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• Podcast Part 2 Posted

  On April 9, I posted a link to my first interview on Sparkling Client . Today I'm happy to post a link to the second and final part of the interview . Also, be sure to catch their terrific interview with Dave Campbell ( Silverlight Cream )....( read... Posted Apr 17 2008, 03:11 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Silverlight Geek, Recommended Resources, Shameless Self-promotion

• Tip of the Day Microblog Launches Today

  As of today, I will attempt to add a brief Tip of the Day to the Silverlight Microblog every day. If you would like to contribute (and I hope you will) please send your tips following the directions listed here . Thanks!   -jesse...( read more ) Posted Apr 15 2008, 12:22 PM by Blogs Filed under: Tools, silverlight 2.0, Tip of the Day, Recommended Resources, Shameless Self-promotion

• Sparkling Client Podcasts On Silverlight

  I'm pleased and proud to say that my first Sparkling Client interview is now available for download; and this gives me the opportunity to recommend subscribing to this excellent new podcast. Sparkling Client focuses exclusively on Silverlight and... Posted Apr 09 2008, 12:29 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Silverlight Geek, Recommended Resources, Shameless Self-promotion

• New Look - Same Blog

  Don't panic! It's the same blog; I just changed the look to make it easier to use and easier to read. Hope you like it. Stay tuned for lots of videos and tutorials over the next fortnight. -j...( read more ) Posted Apr 05 2008, 11:25 PM by Blogs Filed under: silverlight 2.0, Silverlight Geek, Recommended Resources, Shameless Self-promotion, Random Ramblings

• What I'm Thinking About April

  I've been getting a lot of mail on the lines of "When will we have Beta 2?" or "what is the release date for Silverlight" and since I can't answer those questions, and since I know that folks need to plan, I thought I'd... Posted Mar 24 2008, 10:18 AM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Presentations, silverlight 2.0, Silverlight Geek, Shameless Self-promotion, Feedback, Random Ramblings, Tutorials, How Do I Videos

• Innovation, Renovation and Change

  So, after some minutes of trying this and that, it is time to take stock and see what's working and what isn't.  What's changing... Tip of the Day: RIP The Tip of the Day was a great idea, but I have yet to figure out what is the... Posted Mar 21 2008, 01:06 PM by Blogs Filed under: Silverlight.net, Silverlight Geek, Tip of the Day, Recommended Resources, Shameless Self-promotion, Random Ramblings

• Tip of the Day - What to Expect in Silverlight Help

  I've received a lot of very positive feedback from the tutorials and videos and a lot of inquiries about what help will be forthcoming and how to get help right away. I thought I'd take a few minutes to provide some guidelines that are intended... Posted Mar 19 2008, 01:47 PM by Blogs Filed under: silverlight 2.0, Tip of the Day, Recommended Resources, Shameless Self-promotion, Random Ramblings

• How do I Write that In JavaScript?

  A comment was left in response to Master Detail in Silverlight 2 asking " Any hint how to create such a sample with Java Script instead C# ?" I thought the answer was important enough to post to the blog in general... Two points about your question... Posted Mar 17 2008, 11:05 AM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Tip of the Day, Recommended Resources, Shameless Self-promotion, c#

• 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

• Tip of the Day - Suspends Until Mid March - Then Focus On Silverlight 2

  Rather than trying to provide a Tip of the Day as we head towards one of the larger and more important  shows of the year (you are going to Mix , right?) Therefore, I'm going to suspend the Tip of the Day from now until mid-March. After Mix,... Posted Feb 19 2008, 11:41 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, Silverlight.net, silverlight 2.0, Silverlight Geek, Tip of the Day, Shameless Self-promotion

• 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 - Time to move to Generic Collections for Silverlight.

  In Silverlight 1.1 the non-generic collections were marked obsolete. We have announced that the non-generic collections will not be in Silverlight 2.0 at all, so if you're still using non-generic collections like ArrayList it is time to step up to... Posted Feb 07 2008, 02:01 PM by Blogs Filed under: Learning Silverlight, silverlight 2.0, Tip of the Day, Recommended Resources, Shameless Self-promotion