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31-12-2008, the last day of the year. It’s time to look back and make status of the year that is about to end.

What have we accomplished, what have happened, any major milestones, how does the new year look like?

Silverlight 2.0

For me, technical-wise, the release of Silverlight 2.0 have been the greatest thing this year. To me, Silverlight looks like a winner on the RIA front and I think we will see many new good Silverlight applications out there in the new year, which will increase the market penetration for Silverlight. Right now the market penetration, based on data from RiaStats.com, is about 11,12% for Silverlight 2.0. Let’s see what it’s like at the end of the new year. My guess, around 30 %, but let’s hope for more.

Read more about what Silverlight 2.0 have done in 2008 and what we can expect from Silverlight 3.0 in 2009 at ScottGu’s blog.

Working with Silverlight

Another big thing for me is that I now work fulltime on a Silverlight project at my day job. Well, it’s only for a short period (some months) of time, but it’s very fun, interesting and I learn alot. I were giving an one-hour brief introduction to all developers at work in November and after that I were asked to join a new project where Silverlight good be used. So thats where I’m sitting now and it’s great to get some “real-world” experience with Silverlight.

Let’s hope 2009 will bring more Silverlight projects in my direction – both hobby and real projects.

See you in the new year – watch the fireworks! :)

Today I saw this blog post over at Nikhil K’s blog about a “jquery-like” framework for Silverlight to help developers build professional UI. Actually this “jquery-like” framework is an extension for the Silverlight.FX, which is created by Nikhil K. The “jQuery-like” framework is build by Daniel Crenna.

Here is some code from the sample that comes with the release.

 // Slide Script
 Animator.WithNew(horzSlideContainer)
.WithEasing(EffectEasing.QuadraticInOut)
.Slide(SlideMode.Left)
.For(1.Seconds())
.Play();

The code above “slides” this grid, defined in XAML.

<Grid x:Name="horzSlideContainer">
   <Image Source="/MS.net.png" />
   <Image Source="/Silverlight.png" />
</Grid>

If you want to know more about this, visit the blog listed below. You can also find download links for the release at the blogposts.

Resources:

Nikhil K’s blogpost – Fluent Animations in Silverlight

Daniel Crenna – Composing animations with Silverlight.FX

Enjoy and happy coding :)

This morning I woke up at about 06:20 to my apartment shaking. My and girlfriend looked at each other and thought if was our neighbour, which usually make noises at the most wierd times of the day. So when it stopped, after about 10 sec., we went to sleep again. On my way to work a little later, I checked the news on my phone and saw that there has been a earthquake! This is VERY unusual in Denmark or in Scandinavia for that matter. I have never experienced such a thing before, a little creepy.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008araj.php#details