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I really like blogging clients and am bummed I haven't found one for the window 7 phone.
Right now the best bet is through email. Gives me the predictive keyboard and lets me edit over sessions. All the biggest requirements for blogging clients .
In fact that is how I am blogging now.
Sent from my Windows 7 Phone
By the way wrote last blog post on it while on a stationary bike – see ma – no keyboard! And this one.
Love the camera button and used it today takes awesome pictures . Equipment may be disappearing front bag.
everyone likes the tiles, especially the individual people tiles.
and a small weird brag – my questions have been on the Zune insider podcast on two episodes now – episodes 94 and 92.
just spend the day there.
it was good. got sidetracked in the morning but ended up where i wanted to be. learning how to create lessons with smart notebook software.
I presented windows movie maker software twice. The first room was great, the second not so much.
ran into a bunch of friends including dr. Lenvay who I has not seen in years. He did the other presentation I participated in.
he showed how to use PowerPoint, Word, and Google apps to differentiate learning . He was good.
breakfast looked good • lunch was great – good goodie bags and good door prices though didn't win any.
I love the Windows Phone 7 and most everyone who has seen it does. It's light, a bit big in my hand, but I have small hands, and the display rocks. I have the Samsung Focus. I am SO over HTC. Well, their Windows Phone 7 isn't bad, but this rocks. I will probably go in and look at the LG, and might swap for the keyboard, but can live with it.
Copy and Paste
I'm sure they are coming.
Somethings are not intuitive — streaming music.
Loving it. I went from HTC pure and tilt 2 so how can I not be happy?
keyboard isn't bad. blogging with it now.
app selection is better than I expected. Facebook, Twitter and foursquare all available.
zune pass isn't working <pout>
typepad blogging via the web interface.
We’ve seen just code to make app live but too fast to catch, sure it will be better later. It’s 11:30 and most of this has been a sales pitch and how to make money on apps. Not bad, useful in fact, but they are still talking at us.
If you haven’t been reading my blog, my pet peeve lately is that as CS teachers were modeling the worst kind of teaching to each other. And talking to people is the worse way to teach.
This is cool – sitting next to a Words with Friends developer. Local kid, went to college here and working here. Awesome. Former softie. (yes, I suck people brains out).
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So the rest of the day was talking to us. <sigh> But I learned a lot and it was good.
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Thursday rocked, and someone made a suggestion that would have made it rock more – having talk to us for half a day and lab half a day would have been better. I wanted the screen on my screen as I was having seeing theirs.
Now, I had major issues. I had installed the Expression Studio and the VB 2010 Professional version but the Phone tools wouldn’t installed. I spent all morning uninstalling everything so I missed most of the lab, but I got most of it set up before the XNA part and just finished debugging it a bit ago. Basically a twitter app, and it looks very pretty with very little work. First time I programmed in Blend.
The afternoon went better, we did the first parts of an XNA game and since I’ve taught that to kids, I really grog that process. I can’t wait until I have time to finish the lab.
I have some really good concrete ideas for some apps, so we’ll see what I can get going.
I was a bit offended by the fact that there were two Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders greeting people at registration. I need to talk to one of my favorite teachers about it, because she is a former SMU Dancer, and former Mavericks Dancer (and one of our former students).
The Mascot was cool. So maybe since the Cowboys and the Cheerleaders are icons it might be okay.
First, there are not a lot of women here, but there are a few. We’re here to learn about programming, but I am sure that there are non-locals here and having some Dallas icons is okay. Just wish they had more clothing on, but at the same time, the room is so cold I’m wishing for more clothing myself….
The good things:
Lots of good materials and lots of practical advice.
The fact that the presentation will be available for two months.
I also compliment the presenter for keeping up with the back channel.
But talking for two hours – please my students would never let me pull that off nor do i have that much in my head at any one time.
Again thankfully the presentation is supposed to be available for two months.
I end up laying awake at night worrying because they don't turn in their work, and they don't seem to care that they are failing.
I don't know why I care, but I do.
Yes, still going to the Windows Phone Developer Conference and the good news is that it got approved as Professional Development! No losing Personal Days.
Can't wait to share with my students.