Archive for April, 2010
What’s new in Silverlight This Week in Silverlight
Recorded April 23, 2010
News
Public Service Announcements
Portland CodeCamp May 22.
Remix Atlanta May 8.
Karl Shifflet does WPF for LOB and Win7/.NET 4 training. Also, keep an eye on his blog for upcoming info.
Rumors
WP7 Phones (or news??) coming in the next few weeks?
Does this interview indicate that phones are coming soon?
Erik and Brian are a little skeptical 
More Silverlight Jobs?
In Portland (at least) more and more Silverlight jobs are cropping up.
Multitasking in WP7
There’s very limited multitasking support in WP7. And perhaps no backgrounding for 3rd party apps.
Erik thinks that maybe there’s a cue to take from Apple’s new iPhone OS4 where there are “Completion Tasks” that are allowed to run for up to 10 minutes (as of beta 2…) in the background.
Justin Angel fooled us
He didn’t hack the Zune up to run WP7
Application of the Week (2 this week)
Audio Orchard Music Mixing application.
Ebay Application. Out of the Browser Silverlight app that allows the listing of items. Make sure to check out John Papa’s walkthrough.
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 an independent Silverlight Consultant. 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.
Music kindly provided by YACHT.
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April 26th, 2010
What’s new in Silverlight This Week in Silverlight
Recorded April 9, 2010
News
Rumors
Apple prevents cross-compiling on App Store Apps
Are (admittedly vague) hopes for Silverlight on iPhone DEAD??? Apple’s new licensing for the iPhone Operating System section 3.31 for iPhone OS4.
Erik feels sick to his stomach. Is Monotouch dead? What about *all* of the developers who have already written applications on Unity/Monotouch and had them accepted in the App Store?
The Prohibition is at the language level. (Objective C, C, C++, Javascript are allowed). The crew wonders what it would take to compile Managed C++ in Monotouch…
Kelly thinks there’s an opportuntity to learn Objective C.
Is this a way to avoid the “collapse to the bottom” in the App Store?
Blend 4. Is it going to be released with Visual Studio 2010 or not?
Kelly says that it would be weird if it doesn’t ship with Visual Studio.
Erik bemoans the crashiness of Blend 4 Beta.
Application of the Week
Buhrle Collection
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 an independent Silverlight Consultant. 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.
Music kindly provided by YACHT.
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April 12th, 2010
I was interviewed by Tim Huckaby for the great MSDN Bytes Series. It’s a super fun interview where he asks me what it’s like to be a Silverlight Trainer and Consultant. Tim’s one of the best interviewers in the business, and his series is a pleasure to watch.
MSDN Bytes Interview With Erik Mork
April 5th, 2010
What’s new in Silverlight This Week in Silverlight
Recorded April 1, 2010
Shout Out to MVPs
@brian_henderson/silverlight-mvp
@brian_henderson/blend-mvp
News
Rumors
iPad – list of HTML5 sites that will work on the iPad.
Silverlight vs HTML5
Erik wonders if the HTML5 spec really competes with Silverlight at all. The types of problems we often solve in Silverlight (tracking of entities, etc.) aren’t even in the spec…
Brian wonders if the spec will be done in anything like the near future.
Kelly wonders about the browser specific implementations of HTML5 and browser compatability.
Justin Angel hacks up a ZuneHD to run WP7….
Windows Phone Marketplace
Kelly talks about the process of getting into the marketplace. It looks like a much more straightforward process than other marketplaces.
Application of the Week
FourSquare Everywhere
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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 an independent Silverlight Consultant. 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.
Music kindly provided by YACHT.
Podcast: Download
April 5th, 2010
