Developing For .NET

Hi Folks!  Hard to believe it has been almost a month since the first ever Blend-O-Rama event!  I’ve gotten lots of questions about the videos and the website, so I wanted to put this together to give everyone an update.

The BOR Videos

When I wrote about the LiveMeeting experience, I failed to discuss recording the sessions.  Kevin recorded the sessions, but the videos themselves are really small.  I’m sure this is partly because I had to set my resolution to 1024×768 for LiveMeeting to display well, and partly to limit storage size.  The actual WMV files came out as 704×528 – like I said, they are small.

They are so small that on my 1600 monitor they are almost unreadable. They view acceptably at 1024×768, so I hate to recommend it but you may want to resize your display in order to watch the videos.  They will be available for download on the BOR site when it goes live.

I hate to make people wait any longer, so the good news is you can download them now in an all-in-one Zip file.

The BOR Website

I’m in the process of moving service providers, so the BOR website has been on hold while I get that set up.  I’m also hampered a little bit by my lack of ASP.NET experience.  Fortunately, I have friends who know a little something about all this stuff! I can happily report that I am about 98% there, with the help of Kevin Griffin and the great team at OrcsWeb.

I have a handful of videos already out there but many more to produce.  Most of the content from the BOR sessions will be available in a series of shorter videos.  I’ll also take suggestions and requests, so for now if you have any put them in the comments here. 

At any rate, progress has been made, albeit not as swiftly as I would have liked.  Such is my never ending story.  Thanks as always to all the supporters out there, you guys make it all worthwhile!