Magenic Technologies Community Blog

I was hoping to be blogging on some advanced WCF concepts by now but work took a different turn for me.   I am currently focused on developing an enterprise smart client with emphasis on using MVP for TDD and reusability.  As much as I typically dislike front end development, I've found this particular application to be fairly complex.  Custom ...

Hey everyone, I am officially in the process of getting more involved with the development community.  I have reserved some domain names for my blog and company websites.  I'm in the process of developing those sites now.  So rather than wait for my blog website to be perfected, I've decided to move ahead with my blogging endeavors.  I'm excited ...

Twin Cities was the place to be last weekend, I spent the weekend at the Twin Cities Code Camp and they even let me present something on Silverlight 2. If you were present at the camp, I hope you enjoyed it, and as promised I have the source files available along with my dinky slide. Additionally I said I would provide some links and ...

Well my wife and I received our Itinerary for our Holy Land tour coming up in November. We are really looking forward to it. Wednesday, November 5 Depart Chicago Thursday, November 6 Arrive Tel Aviv early afternoon Visit Caesarea Transfer to Tiberias Dinner and overnight in Tiberias ...

Our fourth meeting of CD2UG is upon us (Wednesday, October 1, 2008), for those who don't know, CD2 is a user group called Chicago Designers and Developers and it's focused around designer and developer collaboration, rich application development, user experience, and anything else in and out of that area of exptertise. I was not ...

Adam Kinney just announced to a small group today that Project Rosetta went live with a new initiative towards bringing articles, discussions, and more to those with histories in other platforms like Flash. So, designers and developers can check it out and learn to build off of their existing experiences to learn ...

Well I havent posted for the past two months. I took the summer off to really spend some time with my kids who were off for vacation and move the family to a new location in Chicago area. In doing so I have really started to look at what I am doing with my blog and my personal evangelism on what I love to do. Don't get me wrong I am really ...

So what is Google Chrome?  It is a new Web Browser. But before you say: "Enough, I can't keep track of IE7/8, Mozilla, Safari, now I have to take a look at yet another browser!!!", there is something interesting and different about this one.  It appears that the Google team has been writting a browser from scratch, not ...

Working with CodePlex on one of the projects I was faced with dilemma – download TFS explorer to get the latest source code from their TFS server, or… I was about to give up and download/run a 300 TFS Explorer on my latest development VPC image (project required some beta MS tools; hence the VPC as a development platform, but that ...

Years in making but it has finally come true: