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195 days ago
Because of the ongoing limitations of hosting this blog on spaces, I am moving over to WordPress. There is nothing for you to do for browsing this site, all existing links will still work, and once the DNS changes have propagated you will be taken to the new blog automatically when you visit http://silverlightforbusiness.net However you will need to update your links for your favourite reader to http://silverlightforbusiness.net/feed Cheers Ian
235 days ago
Bart Czernicki had good post recently titled Silverlight 3 - Where is Silverlight Mobile? I thought a lot of the comments he made were spot on. We have been lead up the garden path by the mobile team and in particular Amrit Chopra who has been announcing Silverlight for Mobile for 3 years now. In fact I was expecting that he would announce it again at Mix year and then deliver nothing again! Turns out he took a back seat in the 6.5 overview instead and no significant news on Silverlight Mobile was forthcoming. In my opinion though, Microsoft are playing with smoke and mirrors because they want to make a big as splash as possible when Windows Mobile 7 arrives. I think they are concerned that whatever they have up their sleeve for mobile will be leaked (in fact I have heard two evangelists say as much), but I think we can take a good guess at what will be in Windows Mobile 7 (or could it even by 6.5 - wishful thinking perhaps, but I thought the ...246 days ago
Unfortunately the Silverlight UK User Group meeting was cancelled last night, because Mark Mann injured his ankle – I understand he is recuperating though (http://twitter.com/mark_mann) – hope it gets better soon Mark :-) I was due to do a Grok on SilverlightPulse.net and my presentation is below. Mark has also asked me to do a more in-depth talk on this and it’s current migration to Silverlight 3 beta in a forthcoming meeting, which I am looking forward to. Stay tuned (as they say) Silverlight pulse grok View more presentations from IanBlackburn. Cheers Ian Technorati Tags: silverlight,Silverlightpulse.net
255 days ago
I have updated the app I created for keeping track of Silverlight tweets and now hosted it on http://silverlightpulse.net (DNS changes have just been made so may to a few hours to propagate to you). So far I have had an overwhelming positive response, so thanks everyone who has taken a look. Changes include: Much better logic in summarising the data in the chart Some animation (woot! – of course any designers who would like to add their love, please get in touch ;-) Manual Refresh and countdown to next auto refresh Gets all tweets in the past 8 hours (previous version just got the last 99 tweets) I have plenty of other ideas for this app, so stay tuned, but even in it’s current form I think it will be interesting to see how the Twitter world lights up (or not) for the SL announcements at Mix 09 this week. Cheers Ian Technorati Tags: Silverlight,Twitter,Pulse
256 days ago
Just a quick note to point you towards a little app I have been playing with to keep track of Silverlight news on Twitter. Thought it might be interesting to keep an eye on this week with all the Silverlight announcements. This is a very early attempt at some ideas I have for a richer Silverlight Twitter app – I will blog about it more later, but for now, you can have a play below or by opening this link: Cheers Ian Technorati Tags: Silverlight,Twitter
