Free Programming Windows Phone 7 Book

Veteran's Day today – Thank you to all who have served to protect us.

Charles Petzold has releases a free e-book: Programming Windows Phone 7. I have barely opened the book so far but I am having flashbacks to my first Windows 3.1 programming experience and clinging to his Programming Windows 3.1 book for survival…I'm tempted to dig through the boxes in my basement to find my copy and reread it's the hello world example!

You can find it at his site: http://www.charlespetzold.com/phone/index.html or from Microsoft

ReMix Atlanta

I attended Remix Atlanta on Saturday (May 8^th) and found it well worth the $25 to attend. The keynote by Brandon Watson on Windows Phone 7 was my favorite session of the day as it was my first exposure to Windows 7. At this point there is still a lot of details still being worked out by Microsoft such as the device specs, market place (very raw at this time) and pricing, but overall the Windows phone 7 looks very intriguing.

The conference offered 3 tracks: Windows Phone 7, Silverlight/Blend/Web and User Experience. I stuck with the Silverlight/Blend/Web track which included the following sessions:

• Silverlight 4 and Blend 4 Essentials
• Why Blend 4 has become Indispensable
• What's new in ASP.NET 4 WebForms
• Silverlight for the Enterprise

All were good but enjoyed Silverlight for the Enterprise the most of the 4 – it was the first time that I've heard of MEF and look forward to diving into it more. Another bonus was the free copy of Silverlight spy that I won in one of the sessions.

Definitely recommend attending it if the organizers offer it again in 2011.