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Silverlight 1.0 RTM
5 September 2007 in Microsoft & Programming & WebDev | Comments (0)

Scott Guthrie finally announces the official release of Silverlight 1.0 on RTM stage. This is still the first version, and I looking for to working with the next (1.1) version with .NET languages support, besides the already supported javascript.

Also, they finally made an official partnership with Novell to bring its Moonlight as the official Linux Silverlight version. Miguel de Icaza and his team has done a fantastic job with their implementation.

Read more on Scott’s blog

Whats the point…
23 August 2007 in WebDev | Comments (1)

The reason that makes someone create this beautiful and interactive solitaire game, on plain javascript just goes over my head.

This simply couldn’t be an easy task, even with 3rd party libraries.

Magic Carpet
22 August 2007 in Programming & WebDev | Comments (0)

A new Papervision sample just got featured on their blog, and its certainly interesting. This code is Manuel Bua’s work, witch combines Papervision with APE (Actionscript Physics Engine).

The physics are really cool, and its quite funny to play with this. The interest goes to the realtime image compositing and post-processing.

You can play with it here, and get all the source code here.

JavaFX - very cool, very slow
19 July 2007 in WebDev | Comments (0)

Bubblemark, a simple 2D animation demo, is becoming a code sample to compare performance of different RIA frameworks. They now provide on their website about 7 tests, including a recent JavaFX test, that concluded in very low values.

Although JavaFX is still in alpha bits, this are the summary:

JavaFX — 14 fps
Firefox + Silverlight (JavaScript) — 56 fps
Firefox + Flex — 62 fps
Adobe AIR — 62 fps
Firefox + Silverlight (CLR) — 99 fps

It is 4.4x slower than Flash and 7x slower than Silverlight (CLR-based variant).

There are already reports they are working on increasing it speed by high numbers.

Microsoft Expression Blend 2 QuickStart
17 July 2007 in WebDev | Comments (0)

Microsoft Expression Blend 2 is a design tool that greatly simplifies and speeds up development of Silverlight applications. Currently just in beta, the new version of Blend can be downloaded here.

There’s a new QuickStart that will walk you through the basics of using Blend 2 to make Silverlight apps: http://silverlight.net/quickstarts/blend_quickstart/default.aspx