Xperimentality

I am sure there is a lot that I have forgotten from the past month.  If I come up with some good juicy stuff, I will add it in.  In the meantime, I am gearing up for June! Forget the past....the future awaits!

I am going to be putting a lot more information about Windows Presentation Foundation(WPF) on my blog soon.  I have decided to focus on this technology a good bit moving forward.  In an effort to support my concept of "Experience".  I believe that users should experience the web and experience software, not just use it. I believe that WPF is going to empower developers to provide a deeper, richer user experience! I am reading a book that I will be reviewing in the coming week.

While at the Huntsville Code Camp, some of the community leaders from Alabama got together with Wally McClure to do an ASP.NET Podcast roundtable discussion.  We talked about what is going on in Alabama community-wise.  If you don't subscribe to the ASP.NET Podcast, you should.  Here is the podcast from our discussion.

Hooray! I won the 10th prize in the April 2006 Community Credit Contest.  I was surprised. I won "The Encyclopedia of Game.Machines". I get to add this image to my site as a winner.

Well I think my family is back to some level of normal (if you can ever say we were normal before!).  As I mentioned a short time ago, we had a family medical issue come up that has taken a good deal of our attention. We have worked through the problems we had crop up and I am trying to get back into the flow of things.  A lot has happened this month that I have gotten behind on, so I will try to get caught up for the most part.

I think I am a little late on this.  Looks like they were put out there a couple of days ago, but the MIX06 sessions have been put online.  Go take a look.

I finally got to posting my presentations from the Huntsville Code Camp.  Sorry it took me so long.  They are on my projects page.

After one of my presentations at the Huntsville Code Camp about CSS and ASP.NET, I was asked about using the same techniques in DNN and other frameworks.  So I decided to take the example from the presentation and create it in a DNN skin.  So I have posted a DNN skin called Desert Trip on my projects page.  It might serve as a good example or a good starting point for a more detailed skin.

On a brighter note, this weekend was the Softech Celebrity Shootout.  The company I work for, Softech Development, was the title sponsor for the Softech Celebrity Shootout benefitting The Joe Cribbs Youth Foundation. We have signed up for the title sponsorship for the next 2 years.  We had a great time!  I got to play golf Saturday with Hines Ward.  I got to meet a lot of the celebrities and got quite a number of signatures.  It all took place at Ross Bridge Resort...very relaxing!  My wife and my room overlooked a waterfall near the pool.  Most of the time we were in our room, we had our balcony door open to hear the sound of the water.  I think I could definately do that on a regular basis.

Well it has been a little bit since my last post.  We had a family medical problem arise that kept my focus with my family.  I am not going to go to the Atlanta Code Camp because I need to stay closer to home.  But I think things will eventually level out.