The Portland Silverlight User Group is off to a great start! It’s been an amazing group to be a part of, and for the first 2 meetings, we’ve had 70+ people. This, perhaps, makes the Portland Silverlight User Group the largest Silverlight UG in the world 
We’ve had rocking great speakers like Scott Stanfield and Mike Downey and stupendous sponsors amazing sponsors like Vertigo and Webtrends and FiServ.
Upcoming we have a hackathon in January and Shawn Wildermuth coming in February!
People are talking about how 2010 is going to be the year of Silverlight. Come to one of our meetings, and you’ll find out what the fuss is about.
Scott Stanfield on the awesomeness of Silverlight
Mike Downey on Flash and Silverlight
January 20th, 2010
I’ve submitted a couple of sessions for Mix 2010. They’re guaranteed to be weirder than the ordinary submissions 
If you want to see these talks happen, please vote at the mix site. There are a lot of other good sessions as well.
The Neuroscience of Great Silverlight
This session meshes up Silverlight and neuroscience. It’s all about how good applications require an understanding of psychology.
10 Things to Know About Prism
Interested in Prism? This talk is all about how you can get started with Prism. It summarizes the podcasts and screencasts I’ve done on Prism for Silverlight and gives an overview of how to get started with Prism.
Partnering Silverlight and Monotouch – Silverlight on the Iphone (kinda)
Ever want to write Silverlight on the iPhone? This talk is about how to migrate your apps to the iPhone (hint: use MVVM).
The Number 1 Ux/Design Tool – The Trashcan
Why is Apple so amazing at design? I think it’s because they know how to use the trashcan. This session covers my thoughts on our mental hangups to writing great designs.
Resizing Silverlight Layouts
Silverlight is running on a lot of different platforms. What are the secrets to making your application look nice everywhere? This talk is all about those secrets.
January 14th, 2010
