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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

• Share Everything...

  Clearly one thing that social networking is about is exploring the limits on what you want to share and what other people might be interested in. There is, I'm sure, at least one sociology paper (and two reports to the D.A.) in this theme... Different... Posted Feb 23 2008, 02:58 AM by Blogs Filed under: Silverlight 1.0, Recommended Resources, Programmer insanity

• Kind Words, the fuel of cooperative communities...

  A very kind reader sent this, and I am incredibly happy to share it with you.  Stay tuned for another Tip of the Day later today.     In getting ready for Silverlight 2 I've been playing with some early bits. Today I began to see how... Posted Feb 13 2008, 12:07 PM by Blogs Filed under: Shameless Self-promotion, Programmer insanity

• One more gadget (the ego never quits)

  I woke up at 5 this morning, so I decided to take apart the Silverlight Tip of the Day gadget that Kelly White had so kindly created and, as an exercise in egomania, modify it to display all my blog entries, rather than just those that are tagged as Tip... Posted Feb 10 2008, 08:05 AM by Blogs Filed under: Silverlight.net, Silverlight Geek, Recommended Resources, Shameless Self-promotion, Programmer insanity

• Tip of the Day - Getting Ready for Silverlight 2

  We have announced that Silverlight 2 Beta 1, will be released during the first 3 months of this year (that is, any day now) with a go-live license. It is important to keep in mind that this will be a beta product, and that 1.0 will be a release product... Posted Feb 08 2008, 02:33 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Tip of the Day, Recommended Resources, Programmer insanity

• Geek Limericks

  Can't resist posting this here too... Chris Sells asked for geek limericks here , so I tried my hand.......( read more ) Posted Jan 30 2008, 08:46 PM by Blogs Filed under: Programmer insanity