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Analyzing CES 2012

I just got back from the Consumer Electronics Show 2012 (CES) which was held in Las Vegas. This is a good show for me and the company that I work for as it shows us some of the possible future trends ...

INETA’s Component Code Challenge

Thanks for the INETA gang for making me a judge this year for their Component Code Challenge. Even better, I am a judge with some of the industries best individuals Tim Huckaby and Scott Cate! These ...

Phones, Nokia, Microsoft and More

The phone revolution that is under way at the moment is insanely interesting and continuously full of buzz about directions, failures, and promises. The movement started with Apple completely reinvent...

Future Trends and Challenges for Aircraft Cabins

Ingo Wuggetzer The aircraft cabin changes from the 60s till now has worsened. First class is actually premium / economy is still moving down in quality The challenge is to do efficiency and...

Digital Storage for Airline Entertainment

by Thomas Coughlin Common flash memory cards The most common flash memory products currently in use are SD cards and derivative products (e.g. mini and micro-SD cards) Some compact fl...

Retrofit Certification

Impact of Regulations on Cabin Systems Installation John Courtright, Structural Integrity Engineering There are heightened FAA attention to technical issues related to IFE and Wi-Fi Systems Ins...

The Evolution of Television and Home Entertainment

This is a group that is focused on entertainment in the aviation industry. I am attending their conference for the first time as it relates to my job at Swank Motion Pictures and what we do for our va...

Internet Video, Advertising & Marketing

The Next Generation of Consumer Reach These are my notes from the Digital Hollywood conference in Santa Monica, CA. SPEAKERS: Kristine Shine VP PopSugar Media Jon Goldman CEO Qlipso Joy Ma...

New Technologies as Gateway to the New Hollywood

This is from a session at the Digital Hollywood Fall conference in Santa Monica, California. Here are my notes from the session. Speakers Simon Morris CMO LOVEFiLM (Netflix for Europe) Matt M...

How Technology, Content, and Services Establish the Next Level of Consumer Entertainment Experiences

My notes from a session at Digital Hollywood in Santa Monica. SPEAKERS: John Penny EVP Strategy and Business Development at Starz Entertainment Curt Marvis President of Digital Media at Lion...

Advertising Accountability

Metrics and Analytics around Video, Social Media, Broadband and Mobile My notes from this session at Digital Hollywood. Speakers: William Lederer CEO Kantar Video Eric Forst Head of West Coas...

Merging Content with New Technologies

Content Reinvention with the Next Generation of Tables, eReaders, and Mobile Devices My notes from this session at Digital Hollywood: Speakers: Sarah Lumbard Sr. Director, Product Strategy and De...

Phone and Tablet Apps as the Next Platform

Communication, Games and Commerce in Mobile, Social Media, Broadband & Music Another session at the Digital Hollywood conference. Here are my notes from the session. Speakers: Stephanie Bohn ...

Digital Hollywood Fall Session – Valuing 3D Content

In this session: Rob Hummel CEO, Prime Focus Seth Shapiro Principal, New Amsterdam Media LLC Warren Littlefield Former President of CBS Entertainment Lisa Farries Founder of CMO, Inc. ...

Looking for C# Developers

For those that didnt know, I have recently left a long run at Thomson Reuters (which is a great company BTW) for a new gig as CIO of Swank Motion Pictures. This company works in the movie distribution...

Latest Book – Professional Silverlight 4

My latest book was just released. From Wrox Professional Silverlight 4. This was a fun book to do as Silverlight is a great technology and will be one of the core technologies that will be used fo...

My Latest Books – Professional C# 2010 and Professional ASP.NET 4

My two latest books are out! Professional ASP.NET 4 in C# and VB Professional C# 4 and .NET 4 From the back covers: Take your web development to the next level using ASP.NET 4 ASP.NET is ...

Visual Studio 2010 Is Here!

I think back to the days of the first versions of Visual Studio (when it was called Visual Studio .NET, remember?) and I think about how far Microsoft has come with this IDE. It really is the best IDE...

2010 Technology Predictions

Well, another year, and heck . even another decade and 2010 is going to be such an important year, or kick-off year for technology that I thought I would take a stab at making some technology predicti...

Microsoft PDC 2009 – Day Two Keynote

The second day keynote at PDC 2009 in Lost Angeles was shared by Steven Sinofsky and Scott Guthrie. Steven is the President of Windows and Windows Live Division and it really must have been a great da...

Azure and Hardware

One of the cooler displays at PDC 2009 was a sample container that is something that is part of the Microsoft super data center strategy. To make Azure real, Microsoft has invested a ton into setti...

Microsoft PDC 2009 – Main Messages

The first keynote of Microsofts PDC 2009 conference in Los Angeles has come and gone. Ray Ozzie kicked it off with some of the main messages that gave everyone insight into how Microsoft sees the dire...

PDC 2009 – Day One

I arrived to Los Angeles last night to be ready first thing Monday for my first day at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC). Microsoft has really shortened this conference in regard...

Audio junkie – FooBar 2000

I always look for software that has a footprint smaller than what is offered from the standard software for folks on the market. For instance, I use Foxit rather than the Adobe Reader as the software ...

St. Louis Day of .NET – Aug 28/29

Last years St. Louis Day of .NET was so successful that we were turning away people from the registration process (we were limited on the number of bodies we could have). This years event is at the Am...

New Book: Professional ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 In C# and VB

My latest bookwas just released new and improved and with a fresh mint taste! Last month my AJAX bookcame out and this month is it a book that is a continuation of a great series of ASP.NET books. Thi...

My Latest Book – Professional ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX

I just got back from a business trip and sitting there on the counter was a copy of my latest book from Wrox! This book (my 20th) is titled Professional ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX. This was a fun book and I wro...

TechEd 2008 DVDs and Silverlight

This weekend, I had some free time, and what does every developer do with this free time - I went to my TechEd 2008 DVDs to watch some sessions. But in loading the DVDs, I realized that they wouldn't ...

SESSION NOTES: The Future of C#

Presentation by Anders Hejlsberg. It is 10 years later since they started C# C# 1.0 was about introducing the general concept of managed code. C# 2.0 was about finishing C# 1.0 but didn't have time ...

PDC 2008 Keynote Day 2

This keynote is all about Windows 7 (the Vista that shoulda been) and new things from ScottGu's team. While yesterday was about the back-end infrastructure of the new cloud platform Azure from Microso...

Oracle's 2008 Enterprise Developer of the Year

I would like to first thank the academy ..... Thanks to Oracle and the award as the Oracle Enterprise Developer of the Year for 2008. This was announced today in Oracle magazine. http://www.oracl...

SESSION NOTES: ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap

This session is by Scott Hunter, Program Manager at MSFT In July 2007 - ASP.NET Futures was released That was followined by an Extensions Preview of ASP.NET 3.5 in Dec 07 Then in March 08 - we s...

PDC 2008 - Keynote Notes

Ray Ozzie, chief architect at Microsoft, opened the keynote. Here are my random notes: Ray thanked everyone for coming to the event and stressed how important we all are in Microsoft's success....

Some Pictures from PDC 2008

Well, probably the most exciting picture (for me at least) that I got was a picture of me and Anders Hejlsberg (inventor of C#). He is quite the nice guy. We had dinner last night at a restaurant near...

Day 0 of PDC - Regional Director Party and Meeting

Well, this is the first day at PDC 2008. This is, by far, my favorite conference. This year's PDC has a lot of energy and excitement. I think, partially, the reason is due to the fact that the last P...

Getting ready for PDC 2008 in Los Angeles

No, it's not the PDC 2008 World Champion Darts competition, but actually it is one of the coolest conferences on the planet. Microsoft's PDC 2008 (which stands for Professional Developer Conference) ...

Oracle OpenWorld 2008

I'm for the first time at a non-Microsoft conference in my life. I am at Oracle's OpenWorld 2008 in the lovely city of San Francisco. So far so good. The biggest surprise is really how big this confer...

Big Problem Solved - No More TypeLibBuilder.exe Crashes!

While working with Visual Studio 2008, I would constantly get exceptions thrown at me while working with any ASP.NET AJAX page. I also had no Intellisense when working with JavaScript which was a pain...

Looking at Google Chrome

Well, like most, I downloaded Google Chrome and gave it a whirl. So far, I like it. There are things that bother me - but overall - I like it. Here are some of my likes: It is faster. It does s...

Wrong Perceptions in Modern Financial Charting

You see a ton of charting components out there for .NET. Whenever you look into any magazine for developers in the developer space, you will see all sorts of advertisements for charting components of ...

Building Better Software: Tips and Tools to Improve Your Applications

I attended a session (title above) by the famous Doug Seven. Doug is always one of the better speakers out there and he covered how to construct your projects to work with various systems that improve...

TechEd 2008 Orlando ... Here I come!

I am heading out to TechEd this year. I have been going to TechEd since 2002 and find this and PDC to be exciting events and usually well done by Microsoft. You really do leave with a strong sense of ...

Mistake? Not sure - Professional ASP.NET 3.5 for sale on Amazon for 16 Dollars!

I just noticed that our $60 book is on sale at Amazon for $16.49 USD! Crazy price. Grab it while you can. ...

My Latest New Books on the Market - Professional C# 2008 and Professional Visual Basic 2008

Two of my latest books just hit the market - Professional C# 2008 and Professional Visual Basic 2008, both from Wrox. The back cover of the C# book is as follows: Updated for .NET 3.5 and Visua...

Visual Studio 2008 Plug Ins

I was looking at the site Visual Studio Gallery at what was available as plug-ins for the new VS2008. Here are some that I know are cool and others that looked rather promising: PowerCommands for VS2...

Professional ASP.NET 3.5 In C# and VB Book Available Today

The new edition of the Wrox ASP.NET book is officially on the shelves today! Amazon received their shipment and it is now in stock for a CHEAP $34.64. My co-authors, Scott Hanselman and Devin Rader,...

Book: Professional ASP.NET 3.5 : in C# and VB

Scott Hanselman beat me to the punch, but come Feb 14th, our latest and greatest edition of the Professional ASP.NET book is coming out. The book has a ton of new content and was exciting to put tog...

New Version of ODP.NET Released

Oracle just released its latest version of ODP.NET. This version, for Oracle 11g, provides enhancements and the much anticipated Instant Client and User Defined Types (UTDs). One big issue in the pa...

AJAX Control Toolkit Controls Grayed Out - HOW TO FIX

Spent the weekend so far using the new release of Visual Studio 2008 and ASP.NET AJAX. More specifically, I have been using the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. Adding the new controls to your VS2008 too...

Welcome .NET 3.5!

Along with Visual Studio 2008 becoming available for download off of MSDN - there are a whole slew of new products (some free) that are now available with this new release. A release of VS2008 also me...

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