I’m committed to making Programming Silverlight not only the best book on the topic but also the best book I’ve written. As part of that effort I’ll be drawing on and deepening my blog entries and tutorials and videos on the Silverlight site.
If you want a flavor of what is to come, please consider keeping an eye on my blog. Your feedback on the technical level and the topics covered will be invaluable.
Thanks again.
I’m very pleased and proud to announce that my newest book, Programming .NET 3.5, is available, and more important that it may be the most unusual book I’ve ever written. As noted in my primary blog it was our theory; generated long before I started work at Microsoft, that while there was good reason to write what I call “silo” books on each of the .NET technologies (e.g., WPF, WCF, etc.) there was a coherence to the entire Microsoft framework that was potentially missed by that approach.
Our other theory was that .NET 3.5 (broadly defined) was the first version of .NET to fully facilitate the development of n-tier applications and MVC (imagine our shock when Microsoft developed the MVC library for ASP.NET!)
This book was also a blast to write, and even more exceptional, my co-author, Alex Horovitz, launched his own writing career out of it, quickly following with Programming ASP.NET MVC to be released shortly.
It will come as no surprise that I’m always looking for on-ramps for aspiring Silverlight programmers. This month there are a few particularly attractive ones.
First, I’ve put together a new, if somewhat idiosyncratic roadmap for acquiring the tools and working your way through our learning materials.
Second, I’ve launched a series of live presentations delivered over the net, every other Wednesday, and then downloadable on demand.
Windows Vista really has a habit of getting in my way. I just updated Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 to Service Pack 1 (SP1). I probably should have Run as Administrator. However, that is NOT specified in the SP1 update instructions…
I mentioned the Blender multi-platform Open Source 3D rendering/animation product a week or so ago. You can see an example of what real talent can do with it in this animation work released and available for free download now…
There are several download formats available. Choose the one that works best with your configuration. The files are large (as you might imagine) and take a while to download but is well worth the wait.
Zoho Creator is one of my favorite and most frequently used web service. It is probably safe to say that I use it every single day of the week (including weekends). If you use Zoho Creator, you should be aware of a big change that may affect you starting May 30, 2008. Head over to Zoho’s page at…
Pricing Plan and Changes for the Free Edition
Twitter / john_lam: ironruby running unmodified…
ironruby running unmodified rails!
Congratulations John and company!
Against my better judgement I added a commenting service to my Tumblr tumblog (MobileViews TumBlog using the…
Disqus (pronounced “discuss”)
…blog comment system. I tried it on that first since Tumblr doesn’t provide any comments (which is generally considered a GOOD thing) and it was the simplest venue for me to modify quickly. Head over there and let me know what you think about Disqus. Should I replace the comment system here with it?
I don’t think I’m addicted to Twitter. But, I do tend to tweet several times daily. And, I enjoy sharing a photo of, for example, things I see when I take a walk downtown during my lunch break. While Twitter itself doesn’t have a photo sharing feature, there is a simple to use 3rd party web service that provides this feature for you. It is called…
Both Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 for Windows Vista have been giving me fits for many months with their respective memory leak issues. Firefox 2 has been a bit more stable on my Mac but blows up there now and then too.
The latest version of the Open Source 3D modeling and animation tool is out…
This Open Source tool has binary downloads for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.
I use Facebook so infrequently these days (after an initial burst of activity when a bunch of people I know hopped on board around the same time) that I’m not even sure how to properly point you to this Silverlight based Facebook SimCity-like app called…
This is obviously not a high-volume destination website. Ever though it mostly serves as a personal notation system for me to keep track of interesting free software and web services, there are a few people who visit here now and then. And, the statistician in me finds it interesting to track the numbers.
Snackr is an Adobe AIR based scrolling ticker that displays RSS feed information. I created an OPML file from my Microsoft Live Personalized Experience Page (Microsoft really needs to come up with better product names :-) and fed it into Snackr after installing it.
Microsoft just released…
Hmm. I couldn’t even solve the regular Rubik’s cube (without taking it apart :-). So, I’m not even going to try this 4 dimensional puzzle with 2641 pieces.
Magic120Cell
…is a freeware for Microsoft Windows that requires .Net Framework 2.0 to run.
While looking for the latest version of CCleaner, I noticed that Piriform also has a freeware Windows disk defragmentation utility now.
If you’ve used McAfee’s SiteAdvisor to flag potentially dangerous web searches, the new Yahoo/McAfee dangerous web site team-up will look familiar to you. I went to Yahoo Search and searched for free downloads since I was pretty sure it would result in a few dangerous sites being listed in the search results. I found it interesting that McAfee highlighted the sponsored search result as a dangerous site. This is a good thing since it indicates that they aren’t playing favorites.
I’m not a fan of Java or Eclipse. So, I didn’t expect much from Sun’s recent Java-built IDE release…
A day late on this one, but still worthy of a post,
First Moonlight Release - Miguel de Icaza
Today we are making the first public release of Moonlight, supporting the Silverlight 1.0 profile for Linux. The release comes in two forms:
* No-media codecs supported, but easy to install: head to http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight and click on the cute installer for Moonlight. This currently hosts builds for Linux x86 and x86-64 for Firefox.
* Source-code compilation, but you can optionally compile FFMpeg codecs yourself. To do this, download our moon-0.6.tar.bz2. And follow the build instructions.
More goodness at the above linked entry on Miguel’s blog.
Congratulations, Mono Project developers!
As seen on irc://irc.gnome.org/#mono,
Novell is hiring, temporary project 6 months, help improve Mono, use Visual Studio to debug remote Mono apps
Contact: miguelATnovellDOTcom
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