Dec 222010
 

My Holiday Playlist.

Happy Holidays!

Brian

The List:

O Come All Ye Faithful, Nat “King” Cole
O Holy Night, Nat “King” Cole
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Nat “King” Cole
Jingle Bells, Frank Sinatra
The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You), Frank Sinatra
Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Dean Martin
Silver Bells, Dean Martin
O Tannenbaum, Vince Guaraldi Trio
Winter Wonderland, Johnny Mathis
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On an Open Fire), Johnny Mathis
Sleigh Ride, Johnny Mathis
Frosty the Snowman, Ella Fitzgerald
White Christmas, Bing Crosby
Silver Bells, Bing Crosby & Carol Richards
Silent Night, Bing Crosby, Ken Darby Singers & John Scott Trotter & His Orchestra
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Mele Kalikimaka (Merry Christmas), Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Jingle Bells, Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
It’s Beginning to Look Like Christmas, Bing Crosby
I’ll Be Home for Christmas, Bing Crosby & John Scott Trotter & His Orchestra
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Bing Crosby
Faith of Our Fathers, Bing Crosby & John Scott Trotter & His Orchestra
Christmas In Killarney, Bing Crosby
Adeste Fideles, Bing Crosby
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Frank Sinatra
Do You Hear What I Hear (Remastered), Perry Como & The Ray Charles Singers
Do You Hear What I Hear?, Andy Williams
Feliz Navidad, JosÈ Feliciano
Jingle Bell Rock, Bobby Helms
Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree, Brenda Lee
Blue Christmas, Elvis Presley
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Gene Autry
Frosty the Snowman, Jimmy Durante
White Christmas, The Drifters
Merry Christmas Baby, Charles Brown
Sleigh Ride, Leroy Anderson
Please Come Home for Christmas, Eagles
Christmastime Is Here (Instrumental), Vince Guaraldi Trio
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Judy Garland
The Christmas Song (with Natalie Cole), Andrea Bocelli
The Little Drummer Boy, Bing Crosby
The Chanukah Song, Adam Sandler
Christmas Time Is Here (Instrumental), Vince Guaraldi Trio
Merry Christmas Darling, Carpenters
Please Come Home for Christmas, Aaron Neville
Little Saint Nick (Single Version), The Beach Boys
Here Comes Santa Claus, Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane), Elvis Presley
A Holly Jolly Christmas, Burl Ives
White Christmas, JosÈ Feliciano
We Three Kings of Orient Are, JosÈ Feliciano
Silent Night, JosÈ Feliciano
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, JosÈ Feliciano
O Come All Ye Faithful, JosÈ Feliciano
Mary’s Little Boy Child, JosÈ Feliciano
The Little Drummer Boy, JosÈ Feliciano
Las Posadas, JosÈ Feliciano
Jingle Bells, JosÈ Feliciano
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, JosÈ Feliciano
Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, JosÈ Feliciano
The First Noel, JosÈ Feliciano
The Christmas Song, JosÈ Feliciano
The Cherry Tree Carol, JosÈ Feliciano
Home for the Holidays, Perry Como
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas, Perry Como & The Fontaine Sisters
Do You Hear What I Hear?, Bing Crosby

Dec 072010
 

I haven’t posted in a week or so because I started working in a new role at Microsoft on the Windows Azure Fabric Team.

It’s been a busy week moving offices, getting started in my new role, and coming up to speed on some of the internals of the Windows Azure Fabric. There’s a lot to learn for me.

THIS IS VERY EXCITING STUFF!

I love my new role, my new management team, and my new organization. Windows Azure is a great platform, and I am now part of the team, poised to directly contribute to its success.

This makes me lucky.

I am endlessly amazed at how a line of work I decided on when I was 14 years old, as a Freshman at Salem High School working on a PDP 11/60 running RSTS/E, has turned into a 28+ year career. I knew this was what I wanted to do when I was a child, I pursued it, and I still get to do it every day.

How awesome is that?

This weekend I hope to pick up on my blog again and finish this series of postings. As much as I love Microsoft, and Windows Azure, I am also digging iOS coding, too.

Brian

Dec 012010
 

Would you like to go to Stanford University and take a free course in iPhone Application Development?

CS193P – iPhone Application Development is available for free on YouTube. ~18 hours of lectures from Apple developers and iPhone development experts about iPhone development.

The link above contains all the downloads for the course.

Below, I’ve gathered all the links to the lectures:

1. Introduction to Mac OS X and Cocoa Touch

2. Using Objective-C, Foundation Framework

3. Custom Classes, Memory Management, and Objective-C Properties

4. Interface Builder, Controls, Target-Action

5. Views and Drawing, Animations

6. View Controller Basics

7. Navigation & Tab Bar Controllers

8. Table Views

9. Dealing with Data: User Defaults, SQLite, Web Services

10. Performance and Threading

11. Text Input, Presenting Content Modally

12. Address Book: Putting People in Your Application

13. Debugging Tips, Searching, Notifications, KVC/KVO

14. Touch Events and Multi-Touch

15. iPhone Device APIs: Location, Accelerometer & Camera, Battery Life & Power Management

16. Audio APIs, Video playback, Displaying Web Content, Settings

17. Creating New Expressive Social Mediums on the iPhone

18. Unit Testing, Fun with Objective-C, Localization, Mailbag

What in the world did we do before the Web? I think it’s simply amazing that I can take this course online for free.

- Brian