGISTER HERE) webinar series, which I’ll be giving the presentation for week 3.

Push Notifications and Tiles for Windows Phone

June 4th All Day Event

I’ll be at the Portland Code Camp 2011, and I’m hoping these presentation proposals are approved.

Push Notifications and Tiles for Windows Phone
How To Become a MEF Head

Portland Code Camp 2011
Eliot Center
1226 SW Salmon Street
Portland, Oregon 97205

Discovering Intrinsic Motivation

There’s a mismatch between what science knows and what business does. Traditional motivational “if-then” rewards can sharpen focus, though often destroy creativity. What science knows about motivation revolves around three key elements; Autonomy, Master, and Purpose. Autonomy – the urge to direct our own lives, Mastery – the desire to get better and better at something that matters, and Purpose – the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. With the help of Daniel Pink and his book Drive, let’s explore a few examples of what science knows and how these three key elements of motivation can help us understand what drives us, and those around us.

Windows Phone 7 Unleashed

Windows Phone 7 is HOT! Come check out Windows Phone 7 Unleashed for everything you need to know to develop for WP7. Whether you’re a seasoned veteran or you’re just starting with .NET development, there’s something in it for you. The first half of this deep dive event is lecture and hands on lab. At the half point mark of the day, you’ll have a solid foundation for building WP7 applications. The second half of the day is going straight to code.

Push Notifications and Tiles for Windows Phone

Windows Phone has provided a refreshing new interface in its use of Live Tiles. In this webinar we’ll demonstrate how to use push notifications to update Tiles, provide Toast notifications, and raw data notifications. We’ll take a look under the covers on how this done today, and what’s coming in the Mango update for Windows Phone.

How To Become a MEF Head

In this fast moving presentation we’ll cover what it means to be a MEF Head and how you can join this exclusive club. “Application requirements change frequently and software is constantly evolving. As a result, such applications often become monolithic making it difficult to add new functionality. The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a new library in .NET Framework 4 and Silverlight 4 that addresses this problem by simplifying the design of extensible applications and components.” We’ll cover the following features of MEF: • Parts • Catalogs • Metadata • “Stable Composition” • Integrating MEF into Existing Applications • Debugging Strategies • Application Strategies: Desktop vs. Silverlight vs. WP7 • MEF Futures

See You At MIX11

Joe — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:33:27 +0000

I’m looking forward to attending MIX this year.

I’m typically rather “what sounds interesting at the moment” with these types of conferences, however here are a few sessions I’m interested in attending. Unfortunately some of them overlap, so we’ll see who wins out!

Boot Camps

Silverlight Boot Camp

Windows Phone 7 Boot Camp

Sessions

The Microsoft Surface MVPs Present: Natural User Interfaces, Today and Tomorrow; An Interactive Discussion and Demonstration

Deep Dive MVVM

Crafty UX – UX Lightning Series

Inspiring UX – UX Lightning Series

Application Design for Windows Phone

Designer and Developer: A Case for the Hybrid

Going Mobile with Your Site on Internet Explorer 9 and Windows Phone 7

Deep Dive Into HTML5

The Devil Went Down to HTTP: Debugging with Fiddler

HTML5 for Skeptics

Good JavaScript Habits for C# Developers

JavaScript: The Language

Data in an HTML5 World

ASP.NET MVC 3 @:The Time is Now

An Overview of the MS Web Stack of Love

If you’re headed to MIX, hit me up on twitter and lets talk about what you’re working on!

Coding 4 Fun: WordPress Metro Blog Theme

Joe — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 02:20:32 +0000

Last week I got around to converting my Metro Blog theme assets to a WordPress theme. The theme is based on the design by Chris Lindhartsen. I hard-coded several of the items since this was for my personal blog, however they should be fairly easy to change. If you end up using it on your site send me a link!

Download WordPress Metro Theme: metro-wp-theme

Download html/css Metro Theme: metro-html-theme

There are two themes available, a light and a dark theme.

How to Become a MEF Head – Slides & Code

Joe — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:14:02 +0000

Thank you again to everyone who was able to come out to the .NET User group for my MEF Head talk. Here’s the slides and code samples I used, as well as the links I cited.

Download Slides & Code – How to Become a MEF Head

http://mef.codeplex.com
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/hammett
http://github.com/MefContrib
http://mefcontrib.codeplex.com
http://rapidmef.codeplex.com
http://pillbox.codeplex.com