Thursday, July 7, 2011

The New and Improved Silverlight.net Site

The New and Improved Silverlight.net Site

The New and Improved Silverlight.net Site

Posted: 07 Jul 2011 12:39 PM PDT

We're just about ready to launch the new version of silverlight.net. Here's the posting I put on the forums today: Announcement - Silverlight.NET site will switch to the new design by July end. NOTE: 3 Calls to Action below! For some time now, you have...( read more )...(read more)

The New and Improved Silverlight.net Site

Posted: 07 Jul 2011 12:39 PM PDT

We're just about ready to launch the new version of silverlight.net. Here's the posting I put on the forums today: Announcement - Silverlight.NET site will switch to the new design by July end. NOTE: 3 Calls to Action below! For some time now, you have...( read more )...(read more)

SilverlightShow for June 27 - July 03, 2011

Posted: 07 Jul 2011 11:22 AM PDT

Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for June 27 - July 03, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: WCF RIA Services series now available as a fully offline resource Download...( read more )...(read more)

JavaScript is Assembly Language for the Web: Semantic Markup is Dead! Clean vs. Machine-coded HTML

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 04:16 PM PDT

I was talking to Erik Meijer yesterday and he said: JavaScript is an assembly language. The JavaScript + HTML generate is like a .NET assembly. The browser can execute it, but no human should really care what's there. - Erik Meijer This discussion started because I was playing with Google+ and, as with most websites that I'm impressed with, I immediately did a View Source to see what was underneath. I was surprised. I saw this: Let's just say that this went on for about 1300 lines. It is tight and about 90k. This is just the first half. It's mostly minified JavaScript. The middle part of the page is all spans and divs and generated class ids like this: Oy. The whole page is a big GUID.   However, I see this on http://msn.com...(read more)

Silverlight Vancouver User Group meeting recap

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 11:34 PM PDT

I just did a talk at the Vancouver Silverlight User Group ( VanSLUG ). Title: HTML5 and Silverlight 5: facts, assumptions and near future Abstract: "In this session, I will try to clarify what we hear (and not hear) around these technologies, maybe add...( read more )...(read more)

JavaScript is Assembly Language for the Web: Sematic Markup is Dead! Clean vs. Machine-coded HTML

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 04:16 PM PDT

I was talking to Erik Meijer yesterday and he said: JavaScript is an assembly language. The JavaScript + HTML generate is like a .NET assembly. The browser can execute it, but no human should really care what's there. - Erik Meijer This discussion started because I was playing with Google+ and, as with most websites that I'm impressed with, I immediately did a View Source to see what was underneath. I was surprised. I saw this: Let's just say that this went on for about 1300 lines. It is tight and about 90k. This is just the first half. It's mostly minified JavaScript. The middle part of the page is all spans and divs and generated class ids like this: Oy. The whole page is a big GUID.  However, I see this on http://msn.com...(read more)
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