Flex Camp Toronto 75% Sold Out (now 86%, according to the TorontoFlex! user group page) -- If you're anywhere near Toronto, and remotely interested in Flex, definitely check this out. I had the opportunity to check out the Flex Camp in San Francisco. Go hang out with Adobe's own Mike Potter and others and enjoy some food and free stuff. If you've attended a previous Flex Boot Camp, Matt Chotin is/was soliciting your feedback.
Peter deHaan: Flex Camp Toronto, Flex Cookbook, Free Flex Builder
Competition for Joost & Slingbox?
LIVESTATION, THE PEER-TO-PEER WEB TV service being readied by Microsoft and Skinkers, a British software developer, has received a boost in the form of a $16 million investment.
MediaPost Publications - LiveStation Gets $16 Million Infusion - 10/30/2007
Silverlight + Entity Framework + Astoria == Crazy?
URL: http://www.silverlightdata.com
I've been digging into the Entity Framework and Astoria and decided to create a quick little mashup of Silverlight and those two technologies. The result is this little product viewer using the Northwind database:
theADOguy - Rant: Silverlight + Entity Framework + Astoria == Crazy?
Dr. Dobb's Flipbook with source code demonstrates a rich media solution with audio, video, and text in a page-turning Silverlight demo.
My only complaint is the load bar on each page, and the fact that I don't have a handheld version of this.
A ton of SVG resources.
and the SVG To Silverlight Workbench.
http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/05/06/SVG-to-Silverlight-Workbench
Have fun!
A Powerpoint-Like demo in Silverlight with GOA Winforms Pro, written over the summer by a junior developer at GOA.
Office Live anyone?
A whack of javascript, ajax, css, etc. tools and downloads here.
Microsoft Usability Is Looking For Software/Web Developers
Microsoft's User Research Group is looking for independent consultants and developers working in a team setting who do either software or website development at least some as a part of their job responsibilities to participate in an upcoming Usability Study.
To qualify you must either be a(n):
* Individual consultant who does custom development for businesses of up to 250 people.
* Developer in a team, workgroup, department or company of up to 250 people who develop alone or with a very small number of other internal developers (could work with external developers).
You must also:
* Be willing to have a team of researchers come to your place of business and observe you work with your current development software.
* Not use Visual Studio as your primary development tool.
In return for each individual's feedback, participants will receive their choice of one gratuity item from a list of Microsoft's most popular titles such as Office Professional 2007, Vista, Visio Professional 2007, Expression Blend, and keyboards.
Please email us at uccood@microsoft.com if you are interested or would like more information.
Plus 2D gaming with XNA Game Studio & Silverlight here.
Kit3D is a 3D graphics engine written to work with Microsoft Silverlight. The library is currently written in JavaScript and supports 3D perspective projection and texture mapping. This library allows anyone to easily create 3D content for your Silverlight application.
Source: Eric Griffin's Blog : New 3D Engine for Silverlight on Codeplex
Facebook supports Silverlight with it's own tag. Any Facebook Silverlight apps out there?
<fb:silverlight silverlightsrc="http://www.somesite.com/silverlight" />
I wonder how this will impact companies that choose to build shopping carts using only Images, Flash or Silverlight without any text that is audible? Target's site is interesting in that the entire homepage is just a big sliced up image. Plus try and view source - you can't.
When I was building web sites in 1993 we outsourced some of our work to a print shop, that sent us back a 4MB 300 DPI image and told us it was their home page.
Here's what their home page looked like.
<html>
<img src="bighomepageimagemain.tiff">
</html>
Save as - HTML - in Photoshop just doesn't cut it anymore...
"This is a tremendous step forward for blind people throughout the country who for too long have been denied equal access to the Internet economy," Marc Maurer, president of the National Federation for the Blind, said in a statement.
"All e-commerce businesses should take note of this decision and immediately take steps to open their doors to the blind," Maurer said.
Source: Judge allows class action against Target website - Yahoo! News
A blurb on XAML in Visio 2003. This is 2 years old, so there's probably better content out there...
Dev Luv: Visio --> SVG --> XAML
I’ve gotten some questions about Visio’s ability to import or export XAML-based graphics files. Visio can’t do this today but you can use Visio 2003’s SVG functionality to achieve the same goal. You can save a Visio diagram out as SVG and then use a SVG to XAML converter to convert the Visio-generated SVG to XAML. I haven’t tried any of the converters myself and the XAML guys would probably be the ones to check to see which are the best. If the converters don’t work out, you can also write an XSLT for SVG to XAML yourself (although I'd be surprised if some enterprising developer hasn't already done it first).
Source: Mai-lan's Visio Blog : Dev Luv: Visio --> SVG --> XAML
