Rick Barraza
rbarraza
Form Follows Fiction
I'm the Design Technologist in the Coding 4 Fun group here at Microsoft. I've been working, playing and public speaking at the intersection of Design and Emerging Technology for over a decade. I'm a designer at heart who gets inspired by the impossible and uses tech to make it real. I also love a great story, obscure pattern or impossible connection - so hit me up anytime with your next crazy idea or fringe science project. I'd love to hear about it!
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A Deeper Dive into the Page Flip in Canvas/HTML5Apr 16, 2012 at 3:33 PM
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Handling Touch Inputs Across Device Browers
Here is the link to the awesome blog post by the IETeam on handling touch and mouse inputs across browsers:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/10/19/handling-multi-touch-and-mouse-input-in-all-browsers.aspxGetting All the Page Flip Code
Here is a downloa...
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TWC9: New Team Members, Win8, C++, SQL 2012, Cloud NumericsThis week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by new-member-of-the-team Rick Barraza to discuss the week's top developers news, including:
- [1:40] Windows Store for developers Global reach (Antoine Leblond), Windows 8 First Apps Contest, https://buildwindowscontest.com/
- [2:52] February 1, 2012: Use the P...
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Updates to the Coding4Fun Team!Dear friends,
As we start the new year, it's a great time to step back and review where we want to go with Coding4Fun, what kind of content we're passionate about, and most importantly, what we can do to inspire and enable everyone to get busy coding for fun themselves.
Our Team
We've expanded our team...
Staff
Here is a list of Channel 9 staff members.
A Deeper Dive into the Page Flip in Canvas/HTML5
Apr 18, 2012 at 9:41 AM@Leon @Sadatay That's right. Actually, it IS the Samsung Slates they gave out at Build. I didn't join MSFT till this January, so I got to get the free swag at BUILD =)
Another lesser known feature of those tablets is if you drop Windows 8 on it, you can shoot out stereoscopic to a 3D television through the HDMI port if you know what you're doing and code it out in the new DirectX 11.1
I'm heads down on a ton of Metro stuff right now, but I want to put up a show just on stereoscopic 3D from DirectX 11.1 and C++ on the new Windows 8 soon ( which means after TechEd Europe, so more "soonish" )
Thanks guys for the great support and comments. Much appreciated.
TWC9: New Team Members, Win8, C++, SQL 2012, Cloud Numerics
Jan 30, 2012 at 10:03 AMHi Rod, Sorry for the delay. I was heads down in code and just got out. I said "New Developer" but the phrase that was introduced was actually "modern developer". I think that one is more accurate, but still very amorphous right now. At the core, would be the "traditional" seasoned developer, tackling the big, hairy enterprise level projects and master weilder of all things COM or .NET. That's really the foundation. But we're entering a time where building on top of that are a vast army of web developers, Javascript masters, interaction developers, designers who code, scripters, etc. In Windows 8, we're seeing an introductory level playing field between C++, Javascript and C#. Canvas and HTML5 are blowing up, and DirectX 11.1 becoming more accessible through the OS is going to also create a lot of great opportunities for everyone up and down the stack. From Designers who code all the way down to enterprise dev super stars. From Phone to Hardware to Cloud, from browser based scripts all the way down to running native on the metal and GPU. I think of "modern developer" as being representitive of this entire spectrum, and that's how I was using it. A sign of the massive opportunities coming into the Microsoft ecosystem. Hope that helps. - rk