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Last night at the June meeting of the Albury/Wondonga .NET User Group we covered OData . I spent a few minutes going back over some ground we’d covered last month on Entity Framework, then walked through the steps covered by Scott Hanselman in this great blog post where he creates an OData service from...
On Saturday, Andrew and I attended the inaugural DDD Melbourne (that’s "Developer Developer Developer Melbourne") "community conference" at Docklands in Melbourne. Big props to Alex Mackey and Malcolm Sheridan , as well as all the other organizers and sponsors, for what turned...
A couple of nights ago I finally started working on username auto-complete in Halfwit . What’s username auto-complete? That’s the feature whereby you type an “@” sign, and then as you type extra characters, Halfwit looks up your text in the list of recently-seen users and fills in the name for you. Here...
Build 57 of my Twitter client Halfwit is now available, with a bunch of new features since I last blogged about it. The one I’ve added tonight is the ability to talk to Twitter to save common searches. When you visit the Search page, Halfwit will ask Twitter for a list of saved searches and populate...
On the latest episode of .NET Rocks , Carl and Richard spoke to Anders about the new release of .NET and C# and what the future might hold. Predictably, Anders revealed that parallelism will be a focus on C# 5, with language enhancements to make use of things like Parallel Linq. One of the things he...
So Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 have been released, and they’re awesome. I’ve been using VS2010 since beta 2, and it’s a big step up from 2008 when it comes to the code-editing and designing experience. Which is sad, because I can’t use it. You see, Microsoft have recently announced Windows Phone 7...
Last night’s meeting of the Albury/Wodonga .NET User Group featured a presentation by Nathan on NHibernate and Fluent NHibernate . For those of us (yes, myself included) who haven’t really played with NHibernate it was an edifying experience. We also had a few new faces, which was great to see. Next...
I mentioned it on Twitter on Friday, but figured I might as well announce it on my blog too: I’m an MVP! I was awarded Microsoft’s “Most Valuable Professional” award for the “Client Application Development” category. It’s the first time I’ve received an MVP award, so this is a big deal for me. I suppose...
Happy birthday to me!...
I’ve finally made it! ;-) Richard Banks , who has just kicked off the Talking Shop Down Under podcast, invited me on to episode 2 to chat about Halfwit and anything else that came up in conversation. It was a thoroughly enjoyable half-hour. Give it a listen on your next commute and let Richard know what...