Posts with tag "Silverlight"

So what exactly is the problem here?

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  • Posted 1655 days ago

silverlight Don’tcha ya just love stupid ass error messages that make no sense at all. It’s bad enough that something a simple and straight forward as installing something on a computer even generates an error (be quiet you Mactards :) ) but when the error isn’t really an error – or is it? – that’s just dumb-assed.

Case in point – I was working on my post over at the Inquisitr about Microsoft’s new open source blogging platform offering and I wanted to check out the video on the Channel9 site with the dev team. Well I loaded up the page only to see the Install Silverlight 2 note which was okay – I can dig that.

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From the Pipeline – 9.23.08

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Some of you might have noticed a lack of a pipeline post yesterday which was due to being hit with a total lack of interest in anything to do with computers and technology. It was one of those blah days which we all suffer from at one point or another. Finally this afternoon I managed to rise out of the funk and get caught up with what was happening around the web. During that I did manage to find a few things in my information pipeline that weren’t gPhone related that you might find of interest as well.

The Network Monitor for the rest of us is here :: SEO and Tech Daily – a nice heads up from Charlie for a handy program for those nosy folks wanting to know what is going through their network

Samsonite OBAG concept reinvents the suitcase :: SlipperyBrick – somethings just don’t make any sense regardless of the pictures supplied – this is one of those cases

Silverlight: MSN UK’s New Experimental Viewer :: LiveSide – an experimental Viewer courtesy of Microsoft and their Silverlight technology

The Pirate Bay Is Getting Into Streaming? :: TechCrunch – you just have to know this is going to go over really well – or not.

Bizarre: CNet writer claims that Windows 7 must have geek support or else :: The Inquisitr – I’m with Duncan on this one except I want to know where this guy got his drugs because they’re pretty damn good.

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Silverlight gets ported to Linux – Welcome Moonlight

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Moonlight - Silverlight for Linux While everyone seems to be positioning themselves around Adobe AIR for delivering Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) there is another player in the same space that goes by the name of Microsoft. Microsoft released it’s newest version of Silverlight (2.0) back in November of last year. As usual there were cries from the non Windows platform users about it being only for Windows users as Silverlight needs the OS to run on.

Well word is out today that Novell through its work with the Mono project (.NET for Linux) has released its first public release of Moonlight which is the Silverlight port to the Linux Platform. While the release only supports Silverlight 1.0 De Icaza the Novell Vice President for Developer Technologies (he is also the driving force behind the Mono project) has said that they will move to also support 2.0 of Silverlight.

It has been good to see that Microsoft has been a willing partner in both the Mono project and now the Moonlight project as well.

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From the Pipeline – 5.6.08

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Even though today started out on the wrong side of the bed – so to speak – it’s turned out to be a pretty good day all round. To finish of this day here’s a few things I found interesting in my FriendFeed pipeline.

The Coolest Business Plan Ever :: The Post Money Value – I think the post title is more tongue in cheek considering the example Rick gave in the post. Definitely made me chuckle a bit when I read it.

Scoble advertising in Twitter? :: broadstuff – Robert Scoble is known for taking flack for a lot of stuff which is what Alan has done in his post about advertising showing up on Robert’s blog and more interestingly in his Twitter stream.

Mozilla warns of Flash and Silverlight ‘agenda’ :: ZDNet – a bit of an attack against Flash and Silverlight by Tristan Nitot of Mozilla – like Mozilla wouldn’t have an agenda of it’s own either .. ya … right.

Opera Releases Firebug Alternative: Dragonfly :: TechCrunch – not to be left behind Opera readies its answer to the Firebug plugin for Firefox. Of course this will only really matter if you are a web developer.

Sneaker Freaker Magazine – Global sneaker news, info & exclusive updates – everything sneakers – this is just plain fun especially if you are into hot news about running shoes and the companies that make them.

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I know it’s new, but C’mon

I’ve been scouring around for Adobe Air apps worth breaking reviewing, and I must say, I’m coming up a little bit on the side of disappointed.  Just looking at the list of over 70 AIR apps at the Adobe AIR marketplace, the choices are looking bleak indeed. A lot of what’s there is either a (IMO) a pointless widget or just another silly interface for Digg, Twitter or Reddit, or simply border on redundancy as opposed to just opening the page in your browser. There are a couple, however, that are beginning to show the capabilities of the platform, like cleVR Stitcher, by Matt Kane at www.clever.com, an applet designed to ‘stitch’ together photos into panoramic images.

You can read the whole post over here at WinExta

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From the Pipeline – 4.10.08

While much of the blogosphere was going stupid over the fact that Hugh MacLeod killed off his Twitter account because it made it too easy (?) there where other things going on as well. So here are a few of the things that caught my eye in today’s FriendFeed pipeline.

bTittleTattle: A FriendFeed Desktop Application :: SheGeeks – Corvida brings us news of a working desktop client for the FriendFeed service. I’ll be having a look at it later and it isn’t going to be pretty.

Do You Support Video On Flickr? :: TechCrunch – apparently the users of the Flickr service are pissed because they were not consulted before the company that has all the money invested wants to add a new service. So who’s actually running the company?

Improve Your Social Brain by Taking Notes :: Lifehacker – one of the unsung tools of our modern life – taking notes. This is something that as a youngster was a prerequisite for helping to remember anything – now it seems to have become an art. And I’m still looking for a a good quality little app to help me take and keep notes – if you know of any pass them on.

Adobe Air, What’s this now? :: WinExtra – Bill our intrepid software tester and anti Web 2.0 person gives a very brief outline of the what and why of Adobe Air and Microsoft Silverlight which he will expand on I am sure once he drinks some more kool-aid.

User Interface Updates at YouTube :: Google Operating System – a bit of a run down on the interface changes being made at YouTube – where the users aren’t bitching because new stuff is being added.

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Adobe Air, What’s this now?

A few days back, Steven discussed, briefly, Adobe Air and Microsoft Silverlight. He’s even given the Air Media Player a run. I’ve never been too big on Web 2.0-type stuff, (OK, I think it’s far from the “wave of the future” so many Kool-Aid freaks think it is) so I don’t pay it much attention. As a result, I hadn’t much more than heard the names.

With that, I set out to discover the purpose behind Silverlight and Air, and as a kind of precursor to doing some reviews of Air and Silverlight apps, give a short rundown of why, exactly, you should even give a damn about them.

You can read the whole post over here at WinExtra

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Not really a new direction but a new interest

air_silver Ever since I hung up my development stuff for a variety of reasons – some personal and some professional, I’ve had a chance to sit back and look at the whole application landscape without the preconceived notions of the programming language that I had spent the better part of 10 to 15 years working in. During my period of reflection the one thing that had always been a part of my developer thinking was the need for true cross platform applications.

Now before the browser and computing in the clouds crew start jumping up and own proclaiming another convert let me put the kibosh on that dream before it even starts. I still believe very strongly in the power; and security, of the desktop slash laptop and have extreme doubts about the security of relying on having all our data; personal or otherwise, being stored in some third party storage facilities that is accessible via a security mess called a browser.

What I see as having great potential of cross platform; with data neutral transfers, are the two offerings being put forward by Adobe with their AIR platform and with Microsoft’s Silverlight platform. While both could be considered to be in their infancy I am beginning to get a gut feeling that both could very well change the desktop and the browser.

Because of that feeling WinExtra is going to be starting to keep a closer watch on both platforms. While I will be looking at them more from the overall impact and discussions around the platforms Bill the trusty WinExtra application breaker will be looking at doing reviews and commentaries on any actual applications that are being built on the platforms.

So if you have any information that you would like to share – anonymously or not about the platforms and people involved with them feel free to email me steven @ winextra . com and if you area developer with a new or existing product built on either of the platforms feel free to let Bill know at bill @ winextra . com

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