Last nights .net User Group was fantastic! It was great to see so many new faces out, and pack the room! I was also really pleased at all the positive feedback! The only negative comment was “More Food!”. We will try and do a better Job of that next time! With the deep freeze in Winnipeg (-47), we thought less would come, but you all made it!
I hope you all gathered from yesterdays presentation that Silverlight is rebooting the Web, as well as Developer and Designer Workflow. I am swamped at the moment with some projects at work, however I wanted to quickly put up the PowerPoint from yesterday’s talk, as well as some of the samples I demonstrated in yesterdays presentation!
Silverlight is really going to change the web! I know a lot of you mentioned on your evaluations yesterday that you loved the technology, but were concerned on its application to your business. To that I say… come work for me instead… just kidding (Am I?). Seriously though, I really think you are seeing a shift these days, and will continue to see a shift over the next 5 to 10 years. While a lot of people are still building traditional web applications, windows applications, etc. I strongly believe those lines will blur over the next several years. WPF/E (Silverlight) is a step in the right direction.
I really have to stop and wonder why Microsoft still gets so much heat, when they are coming up with such amazing stuff, even Michael Arrington gives a shout out to! True, you have your nay sayers saying its a copy of flash, but when you really dive into it, you realize, it is so much more! Its truly like comparing a Aston Martin Vanquish, and tricycle! Why do I sense I just lost about 500 flash devote readers?
Download Silverlight in the Real World (PowerPoint)
Many thanks to Scott Gu for lending some ideas and inspiration!
If you would like links to all the examples, or some of the videos that were shown, just shoot me an email at: miguelc@anvildigital.com and I’d be happy to share them with you!