Lee Brimelow just started the WPF Blog, which is about Windows Presentation Foundation from a Flash developer's perspective. Mondo cool, just like WPF. Lee is one of the world's leading Flash tutorial developers (does gotoandlearn.com and lynda.com) and just got hired at Frog design (used to do Flash development at Stanford).
Thanks to Bryan Zug for sending me this (he's a developer at the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford).
Scobleizer 
What’s cool about it? A couple of “cool” examples (even though they don’t and won’t run on my computer), but the site is basic as white is white. WPF, so cool, I don’t even use it myself on this blog about how cool WPF is!!! Brilliant.
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What’s cool about it? A couple of “cool” examples (even though they don’t and won’t run on my computer), but the site is basic as white is white. WPF, so cool, I don’t even use it myself on this blog about how cool WPF is!!! Brilliant.
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I like it, it’s cool to me.
Hey, it’s not done in Flash, either.
Use the right tool for the right job. WPF is gonna be fun for lots of things.
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I like it, it’s cool to me.
Hey, it’s not done in Flash, either.
Use the right tool for the right job. WPF is gonna be fun for lots of things.
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WPF is going to be so cool, especially for Microsoft, since it’s going to be a way to force people to do 100% of their development, even WPF/E with Microsoft tools, no matter what they’re doing. Mmmm…the sweet, sweet smell of absolute lock-in.
Bill and Steve’s dream come true…the Internet…developed and usable only with Microsoft products.
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WPF is going to be so cool, especially for Microsoft, since it’s going to be a way to force people to do 100% of their development, even WPF/E with Microsoft tools, no matter what they’re doing. Mmmm…the sweet, sweet smell of absolute lock-in.
Bill and Steve’s dream come true…the Internet…developed and usable only with Microsoft products.
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“Use the right tool for the right job.”
It’s not the right tool for a site about itself? Ha, ha, ha!!! You kill me, Scoble.
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“Use the right tool for the right job.”
It’s not the right tool for a site about itself? Ha, ha, ha!!! You kill me, Scoble.
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I think that WPF is a nice alternative to flash, but I have yet to dig down and start playing with it. The main thing that will allow it to compete with flash will be its pricing and ease of use (let’s see if that gets here in the final product). My larger question is how will WPF work with legacy OS’s, alternative computers (macs), and with competitive browsers.
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I think that WPF is a nice alternative to flash, but I have yet to dig down and start playing with it. The main thing that will allow it to compete with flash will be its pricing and ease of use (let’s see if that gets here in the final product). My larger question is how will WPF work with legacy OS’s, alternative computers (macs), and with competitive browsers.
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RL…it’s easy…you’ll have the WPF/E plugin for OS X from Microsoft, and one for Linux if someone else feels like doing 100% of the work.
Of course, you’ll have to develop in windows, and do most of your testing in windows, but that’s okay, because, as we all know, if it runs in Vista Home, and Vista Ultimate and Windows Mobile, well, that’s cross platform, right?
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RL…it’s easy…you’ll have the WPF/E plugin for OS X from Microsoft, and one for Linux if someone else feels like doing 100% of the work.
Of course, you’ll have to develop in windows, and do most of your testing in windows, but that’s okay, because, as we all know, if it runs in Vista Home, and Vista Ultimate and Windows Mobile, well, that’s cross platform, right?
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Thanks for the clue-in John. I was unaware of the plug-ins. So that answers some of the questions. I am just worried that with the next OS and subsequent software releases that we will be creating a two-tier web experience. Those with new tech and the rest wondering what that blank spot on the screen is. It feels (like many of us watching MS these days) that there is a push to break tech apart to force new sales. Oh well, you need a new computer or OS to see (insert company name here)’s new website. I like MS overall because of the older marketing/packaging system that said buy this and you get everything. I compare it to the buffet style of software sales. As of late I have started to see this push industry wide (MS is not alone in this) of the a la carte style of packaging/marketing. In short here’s your Vanilla Cone and for just a few more dollars here’s the chocolate dip, and for a few more dollars here’s your nuts, and for a few dollars more we can give you a cherry. What happened to here’s my buck and I will take all the options? Is this what reducing TCO has become?? I have seen some amazing things in my short life and I know that I could never expect a first gen Mac or a Win95 machine to work in today’s net environment, but is this push on Vista really that much of a jump beyond xp? Do I want it to be? I think that mindset is what is holding a lot us back from early adoption of new software. That and the fear of ME PART 2 (the new crash cycle). I can’t fully comment because I have yet to touch a Vista build, but the fear of the unknown and the idea that most of our hardware is obsolete is holding the masses back. So far from what I have seen though, I like where its going. Until it gets there, I will wait and see.
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Thanks for the clue-in John. I was unaware of the plug-ins. So that answers some of the questions. I am just worried that with the next OS and subsequent software releases that we will be creating a two-tier web experience. Those with new tech and the rest wondering what that blank spot on the screen is. It feels (like many of us watching MS these days) that there is a push to break tech apart to force new sales. Oh well, you need a new computer or OS to see (insert company name here)’s new website. I like MS overall because of the older marketing/packaging system that said buy this and you get everything. I compare it to the buffet style of software sales. As of late I have started to see this push industry wide (MS is not alone in this) of the a la carte style of packaging/marketing. In short here’s your Vanilla Cone and for just a few more dollars here’s the chocolate dip, and for a few more dollars here’s your nuts, and for a few dollars more we can give you a cherry. What happened to here’s my buck and I will take all the options? Is this what reducing TCO has become?? I have seen some amazing things in my short life and I know that I could never expect a first gen Mac or a Win95 machine to work in today’s net environment, but is this push on Vista really that much of a jump beyond xp? Do I want it to be? I think that mindset is what is holding a lot us back from early adoption of new software. That and the fear of ME PART 2 (the new crash cycle). I can’t fully comment because I have yet to touch a Vista build, but the fear of the unknown and the idea that most of our hardware is obsolete is holding the masses back. So far from what I have seen though, I like where its going. Until it gets there, I will wait and see.
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I would love to make the blog in WPF. But since it is supposed to help people who haven’t used it before and probably haven’t downloaded the runtimes, they need to be able to read it đ
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I would love to make the blog in WPF. But since it is supposed to help people who haven’t used it before and probably haven’t downloaded the runtimes, they need to be able to read it đ
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