Awesome Interview with Scott Guthrie by Tim Anderson

Tim Anderson has just posted an awesome interview with Scott Guthrie, where they talked about many cool geek stuff like LINQ, ASP.NET, Silverlight, and WPF.

I finally understand why they’re going crazy about LINQ, that allows the use dynamic SQL to perform CRUD operations on other databases like MySQL and SQLite, that’s the next best thing to seeing the functionality of stored procedures in free databases!

Tim was great in pointing out certain issues that many have always wondered about Microsoft’s vision of Silverlight, and based on what Scott says, it could be fair to say that Microsoft is definitely sticking by their word in enabling the delivery of Silverlight across different platforms and browsers.

There was also comparison of Silverlight between different technologies like WPF, Google Gears, Adobe AIR, and of course, Flash and Flex, where some very very good points were pointed out, like whether or not XBAPs are still viable now that Silverlight is out in the streets.

Especially loved this part:

“I’ve seen comments from Mac users that have used the Silverlight 1.0 release, say for the Halo 3 streaming video, to the effect that “I didn’t think video on the web worked this well, and I’m pretty shocked that when I right-clicked on the control it says Microsoft.”

This is the link to the Halo 3 trailer powered by Silverlight, (the original version is still Flash though) I’ve never seen Silverlight work on Macs, could anyone justify that statement?

Great Silverlight Examples by Vectorform

If you’re looking for some simple yet neat examples of neat transitions, cool controls, and animated navigation effects, do check out the Vectorform blog, by maintained by Vectorform an interactive application consulting firm, so far they have already posted quite a few samples that you could check out, and whats great is that they even included the source code!

These are the samples that are posted so far. There are many different versions of this samples, with different animations and effects.

Flyout Navigation

Similar to a drop down list, they have posted a few of these controls with different animations and effects.

Tile Navigation

This is my absolute favourite, when you mouse cursor moves over the tiles, there would be a crisps animation of the selected tile scaling.

Image Viewer

Clicking and dragging would scroll the images left and right. Sweet.

SlideShow

Animated slideshows just look great with reflections.

Scollbar

Scrollbars involve loads of mathematical calculations that scares of stupid people like me, examples like these really helps.

Silverlight… is a surname!

I was looking for journals and white papers for my seminar, and I found a great load of white papers from ZDNet, and when I was googl’ing journals, I found Google’s Scholar service, and I was like, GREAT, searching journals with Google, hard work made easy with the Web, absolutely brilliant!

Silverlight is still pretty new, so I don’t think I would be able to get any journals on it, but then I couldn’t help it, I had to try my luck, so I went on and typed “silverlight” and VIOLA! Guess what I found?

Lookie here! J. Silverlight, man, I never expected to see anyone with Silverlight as his surname!

No idea what he would think of Microsoft Silverlight though, what you do you guys think?

Silverlight 1.0 released!

Cooool, Silverlight 1.0 is officially released, and my there are loads of companies have already built their web sites on Silverlight 1.0! Awesome! It was scheduled to release during the summer, and frankly, I never expected it to be released this early!

Nice seeing that Microsoft held on to their word and have finally announced that they’ll be partnering with Novell to come up with a Silverlight runtime that is fully compatible with Linux with the Moonlight project.

To find out more, check out Scott Guthrie’s blog post on it!

Some User Experience Guidelines

This article on MSDN may not be that new, but its top notch!

Find out how to create the best user experience for your applications by Dax Pandhi, you’ll be shocked on that by applying some simple tricks and sticking with some guidelines, you could shape your applications into much richer and intuitive applications for both the desktop and the Web.