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October 11, 2007
Microsoft Silverlight
Jeff tipped me off to the fact that Microsoft has a new product they're pushing called Silverlight. It's apparently a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering web content. Microsoft will support it with the new release of Visual Studio, currently code-named "Orcas". In an unprecendented move, Microsoft announced support for the Python and Ruby languages. The evil geniuses at Redmon have even committed to work with Novell to get it running under Linux, as a separate-but-equal product called Moonlight.
The Slashdot community debates the merits of Silverlight.
You can download the current supported release of Silverlight or, if you're feeling froggy, you can download the alpha version 1.1. Download MIcrosoft Silverlight.
Jeff's buddy is apparently working on a project called Fluxify which allows you to resize and email photos from a web page. I actually think it's a fairly slick little applet. I normally use a little free application from Microsoft called Image Resizer to resize my images on the fly. However, if you were going to email these photos to someone, you would then have to attach each image to the email. This application does that for you. Resizes photos, creates an email with the photos attached, and sends the email.
Of course, my pet peeve is that I can't stand to get an email with 23 attachments. I'd prefer an option that allows me to send all of the images as one zipped file, but Rome wasn't built in a day and the longest journey begins with a single step and what do you want for free, anyway?
Posted by Rob Kiser on October 11, 2007 at 1:40 AM
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If you used Gmail for your email, it would give you the option to download all 23 attachments as one zipped file.
If you're interested in seeing what Silverlight can do, hop over to Tafiti.
I've been waiting for my husband to get his TechEd DVDs to start learning Silverlight - they did some classes on it there - but for some reason, his DVDs haven't arrived yet.
And on a COMPLETELY unrelated side note, here's something that only you and a few others will be able to appreciate. I know I wish I'd had one when I had a shotgun; I lived in constant paranoia that our really fat cat was going to step on the safety and unlock it, and then somehow manage to pull the trigger even though it required quite a squeeze.
Posted by: Alice H on October 12, 2007 at 1:47 PM