About Pete Brown and his Blog
About Me
My name is Pete Brown and I'm a .NET Architect, Project Manager, and Client Technologies Evangelist at Applied Information Sciences (AIS). I live in the suburbs between Annapolis, MD and Washington DC. I moved down to this area from New England in 1996 and have lived here and worked at AIS ever since.
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.
If you are interested in having me speak on Silverlight, other .NET topics, RIA, User Experience, or Expression Design/Blend/SketchFlow at your user group or local, regional or national event, please contact me via the Contact link in this blog.
Brief Bio
Pete Brown is a Microsoft Silverlight MVP, an INETA speaker, and a RIA Architect for Applied Information Sciences in the Washington, DC area.
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
Affiliations
MVP Profile: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Pete.Brown
Twitter: http://twitter.com/pete_brown
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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