Speaking at San Diego .NET Developers Group on 4/6

Please excuse this bit of shameless self promotion:

I will be speaking at the San Diego .NET Developers Group on April 6th, 2010. I am going to be giving a talk about technical interviewing. If you follow my blog you will recognize the topic :).

The semi ranting post I published a few months back got a lot more traffic then I expected. I thought I was just blowing off steam. However, it seemed that many other people had similar experiences and agreed, at least in part, with what I was saying.

That gave me the idea to filter out the ranting and distill down the useful bits of advice and build a talk out of it. So this talk will be my first attempt at formalizing the advice and hopefully sharing some knowledge and experience with others.

If you are local to San Diego or going to be in the area on April 6th please drop by and check out the group. The meetings are free and are always fun.

.NET Rocks Interview

 

I just had the pleasure of doing a .NET rocks podcast with Carl and Richard. It will be show #469 and should be available on August 4, 2009 (I will update this post with a link when it becomes available). It is show #469 and you can listen to it here.

The show is about touch based computing, touch based hardware, Surface, Win7, social computing and Richard’s Touchsmart in his kitchen. Good times.

We even dive into the risqué topic of “social touching”…..

Check it out.

geekSpeak recording on Channel 9

Recently I recorded a geekSpeak interview on Touch Based computing and the general NUI paradigm shift.

I just noticed that the interview has been uploaded to Channel 9 now so if you missed it you can check it out here

http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/geekSpeak/geekSpeak-Recording-Touch-based-Computing-with-Brad-Cunningham/

It is a talk show based podcast so there isn’t much video to pay attention too but you can listen to it while you work (if you are that geeky :) )

If you listen to it and think it is awesome let me know (if you think it really sucks you can let me know too :( )

Touch 101 Talk – San Diego .NET user group

Thanks to everyone that came out to my talk last night. We had a good time discussing touch based development and gestural interfaces.

You can download the slide deck here if you are interested.

Here are a handful of links that I showed during the talk.

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WindowsTouch

http://www.interknowlogy.com/ http://silverlight.interknowlogy.com/Videos/Surface/default.html

http://www.perceptivepixel.com/

http://vimeo.com/4206140 http://idlemode.com/2009/04/10/design-considerations-for-touch-ui/

http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/