I've been Deep Fried...Again!

  • Apr 25, 2012 at 5:38 PM
  • Shawn Wildermuth
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So I've done it again.  I survived another 30 minutes with Woody and Keith. Whew. We had a good conversation about the current state of Web Development and the future of XAML development.

I also got to discuss fried foods and make fun of Keith. Couldn't have been a better time. Go listen now:

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From my Web Dev for XAML Devs Talk

  • Mar 14, 2012 at 10:35 PM
  • Shawn Wildermuth
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SpaghettiBabyI had the opportunity tonight to do a talk for the Atlanta XAML Meetup on Web Development for XAML Developers. I had fun explaining how XAML developers can use their existing skills with markup, design, data binding and data access on web page development. You can see the slides from the talk here:

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Modern Web Development - Part 6

mortarpestleThis is the sixth of ten parts of this blog post. The topics will be:

The Problem

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Modern Web Development - Part 4

This is the fourth of ten parts of this blog post. The topics will be:

Debugging

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Modern Web Development - Part 3

This is the third of ten parts of this blog post. The topics will be:

What’s Wrong with CSS?

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The Web Workshop: Client-Side Dev Training

I am excited to announce that I’ve refactored (and renamed) my web-centric training course. The old “ASP.NET MVC/HTML/CSS Workshop” was just too long. It’s now called “The Web Workshop”.

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Modern Web Development - Part 2

SpaghettiThis is the second of ten parts. The topics will be:

Working with JavaScript can be daunting. In the past, I’ve seen some projects with just a handful of huge files that become difficult to manage. So in architecting what I needed to build, I wanted to adhere to the idea that there was common code and there was view-specific code. There are two different classes of JavaScript that I care about: libraries (i.e. not my code) and site code (i.e. my code).

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Modern Web Development - Part 1

This is the first of ten parts of this blog post. The topics will be:

In the past year I’ve had a side project. FirstInked’s Beta recently shipped and I wanted to share with you what I’ve learned. To start out, I want to specifically thank two people who were really great in helping me formulate the strategies I’ll talk about. They are:

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I am Coming to Washington DC for 2 Classes

  • Oct 24, 2011 at 6:50 PM
  • Shawn Wildermuth
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If you are in the Washington, DC area (or are close enough to fly), I am coming to teach two courses just after Thanksgiving.

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What about Metro JS Projects and jQuery?

  • Sep 16, 2011 at 11:17 PM
  • Shawn Wildermuth
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I spent this week at Build and was interested in both the XAML and HTML/JS part of the Metro story. I am in the middle of converting GooNews into both HTML and XAML Metro apps to test out the new APIs.

I have to admit, I was nervous at first because this in the keynote:

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