I’m working with a few .NETMF folks and have been talking with @ransomhall (http://ransomhall.com) about projects to collaborate on.

Eric created a Mood Cube using a GHI FEZ Rhino and 4 BlinkM … more

I’ve been meaning to get around to this post for a while but never seemed to make time to do it.  I recently joined the Unofficial Zenbot User's Group on Yahoo Groups and someone asked … more

I am gauging interest in running a Mobile / Embedded Developer user's group for the Central Virginia development community.When people think of mobile applications, they immediately think phone based … more

Mike Huffaker and I will be talking about embedded development this coming Thursday at the March meeting of the Richmond Software Craftmanship Group.  We meet at the SnagAJob.com offices in Glen … more

Being a dev machine that hadn't been reimaged in over a year or so, I was starting to have some issues with the current Win7 x64 image that I had on the machine I built in 2009.  Since I was … more

If you're trying to download new or update installed packages/themes from the Orchard Gallery, you may receive the following error once you click the "Install" link:

The remote server returned an … more

I'm hacking on the Gadgeteer platform with my GHI Spider board and working with the MultiColorLED module (5 of them to be exact).  I ran across an oddity when you call the .TurnBlue() method, the … more

Like many other legal organizations, the firm I work for is undergoing an Office 2003 to Office 2010 upgrade now that most of the vendors that make complementary software to allow us to do massive … more

I saw this great post on encrypting your data using Windows Phone 7 by Rob Tiffany. Rob makes several great points, including how easy it is to accomplish this task in Windows Phone 7.  Keep in … more

After having several discussions at CodeCamps, seeing the debate on Twitter and even the comments on Charlie Kindel's recent post "Hey, You, Get Off of my Cloud" on the Windows Phone … more

Thanks to everyone who came to my session this morning at Richmond CodeCamp! The Presentation and Demo Code can be downloaded here: (link) (6.9 MB) Please email me with any questions you may have. more

Great news, just heard that I have two sessions accepted for both of these learning events.  Here are the details: Richmond CodeCamp 2010.1 - Saturday May 22nd, 2010 - Richmond, VA.  … more

Last year I spoke at CodeStock in Knoxville, TN.  This year, I have submitted 3 sessions for CodeStock 2010 - session selection is based on attendee voting, so please go vote for them if you … more

I am in the process of moving all technical content from my personal site (http://dsaxman.com) to this site.  I'll do my best to get it moved over as quickly as possible, so please bear with … more

Last fall, I put together a NewEgg wishlist for a new 64 bit machine that I built.  I tweeted about it, but evidently didn't make a blog post.  The main purpose of this machine is to run … more

Missed the event last year but am super psyched to be speaking at CodeStock 2009 this year.  I'll be presenting my "Converting your LOB Apps to Silverlight" talk and hanging out in the … more

Thanks to everyone who attended my talk on Converting your Line of Business Application to Silverlight at the Richmond DotNet User Group (April 2nd), Philly CodeCamp (April 18th) and Richmond CodeCamp … more

I'm working on a graphics conversion utility for use in my mobile projects as well as for a friend's web based application.  My goal has been to write code that I can run both on the compact … more