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Author: Brad Becker

  • Silverlight builds robots?!?

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    No, the robot in the new Silverlight 3 poster represents your next great idea that you can "bring to life" in Silverlight. There’s a lot packed into this poster—you’ll want to get a closer look. Some lucky folks got these at MIX. For the rest of you, we’ll be releasing some new desktop wallpapers based…

  • Sony makes it hard so you stay busy

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    Sony’s CEO has given us a new candidate for the worst.quote.ever. from a usability point of view: “We don’t provide the ‘easy to program for’ console that (developers) want, because ‘easy to program for’ means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so then the question…

  • Quince: UX Patterns Explorer

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    Just saw this interesting UX patterns explorer app—it’s worth checking out: Infragistics Quince: UX Patterns Explorer

  • Silverlight in the News

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    I had a few interviews recently which have started to show up in print/online. I point them out because I think this blog is mostly read by my mom and my sister. Actually, they probably don’t read this either but when my memory finally goes completely, I can meander over here and read about how…

  • Flash, HTML, Ajax: Which will win the Web app war?

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    I ended up being quoted a few times in this recent article about modern web app technologies. I’ll provide a bit more context here. …Microsoft sees things differently, believing that programmers are best off ditching HTML and JavaScript as soon as Web applications start getting rich. "It’s amazing what people have done with HTML, which…

  • The Future gets slightly more uniformly distributed

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      I finally had a chance to check this out and you should too. Minority Report comes to life. As William Gibson says, the future is here, it’s just not uniformly distributed. http://labs.cynergysystems.com/Flash.html

  • Silverlight Gets Serious

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    So today we announced Silverlight 2 Beta 2. There are a lot of features that are noteworthy but the most exciting thing is that this release is the first release of Silverlight 2 that has a go-live license. When this release is available later this week, you’ll finally be able to create and commercially deploy…

  • Silverlight Reference

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    The MSDN docs are now live for Silverlight 2. Check them out below. I’m also told there are new Quickstarts. Silverlight Reference

  • Adobe Blurs Line Between PC and Web – New York Times

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    So, I don’t normally blog about competitors but I’m quoted in the New York Times today and they promoted me to executive and dubbed me the father of Flash, or somesuch. Ah, here it is: Finally, there is Microsoft. It is pushing its competitor to Flash, called Silverlight. Three years ago, Microsoft hired one of…

  • Fast Times at RIA High

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    What a time this is shaping up to be… We have some exciting stuff cooking here that I can’t quite talk about yet but you’ll be seeing soon enough. Scott Guthrie recently posted about a few of the things we’re doing to continue WPF’s place as the best platform for creating the best desktop experiences…