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Geek Profiles – Scott Guthrie
Thursday, November 26, 2009 4:05 PM
Part of what Tim and I do is to provide meaningful connections between the dev team and the community. Today I’m happy to launch a new series of Geek Profiles, highlighting many of the folks who design and implement Silverlight.  These are not intended... Read More...
by Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek
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On Our Cross Plat Commitment
Thursday, November 12, 2009 3:42 PM
When I joined Microsoft and started talking about Silverlight, many in the Mac community expressed skepticism about Microsoft’s long-term commitment to the Mac platform. In its most rabid form, the concern was that we were supporting the Mac only preemptively... Read More...
by Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek
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Commitments
Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:14 AM
  I’ve received a number of messages along the lines of, “Seems like things have really slowed down on your blog” or even “Hey, where’s the signal? Too much noise.” Fair enough ; though this is a common effect of the run up to a major “show” such... Read More...
by Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek
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Expectations Are Everything
Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:53 PM
Quick Bit Anyone who has ever debugged a program knows that you tend to see what you expect. I’ve learned that lesson a dozen times, in a dozen ways.  A classic example is to ask someone to read the following illustration aloud (don’t over-think... Read More...
by Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek
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What Makes A How-Do-I Video Great ?
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 4:12 PM
I recently received a tweet that asked for more videos by one particular evangelist.    Comparisons Without Offense Even though it was instrumental in causing me to write this post, my first draft did not include the key quotation  that ... Read More...
by Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek
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In Response To DNR 476
Thursday, August 27, 2009 4:33 PM
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... Read More...
by Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek
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This is a note that I’m Cindy To Buy Chocolate
Thursday, May 07, 2009 10:43 AM
Remember the Newton ?  Such a great idea… almost. Long before the iPhone, Apple released the Newton, promising that you could write in long hand and the Newton would turn your into printed words. Unfortunately,  not always the words you wrote... Read More...
by Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek
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The State of Things – A Brief Review Before Tech Ed.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 10:09 PM
I think it is fair to say that interest in Silverlight is wicked-high. Twitter grades. Jesse: 99.5th percentile; Tim: 99.8th percentile! Between us Feedburner shows more than 10,000 subscribers 31 Silverlight Sessions at Mix, 30 at Tech Ed LiveSearch... Read More...
by Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek
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VideoWicki – A Open-Book Design-To-Delivery Silverlight 3 Project
Monday, April 06, 2009 4:14 PM
VideoWicki Project and Meta-Project – Launch I am pleased to announce a new long term project that I am launching here on Silverlight.net, principally on my blog, but that will reach into my videos and beyond. This note is the entry point to the project;... Read More...
by Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek
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On Email and Organization
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 7:07 AM
Some people are naturally organized – my wife can (literally) find a receipt from five years ago within minutes. I’m lucky if I can find a receipt from Mix. Organization Through Larger Boxes I recently read a book that suggested that people like me have... Read More...
by Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek
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Flash 10 vs Silverlight 3: Perspective 3D
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 3:00 AM
The first comparison on Flash 10 and Silverlight 3 Beta is on the capabilities of 3D rendering. There are all together 4 comparisons: Perspective 3D on an image with drop shadow effect. Perspective 3D on various kind of controls. Perspective 3D on video... Read More...
by Shine Draw
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Mix 09 Trip Report
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 5:07 PM
  It is traditional when you return from a conference to file a "trip report" with your team. What follows is my trip report to you , with an emphasis on what I learned. I will not review, here, all that was discussed about what is new... Read More...
by Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek
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Tiny Laptops
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 3:26 PM
    The latest craze among us geeks are the ill-named Nettops ; – ill named because they've quickly exceeded the implicit assumption that they are best used for surfing the net and not much else.  These micro-laptops are now typically under... Read More...
by Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek
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Using statistics well – mea culpa
Thursday, March 05, 2009 1:07 PM
I recently wrote a rambling rant about the use (and overuse) of statistics, and pointed to the Twitter Influence Calculator (now Twitalyzer ) as a working example of statistics of questionable value. I should have paused. It turns out that (a) they are... Read More...
by Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek
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Better Navigation
Thursday, February 26, 2009 1:19 AM
I was pretty happy with the threading navigation I had introduced…   Just to double check, I asked my buddy David Platt , author of the absolutely essential Why Software Sucks , to take a look. He was quite gentle in ripping my guts out. He pointed... Read More...
by Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek
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