Archive for April, 2008
Silverlight Backup Plan
What if you have to ship an application immediately, but you need Silverlight-like features? Is there an option? Billy explains how XBAP might be a viable alternative in this week’s show. Here are some of the topics we discuss:
Interaction Design
– It is so critical in Silverlight, but how do you get started? Can anyone do it? Billy helps us out with these questions.
XBAP in place of Silverlight
– Sometimes Silverlight isn’t a viable alternative (after all it’s in Beta). There is a trick, though, that you can use: deploy as an XBAP application initially and then (when Silverlight 2 is released) role that code into Silverlight. However, it is a tricky process. Billy’s doing it in his consulting business, and he tells us some of the things to consider.
Billy’s upcoming WPF book
– Billy tells us about his book and how it’s different than the other books that are out there.
Useful links for the show:
Billy Hollis’ site – http://www.dotnetmasters.com/ http://shrinkster.com/x7q
Billy’s WPF book (not yet released) – http://www.amazon.com/Windows%C2%AE-Presentation-Foundation-Pro-Developer/dp/0735624186 http://shrinkster.com/x7r
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy’s Place
I Believe In You by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
Don’t Stay In Bed by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Podcast: Download
April 30th, 2008
WPF and Silverlight animations
Billy Hollis is a well known consultant and author. This week we get down to brass tacks and discuss why, from Billy Hollis’ perspective, smart clients/RIA applications are necessary in the first place. Here are some of the topics we cover:
Silverlight in business applications?
– It makes more sense than you might think. Billy has a simple and elegant point that I hadn’t thought of before.
Why isn’t HTML good enough?
– HTML isn’t cutting it for the latest and greatest web applications. Billy explains why.
Why are web technologies (like ASP.NET) so popular lately?
– It’s often not a technical reason.
Useful links for the show:
Billy Hollis’ site – http://www.dotnetmasters.com/ http://shrinkster.com/x7q
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy’s Place
I Believe In You by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Don’t Stay In Bed by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
And Then It’s All Gone by Williamson from the album A Few Things To Hear Before We All Blow Up
Podcast: Download
April 23rd, 2008
Captain Silverlight (Jesse Liberty) joins us for part 2 of the interview. In this episode, we talk about the power of XAML, XAP files and the new breed of applications that will emerge from the Silverlight platform. It’s a great overview of how Silverlight is storming the web.
Useful links for the show:
Main Silverlight site – http://www.silverlight.net
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messys Place
I Believe In You by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
And Then It’s All Gone by Williamson from the album A few things to hear before we all blow up
Podcast: Download
April 16th, 2008
This week we interview Jesse Liberty, Captain Silverlight. He works for Microsoft and runs helps run the Silverlight.net site. In this episode he gives us some great resources, compares Silverlight with other technologies, and explains when XAML should be used and when it shouldn’t. He’s a Silverlight tour-de-force.
Useful links for the show:
Silverlight 2 “How Do I?” videos – http://silverlight.net/Learn/videocat.aspx?cat=2 http://shrinkster.com/wk3
Silverlight 2 Tutorials – http://silverlight.net/learn/tutorials.aspx http://shrinkster.com/wk4
Adam Kinney’s home site – http://adamkinney.com/
Adam’s post on the NBC Olympics Silverlight Site – http://adamkinney.com/blog/317/default.aspx http://shrinkster.com/w1x
Jesse Liberty’s blog – http://silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/default.aspx http://shrinkster.com/wk5
Silverlight Micro-Blog – http://twitter.com/SLMicroBlog http://shrinkster.com/wk6
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy’s Place
I Believe In You by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
Don’t Stay In Bed by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Podcast: Download
April 9th, 2008
This week we interview Dave Campbell of the Silverlight Cream site. Dave scours the web for all of the newest Silverlight information. Today, we pick his brain on all the best of Silverlight 2.
Useful links for the show:
Dave Campbell’s blog – http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/Default.aspx http://shrinkster.com/wip
Wynapse site – http://www.wynapse.com/ http://shrinkster.com/wiq
Silverlight Cream. The cream of the crop in Silverlight information (also on Dave’s blog) – http://www.silverlightcream.com/ http://shrinkster.com/wir
Zero Gravity Game. – http://www.ltbennett.com/ http://shrinkster.com/wis
Music for the show:
Lido In The Morning by General Fuzz from the album Messy’s Place
I Believe In You by YACHT from the album Instrumentals 2007
Sidetrack by Lisa DeBenedictis from the album Fruitless
Podcast: Download
April 3rd, 2008
