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Matt Pilgrim - Talking 'Soft

Microsoft Emerging Technology and Creative Development

October 2008 - Posts

Silverlight 2 tools
Scott Guthrie has just announced some new tools that have been released for Silverlight 2 at PDC . So go now and get the official RTW of Silverlight Tools . you can view the keynote from PDC here.... Keynote Read More...
Silverlight 2 Training - come and get it!
Pleased to announce some subsidised training on Silverlight 2 from our friends at Xpertise Xpertise do some great training on Silverlight 2.0 (with Expression Studio and Visual Studio). They have a course in December which has a special discount offer Read More...
The wait is over, PDC starts today....
So, PDC starts today in LA at 8:30 am Pacific time-zone It's going to be great event, with some big announcements. i think we will see a lot of the different jigsaw pieces slot together to show an amazing array of opportunities for Microsoft Partners Read More...
MIX09 - Registrations open!
It seems like yesterday that i was sat in the lovely Venetian hotel in Las Vegas listening to some great banter between Guy Kawasaki and Steve Ballmer and being wowed by the possibilities of Silverlight 2. Now, hot on the heels of Silverlight 2 RTW we Read More...
Silverlight UK Usergroup...
The fourth Silverlight UK User Group will be hosted on Wednesday 5th November at Cardinal Place (Microsoft's London office) and looks set to be a good one! Click here for the full agenda, we are lucky enough to have Tricky who will be giving a Silverlight Read More...
Some useful Silverlight links....
With a lot of news surrounding Silverlight over the last few weeks and lots of added momentum i thought I'd just take a quick stock check of some of the resources available. There is a hell of a lot out there but here's a few to start with..... A 'getting Read More...
All dressed up and nowhere to go?
The UK Sharepoint User Group and LBi are hosting an evening of SharePoint Web Content Management at The Truman Brewery on Brick Lane on Thursday 16th October. Why not pop along? Details.... Session1 : Web Content Management in MOSS, real life case study Read More...
A note from the book club.....
We are starting to see some great publications popping up, including..... Foundation Silverlight 2 Animation Also, there is of course Mr. Bill Buxton’s: There are plenty more here.... http://silverlight.net/Community/books.aspx Read More...
Silverlight 2 Breaking changes
Now we are all hyped up with the release of Silverlight 2 its worth noting that there are going to be teething problems. applications built for previous releases of the plug in will potentially have some incompatibilities. However, do not fear, you can Read More...
The first 3rd eye....
An idea that we have been floating around is to have a video offering that gives an insight to some of our UK web agencies. it should be a chance to either talk through a recent project or to just air any feedback or interesting developments. Here is Read More...
Transfer those skills....
This is not a new resource but one which i feel we haven't done a good enough job of talking about. Project Rosetta is a website that provides a number of tutorials and articles on relevant subjects for developers and designers looking to broaden their Read More...
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