by Bruce | Jul 12, 2011 | Development, General
Microsoft released it’s long awaited (very long awaited) Silverlight Certification (MCTS 70-506) earlier this year. It was reportedly held up several times as Silverlight transitioned from version 2->3->4. There was enough new in Silverlight 4 that the...
by Bruce | Jul 6, 2011 | Development, General
I have been part of the Toastmasters for Techies group in Grand Rapids since starting with the group about a year ago. In fact I am Vice President in charge of Public Relations, so let me mention now that everyone should attend if they communicate or present ideas...
by Bruce | Feb 1, 2010 | Development, Things that make me think
At the CodeMash conference this year many things stuck with me, and two have been bugging me enough to do something about them this last weekend. One was the idea that programmers need to practice and refine their skills, which was probably best described in the...
by Bruce | Aug 4, 2009 | Development, Tech Trends
Programming for Today’s Kids: Why NXT-G, Kodu, Scratch, Alice, Small Basic, KPL / Phrogram and others can reignite the imagination and understanding of technology for today’s kids. As Kids growing up in the 70s and 80s, we did not have all the technical resources...
by Bruce | Jul 19, 2009 | Development, Tech Trends, Things that make me think
One of the other fortunate things we were able to spend some time on last week was Kodu for the XBox 360. Kodu is one of those things that is difficult to describe in words or even screen shots, and really needs to be experienced to understand. In a...
by Bruce | Jun 22, 2009 | Development, Tech Trends, Things that make me think
Kidbook vs. Netbook I wrote almost a year ago of how I’ve been looking for a netbook that would meet some basic requirements for use by kids for their daily work. There have been a lot of netbook models which are basically all the same specs, but none have...
