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Silverlight, WPF, Woodworking, .NET Programming, CNC, Nature, and other topics.

Pete Brown writes on a number of topics including Silverlight, WPF, .NET, woodworking and working as a consultant in the DC area. On most forums, Pete goes by the name Psychlist1972. Pete has worked at Applied Information Sciences (AIS) since 1996 where he currently performs as a lead architect and project manager.

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Web 2.0 Tenet : Never Follow Good Development Practices
One one of many pre-sales visits to different clients over the years, I found myself at a local dotcom in DC. It was filled with early-20’s VPs and fresh out of college developers who had a head a little too big for their skills. I love passion, but non-academic Read More...
Silverlight Facebook Application – MSDN East Coast News (what I’ve been working on lately)
My primary Silverlight project for the past couple months has been the Facebook application I’ve been writing for the Microsoft East Coast Developer, Partner and Architect Evangelists: MSDN East Coast News. For those of you curious about building Facebook Read More...
Upcoming Silverlight Webcasts and Live Events
Here are some of the talks I’ll be doing in the next month and a half or so. Wednesday October 22 MSDN geekSpeak webcast : Building Facebook applications with Silverlight 2 . We’ll cover some of the challenges and some tips and tidbits for building applications Read More...
Silverlight Install Experience for MSDN East Coast News
I’m putting the finishing touches on our first beta of MSDN East Coast News and decided to provide a customized install experience. The out of the box installation experience looks like this: That works, but really isn’t acceptable for this application. Read More...
Other Places I Hang Out Online
There are a number of other places I hang out where we can have two-way conversations rather than just a publish-subscribe relationship. Follow me on Twitter . Twitter is a fun place to hang out and get the news before folks have time to blog about it. Read More...
Facebook Developer Toolkit 2.0 Release Candidate Now Available
I just gave a talk at Microsoft TechReady covering how to build Facebook applications that host Silverlight content. One problem I ran into was the changing Facebook API and how the toolkit wasn’t yet synchronized with that. Well, just today, the Facebook Read More...
Easy Ways to Make your Technical Blog More Visible and Programmable
I’ve been doing a bunch lately with aggregating various technical blogs and surfacing the content through Silverlight and Facebook . While doing that, I ran into a number of challenges and figured out ways that folks can work around them to make their Read More...
Silverlight 2 and Yahoo Pipes
Sometimes I hear about something for the first time and figure I must live under a rock. I make a point of keeping up on a number of new things, but it's hard to keep track of all the cool services and technologies available to you these days. Tim Heuer Read More...