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• Organizing Lots of Information

  A very smart and frequent participant here wrote in today and said (paraphrasing)   ...Why do you  organize the Learn section around type (video, quickstart, tutorial) instead of topic/task (data binding, layout, browser integration)? Today... Posted Apr 16 2008, 05:09 PM by Blogs Filed under: Silverlight.net, Programmer insanity, Feedback, Random Ramblings

• Will Silverlight Controls Become More WPF Like - A Personal Opinion

  I was told when I joined Microsoft that I no longer had personal opinions about matters having to do with Microsoft software, and certainly not about Silverlight. As a "Blue Badge" I'm just exposed to too much confidential information to... Posted Mar 22 2008, 06:00 AM by Blogs Filed under: Silverlight Features, silverlight 2.0, Programmer insanity, Random Ramblings

• More on Routing and Bubbling

  One of the readers of my earlier post on routing and bubbling was left confused about when events are bubbled and when they are not. The documentation is clearer about this in some places than in others. For example, the Mouse events documentation has... Posted Mar 21 2008, 10:04 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Silverlight Features, silverlight 2.0, Programmer insanity, Feedback, Random Ramblings

• Scott Guthrie

  My first posting of the Road Map to the Silverlight 2 Tutorials was linked to an earlier draft, which is why it was taken down (these things happen). Unfortunately, RSS being what it is; before one can sat "Stop the presses!" archives appeared... Posted Mar 04 2008, 10:46 AM by Blogs Filed under: Presentations, silverlight 2.0, Programmer insanity, Random Ramblings

• The difference between a geek and a snob

  In my recent post I tried to distinguish... Posted Feb 25 2008, 01:12 PM by Blogs Filed under: Silverlight Geek, Shameless Self-promotion, Programmer insanity, Random Ramblings

• The Difference Between An Evangelist and A Geek

  Today's NY Times declares (ever so quietly) the beginning of the Netware wars (did I just coin that term?). They get a lot wrong in the article, but if you know more than they appear to, you can conclude that Silverlight and Air/Flex will be competing... Posted Feb 25 2008, 08:47 AM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Silverlight Geek, Shameless Self-promotion, Programmer insanity, Random Ramblings

• A note on reading, technology and mental illness

  I posted yesterday about Amazon's Media Library -- which I believe could be a great back end to a very cool Silverlight project and that led to a comment on the volume of my reading. I started to write a response but once you get me started talking... Posted Feb 23 2008, 01:25 PM by Blogs Filed under: Shameless Self-promotion, Programmer insanity, Random Ramblings, technology