Glen's old blog
Upcoming MSDN Events in GA/SC/NC beginning next week!
On Tuesday, 4/18, I'll be presenting an MSDN Event in Charleston, SC (click link to register). It's...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 04/06/2006
Do you dream in C# or VB?
I've heard that if you speak multiple languages with about equal fluency (which I do not) the real...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 03/31/2006
The feedback loop experiment
My colleague Jacob Cynamon is getting ready to embark on a webcast series that will cover Visual...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 03/29/2006
MEDC in Vegas - the virtual experience
Unfortunately I won't be attending MEDC in Las Vegas this year. But if I did, my experience would...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 03/15/2006
GSP Developers 2006 Study Groups launching
The Greenville-Spartanburg Enterprise Developers Guild is launching their 2006 Study Groups this...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 03/13/2006
PPC Remote Control
During one of my recent MSDN Events presentations on mobile development, I used a utility to display...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 03/08/2006
Oceans 13??? No, it's The Code Room episode 3!
Check out my cohort Joe Stagner's latest project, finally up on MSDN. The Code Room: Vegas is all...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 02/23/2006
WinFX February CTP is up!
The February CTP of the runtime and development components for WinFX is now available. Realize that...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 02/23/2006
Paul Lockwood speaks at the next Atlanta .NET User Group
Paul Lockwood, one of our great community leaders, will be speaking at the next meeting of the...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 02/23/2006
Great WPF Resource from Tim Sneath
Tim Sneath, a Technical Evangelist on all things Vista, has posted a great article on where to start...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 02/22/2006
MSDN Mobility Marvels Webcast Series: Creating a Window Mobile Line of Business (LOB) Application
As a great follow up to our MSDN Events series this quarter on Mobile Development, join Maarten...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 02/21/2006
MSDN Article - Excel Object Model for Visual Studio 2005 developers' perspective
This article on MSDN gives a great overview of how to work with the Excel object model in a Visual...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 02/21/2006
NOW you have a reason to upgrade to Vista... :-)
Halo 2 for Vista
Author: GlenGordon Date: 02/09/2006
.NET Pet Shop 4: Migrating an ASP.NET 1.1 Application to 2.0
Here's a useful resource - an article on migrating one of our best practice applications (".NET Pet...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 02/07/2006
I guess moderated comments means...
...I actually have to "moderate" them. Sorry about that. I got a lot of great suggestions to the...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 01/24/2006
Pictures from Raleigh Best-Of-Launch events.
(I know it's a bit late, but I just now found some time to put this together. Thanks to Tom Geiger...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 01/24/2006
Reader Mail -
Attilla from Norway (I'm quoting directly here so excuse the spelling) asks the following in...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 01/23/2006
Puzzling Windows Forms positioning predicament
I have a question that I cannot figure out because I can't figure out how to phrase it in a search...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 01/20/2006
Hunt the Wumpus project! Teach high school kids software engineering.
Microsoft runs an annual high school outreach program to teach kids software engineering by building...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 01/06/2006
Sample code for ASP.NET 2.0 from Best Of Launch events and Webcast
For the past 2 months we've been doing Best-Of Launch events. I've even done a session as a webcast....
Author: GlenGordon Date: 12/23/2005
high resolution
I'm about to take the entire rest of December off. Common belief holds that I ought to be using that...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 12/23/2005
Cool app of the day - time zone!
I am working on my first project involving a vendor in the UK. Now I've been used to working with...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 11/03/2005
Reader Mail - Building a UI with multiple forms that's not an MDI application
Alan Coker from Greenville, SC writes: Do you know of some Microsoft samples to download to see the...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 11/03/2005
World Usability Day
I just found out that November 3rd is the first annual World Usability Day. Check out all the...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 11/02/2005
Silent and loud at my home office today
It's a good thing I don't have any events and webcasts today because I have completely lost my voice...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 10/14/2005
Implementing a SiteMapProvider that reads a SQL Server database
In my current series of MSDN Events, we are covering site navigation. With site navigation, the data...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 10/10/2005
More
It never fails. People are always tinkering with things. Seeing how far they can push them. I guess...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 09/29/2005
What's up with MSDN Events in the Southeast for the rest of 2005
Several people have asked (in some form or another) what's up with MSDN Events in the Southeast....
Author: GlenGordon Date: 09/27/2005
PDC thoughts - Thursday General Session
We don't pay attention to servers. By that I mean that the developer's bread-and-butter server (SQL...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 09/15/2005
Where's Rory???
OK, I don't believe he's here at PDC. Rory, that is. I haven't seen him all week, and he hasn't...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 09/15/2005
PDC - Wednesday Keynote thoughts
Saw some amazing stuff today to enable people to really give their web and windows apps killer...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 09/14/2005
Notes on PDC - Tuesday
-This convention center has a horrible layout. It's very difficult to find the right rooms to be in....
Author: GlenGordon Date: 09/13/2005
Waiting in line at PDC
Rather than follow my usual pattern of registering the night before it starts, I waited until the...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 09/13/2005
Do you have tab on the menu?
[While writing this post, I was reminded of the scene in Back to the Future where Marty McFly goes...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 09/07/2005
I'm all ears
My colleague Joe Stagner has recently launched https://www.devradio.com, a developer-oriented...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 09/06/2005
South Carolina Code Camp is almost here - September 17 in Charleston
What a great way to spend a Saturday - filling your brain with info on .NET from some great speakers...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 09/01/2005
Top 10 signs I've been staying in hotels too much lately
Looking for a hotel bill on the floor inside my bedroom door. Looking for a USA Today outside of...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 08/26/2005
INETA Chalk Talk at next MSDN
In our quest to make MSDN Events a way for us to foster developer connections in our cities,...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 08/22/2005
Rob Zelt: .Net Ramblings... - TRINUG's [1st ever!] Local Speaker Night - Thur Aug 25th
Rob Zelt: .Net Ramblings... - TRINUG's [1st ever!] Local Speaker Night - Thur Aug 25th This looks...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 08/19/2005
MSDN Event and .NET Pub Club this week - Raleigh and Charlotte
After not being there for a year, I am looking forward to being back in Raleigh for the MSDN Event....
Author: GlenGordon Date: 08/15/2005
DevTelevision premieres with Episode 1: Don't take the bait
This one’s for the non-technically savvy. Joe Stagner has put together a nice overview of the...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 08/09/2005
Follow up to ASP.NET 2.0 Mobile Development Webcast series
For those of you that attended my webcasts last week on ASP.NET 2.0 and mobile development,...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 08/02/2005
Will build future for food...
I've got a nephew who's trying to break into the computer industry. He's one of those kids who can...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 08/01/2005
Two years went by like that (snap)!
I'm finding it hard to imagine that two years ago today, I walked into the Microsoft office in...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 07/28/2005
Scoble shuttle
I got to drive the reknowned Robert Scoble around Atlanta the other day. Well, to be truthful it was...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 07/26/2005
How long does it take to break a habit?
I know I should change. There’s a better way. There’s a search engine that doesn’t...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 07/22/2005
We christen you... Windows Vista
Yesterday at MGB, Brian Valentine and Kevin Johnson announced the product name for what we've been...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 07/22/2005
Scotty's been beamed up
Sad news today that James Doohan passed away. There's a guy who went with the flow, even though he...
Author: GlenGordon Date: 07/20/2005