.NET @ Kape ni LaTtEX

With the Web Ramp Up held last February 26 coming up fast, and with work piling up the pressure, not to mention a job performance appraisal I'm not happy about (totally my fault, but busted my morale nonetheless),I totally missed out on my podcasts the whole month of February. So on the morning of the 27th I fired up iTunes, synced my iPod, and totally found the one Twitter WPF client that I should have talked about during Web Ramp Up!

Scott Hanselman of Hanselminutes talked with the creators of blu, a WPF Twitter client made by a design company called thirteen23. And boy was I blown away.

It was one of those Homer Simpson "doh!" moments where I reminded myself that even if I'm uber-busy, I should stop and look at my RSS feeds and updates, which might yield something both new and relevant to whatever I am doing at the moment.

Oh, and the feature that I was trying to add to Witty, wherein I was retrieving the "source" tweet of a certain reply tweet? Blu actually has that feature. I'm totally impressed!

You can download blu here.

Of course, those attending the Cebu edition of Web Ramp Up will get to see blu integrated in my presentation. See you guys in Cebu on Friday!

One of the peculiar circumstances of the recently concluded Web Ramp Up 2009 for me is that I will be doing this presentation twice: after last week's event as SMX, we're going to do it all over again this time in Cebu, on Friday, March 13.

Now, having conducted the presentation last February 26, I was able to browse through the evaluation forms, and immediately got feedback and criticism regarding my talk. This gives me a unique opportunity to refine my talk based on that feedback -- retain the good stuff, take out the bad, and do it all over again on the second Friday the 13th of the year.

What had happened underscores the importance of those evaluation forms they give out during MSDN Sessions and Microsoft seminars: it gives us speakers the chance to find out how we did, and give insight on how to improve our material. So for those who gave substantial, concrete feedback during my talk, whether it was positive or negative, thank you very much.

Of course, for the benefit of those in Manila, I'll be posting the revised slides a week or so from now, so do watch out for it.

For those in Cebu, see you next week!