Rebooting the Client Platform Blog

It’s been a while, but it’s nice to see Tim Sneath’s blog spring back into life. “The Client Platform” is a big old topic to talk about but from the posts of the past couple of weeks it looks like HTML5 and IE9 are the current order of the day.

Take a look and there are some nice videos covering some of the recent IE9 Beauty of the Web launch. Like this one.

Making Of : Never Mind the Bullets from Steaw Web Design on Vimeo.

Oh yeah – Tim is also looking to hire someone to be an IE9/HTML5 Technical Evangelist. He says it’s the best job in the company, but I thought that was mine…

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BBC, Semantic Web, World Cup (and a hint of a bit of Silverlight)

Two great posts on the BBC Internet blog (that ones the what, this one more the why) talking about the publication of automated metadata-driven web pages from RDF triple-stores. Lots of links for those interested in programming for the semantic web (which will definitely take off soon, honest).

Look closely at the little systems diagram – I swear there’s a mention of Silverlight in there...

Silverlight Tutorials on ActiveTuts

MikeT has been busy working on some useful tutorials for Silverlight and they’ve just been posted over on ActiveTuts (which is the RIA bit of the much wider and most excellent TutsPlus).

You can see part 1 (majoring on application development)and part 2 (with a bit more Expression Blend). Let us know if they’re useful, and what else you’d like to see.

Creating Casual Games in Silverlight 3

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What an awesome set of 12 tutorials!

Silverlight Toolkit on Web Platform Installer

Just noticed that the WebPI now has the Silverlight Toolkit as an install option (it's the October 2009 version). You can still get it from CodePlex too, but this is a handy option for removing that extra bit of friction.

.net Magazine Expression Tutorials

If you haven't dabbled in Expression then .net magazine is publishing some interesting tutorials and exploration of Expression and Silverlight capabilities. At the moment, there's a useful review of Expression Studio 3 and a tutorial on building network-aware desktop applications (or out-of-browser). Worth a look-see.

Silverlight and Windows 7 Firestarters

Some good looking events on the Firestarter site:

Signup here for: September 17th, there's a day of Silverlight with speakers including ScottGu, Tim Heuer, Adam Kinney, Brad Abrams and Karl Shifflet - not bad going.

Signup here for: September 18th, there's a day of Windows 7 which looks to be focused on deployment and migration for IT Pros.

Although these events are actually hosted out of Redmond then the links above will sign you up to the live webcast instead which is a great option.

TED Silverlight Player

If you like TED (and who doesn't?) then you'll probably really like this TED video player written in Silverlight 3.

Convexion: PowerPoint -> Silverlight Converter

This announcement popped into my inbox from Electric Rain just the other day (they're the team that brought you ZAM 3D amongst other stuff).

Convexion is a PPT 2007 plug-in (due for release in Sept 2009 according to the site) that exports PPTX files to Silverlight/WPF. There's a good demo on the site here.

The Unauthorised Autobiography of Marc Holmes

Microsoftie thinking about dialogue with developers. Brit in Seattle. Windswept and Interesting.

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