Entries from March 2009

Developing a Casual Game with Siverlight 2 – Module 4

Date March 21, 2009

This week Microsoft published the latest issue of the Expression Newsletter. If you have not seen the newsletter its a great series of articles focused on using Silverlight and the Expression tools to create amazing rich interactive solutions. In this latest issue I was asked to contribute the fourth of a six part series of [...]

Tech-Ed 2009: Birds-of-a-Feather on Casual Gaming

Date March 20, 2009

Each year at Tech-Ed they have a set of sessions called “Birds-of-a-Feather” these sessions are open discussions around topics that the community has interest in. No formal powerpoint presentations, just a moderator and a bunch of people that have similar interests. This year I submitted a topic that I would love to be included. If [...]

Mix09 – What excitement!

Date March 20, 2009

I have to say that without a doubt Mix09 was an amazing experience. Unfortunately I did not get to hit all of the session I would have liked to, but nonetheless I had some of the most inspiring conversations around Silverlight.   Its hard to explain the vibe any other way than excited. This years sessions [...]

Silverlight Screencast Site

Date March 1, 2009

When I think back to where Silverlight was just a year ago, it is so exciting to see how far it has come and how much the community has embraced it. Recently I stumbled upon a nice Silverlight podcast called Sparkling client. Sparkling Client is a podcast by Eric Mork about Silverlight and other RIA [...]