Silverlight Does Steely Dan
Carl Franklin, the master mind behind .NET Rocks and long time Visual Basic guru, is also an AMAZING musician and has put together this entire (re)production of Steely Dan's "Home at Last" in Silverlight. Carl recorded each track himself, including the vocals, and shot video of him playing each instrument. He then published it using Microsoft Expression Encoder to produce this HD Silverlight video. I'm very impressed with the streaming here, as my broadband modem barely blinked while I was watching this. But what's more impressive is the incredible musical talent that Carl has. I always love seeing him at DevTeach every year, where people gather in a corner of the hotel after the bars close and listen to him play his guitar and sing. What an amazing talent. Oh and he also does some of the coolest card tricks I've ever seen. Carl, you're a rare gem and a invaluable to the community.
Enjoy,
-B
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About Beth Massi
Beth Massi is a Program Manager on the VS Community Team working with the Visual Basic Team producing developer content on MSDN and her blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi). As a VB community champion and a member of the Microsoft community she helps run a .NET user group in the San Francisco Bay Area and is a frequent speaker at various software development events. Before Microsoft she was a Senior Systems Architect at a health care software product company and was a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP. Over the last
decade she has worked on distributed applications and frameworks using Visual Basic.NET, ASP.NET, SQL-Server, and Visual FoxPro. She has worked on various projects including developing object-oriented middle-tier frameworks, COM, .NET, Web and Windows-based applications using Microsoft development tools for a variety of businesses. She loves teaching, mountain biking, and modifying cars.
