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Silverlight Firestarter Event was Outstanding !!!

By Paul Grossman, PAULGRO Consulting LLC.

Hi everyone, it’s been a while as I am moving my blog over to be hosted on my own website (at blog.paulgro.com).

Last week I attended the Microsoft Silverlight Firestarter event in Philly.  The event was phenomenal (not to mention fun too - if you’re like me and can actually picture coding and website development as fun) !! I was floored at the amount of new information I learned by just spending a day with a bunch of great people. 

Silverlight is a brand-new Microsoft technology, which is aimed at taking the web user experience to a whole new level — Ultimate.  Nowadays, what sets one web site apart from the rest is the user experience.  Silverlight 1.0 was released this year and version 2 is due out next year.   You can check out more info on Silverlight at silverlight.net.

I am so glad I got to hear such authoritative and great presenters who spoke on topics such as:  Microsoft’s new Expression Suite of web development tools, XAML, Media Markers, AJAX and many demos and examples showing off this hot new technology.  I’m looking forward to getting right to working with Silverlilght to make the websites I develop have that “ultimate” user experience.

The presenters at last week’s event included greats such as:
Pete Brown, Tony Lombardo, Peter Laudati, and Dani Diaz

Thanks again guys for yet another great event, I appreciate all that you do.  I’m looking forward to the next Code Camp !