Expression Web now on MSDN and my new Day Job!

Published 04 April 07 12:42 AM | dwalker 

I'm surprised I haven't seen this news everywhere. I first saw it on Cory Smith's blog, then I see Steve Smith posted about it as well. Per Somasegar and Scott Guthrie - they finally made  Expression Web available on MSDN. Somasegar was sure to point out that this is all because of the voice of the people. Sharing your thoughts and opinions does matter and can make things happen.

In other news, I recently accepted an offer from Winner Communications, Inc and returned to them in my new role as Manager of Technical Architecture on March 27, 2006. I am very excited about this opportunity considering they have a lot of awesome developers and designers, as well as some terrific projects and clientele. On top of my responsibilities I will be attempting to introduce Expression Web and WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) to their designers who are mostly Mac users and focused on Flash.

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# Caleb Jenkins said on April 4, 2007 10:27 AM:
Wahoo! This is one of the things that we fought for before I left Microsoft. Glad to see that it finally happened! When Messaging, Marketing and Community Collide.
# Caleb Jenkins said on April 6, 2007 3:08 PM:
What? You saw it on Cory's blog before mine! I did too. ;) Congrats on the new gig!

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About dwalker

David Walker has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant with companies such as: Texaco, Bank of Oklahoma, Winner Communications (ESPN.com) and IBM Global Services. At the age of 14, he began his application development ambitions with a Commodore 64, BASIC, and a 300 baud modem. Even at that early age, he primarily focused on two specific application types: multi-user communities and database applications.

His hunger to learn as much as possible about development lead him through courses such as DBase III, DBase IV, Pascal, C, C++, Java, and several in UNIX. He started his development career first doing heavy processing with Access and VBA, then moved on to VB 3, Oracle, and Delphi. Visual Basic was one environment that remained constant for many years, including his very first .NET projects performed in Visual Basic.NET.

After working several years on very high end internal Corporate applications, the consultant company he was working for, sought out his ideas for actual software products that could be packaged and sold. He had already developed several prototypes of a dynamic portal application, before portals even became popular, so this became the logic decision and he became the Director of Product Development. Under his direction, a team of developers and graphic artists, took a skinning approach before that become popular, and completed the core portal application, and continued on to developer 15+ add-on modules, including things such as: Help Desk Ticket Systems, Change Control, Records Management, Human Resources, and many more applications. Eventually, it spun off into it's own separate company as KnowledgeGEAR, a complete intranet in the box solution.

Having worked as a consultant, he has had a experience with a very wide range of applications and architectures, at one time, even converting several Fox Pro and GW-Basic applications to VB 6 and ASP. His early training of Unix and the C language and years of experience with JavaScript, lead him very quickly to C#, where he has remained focused ever since.

He is the current President of the Tulsa Developers .NET user group.. He has been an MCP since 2003 and MCAD and MCSD since 2005. He is currently pursuing his MCDBA and then on to MCSE.

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