Archive for May, 2008
Silverlight in the Future
Ian (author of a premier WPF book) joins us again to talk about, among other things, the future of Silverlight. He’s got some well reasoned and informed points. Here are some of the things we discuss in today’s show:
Silverlight video and 3D
– Silverlight doesn’t have some of the fancy graphical effects that are in WPF. Ian takes us on a tour of why this is.
XAML everywhere?
– XAML is appearing everywhere in the Microsoft world. Why? What’s great about it? And where are some of the unexpected places we might see it cropping up?
Silverlight’s Future
– Ian takes a look in his crystal ball and gives us a guess as to what the Silverlight situation will be a year from now. In the process, he points out a surprising problem with Silverlight. A “problem” that is also one of Silverlight’s greatest strengths.
Useful links for the show:
Ian Griffith’s blog – http://interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/ http://shrinkster.com/x7s
Ian’s WPF book – http://www.amazon.com/Programming-WPF-Chris-Sells/dp/0596510373/ http://shrinkster.com/xul
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
May 29th, 2008
Silverlight can be used for all sorts of things. This week we tell you how to make yourself smarter with Silverlight. We also bring up and answer some points from last week.
Useful links for the show:
Mindhacking with a Silverlight application – http://www.soakyourhead.com/
Neal Ford’s blog entry – http://memeagora.blogspot.com/2008/05/ria-platform-play.html
Shawn Wildermuth’s comment on Neals blog – https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9944221&postID=4109252449740897643
Our show with Neal – http://www.sparklingclient.com/will-we-regret-silverlight-neal-ford/
Special thanks to people who have helped make this show possible:
Jason Mauer
Jer Warren
Tyler Sample
Scott Hanselman
Ted Neward
Craig Shoemaker
Lots of others with help and advice
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
May 21st, 2008
*-Neal has put up a companion blog post. To read it, go here.
Silverlight is an impressive new technology, but will we regret adopting Silverlight a year from now? Neal Ford of ThoughtWorks makes the case that we will. In this show:
Platform Play
On the surface, Silverlight appears to be fairly open. Neal explains why this isn’t the case and why it is going to matter to businesses.
Testability
Neal makes the argument that Silverlight is not as testable as open-standards based technologies.
Last 10%
Neal thinks that Silverlight won’t be able to implement the last 10% of user needs. And that will leave Silverlight adopters in the lurch.
Useful links for the show:
Neal’s blog – http://memeagora.blogspot.com/
Neal’s site – http://www.nealford.com/
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
May 14th, 2008
Silverlight Interactions
Ian is a consultant, developer, speaker, and author. His excellent book on WPF (written with Chris Sells) can be found on Amazon. He knows Silverlight. And he knows WPF. This week he helps us with the following topics:
Why Silverlight?
– There are a lot of options out there. Why is Silverlight the right choice? Why isn’t it?
Neurons and Silverlight
– Old movies had a simple trick for freaking people out. Ian explains how this worked and how we can do the opposite in our Silverlight applications.
Where are the WPF applications?
- WPF has been out for a while now. But where are all of the WPF applications? Does this mean trouble for Silverlight? Ian guides us through these questions.
Useful links for the show:
Ian Griffiths’ blog – http://interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/
Ian’s WPF book – http://www.amazon.com/Programming-WPF-Chris-Sells/dp/0596510373/
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
May 8th, 2008
