Had an enjoyable afternoon out at Birmingham University yesterday. Was there to give a talk on our ‘Real World Experience’ at Synetrix over the last 12 months. The theme was to follow our progress along the Learning curve of our journey in adopting Silverlight – from first principles, to our current level of expertise; titled “The Learning Curve in Action”.
Was a small crowd of academics and educators who had spent the day getting (for the most part) a first look at Silverlight. The day was intended to describe what Silverlight is, what it isn’t, and via a couple of hands-on workshops – give an experience of how one might go about developing for it.
My talk came at the end of the day, as a suggestion of how everything discussed in the previous hours can be applied in the ‘Real World’. It covered how we reached our decision to use Silverlight, the learning process, progress made, the achievement of reaching launch, and what the future may hold for our application with the launch of Silverlight 3 and Blend 3.
Unfortunately I can’t upload the slides just yet, but if you attended and would like a copy just email me. I have however included links below to some of the resources I mentioned during the talk.
Silverlight Related Blogs
- Scott Guthrie
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/pages/silverlight-posts.aspx - Tim Heuer
http://timheuer.com/blog/ - Jesse Liberty
http://silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/
Silverlight.net
- http://silverlight.net/
- Getting Started
http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/ - Samples Gallery
http://silverlight.net/community/communitygallery.aspx
CodePlex Silverlight Control Projects
- Silverlight Toolkit
http://www.codeplex.com/Silverlight - Silverlight Contrib
http://www.codeplex.com/silverlightcontrib - BlackLight
http://www.codeplex.com/blacklight
…I could list some of the other 3rd Party control projects & vendors at this point, but others have already done it better… Namely, Mr Tim Heuer:
http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/01/28/comprehensive-list-of-silverlight-controls.aspx
Other key sites and blogs to keep an eye on
- Silverlight Cream
http://www.silverlightcream.com/ - Silverlight Team Blog
http://team.silverlight.net/ - Expression Blend team blogs
http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/
If there’s anything you think I’ve missed, let me know and I’ll update the page accordingly