Craig Shoemaker

Thanks to all who joined me this morning for my HTML 5 Offline Applications webinar compliments of the guys at Pluralsight. I had an opportunity to dig a bit into the application cache API as well as discuss some of the distinctions between local storage, client-side databases and offline applications. Thanks for all the great questions!

If you haven’t noticed yet the guys at Pluralsight have made my Introduction to HTML 5 course available for FREE for the next couple of days during BUILD. While this course is available you’ll learn all about the new HTML 5 tags and JavaScript APIs. Demos include:

The web is a-swirl with talk of HTML5. (Seemingly even Windows 8 programming is soon to include HTML5). With all this talk come some questions:

I had a great time last night presenting the Fundamentals of HTML5 to the friendly faces at the SoCal .NET User Group. Lionel Wong and Art Villa run a great group!

The ASP.NET team released a preview of the Sprite and Image Optimization framework yesterday. Here's a quick video to get you started.

David Starr (@ElegantCoder) is the Curriculum lead on Developer Tools and Practices with Pluralsight. His enthusiasm and passion for raising the bar in software development makes him perfect to join the show to discuss software craftsmanship. David explains what craftsmanship is, how it’s related to the agile movement and how to get started. When he’s not busy leading classes for Pluralsight David hosts Pluralcast podcast and is the founder of ElegantCode.com.

Every year around this time I turn my attention to what I’ve done over the past year in order to update my MVP profile. While the engine Microsoft provides has many ways to list accomplishments and activities, I’ve always had a difficult time trying to find the right way to list my activities over the year.