The 5 Levels of Technophilia and Silverlight

Tecnology for Technolgy's Sake

Tim Hustler — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:42:56 GMT

Now, don't get me wrong, i love all the new stuff Microsoft have release this year. Silverlight has inspired

Technology for Technology's Sake

Creative Jar Blog — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:00:23 GMT

Technology for Technology's Sake

re: The 5 Levels of Technophilia and Silverlight

jesseliberty — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:38:23 GMT

Johnnystock: just to be clear, I wasn't complaining, just noting that when we're writing software (especially) we need to recognize that the people using our software are not necessarily similar in their attitude about technology to the folks we work with.

Web 2.0 Run Amok

Mirrored Blogs — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:39:48 GMT

In the past few months, I’ve dramatically increased the number of channels from and to the community

Web 2.0 Run Amok

Microsoft Weblogs — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:11:13 GMT

In the past few months, I’ve dramatically increased the number of channels from and to the community

Web 2.0 Run Amok

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:12:41 GMT

In the past few months, I’ve dramatically increased the number of channels from and to the community

re: The 5 Levels of Technophilia and Silverlight

Art Scott — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:11:54 GMT

Thanks Jesse, good ramble.

Toward morph into the tool:

How many in the auidennce have used F#?

When will SL and F# work and play well together?

How many are aware of concurrent coordination languages?

When will someone provide a paradigm to harness multi-core for SL/RIA/RWE?

What is the ratio of Flash to SL developers?

Designers?

Consumers?

So when will SL become the tool that QV's use without knowing it?

Like a pencil, not a brick?

re: The 5 Levels of Technophilia and Silverlight

johnnystock — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:31:19 GMT

Jesse: This paradigm of having some pople at a high level and others that know nothing but want to learn make creating good content incredibly difficult, regardless of the medium (blog, book, live presentation etc.). I certinly feel the pain you've been going through, and I'm sure it will only get worse as some people progress to even higher levels and we have others beginning from more diverse backgrounds (designers for instance). I've learned the hard way to essentially have two presentations ready when I go in to give a talk, one on what I _think_ the auidence knowledge level is, and another that is just the basics. I've had to use the basics one the most.

Dew Drop - July 12, 2008 | Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

Dew Drop - July 12, 2008 | Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:30:31 GMT

Pingback from Dew Drop - July 12, 2008 | Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

re: The 5 Levels of Technophilia and Silverlight

samcov — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:19:58 GMT

Good stuff, unfortunately we can't do any internet stuff(mostly intranet) until Silverlight reached RTM/RTW status.

I'm sure MS will get the runtime seeded at a high level, well, at least high enough for me, but it will take some time.

It keeps experienced developers in a minor holding pattern, but allows the new ones to come on board and start learning from our mistakes.

Yeah the down side is that folks are coming on with newbe question all over again, but the good news is that now there is an army of developers to assist in the training of these new guys.

search machines

search machines — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:06:58 GMT

Pingback from search machines

re: The 5 Levels of Technophilia and Silverlight

jesseliberty — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:14:14 GMT

Johnnystock: yes, you have hit on another major issue for me: ther eare always folks driving onto a technology,and if the First adopters have moved the conversation away from how to get started then we close out too many people too early.

We have to keep those on ramps open and those welcome signs out for a very long time. A very long time. There are still 1,000,000 programmers whose preferred dev environment is vb6.

re: The 5 Levels of Technophilia and Silverlight

johnnystock — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:42:26 GMT

Very well said. And it is worth all of us remembering that those "newcomers" to Silverlight, that ask the silly questions today, they are still the very early adopters of a brand new technology. (And we were that person more recently than we think)

re: The 5 Levels of Technophilia and Silverlight

Bill Reiss — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:31:10 GMT

What's odd about having FIOS and HDTV? :) I guess I fall into Quintile II.