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Open House: Drawing in HTML5

I had a lot of fun teaching about the HTML5 Canvas and SVG at Sela’s Drawing in HTML5 Open House last Tuesday (12 Nov). There’s definitely a lot of interest! The room was full to overflowing with people from a wide range of programming backgrounds, all of whom seemed...

Microsoft Official Courses – Live and Ready!

This post is long overdue. Over the past year and a bit, Sela has built five(!) Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) courses for the newest and most strategic Microsoft technologies: the Windows Store and Windows Azure. I am extremely proud to have been part of this...

Microsoft Official HTML5 Programming Course

Gil Fink, Alex Golesh and I have written Microsoft’s new course on HTML5 Programming (10953A). The course introduces newcomers to HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript APIs, while adhering to current best practices. Working through a hands-on lab, students build their first...

Visualizing TDD

I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled ’til I set him free. – Michelangelo My last post, about what my colleague Yuval Mazor coined “post-tdd-ism”, came under some criticism. It was mostly triggered, understandably, by the last sentence of...

Test-Driven and Test-First Development

Students and clients approach me too many times asking for my take on whether unit tests should be written before or after the code they test. They often tell me that they’ve read or been told that if they write the unit test “after”, it can’t be considered TDD –...

Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update CTP – What’s New?

I co-authored this article with Alex Golesh, of Silverlight MVP fame. Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 update is a minor upgrade with two primary goals: to make it easier for developers to reach more consumers and bug fixes (>500 bugs fixed). To make Windows Phone devices...