I wanted to get the word out on something my company is offering to everyone. Magenic consultants in Atlanta (including me) will be presenting a free day of training available to the public (lunch included, of course.) The goal of this tech day will be to show how to build a complete working application using the latest technologies – WCF, WPF, and Silverlight. If you're a developer, these are technologies that you can't afford not to know about; many people believe they are the future. This will be split into 6 sessions:
- WCF service
- WPF overview / common controls
- WPF data binding / simple animation / other controls, possibly reporting
- Silverlight - compare with WPF
- SilverLight - controls, data binding, possibly reporting
- Putting it all together, Q/A session.
Magenic Tech Day will be held on Saturday, November 15, 2008. More details are to come; but for now if you're interested in attending, just send me a note @ RafaelV@magenic.com or use this contact form.
I can't count the number of news channels that cover politics; multiplied by the number of shows on each channel that cover them. Some are better than others, of course; and most of them have some very cool graphics to show poll and voting results. With Tim Russert it was different. I don't follow politics as much as I should (SportsCenter usually wins out!); but whenever Tim Russert was talkin' politics, my eyes were always glued to the TV. I could listen to him for hours; and during the elections, I always did.
His gift was being able to paint an easy-to-understand picture of political topics that are very complex and usually very boring. And in most cases, he did it without the fancy-dancy graphics. But when he needed a visual aid, the whiteboard was all he needed! I don't think there's a lot of people in the world that can pull off. But Tim could, because of all of the other intangibles that he had.
Florida - Florida - Florida!
Many Americans have expressed their loss that Tim Russert will no longer appear on Meet the Press, or the Today Show, or be a part of this important presidential campaign. One of those comments even came from "OBAMA_08", who said this:
"I am very shocked and saddened. Tim was The Best - period.
He worked 50+ hours every week just reseraching his guest for the upcoming Meet The Press. He was pointed but never rude. He was respectful of his guests but he pushed for the truth as a good journalist should.
Tim was in my living room electroniclly so much it was almost like he was family. I felt like I have lost a good friend even though I never met him.
God Bless his family and friends and know he has millions of fans like me that will miss him dearly."
We love you, Tim. See you when we get there.