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Day 2 (Saturday) was packed full of interesting presentations. From about 4:30 to 5:00, I did a presentation on how to build animations with blend and use them in Silverlight. Here is the description:
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For those that have never been to a Silverlight Dev Camp (OK, maybe nobody has ever been to one), this is an event where people on he (b)leading edge get together and talk about how much fun they are having and share war stories. For me, life couldn’t get any better. Well, as one of the other moderators on asp.net forums recently pointed out to me… Get a life.
(more…)Topic: Building animation into "Community Media Browser" for Leverage Software with Silverlight Alpha 1.1
Searchlight was born from the desire to show the outstanding ability of Silverlight to create a compelling web application using existing infrastructure technology. The products was developed working with Leverage Software, a
San Francisco company dedicated to delivering first class communities for it’s customer’s, Peter Kellner (the Silverlight technology guy), and Uday Gajendar, the design specialist. Our efforts can be viewed by going to the LeverageSoftware Labs Link Here. Simply follow the directions on that web page to run the web application. In this article, many of the Silverlight features in Searchlight are discussed.
Searchlight was built to run with the first Alpha 1.1 version of Silverlight shipped from Microsoft. Searchlight takes advantage of Leverage Software’s extensive web service api to provide real time data based on those web feeds. Currently, Leverage Software’s main access to the Dwell Community is an html application that can be found at
http://dwell.leveragesoftware.com/. Using the Silverlight Alpha 1.1 combined with
I’m presenting a session on Silverlight 1.1 at Silicon Valley Code Camp October 27-28, 2007. this event will be held at Foothill College. If you can make it, please register here:
http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/AttendeeRegistration.aspx
So, you might be wondering, what is a code camp, and what does it cost? Well, it’s completely free and completely staffed by volunteers. It’s a place you can share your passion for technology with others like yourself, it’s a place you can give a presentation on your favorite topic to a receptive audience, as well as go to sessions by others who want to share the knowledge. Typically, there are sessions on all kinds of technologies from Microsoft’s latest stuff to Java,
Ruby, Python, JavaScript, and even more obscure technologies. It’s basically formatted like a 1 day PDC/Teched/JavaOne style event where sessions are pre arranged and you just choose what interests you. Session sign up closes a week before the event so you know what you’ll be in for ahead of time and you can plan.
Recently, is seems that many web sites and blogs are starting to use a navigation technique where you have multiple hyperlinks grouped in a box, with size, color, or brightness giving some meaning. I like this very much and have been on the lookout for a while for a control to do this in ASP.NET. Turns out, DevExpress has one! It’s called the CloudControl and you can read more about it at the following URL.
(more…)It’s with great excitement and anticipation, I’m proud to formally announce "Code Camp V2 is coming!".
http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/
We already have over 25 sessions signed covering lots of technologies including ones from Microsoft, Sun, Amazon, Open Source and others. Please register for Code Camp if you can make it and if you have any
interest in giving a session, please sign up for one after you register.Code Camp is a completely free event put on by volunteers including all the speakers. If you have not done much presenting, this is the perfect place to start out.
If you’re a veteran presenter, you will be among many friends as we already have some of the top presenters from the bay area already committed to speaking.
