My name is Joe McBride and I'm an Independent Consultant working out of Salt Lake City Utah. I'm a Silverlight Insider and was the Technical Editor for Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight by Victor Gaudioso. I frequently present at community events on design patterns, upcoming technologies, and Agile methodologies. My enthusiasm for programming and software architecture was cultivated by writing scripts to automate my character in text-based MUDs that I played in high school (and secretly still engage in). I have run variations of my blog on since 2004 and can be followed on twitter as @xamlcoder.