Will We Regret Silverlight? - Neal Ford
May 14th, 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
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4 Comments Add your own
1. timheuer | May 14th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
no link to the companion post?
2. Eik | May 14th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Ya, the companion post isn’t up yet. But it’s imminent.
3. Mike Moore | May 15th, 2008 at 9:43 am
neal4d’s companion post is here: RIA == Platform Play
4. Smartclients for hacking &hellip | May 21st, 2008 at 1:01 pm
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