Last week, I gave a presentation at the Microsoft's WPF Bootcamp in Redmond. My presentation, titled "WPF in Style", covered styling, templates, and User Experience in WPF. I describe my role as a Creative Developer at Vertigo and how we went about coming up with the design for Family.Show. I gave quick demos using Blend to set brushes and resources. I used that demo to build up to my approaches on styling a button control and building an app that supports skinning.  I also talked a little bit about Witty, my WPF twitter client.

It was one of the rare times that I spoke to a crowd of attendees, but it seem to have went well even with my nervousness. I got the chance to meet and hang out with some really cool people in the WPF world, including Josh Smith, Karsten Januszewski, and Jaime Rodriquez.  I also took the opportunity to meet many of the attendees and share my experiences on being a creative developer and building real-world WPF applications. It's great to see the enthusiasms around WPF!

The WPF Bootcamp was fun. It was good hear how Family.Show helped people with understanding the potentials of WPF as well as pushing WPF as a technology to use in their projects.

You can get my slides from Karsten's blog:

http://rhizohm.net/irhetoric/blog/37/default.aspx