About Pete Brown and his Blog
About Me
Hi, I'm Pete Brown - not the beer-reviewing Pete Brown, or the singer/songwriter Pete Brown, but the dev geek Pete Brown. From June 1996 through September 2009 I was a .NET Architect, Project Manager, and Client Technologies Evangelist at Applied Information Sciences (AIS). As of October 12, 2009, I am a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, on Scott Hanselman's team, with a focus on client development technologies (WPF, Windows Forms, C++, etc.) I live in the suburbs between Annapolis, MD and Washington DC.
My main site is irritatedVowel.com where I host various applications, help pages, tutorials, desktop wallpapers and other hobby information. Most of the new stuff is posted on my blog.
About My Blog
The name of this blog (POKE 53280,0) comes from the old Commodore 64 BASIC command to set the border of the screen black. This was usually followed by "POKE 53281,0" which did the same for the main part of the screen. The Commodore 64 was the first computer that really captured my interest because you do animate things in color, and create your own character sets. The level of expression you had was very high for computers of the time. Of course, my phone has a higher res screen than that computer had (and tons more memory and processing power), but I'll always remember that computer as the one that captured my interest back in 7th grade.
Brief Bio [as of October 12, 2009]
Pete Brown is a Senior Program Manager with Microsoft on the development community team lead by Scott Hanselman, and a former Microsoft Silverlight MVP, INETA speaker, and RIA Architect for Applied Information Sciences, where he worked for over 13 years. Pete's focus at Microsoft is the community around client application development (WPF, Windows Forms, C++, Surface, Windows API and more).
From his first sprite graphics and custom character sets on the Commodore 64 to 3d modeling and design through to Silverlight, Surface, Xna, and WPF, Pete has always had a deep interest in programming, design, and user experience. His involvement in Silverlight goes back to the Silverlight 1.1 alpha application that he co-wrote and put into production in July 2007. Pete has been programming for fun since 1984, and professionally since 1992.
In his spare time, Pete enjoys programming, blogging, designing and building his own woodworking projects and raising his two children with his wife in the suburbs of Maryland. Pete’s blog is at http://www.irritatedVowel.com/Blog , and you can follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/pete_brown
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Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pmbrown
Pete is a founding member of the CapArea .NET Silverlight SIG. (Visit CapArea. NET here )
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