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Check out this video interview with the EdgeRater creator, Chris White. Chris has a passion for the stock market. So he quit his day job at Microsoft, put his head down and developed EdgeRater. EdgeRater is a stock market backtesting and scanning application...

Do you remember the challenge Mark Miller laid down for this year’s PDC conference? Yes, that insane challenge where he would use an XBOX guitar and no keyboard! Check out this video of Mark Miller at PDC 2009 as he took on all kinds of challengers: I...

Check out this informative PDC video chat with Microsoft ASP.NET Lead Program Manager, Scott Hunter. Scott oversees both the ASP.NET WebForms and MVC frameworks! If you care about ASP.NET then I recommend watching the Scott Hunter ASP.NET PDC video chat...

Check out this Steve Smith software craftsmanship video from PDC 2009. Steve is an MVP, Microsoft Regional Director, and an ASP.NET Insider . In this video, Steve discusses how developers can improve their skills and the code we generate. Check out the...

Check out this Internet Explorer (IE) discussion with Giorgio Sardo. Giorgio loves IE8. And with good reason, since IE8 has come a long way in terms of performance, standards, and features. Watch Giorgio’s lively personality by clicking on the image below...

Check out this video interview with Brian H. Prince from Microsoft: Brian is an Architect Evangelist for Microsoft who’s also actively involved in the .NET developer community. In the video, Brian discusses: What is an “Architect Evangelist”? How Brian...

At this year’s PDC 2009 conference, I got to meet a lot of great developers that are building apps using DevExpress products. Check out the interviews I did with Eduardo Quintana and David Dillon. Eduardo Quintana Eduardo is a long time customer from...

Windows Azure and Microsoft’s cloud strategy was one of the big announcement at PDC 2009. And Microsoft brought a shipping container , ahem, “air handling unit” that shows off the hardware where your data will actually live in the cloud. So, if you’re...

The third day, for some reason, was pretty quiet at the booth. Nevertheless there was a constant stream of customers who wanted to discuss their scenarios with us, and how we could help. Another big event was Eiríkur Nilsson managing to beat Mark in the...

This PDC we've been running a contest: try and beat Mark in writing a useful control. The catch is that you have to write your code using Visual Studio only (so, using Intellisense, snippets, VS' refactorings if needed) whereas Mark is using CodeRush...