CES 2010

Time to get excited.

What new technologies will the CES 2010 unveil.

Six trends to watch for at CES 2010

- ULV Processor laptops

- Smartbook

- 3D HDTV

- OLED (organic light emitting diode) and AMOLED (active matrix OLED) displays

- Microsoft SYNC and Ford in car communications (Ford SYNC)

- Green Computing Trends

Office 2007 Open XML File Formats – An interesting read from the ‘new’ MSDN Lite Edition.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338205.aspx

PDC 2009 Next Week!!

 

I am eagerly looking forward to the presentation ‘Future Directions for C# and Visual Basic’.

http://blogs.msdn.com/lucabol/archive/2009/11/13/luca-at-pdc-2009-next-week.aspx

Excel Pivot Tables

Pivot Tables are an interactive table that allow the user to group and summarize large amounts of data in a concise, tabular format for easier reporting and analysis. They can sort, count, and total the data, and are available in a variety of spread sheet programs. One advantage of this feature in Excel is that it allows you to rearrange, hide, and display different category fields within the Pivot Table to provide alternate views of the data. Read on to find out how to create your own pivot table in Excel.Found this neat article which illustrates 3 examples.

MVVM Pattern

The most useful pattern for WPF and Silverlight apps.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd419663.aspx