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Subscribe to 62 Silverlight Twitter’ers.

I’ve created a list that currently follows 62 top-notch Silverlight Twitter participants. The list will grow (and be culled) over time, but you can easily sign up to receive tweets from everyone on the list just by clicking on this link and subscribing...

Hypervideo, Closed Captions & Accessibility

The Closed Captioning For Silverlight Media page at T2Sami.com says in its commentary: A number of very sophisticated Silverlight Video players are under development: some open source, some proprietary…. The commitment to captioning in Silverlight is...

Review: Microsoft Web Cam (QB)

My boss sent me a Microsoft High Def Web Cam , (we do a lot of teleconferencing).  I admit to being somewhat skeptical initially; I had a web camera, seemed to work fine.  This new camera blew me out of my seat.  The overall quality was...

Silverlight Twitter Tips Launches

Very proud to announce the launch of #stwip -  si lverlight tw itter t ip s. Find them by following my Tweets or by the meme

Mini-Review of Code Rush

These days I'm very much in the market for anything will cut down on manual typing.  Thus I'm dictating more of what I write (using speech recognition), and today I began to explore CodeRush : a highly extensible Visual Studio plug-in Being very...

In Response To DNR 476

Dot Net Rocks is certainly one of the most influential and valuable podcasts for .NET developers and their recent show (#476) was a compelling discussion about whether software development has become too complex. Recorded at DevLink in Nashville, the...

3 New Podcasts on Silverlight 3

  This month I had the opportunity to be on Sparkling Client three times to talk about Silverlight 3 features Easing – August 13 Element to Element Binding – August 20 Validation – August 26

AgOpenSource Moves Forward

. Our Goal Is Not To Create Great Programs; It Is To Create Great Programmers   This posting will quickly review the AgOpenSource project, whose Table of Contents is available at www.AgOpenSource.com or from a link on the sidebar of my blog. Overview...

OMG, where do I start?

A lot of email comes my way beginning with the sentiment: “I’m not sure who to ask, and you’re the Silverlight Geek, so….” Which is great. I often refer them elsewhere, but it gives me a sense of what is on people’s minds, and also how well we’re doing...

Preliminary Product Review – Blown Away by Xobni

NB: This post is not about Silverlight; it is a short digression to share one of the cooler new products I’ve seen.  Xobni Outlook add-on is so amazingly useful and fast and solid, you may really want to take a look at it. The product name is xobni...

The Great Video Instruction Debate

Over the past year or so I’ve noted that there is a sizable sub-group who feel that our How Do I videos are of marginal or negative value. This was crystallized by a series of emails that I’ll condense in the hope we can begin a discussion. (This image...

Hey! There Is Such A Thing As A Free Lunch!

You have to respect a man who believes in his message.  Chris Anderson , author and editor in chief of Wired Magazine , and formerly Internet Editor at the Economist ,  has followed his best selling book The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business...

What’s New In Silverlight 3 – Wiki Released

All our blogs are alive with information about the release of Silverlight 3 and I couldn’t have a happier birthday present.  For the past couple weeks I’ve been working on a new, experimental contribution to the effort and I’m thrilled to release...

So Much Is Happening The Silence Is Deafening!

June has been a madhouse month; I’ve been working 80 hour weeks as has just about everyone who has anything to do with Silverlight, and yet there has been very little noise. It is, as they say, the quiet before the storm. As you know, we can’t yet talk...

Organizational Chaos Followup

About a month ago I wrote about getting organized .  Since it is Sunday and I’m saving my big announcement blog entry for tomorrow morning <smile>, I thought I’d take a moment for a not-so-quick follow up.    Two Philosophies...
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