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  • ADHD and Hyperfocus

    While looking at a recent posting by Jesse Liberty , he mentioned his tendency to “hyper focus” because of his ADD. I had heard of the term before but had never associated it with ADD. So I did a search. I came across this article on the topic , and I'm...
    Posted to Brownie Points by Mike Brown on 08-16-2010
  • Learning F# Using Project Euler

    I’ve decided that immersion is the best way for me to learn new programming concepts. My exposure to WPF came 4 years ago when I started at a new employer and was told that my first assignment was to learn the application codebase and create a WPF Datagrid that could display data from our application (the view of the data was dynamically composed using metadata from an EAV database). Needless to say, the effort helped bring me up to speed quickly with both the internal codebase and WPF.

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    Posted to Brownie Points by Mike Brown on 05-14-2010
  • What is MVVM?

    There has been a lot of confusion lately over just what MVVM is and what it isn’t. I think this confusion has led many to throw their hands up in disgust and/or frustration and swear off MVVM altogether. I think the confusion comes because people aren...
    Posted to Brownie Points by Mike Brown on 05-04-2010
  • Silverlight Bing Maps Control and Drag & Drop

    I was recently asked to build up a Silverlight tool to show a file full of addresses on a map. I decided to use the Silverlight bing maps control and I must say I was not disappointed with it's functionality. It ended up being extremely simple. The tools used to create this were VS2010, Silverlight 4, Bing maps Silverlight control, and the Bing maps web services.

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    Posted to I Can't Believe That Worked by David Justice on 04-17-2010
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  • Sacha Barber’s New WPF Framework

    Today, Sacha Barber and a few of his colleagues released an article on CodeProject about their new framework for WPF . The article appears to be a preview for their upcoming book.  I looked a little closely at the article. And based on it my recommendation...
    Posted to Brownie Points by Mike Brown on 04-01-2010
  • Equality

    This is something that I’m surprised isn’t included in the framework out of the box. When using the Distinct Query operator, one of the overloads takes an IEqualityComparer<T> instance. There is friction in creating a separate IEqualityComparer<T>...
    Posted to Brownie Points by Mike Brown on 03-18-2010
  • Intention Revealing Interfaces or Car.FuelInjectionSystem.FuelInjectionRate.Increase()

    I was having a discussion with Josh Smith about my upcoming article in MSDN Magazine on enterprise patterns with RIA Services. It’s basically a deep-dive into the technology that goes beyond the Drag-n-Drop demos you’ve seen so far. Josh’s...
    Posted to Brownie Points by Mike Brown on 03-17-2010
  • Windows Phone 7 the Belle of the Ball

    With its noticeable absence from PDC 2008 and 2009, it appeared that Windows Mobile had all but been abandoned. Yes and no. Windows Mobile is no more . Say hello to Windows Phone. The opening keynote for Mix 2010 was all about Windows Phone 7. If it weren...
    Posted to Brownie Points by Mike Brown on 03-15-2010
  • 2010 MVP Summit Recap (Or How to Slay a Robeast)

    No you’re not going to get an inside dish on what to expect at Mix (if you can make it, I HIGHLY suggest you go…unfortunately, an urgent contract popped up for me that prevents me from going…now that I think of it, considering the...
    Posted to Brownie Points by Mike Brown on 03-01-2010
  • Make Cheap Software or Make Software Cheap

    I came across two interesting items on the web today. The first was Rocky Lhotka’s mCSLA series in which he presents a DSL over CSLA. I know, I know but let’s put our opinions about CSLA aside and look at the really important point. Here is a sample of...
    Posted to Brownie Points by Mike Brown on 02-23-2010
  • Accounting for Cost of Sales with Currying

    I have a quick question for you. If you’re selling a widget for $100 and the local sales tax is 8%, how much should you add to the cost of the item to cover the sales tax? If you said $8 or 8%, you’re losing money. To the tune of 64 cents a sale. (Do...
    Posted to Brownie Points by Mike Brown on 01-18-2010
  • The Pomodoro Technique

    I was going to talk about how my digital cleanse reminds me of a macro scale Pomodoro. Then I realized that I never really talked about the Pomodoro Technique. The Pomodoro Technique is a method for getting organized and being focused. It is a time management system created by Franesco Cirillo. I’m going to let him tell you how he came up with the concept:

    One day in the classroom on campus where I used to study, I watched my classmates with a critical eye, and then looked even more critically at myself: how I got myself organized, how I interacted with others, how I studied. It was clear to me that the high number of distractions and interruptions and the low level of concentration and motivation were at the root of the confusion I was feeling.

    So I made a bet with myself, as helpful as it was humiliating: “Can you study – really study - for 10 minutes?” I needed objective validation, a Time Tutor, and I found one in a kitchen timer shaped like a pomodoro (the Italian for tomato) – in other words, I found my “Pomodoro”.

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    Posted to Brownie Points by Mike Brown on 01-11-2010
  • Welcome to 2010

    Yes I know I’ve already posted twice on here this year (more on that later). But this is my first post coming out of my Digital Cleanse . What did I do in that week away from twitter, facebook, and all the tech “news” sites like engadget, joystiq, etc...
    Posted to Brownie Points by Mike Brown on 01-08-2010
  • The Duct Tape Programmer Revisited

    Not too long ago, I responded to the reaction that many had to Joel Spolsky’s article “ The Duct Tape Programmer ”. My belief still remains that people missed the point due to the unfortunate titling (as well as the severe dating of the technologies mentioned...
    Posted to Brownie Points by Mike Brown on 01-07-2010
  • RIAlity TV

    I am creating a video blog designed as a reality TV show called RIAlity TV. (Actually I'm designing it to be a Channel of RIAlity shows). The first show called "The Project Room:Catching the Wave" will document creating a software product...
    Posted to Brownie Points by Mike Brown on 01-01-2010
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