The last month has been super hectic with Silverlight 4 and PDC conference prep. Which means I’m even more excited for a short trip down to Oaxaca, Mexico with my friend Seema. We leave tomorrow! Fast Facts Time: UTC-6 (Seattle: noon, Oaxaca: 2pm) Money: Mexican Peso (1 usd = 13.1 pesos) Weather: 82F and Sunny Declared Unesco Heritage Site for its architecture, its cultural traditions, its cuisine and its climate.
Here’s a set of interesting Silverlight 4 links… Bits & Tools Visual Studio 2010 Beta Silverlight 4 Beta Tools For Visual Studio 2010 Developer Runtime (Windows, Mac) Note: Runtime gets installed with the SL4 Beta Tools Expression Blend Preview for .NET 4 & Silverlight 4 Silverlight Toolkit WCF RIA Services Resources Silverlight.net Tim Heuer’s Guide to Silverlight 4 Beta Features Silverlight 4 Technical Feature Overview by John Papa NCL Team Blog (Networking) Other Product Team Members’ Blogs David Poll Jesse Bishop Joe Stegman Seema Ramchandani Our Four Official Silverlight Bloggers Adam Kinney Jesse Liberty John Papa Tim Heuer
Thank you to everyone who came to my overview talk yesterday! My session video has already been posted online. You can also download the deck here. You can find online all the other Silverlight PDC session videos. As promised, you’ll find the code for all the demos below (and links to run the app, where possible). But first, a few thank yous…. I got help from a bunch of people on the Silverlight team while putting together the demos and content for this talk. So a big thank you to all of you! (And to Walter VonKoch on …
As our VP ScottGu just announced in the PDC Keynote, Silverlight 4 Beta ships today! Get the bits here. If you’re at PDC, I’ll be giving the Silverlight 4 Beta Overview session in an hour (CL01, 11:30am Hall F). Here are some other great Silverlight PDC Talks!
Last weekend, I went to Sundance Resort with my friend Beany. It was beautiful. We caught the mountains right as the leaves were starting to turn… sundance mountain the sun peering through red leaves dried ferns dried grass the mountain sides leaves! an elk hunter overgrown contrast
All day today, people kept talking about how it was our last day of sun. I was a bit skeptical/naive. But after checking weather, folks appear to be right… There was a “special weather bulletin” for seattle: A significant change to cooler and wetter weather will begin later monday and will continue through at least next weekend… Sigh.
BusinessWeek published an article on the top global brands this year. It’s interesting to see who made this list – some of them are pretty obvious (e.g. Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon). Others make total sense, but I probably wouldn’t have guessed them (e,g, Heinz, Burberry).
And it uses Silverlight! Bing Visual Search enables you to search the web using images as your “keywords” (as opposed to well, word keywords). Check it out here.
Thanks to Joe for calling out the new Silverlight feature request tracker. Tim Heuer and Scott Barnes have set up this list up to help us get feedback from the community. We’re definitely looking closely at this list! Please cast your votes. 🙂
Yesterday, I went to my second Sounders game. I grew up on baseball and tennis – and have been pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoy soccer games. My one real complaint is that both games I went to ended in ties. I found out the rationale behind why they don’t just force a shoot-off (to reward defensive playing), but… it still seems weird to have a sport where there isn’t a winner. 🙂