Channel 9 video review: Mike Sampson - Building a Silverlight player for Channel 9
WARNING! You may need to watch this video twice. That awesome Star Destroyer model distracted the hell out of me the first time. 
Looks like it had the same affect on a few other people, too.
Apparently, Adam Kinney didn’t have to walk far for this interview. Currently, his office neighbor, Mike Sampson (a.k.a Sampy), works on the Silverlight-based media player for Microsoft’s Channel 8 and Channel 9 websites. So for about fifteen minutes, Mr. Sampy animatedly discusses his extremely positive experience using the Expression suite and Silverlight to bring this media player to life. Read more
10 Minute Tutorial - Silverlight: Building a Silverlight application with MSBuild (C#)
“If you build it they will come”
Don’t know about that, but if you use MSBuild, it’ll sure make everyone’s life a hell of alot easier. 
As of .NET 2.0, Microsoft provides developers with a build engine, called MSBuild, as part of the runtime distribution. In this tutorial, I will walk through hand-coding a MSBuild build file for the sample code of my application framework Silverlight tutorial. Read more
Channel 9 video review: Tyler Ballance - live from the SilverlightDevCamp in San Francisco
It looks like Microsoft has found a new victim in their continuing onslaught of consistently excellent, impromptu developer interviews. This time Adam Kinney puts the spotlight on Tyler Ballance, an employee of the picture slide show company, Slide (if you’ve read any number of MySpace profiles and bulletins, then you’ve definitely seen their logo). This young man, seemingly reluctant at first, but opening up once the technical questions started flowing, discusses the San Fransico SilverlightDevCamp and gives his opinion on how programming in Flash compares to Silverlight. Read more
10 Things I Learned From the September MSDN Event in Atlanta
A week ago, I went to the September MSDN event in Atlanta, held at the AMC Parkway Pointe theater. The itinerary included presentations on LINQ (Language Integrated Query), WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) and Silverlight. Having seen live presentations on LINQ and WCF before, I hoped to justify the experience by seeing a dazzling Silverlight presentation, in the flesh.
Unfortunately, “dazzled” I was not. However overall, the experience did satisfy. Read more
10 Minute Tutorial - JavaFX: Event handling using trigger and bind
Update:
I have updated this tutorial for JavaFX 1.0
Clearly, the creators of JavaFX Script want to make it a great MVC programming language. Nothing says this more than baking triggers and data binding into the language as first class concepts. According to the documentation, JavaFX triggers operate in the same manner as SQL triggers, allowing you to handle data modification events in an aspect-like fashion. And, the bind keyword allows unidirectional binding between a variable and a right side expression. These concepts help remove some of the tedium and typical bolier plate code in handling UI modification events. Read more
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