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04 February 2008
Meet "Dax", my idea for a mascot (not official).
I like both the "blue monster campaign" and SIlverlight and given I'm dabbling around in 3D at the moment, I decided to play around with the idea of combining the two. Note : This is not the official mascot for Silverlight, instead it's simply me mucking Read More...
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31 January 2008
Something is being built...and I hope you RIA kids are watching...
I've been a busy little Microsoftee and have done a lot of interviews over the past few months with folks from all walks of life. I'm about to go live very soon with a project. What's the project? not telling until it's finished. I will give you a teaser Read More...
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28 January 2008
Why Chad is excited about Silverlight 2.0
I stumbled upon a post by Chad Campbell via my RSS reads (244 down, 9398 to go) and I enjoyed reading Chad's passion and insight into what he's thoughts are about the Silverlight 2.0 journey ahead. Chad has also written or is writing a book on Silverlight Read More...
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25 January 2008
Finding your balance between AJAX and Silverlight
Tonight, I found via twitter a deck from Plaxo’s Joseph Smarr . In this deck he talks about the war injuries he received in heading down the AJAX route. It’s a great deck and worth checking out but what I liked the most about it, was that Read More...
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31 December 2007
Telerik RadControls 'Prometheus' and Silverlight..
I've been an avid user of telerik's "RadControls for ASP.NET" for quite some time now. RadControls are essentially a control framework built on top of ASP.NET technology which allows the average ASP.NET punter to produce Rich AJAX driven solutions Read More...
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17 December 2007
Who builds video sites these days anyway?
Well, lots actually. Take today, I woke up around 7am to get a start on some ideas / projects I've been brewing for a month now. I never got a single thing done as I was swamped in Video related S.O.S requests around Silverlight driven video sites. Now Read More...
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13 December 2007
Adobe's Flex and a Curious Definition of "Open" for RIA Platforms
In my RSS hunt & aggregate daily routine, I stumbled upon an article that initially made me groan . It did so as I thought to myself " here we go, another Proprietary vs Open Source debate, the never goes anywhere " and I was hoping that Read More...
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15 November 2007
POC #1 - Project Harmony (pt1) (Silverlight & Flash)
I've been enjoying the overall experience of what Silverlight has to offer since I started with Microsoft back in January 07. That being said, I've often been an internal "goto" person at times for some Flash advice on behalf of Microsoft customers Read More...
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25 October 2007
SilverlightAIR - Silverlight + Java Webstart.
I got a question the other day that kind of threw me. In that, someone asked if we were going to do a Silverlight version of AIR. That's something you'd probably need to ask the executive folks around Silverlight (I'm just a guy whom uses the product, Read More...
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18 October 2007
A Silverlight version of Powerpoint? Maybe..
I got an email the other day, by Netikatech.com in which they announced a "Powerpoint Like Demo". "...The interface of this demo is very close to the well known MS PowerPoint application. It is possible to move the pictures, edit the text Read More...
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12 September 2007
Silverlight: MLB.com, even my 4yr old son can use it.
This just fascinates me and warrants a blog post. My son, Corey just turned 4 in July has been busy, as you see he's a mad baseball fan like me and was caught today surfing the MLB.com un attended. I walked out of my office to make a cup of coffee, I Read More...
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13 August 2007
RIA, building your control framework.
Silverlight 1.0 is around the corner, and it won't have controls assigned to it upon official release. Yet, this is something very important to the success of Silverlight going forward, as without a control framework there is really no point right? This Read More...
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12 August 2007
Lightmaker Interview.
At ReMIX I had the pleasure of interviewing Lucas Sherwood from Lightmaker (which reminds me, must get down to Melbourne again soon). It was an on the spur of the moment interview but in it, we talk about a lot around some of the challenges they faced Read More...
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08 August 2007
Finding that sweet spot between RIA and Desktop.
I've posted a bit on trust, around prescribing the rationale around why RIA (Rich Interactive Application) is an effective solution - yet - I've not decomposed the approach on when to use RIA vs Desktop. It's a pretty easy decision really, you first have Read More...
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05 August 2007
Clawing our way beyond the browser.
RIA (Rich Interactive Applications) have this approach that's quite unique, in that they kind of want to sit with fingers in both barrels. On one hand, they want to stay within the browser whilst on other hand they want to breach the browser and live Read More...
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