Alex Knight (@agkdesign) presented on what it is to design Metro apps and what sets them apart from other user interfaces. He gave a lot of high level information on how to approach the design, and gave some ideas about keeping the UI “Authentically digital”. It is a very good session to watch in your spare time.
Alex has provided me with the slides Which you can download.
And the video is available for you to watch at any time
A photograph taken during Win8DevAu Canberra to demonstrate sharing in Windows 8
Michael Kordahi asked people to write up what their geek origins were http://delicategeniusblog.com/?p=1292. I had some fun digging around and finding old links from the past. So here is a brief rundown of my early years.
Early years:
My geek origin story definitely starts at school. My school was very forward thinking and every student was given an apple laptop, with a 4 grey scale screen! During school hours I’d be making Hypercard animations and games. I also got started with writing Quake 2 and halflife mods for fun and eventually moving on to homebrew on the SEGA Dreamcast. In my later school years I would experiment more and more with the school’s computers and networks. Every time they put up new restrictions, or installed new software like “Mac Admin”, it would only take me a few days before I was able to circumvent them. I was sent to the high school office on more than one occasion for this, and nearly expelled twice. This is also the origin of my gamer tag: xp3ll3d.
Those early years of “Burela vs. the admins” is probably what made me very vocal about computer freedoms such as internet filters (and also why I don’t get along with corporate IT in organisations very well).
University years:
I’ve always been a geek at heart, and the need to spread the knowledge has always been with me. University was a brilliant place to be who you want to be. This was definitely the origin of my love for participating in the developer community as I ended up running a lot of community events for geeks during these years.
It started off with me being nominated to be president of the University’s “school of computing society”, I found I had a knack for organising people and events and it all snowballed from there.
During one university year I:
This resulted in me becoming a Tasmanian finalist for “Young Australian of the Year” http://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/pages/page265.asp.
Because of those early origins as a community geek, to this day the early I am still running community events and participating every chance I get!
Over the last 4 years, I continuously come back to this one blog post by Rowan Miller to remind myself how to create an ItemTemplate for a ListBox. It is the best cheat sheet I’ve found online.
via RoMiller.com
A few months ago Bill Chestnut, aka “Biztalk Bill” (@biztalkbill) talked at the August Vic.Net usergroup on SQL clustering. I didn’t realise that it was so involved. It is a good quick intro if you’ve never seen it set up before. Please note the final 10minutes of his talk was missed due to a flat battery on my camera
Title pretty much says it all, registrations for Remix are now open.
http://www.microsoft.com/australia/remix08/index.aspx
May 20th for Sydney and May 22nd for Melbourne. Costs $199 but you get a copy of expression studio worth $1,040. Judging by the sessions released from Mix in Las Vegas last month, this should be a great learning experience. I really enjoyed myself at Remix last year
I haven’t registered yet because I’m hoping my Imagine cup entry will be one of the finalists meaning I get to go for free!
I had a fancy letter com in the mail, was in cursive writing with a shiny gold crown on top of the invitation. It reads:
His excellency the Honourable William Cox,
The Govenor of Tasmania, and Mrs Cox
request the pleasure of the company of
Mr David Burela
at the reception to mark the visit of the
Young Austrlian of the year finalists
on Tuesday 28th August
So i’m going along to that tonight, should be interesting. I’m probably just being invited along since i was one of 4 Tasmanian finalists last year for Young Australian of the year. But hey, there might be free drinks and canapes!
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