One of the reasons I’m pleased with the Silverlight version of Legend of the Greasepole is that it represents a reasonably-scaled multimedia application, and therefore a good way to learn about the Silverlight 2 runtime’s performance.
The Silverlight 2 Beta game engine runs rings around the game engine I tried to create using the Silverlight 2 [...]
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The Legend of the Greasepole is a game that began its life on July 1st, 1996, when a group of Engineering students from Queen’s University in Canada decided they’d create a way to re-live their unexplainable annual tradition from the comfort of their long-suffering computers.
The release of the Silverlight 2 Beta has allowed the game [...]
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1. The Cirque du Soleil keynote demo, the most engaging articulation of WPF’s “richer, smarter, more productive line-of-business app” message since Avalon Healthcare.
2. More Microsoft Research innovation sees the light of day in the product groups and for developers at large. Deep Zoom becomes available to developers through Silverlight and demoed by the Hard Rock [...]
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Just got back from the Steve Ballmer / Guy Kawasaki keynote at this year’s Mix.
Is Guy ever not on form? He did a great job asking Steve the tough questions, making it fun, and getting a few candid answers, along with some “PR” answers as well, including Steve’s cautious response to “What about [...]
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Head over to Tim Sneath’s blog for a list of all download links related to the keynote this morning.
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I’ve just stepped out from the first Mix Keynote I’ve attended as a consultant rather than a Microsoftie. There was no real shocker in there, but it was a solid keynote and I am enthused by a couple of exciting announcements
Ray Ozzie began by saying he sees Mix08 as one of several milestones on a [...]
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You’d be forgiven for being surprised to find out that I haven’t yet begun my travels to Spanish-speaking parts of the world, and haven’t even dipped my toe in the water for more scuba.
Instead, I’ve been working as an independent consultant for the past few weeks, helping to complete the development of the first application [...]
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