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Flash Lite on Windows Mobile
17 March 08 02:43 PM | Jesse Ezell | 3 comment(s)

Lots of people are pointing to the release of Flash "Light" on Windows Mobile by Microsoft and claiming that this is to "hold people over" until Silverlight gets here. That is just utter BS. Who the hell has ever used a Flash Light site on their phone...

Filed under: Microsoft, Adobe, .NET, Silverlight, Flash Light

Silverlight on iPhone
05 March 08 09:21 PM | Jesse Ezell | 2 comment(s)

Jobs says Flash just doesn't cut the mustard and won't show up on the iPhone [1] [2]. Does that mean we will see Silverlight running on the iPhone first? There are some rumors... [3] [4] [1] http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200803041742DOWJONESDJONLINE000829_FORTUNE5...

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight and N Tier Architecture
04 March 08 01:00 PM | Jesse Ezell | 3 comment(s)

Ryan van der Kooy asks: "I've been beginning to try to find out how a good architecture will work using silverlight 2.0. I've read that Silverlight 2.0 could possible offer a 6 tier design. However, having a bll in your silverlight app could possibly...

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight for Symbian
04 March 08 10:01 AM | Jesse Ezell | with no comments

"The two companies on Tuesday at Microsoft's Mix '08 conference are scheduled to announce that Microsoft will write a version of Silverlight for Nokia's Series 60 (S60) smartphone software that runs on Symbian OS. The software, which will be available...

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight Supercomputer
28 January 08 06:18 PM | Jesse Ezell | 1 comment(s)

Dan Fay pointed to an interesting article on CodeProject about building a grid computing framework that runs on Silverlight. The proposition is really interesting. Imagine someone like the folding at home ( http://folding.stanford.edu/ ) project providing...

Filed under: WPF, .NET, Silverlight

How Silverlight Will Change the Way We Build Applications
09 January 08 09:38 PM | Jesse Ezell | 5 comment(s)

"...Don't make the mistake of tossing Silverlight in the same bucket as Flash. While they definitely compete in some significant areas, and both have real strengths in different areas, Silverlight 2.0 was created from the ground-up to be an application...

Filed under: WPF, .NET, Silverlight

Moonlight (AKA Silverlight on Linux) Release Schedule Update
07 December 07 10:19 AM | Jesse Ezell | with no comments

Fresh on the heals of the Silverlight 2.0 announcements, Miguel de Icaza of Novel has some of his own: "Miguel de Icaza demoed the Moonlight project at the XML 2007 Conference in Boston this week! He said the first version (Moonlight 1.0) would be released...

Filed under: .NET, Linux, Silverlight, Moonlight, Novel

Silverlight 2.0 (formerly known as 1.1) Announced
30 November 07 02:50 PM | Jesse Ezell | with no comments

ScottGu dropping the news as usual. Most interesting feature, IMO, is the upgraded communication support: "The next Silverlight preview release will add support for REST, POX, RSS, and WS* communication. It will also add support for cross domain network...

Filed under: WPF/E, .NET, Silverlight

Is Adobe Really Playing the Lock-in Game With Flash Video?
24 August 07 06:36 PM | Jesse Ezell | 2 comment(s)

So, you aren't going to be locked in to buy On2's codec... but looks like despite the fact that they are using an open standard, if you want to intelligently stream the video you will be locked into buying Flash Media Server: The Motion Picture Experts...

Filed under: WPF, Flash, Silverlight, H.264

Silverlight Forcing Macromedia to Rethink
23 August 07 04:45 AM | Jesse Ezell | 4 comment(s)

Many Flash developers have been complaining about the choice of On2's codec over a standard like H.264 for years. Interestingly, Adobe is finally adding support for some standard video codecs in the next version of Flash. The question is, how much did...

Filed under: WPF, Flash, Silverlight