Long weekend

[rmathis]

So I'm doing a project at work where I had to learn Silverlight (its a newer software that works sort of like Flash, if you watched the olympics online you were probably looking at silverlight) and its about all I do lately.

Its going to be a pretty cool project.  It involves 2 large LCD monitors (32") with multitouch technology as well as a 10,000

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Silverlight

[anonymous]

Silverlight is pretty awesome, in that it's cross-platform.
It also has it's own DRM scheme, so that's a plus (if you aren't a rabid hater of the DRM)...

Netflix uses Silverlight to serve InstantWatch movies now, which is why you can watch them on a Mac. I've often wondered if the the 'app' for it on the 360, and other home entertainment hardware, is also a Sliverlight thin client.

In someways, I almost wish Silverlight would takeover from Flash - which is weird for me to say, seeing as how it's a Microsoft product. But it seems far less processor intensive, and actually works how it is expected to.

-Dunny

[qrtrlfcrises]

Silverlight has to be one of the coolest names ever! Good luck with your project. Hopefully you will only have a moderate amount of time off and then continue to be gainfully employed.

[rmathis]

:) Things are going well so far, the first week was basically me trying to do something, banging my head against it for a few hours, figuring it out, then wanting to do the next thing, which would involve me banging my head against that next thing for a few hours before figuring it out.

I've finally gotten to the point where I'm regularly reusing things I've already figured out, so while I haven't "mastered" silverilght in any sense of the term, I'm on my way to becoming proficient in it. :)

Happy to be back at work after your extended break?