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Comment on The future of Silverlight and HTML5 ? by Steve

Steve — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:29:07 +0000

“Though I’m glad to hear that (at least for now) that MS are not going with Silverlight for their forthcoming Office 2010 web apps”

Not me. Silverlight is their new flagship product. To me, it would have been a real feather in their cap to dogfood this for their Office 2010 web apps.

What is the chance that we develop our Silverlight apps and we target different environments… ie. to be run as Html5 ?

Comment on Expression Blend 3 Nuggets - Pt. 1 by expression blend - StartTags.com

expression blend - StartTags.com — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:46:20 +0000

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Comment on The future of Silverlight and HTML5 ? by Nick Harewood

Nick Harewood — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:18:59 +0000

Good to meet you on Saturday Jon, sounds like there was plenty of walking/pondering going on after the event!

I think you’re right - there’s a risk of business logic creeping into the client, but I’d hope by following some best practice guiding principles it will be avoided. Great technology can still provide a rubbish experience if implemented poorly.

As long as the distinction between Client-side and Server-side code remains clear (and i think there are simple ways of defining what should go where) we should be ok. With AJAX/HTML5 i think the distinction can be made with the development languages… though with Silverlight, the distinction comes via adhering to something like a MVC / MVVM framework in the application: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller

Comment on The future of Silverlight and HTML5 ? by Jonathan Lewis

Jonathan Lewis — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:51:44 +0000

On my walk home back from the Multipack event I had thoughts regarding the promotion of browsers and the restrictions that brings. With the implementation of databases in the browser and other HTML5 elements it will be tempting to put more and more of the server-side code onto the client. Are browsers going to live up to this? Bruce mentioned using of Basic style coding to run the canvas tag as it doesn’t hold a DOM. Isn’t this a step backwards? Javascript isn’t fully oop and we could end up with most of our code being open-source whether we like it or not.

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Comment on CrowdSourcing - Fishing for Complimentary Work? by Nick Harewood

Nick Harewood — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:21:28 +0000

I dunno - i think the bar analogy has legs :)

I don’t know of many other sources like that for freelance work (one reason for its popularity i guess)

Interesting to see that http://www.freelancers.net is still going in exactly the same form as it had… 10 years ago? I picked up some small jobs from there back in the day - mostly more trouble than they were worth… Old story of the lower the value a client puts on your work; the more of a pain in the arse they are likely to be.

My recommendation is actually “real-world” networking of the social kind. Over a beer, at a conference, during a seminar, via a friend… its the way to go.

Comment on CrowdSourcing - Fishing for Complimentary Work? by Dylan

Dylan — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:50:22 +0000

Excelent post I was considering this instead of doing bar work for some extra income but at least I’d be sure to get paided for every hour that I worked in a bar and not have to work alongside 10 other bar persons auditioning pints to each customer in they hope that theirs would get chosen and they’d get paid. (I think your analogy was probably better)

Do you know of any better sites for picking up a bit of freelance?

Comment on MIX09 – Day 0 by Nick Harewood

Nick Harewood — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:25:42 +0000

Yep - alternate graph paper / blank pages. Very neat - kind of notebook i’d pay good money for

Comment on MIX09 – Day 0 by Steve Cerruti

Steve Cerruti — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:00:25 +0000

Did the MIX09 branded notebook come with graph paper pages like the MIX07 notebook did?

Comment on MIX09 retrospective by Tim Anderson

Tim Anderson — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:13:10 +0000

Thanks for the write-up.

Speaking for myself, I got the relevance of the Clear Rx stuff but thought it was far too long. Would rather have had more Bill Buxton :-)

Tim