Microsoft Silverlight event – and living with the iPhone

Silverlight

Although the Apple Mac is my computing platform of choice, I wouldn’t say that I live in an Apple bubble. When needs must, I will use Windows XP to get the job done (mostly usability software analysis tools) and I like to keep up to date with what the linux world is doing. On hearing that Microsoft were giving a talk in Brighton on their ‘Flash killer’, Silverlight, I made sure to go along.

I considered bringing my MacBook Pro along to take notes on, but I thought that being clubbed to death with a copy of Vista Home Premium is not how I want to check out of this world. Imagine my surprise however, when I turn up and both the MS presenters are typing on their MacBook Pros.

The future of web interaction

When I was an undergrad studying Software Engineering it was relatively simple to keep abreast of the technology. There was no internet overflowing me with information, there were only a handful of languages that were of importance and the instruction set of each was small enough to keep in my head.

How things have changed.

You may have thought that I was describing a computing era from the ’70’s, however this was 1992. With the current desire to make webpages behave more like desktop apps,