Cross Pollination: kiwifoo08

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Tarique Naseem — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:44:56 GMT

Great write up, Nigel. Not got round to doing mine yet, but not sure I can add anything more to it!

That last quote was from me by the way. :) Silverlight does indeed look good!

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thomas scovell — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:07:05 GMT

Great wrap up Nigel.

From my POV the IE8 session was very positive and your contribution was valued by the attendees - I'm surprised anyone's outtake would be otherwise.

still a little concerned by your attitude to security via obscurity though... ;)

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web developer — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:22:48 GMT

Is there anywhere I can read a point by point

comparison between silverlight and adobe flash ?

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nparker — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:48:52 GMT

Thomas, in my defense my comment on prefering "secuirty by obscurity" was one I made in Chris' SmugMug session and was in reference to how I deal with storing my high res photos on flickr using a second pro account which enforces obscurity but not security.

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Nikolai — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:18:04 GMT

Nigel, next time on the way back from Redmond grab a bottle of this

http://www.tequila.net/tequila_reviews/anejos/jose_cuervo_reserva_de_la_familia_anejo.html

If you want some seriously good tequila.... =)

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nparker — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:36:25 GMT

"web developer"

There are a few comparisons out there comparing Silverlight to Flash but IMO it is very hard to do this without bias as the technologies and intentions for the platform are quite different.

There is a good poster from MIX last year showing where we are heading with Silverlight (this will be updated next month when MIX rolls around again).

http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/2/e/f2ecc2ad-c498-4538-8a2c-15eb157c00a7/SL_Map_FinalNET.png

It is worth adding that although a big part of Silverlight 1.0 is geared towards video (VC-1 HD) Silverlight 2.0 is an application platform with a cut down version of the .NET platform running on the client cross platform. This opens up new scenarios for web development that doesn't have a Silverlight GUI at all. Think WCF (WS*) support on the client for secure web services http://blogs.msdn.com/chabrook/archive/2007/11/29/silverlight-announcements-2-0-expected-to-go-beta-in-q1.aspx

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Brenda — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:17:59 GMT

Nice write-up Nigel. One correction, the blog entry for me (Brenda L) should actually be http://sandy.terapad.com/index.cfm?fa=contentNews.newsDetails&newsID=48452&from=list

thanks!

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nparker — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:27:54 GMT

@Brenda updated...