Archive for February, 2010
What’s new in Silverlight This Week in Silverlight
Application of the Week
Quince. Quince is one of the best looking Silverlight applications out there. If you haven’t seen quince, you owe it to yourself to take a look.
Silverlight Rumors
*Warning* – This section is filled with lies. There is absolutely no reason to think that anything said here is true.
Blend 4 out soon?
”If you are testing Visual Studio 2010 RC a compatible version of Blend will be made available soon.”
Silverlight News
(Interlude where Kelly explains how Walt Ritscher scarred him as a young XAML designer. Shazzam. Bazinga.)
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Guest Hosts
Brian Hendersonis a Silverlight Designer/Architect and INETA Community Champion. A few of the activities Brian can be found participating are flying (pilot), kayaking, hiking, or just taking video/photos.
Kelly White is a Senior Software Engineer with MyContent.com. He previously lead the PDXUX.Net user group, and now runs the Portland Silverlight User Group with Erik Mork. Kelly has presented at user groups and code camps throughout the northwest on both Silverlight and WPF.
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February 25th, 2010
There’s going to be a Nerd Dinner tonight 2/23 at 6pm. We’re going to meet in the food court at Pioneer Place Mall (bottom floor – http://www.pioneerplace.com/).
Who’s going to be there?
- Erik Mork/Kelly White – Portland Silverlight User Group/Sparkling Client folks.
- Jason Mauer – Newly independent developer. Hopefully, he’ll bring his new “Troll Video” he plans to show at Ignite Portland.
- Mithun Dhar – Microsoft Evangelist/Azure aficionado/good person to know
- Lots of other good company
I’ve got to stop by the Genius Bar shortly before and get the lint cleaned out of my iPhone.
February 23rd, 2010
What’s new in Silverlight This Week in Silverlight
Application of the Week
Life-size Windows 7 Phone Series Demonstrator.
Honorable Mention: Smooth Streaming Player.
Silverlight News
Guest Hosts
Brian Henderson is a Silverlight Designer/Architect and INETA Community Champion. A few of the activities Brian can be found participating are flying (pilot), kayaking, hiking, or just taking video/photos.
Kelly White is a Senior Software Engineer with MyContent.com. He previously lead the PDXUX.Net user group, and now runs the Portland Silverlight User Group with Erik Mork. Kelly has presented at user groups and code camps throughout the northwest on both Silverlight and WPF.
Podcast: Download
February 21st, 2010
New Show Format!
This show we try a new format. We’ll keep putting out shows in the old format as well, but this is a good chance to have a less formal discussion about Silverlight news and information. The idea is to talk about the week’s Silverlight news with a couple of my favorite Silverlight folks:
Brian Henderson is a Silverlight Designer/Architect and INETA Community Champion. A few of the activities Brian can be found participating are flying (pilot), kayaking, hiking, or just taking video/photos.
Kelly White is a Senior Software Engineer with MyContent.com. He previously lead the PDXUX.Net user group, and now runs the Portland Silverlight User Group with Erik Mork. Kelly has presented at user groups and code camps throughout the northwest on both Silverlight and WPF.
What’s new in Silverlight This Week in Silverlight
Application of the Week
Silverlight 4 Facebook Application (Silverlight 4 Beta runtime required)
Rumors
Silverlight Mobile tools coming in “the coming weeks” according to the Gu
Nokia support in the not-to-distant future according to the the Gu
Balmer is Keynoting next week in Barcelona and talking about Windows Mobile…. Big News Coming?
Zune Phone support indicated by stray .dlls?
Silverlight News
( For Silverlight News, I highly recommend the info from Silverlight Cream)
New Navigation Framework Stuff - Hacking at the Navigation Framework in Silverlight 4. A great, simple article.
Silverlight TV#7 with Glenn Block and MEF - When to use MEF. But is the answer clear?…
Glenn’s MSDN article on MEF
Tim’s Post on the Silverlight Media Framework – It’s not just for smooth streaming media 
The Silverlight Media Framework is on Codeplex.
Visual Studio 2010 RC doesn’t support Silverlight 4 Beta (watch out!). See Brian’s LIDNUG info for why this is unlikely to last long.
Parting Thought: There’s now a Frogger clone, but where are the mind-blowing Silverlight games? Is it mainly a financial issue?
In Portland on February 19th and interested in Silverlight? Shawn Wildermuth is talking at the Portland Silverlight User Group.
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February 11th, 2010
Silverlight QA and Conversation with Shawn Wildermuth
Feb 19th at Webtrends 6pm – *This is a Friday (not our usual day)*
Do you have questions about Silverlight? Shawn’s the person to ask. He’s full of Silverlight knowledge, and he’s coming to Portland to have a conversation with us. Shawn is extremely well known and respected in the Silverlight community, and it’s going to be a real treat to have him. If you want to have a complex and nuanced discussion about Silverlight, join us for this meeting.
Shawn Wildermuth
Shawn Wildermuth is a Microsoft MVP (C#), member of the INETA Speaker’s Bureau and an author of six books on .NET. Shawn is involved with Microsoft as a Silverlight Insider, Data Insider and Connected Technology Advisors (WCF/Oslo/WF). He has been seen speaking at a variety of international conferences including SDC Netherlands, VSLive, WinDev and DevReach. Shawn has written dozens of articles for a variety of magazines and websites including MSDN, DevSource, InformIT, CoDe Magazine, ServerSide.NET and MSDN Online. He has over twenty years in software development regularly blogs about a range of topics including Silverlight, Oslo, Databases, XML and web services on his blog (http://wildermuth.com).
Warmup: Operating System in Your Browser Window
At the beginning of the meeting (6pm), Marc Schulper will show us how to write Silverlight applications for a web based operating system.
WHEN: Friday 02/19/2010 – *This is a Friday (not our usual day)*
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Vertigo) 6:30 p.m. Presentation
~9:00 p.m. Afterwards at TBD
WHERE: Webtrends (map)
851 SW 6th Ave.
Portland, OR 97204-1337
Sponsors: While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:
* Vertigo – http://www.vertigo.com
* Webtrends – http://www.webtrends.com
Getting There:
Trimet. I recommend taking Trimet to this event. Check out the map to see the tons of Max/etc. stops nearby.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=webtrends+in+portland&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=52.77044,117.949219&ie=UTF8&hq=webtrends&hnear=Portland,+OR&ll=45.518113,-122.678565&spn=0.00557,0.014398&z=17&iwloc=A
Parking. I recommend Smart Parks:
http://maps.google.com/maps?near=851+Southwest+6th+Avenue,+Portland,+OR+97204-1307+(Webtrends+Inc)&geocode=CZtaax3F1n_AFfqMtgIdhxCw-CFZtU_2hrTHig&q=%22Smart+Park%22&f=l&dq=webtrends+loc:+portland&sll=45.518074,-122.679161&sspn=0.011831,0.006499&ie=UTF8&ll=45.519218,-122.67643&spn=0.022281,0.057592&z=15
February 2nd, 2010
