I decided to make today a Silverlight day and concentrate on as many aspects of the Silverlight framework as I could, within the schedule of talks. Silverlight, for those of you not familiar with the framework, is Microsoft’s competition to Adobe’s Flash, within the realms of rich web based interfaces. Silverlight, being much newer than Flash, has the benefit of newer technology and plenty of hindsight. Who doesn’t remember Java Applets?
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This is a belated post on the experience of Yagiz and myself while at the DevWeek 2008 .Net developer conference in London last March (10th to 14th inclusive).
Our overall impression of the conference was positive, we liked the content, we considered the presenters knowledgeable and in many case superbly skilled. The food was excellent and the conference well managed. In fact our main problem was with the lack of decent WiFi within the venue.
We consider, for a modern conference, the inability to supply on demand, consistent WiFi coverage as being an absolute necessity. Apparently, some low bandwidth WiFi coverage was available (in some physical areas within the venue). However, neither Yagiz nor I could find any individual who successfully got it to work. When we approached the conference organiser about the lack of WiFi coverage he seemed very disinterested.
Aside from all that, we found the venue and conference to be generally very good. The presentations had just the right hard technical slant we came for and in overall we came away better informed than when we arrived.
The succeeding posts will each address a single day of the conference.
In a recent Java project, we needed to use Runtime.exec() to execute a command in a separate process. And we needed to read the output and work with it. Our reusable code worked perfectly with almost all the commands that we needed to run. Almost…
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