Developing UX

I was tagged in a video yesterday on Facebook, and I completely related to it. That brings my top 3 best video ever to these. Enjoy..

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I finally had time to announce the winners for the Fit In Feb Developer Challenge. Check out Peter’s before and after picture. Awesome!

Go see the rest of the winners over at my “Get Less of Me” health blog.

I’m looking forward to doing another event like this at some point in the future. I’ll just need to find better ways to automate more of the process and do daily leader boards and that sort of thing.

What sort of “Healthy Developer” contest would you like to see?

Several exciting things happened today. First, I was re-rewarded with an ASP.NET MVP (thank you, thank you… I’d like to thank that academy… oh wait), Microsoft announced the *much anticipated* Silverlight MVP expertise, and finally, to everyone’s surprise, the new Linux MVP award.

“The Microsoft MVP Award Program recognizes and thanks outstanding members of technical communities for their community participation and willingness to help others. The MVP Award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who foster the free and objective exchange of knowledge by actively sharing their real-world expertise with technology users.” – Says Rich Kaplan, Microsoft Vice President

I’m especially encouraged by the first three Linux MVP’s that were named… Read more »

Several people have asked me, “when are the final details going to be posted?”, Well, I’m happy to finally announce them! If you haven’t been following the Fit in February Developer Challenge, then it’s easy to catch up! Basically, it’s a challenge for developers (but anyone can participate) through the month of February, the prizes are a MSDN Team Suite Subscription, a Zune, and an 80GB VSTS Logo’d Zune! (very cool and geeky)

It’s easy to catch up… go check out the official site and then join the Facebook group!

The Developer Challenge that I announced on Friday is gaining some awesome momentum! The Facebook group now has over 80 members (in 3 days) and in addition to the MSDN Team Suit that I am giving away, Brian Sampica has offered up a Zune, and the VSTS Team just added a VSTS Logo’d 80GB Black Zune to the mix!

Catch all of the details over on my health blog – Less of Me – then get ready to get active in February!

We’re a bit past the new year… but I finally got around to trying this.

“I, Caleb Jenkins, herby resolve to Cut back on admitting fault at the office”

Hmmm… that resolution doesn’t seem very empowering or agile? Maybe you’ll have a better resolution than I had. I really like how the “wheels” look like they are rolling when really it’s just a simple gradient applied to the top and bottom of the visible area of a list box. Nice technique! Go try it out!

Enjoy!

I was just looking at the i-nigma reader for Windows Mobile.

If you have it installed, you can point your phone’s camera at this image and then call me… crazy!

Update: Looks like Microsoft is working on something similar, but broader in scope and uses. Sweet!

I just found this and it made me laugh…  the geek in me always wondered what would happen.

Enjoy!

Because friends don’t let friends use HTML Tables …

I’ve been spending more time lately working in MVC and MVP, (specifically M-V-VM) style applications. I thought that it would be a good time to pull out some of the great MVC PSA’s that Adam Keys from FiveRuns and the guys from RailsEnvy put together. They started a while ago, but they keep adding more! Be sure to check out the other MVC PSA’s linked below.

Check out the other Model View Control – Public Service Announcements:

 10. OpenID / OAuth Support. I know, I know… you guys are all over this, along with a better Jabber API, hCards and several other projects. Having worked on a couple of twitter applications it would be so nice to have OAuth… and as a user, OpenID would be very nice as well.

9. @Replies view in mobile Twitter. I don’t watch twitter all day, every day. Who does? So it makes it very nice to sit down and hit the "replies" view on the main web page to make sure that I haven’t missed anything that was specifically directed to me. When I’m on my mobile phone http://m.twitter.com is one of the best ways that I’ve found to use twitter. Its’ just very frustrating to not have a @replies view there! While we’re on the @replies topic… it would also be nice to include replies if your @name was mentioned anywhere in the response, not just first. (we’ll call that 9.2   )

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