Mark Newton
So the rumours of the demise of Silverlight seem to have been exaggerated to paraphrase Oscar Wilde. The other day the next version of Silverlight was previewed at the Silverlight Firestarter event (http://www.silverlight.net/news/events/firestarter )with a keynote by Scott Guthrie. This Version 4 is still in beta and due for release mid 2011. Silverlight is fast […]
Any discussion about developing with Silverlight always comes round to the question of why? When HTML5 is just round the corner should we all abandon Silverlight, and Flash for that matter and start building HTML5 applications? Currently the development tools for HTML5 are not great in my opinion and one large limitation of HTML5 when […]
I am sitting beside the Ring of Brodgar in Orkney, the second largest stone circle in the British Isles, when my Blackberry Perl mobile phone pings me with an email reminding me of a project I need to quote for. Surrounded by this great Neolithic monument, engulfed in the silence of the area, broken only […]
As I mentioned previously I have been busy watching Microsoft presentations from MIX10 as well attending at the later ( and poorer) Tech Day, this along with the Adobe product launches ( which I can mention now ) and Google days mean that things have been busy. Whilst I was sitting watching a presentation I […]
Currently Flash will do a lot of what Silverlight does and will do it on almost all platforms including mobile devices, whereas Silverlight 2 player will not run on the older Power PC Apple Macs, nor older processors or currently any phone other than a select few of Nokia devices. Silverlight has a few tricks […]
It has been a busy, frustrating, yet interesting and rewarding time these last couple of months. It all started when I decided to write my own ‘Deep Zoom’ web application using Silverlight as promised in my last article. With early beta code sometimes by waiting a couple of weeks before you start to code you […]
My musings about the future improvements in search engines were caused by me having a day trip away from the office to NXTGEN’s excellent Fest09 event in Cambridge. Regular readers will probably remember me mentioning NXTGEN user group, a rapidly expanding group of like minded people interested in Microsoft technologies and pizza. They meet all […]
Because of the fast pace of innovation within the IT industry, making predictions in a magazine article can be a dangerous thing because of the long lead times associated with print. The prediction could be proven wrong by the time the magazine hits the bookshelves, but despite this I am going to risk such a […]
What a month it has been for some exciting products for web designers and application builders with two of these being previewed at the recent Microsoft Mix09 event in Las Vegas. This year yours truly was reduced to watching the live feed as the only press from the UK had to pay their own fares, […]