July 25, 2008Today I received a comment on a Poll I created which asked the question “Will Flash developers learn Silverlight”? 20% said there was no chance unless Microsoft bought Adobe. Here is what the comment has to say.
“Nobody in their right mind will use SilverLight on the internet for a long time…..Until a user can just [...]
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July 25, 2008Wednesday I had the great opportunity to participate in the second annual f8 developers conference in San Francisco. Last year I attended on behalf of Terralever, one of only about 30 selected launch partners. A few weeks before the first f8, Terralever was asked to develop two proof of concepts apps that demonstrated the [...]
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July 19, 2008Yesterday I completed the first version of Closed Captioning support for the Silverlight 2 Video Player on CodePlex. It definitely in an alpha phase, but with some polish it should be reliable and more usable. Here is an image of how the captions are being displayed.
In this first version I made a decision to display [...]
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July 17, 2008Last night Microsoft released a Hotfix for Silverlight 2 Beta 2. The update is just over 6.4MB and is said to include fixes for the following:
This update for Microsoft Silverlight 2 includes stability, media streaming, and auto-update improvements as well as improved support for Firefox 3.
Here is a link to a full description of the [...]
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July 10, 2008For those of you who interact with me professionally, you know that I am a Director at Terralever, an Interactive Marketing company in Tempe Arizona. Selfishly I think we are amazing at what we do and deserve a little recognition. Ranking Arizona is the outcome of the largest business opinion poll in Arizona. Voting has [...]
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July 8, 2008Not sure where I stumbled on it, but recently I watched video online where as the video was playing, a banner ad on the same page changed as the context of the video changed. I was intrigued by the potential this technique had in interactive marketing. As I was watching the video I was envisioning [...]
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July 3, 2008As part of the ongoing evolution of our Open Source Silverlight Video Player on CodePlex, I added the ability to asynchronously load a set of TimeLineMarkers from an XML document. The goal was to allow users a choice between encoding there video with markers or defining those markers in an external xml file. What I [...]
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July 1, 2008I am very excited to say that today I received an email from Microsoft informing me that I have been selected as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for 2008. I am not sure I genuinely deserve the honor, but I am very excited for the recognition. My selection is within Client App Dev [...]
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