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  • Being fueled by developer passion

    Tonite I came across this really nice post from Kelly (@kellabyte ) on how passion drives her to continually learn and explore. She also talks about how a simple idea ends up igniting the fires and quickly spawns into putting in a lot of late nights :-) Kelly also talks about the challenge of finding...

  • Let’s meet for Dinner in London!

    As I mentioned in my previous post , I am in the UK for the week. Sebastian Lambla (OpenRasta) has been kind enough to organize a dinner so I can meet all my geek friends from the Isles. If are in London near Victoria on Thursday eve, 15-Jul-2010 then it would be great to meet! I am sure we’ll...
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  • Bringing MEF and REST love to the UK and at FEST 10

    Next week I’m coming to the UK where I’ll be spreading the MEF love at FEST 10 and in events in a few other cities. I’ll also be talking about REST and the new work we are doing in WCF to provide a better experience for building RESTful systems. Below is the event schedule Date/Time Event Location Talk...
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  • Help my friend Scott Hanselman raise $50000 for Diabetes!

    I’ve got a good friend Scott . He works at Microsoft, he’s a technical leader, and an awesome individual. He also lives every day plagued with being a Type I diabetic. I have known Scott for years and never realized just what he and others like him go through each day as he struggles with this illness...
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  • Open sourced .NET libraries in Mono

    Recently Miguel did a post that made me smile. He talked about several libraries from Microsoft which were released under an OSS license and thus incorporated into the Mono tree and ship as part of Mono 2.8. I smiled for two reasons. One, I was happy to see that Microsoft is becoming more and more open...
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  • RESTing from MEF (or The MEF dealer is at REST)

      Side note: I am having serious writer’s block these days….or maybe it’s twitter’s block :-) Continuing the tradition of overdue posts…….It’s been over a month since i left the MEF team. Before moving on let me say that working on MEF was a fantastic experience! The team is very excited to see...
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  • Way of MEF slides and Code

    Thanks to everyone who came out to the “Way of MEF” education day in Cupertino. I had a great time and you were an awesome audience. I really appreciate all the great / in-depth questions. It showed that you really were keeping along. I also enjoyed all the different side conversations, and all the times...
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  • MEF day in SF, “The Way of MEF, the Path to Enlightenment”

    On Saturday June 12th I am stoked to be coming to the SF bay area on behalf of the Bay.Net UG where I’ll be delivering a full day on MEF! We’re going to cover a world of topics as you can see from the list below. 1. How to lazily instantiate parts to conserve processor cycles 2. Self-describing...

  • MEF has shipped!!!

    You might have missed it, but a few weeks ago MEF V1 shipped in .NET 4.0 and Silverlight 4 ! As a team we’re really happy to have seen MEF hit the wild. We believe MEF helps you to build better applications that are easier to extend. To get started with MEF, go visit our wiki here So far we’ve...
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  • Hello MEF in Silverlight 4 and VB! (with an MVVM Light cameo)

    For a while we’ve been getting a number of requests to have some MEF samples in VB. Let me first apologize as it’s been something I’ve been meaning to do for a very long time. To partially redeem myself, I’ve gone ahead and ported my Hello MEF sample which I demonstrated at PDC and had a small blog series...
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  • My toughest challenges of being a PM (Program Manager)

    <Warning>Non technical post follows</Warning> I was in a mail thread this morning with a friend who recently stepped in the PM role, on the challenges of being a PM. These are my particular set (which I’ve updated from the version in that thread). Digesting all the different data points...
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  • Caveats about DeploymentCatalog

    The information below was wrapped up in my previous post on DeploymentCatalog. As a bunch of folks have been asking questions on this, it seems worth to rip out on it's own. A few caveats about DeploymentCatalog. DeploymentCatalog is a very exciting addition to the MEF box. There are a few caveats...
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  • View Model Locator – MEF Style

    At MIX, Laurent Bugnion and I had a brainstorming chat around improving on the ViewModel locator “pattern” through the usage of a MEF generic locator that allows binding via indexer properties thus removing the need for a hard-coded locator. Tonite John Papa pinged me with a similar thought...
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  • Speaking at MIX!

    Sunday I leave to Vegas to attend my first MIX. It’s exciting to finally attend this event that has such an air of mystique around it. I’ll be speaking on how you can use MEF in SL4 to partition your applications across many XAPs in a fairly seemless fashion. My talk is short, but it’s going to be very...
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  • Speaking on “Ignite your coding”

    This Thursday, I’ll be joining John Bristowe and Joey Devilla to talk about composite applications, patterns, MEF and anything else that comes up. I am flexible :-) This is a live webcast where questions will be taken in real time, so ask away! I am selfish but no slides or demo prep sounds great...
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