Category: News
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Silverlight helps jobhunters
Found this article that says half of IT jobseekers still find work quickly. Favorite quote: The survey found that the most in-demand skills are in software development and testing–in particular, those with experience of agile programming, Scrum methodology, and Microsoft’s .Net, Silverlight and SharePoint tools. Business analysis and project management expertise are also proving popular.…
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Silverlight builds robots?!?
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…
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Silverlight in the News
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…
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Flash, HTML, Ajax: Which will win the Web app war?
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…
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Silverlight Gets Serious
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…
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Adobe Blurs Line Between PC and Web – New York Times
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…
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Fast Times at RIA High
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…
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Innovation in the other kind of shopping carts – CNN.com
There’s an interesting development in brick and mortar shopping with this interactive shopping cart console that’s being trialed: Customers with a ShopRite loyalty card will be able to log into a Web site at home and type in their grocery lists; when they get to the store and swipe their card on the MediaCart console,…
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WindowsClient.net
A white paper that I co-wrote just went live on WindowsClient.NET and is the first featured news item (for today). The paper is targeted at developers with WinForms chops who are thinking about making the jump to WPF but want to know when the right time and conditions are. I won’t give away the ending–check…
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Silverlight Apple "Staff Pick"
Pretty cool to see Silverlight as a “Staff Pick” from Apple! Apple – Downloads – Mac OS X – Development Tools Apple.com Silverlight page A tough decision most face is whether to take full advantage of a single platform or to go lowest common denominator and address multiple platforms. One of the nice things about…