June 2007 - Posts

• blendables

  I’ve made a few posts focused on WPF but have never really tied it back to what I actually do for a job.  Officially I’m “Director of Product Management” at IdentityMine, Inc.  Well why does a company need a product manager if they are a services business?  I started in January specifically to help bring our [...] Posted Jun 26 2007, 12:50 PM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream Filed under: IM, Blog

• Twitter WPF Challenge

  Dan McWeeny has started an interesting series of blog posts: I’ve always thought it would be interesting for people to see what a programmer goes through when creating a new system.  Telling the world where you are getting stuck so others can learn from and/or laugh at your mistakes.  It might also be interesting for people [...] Posted Jun 13 2007, 09:32 AM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream Filed under: IM, Blog

• Silverlight Goodness

  Mike Harsh has a great link to Dave Campbell’s blog.  I think it’s critical for these technologies to have clear and easily digestible “getting started” material for people to dig in with.  Just this week I was asked…”So where do I go to start learning about WPF?”  I feel the MSFT probably has too much [...] Posted Jun 08 2007, 09:20 AM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream Filed under: IM, Blog

• Something for Mom - Microsoft Kitchen

  Just last week I wrangled up my dad to show him Microsoft Surface.  This was great for me as it helped me answer the question “What do you do?”.  As I have mentioned in previous posts WPF is hard to explain to my friends and family, so having a few Surface demos helped put things [...] Posted Jun 07 2007, 09:35 AM by Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream Filed under: IM, Blog, Blendables