Category: silverlight
Politics and Technology: John O’Brien: Soul Solutions
At the February 2009 Politics and Technology Forum in Canberra, the talented Virtual Earth and Silverlight developer: John O’Brien, created an excellent video-brush demo.
John has published a how-to on his blog: Virtual Earth Silverlight Thematic Overlay with VideoBrush
Absolute coolness.
Silverlight, Azure go to the Mardi Gras
Fellow Australian DPE-ers, Chris Bright, Michael Kordahi and Greg Willis have been busy working on a micro- mega- project.
For the last 30 years, Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian community has paraded down Oxford Street. The Sydney Morning Herald has a library of images from the parade: and has used the Deep Zoom feature of Silverlight to display these images.
Michael Kordahi created the front-end (Silverlight) and Greg Willis architected the back-end (Azure)
Well done guys.
In-browser Python: Silverlight + IronPython
Pop over to http://www.trypython.org/ and Python away.
Using IronPython and the Silverlight 2.0 plugin, being CloudPythonic has never been so easy.
DG.TV: DeepZoom with Jose
French Silverlight Page Flip Flickr Fun
Silverlight/Flickr Fun
Deep Zoom in Silverlight 2: How To
Mike Taulty has de-composed and written a quick how-to for the Deep Zoom technology as used by Hard Rock Cafe.
There goes my weekend.
Hard Rock: The Memorabilia
(Photo above: Snare Drum signed by Paul Hester, Crowded House, Hard Rock Gold Coast)
Hard Rock display Rock and Roll Memorabilia in their restaurants around the world.
Using Silverlight 2 (a mere 4.38Mb download for Windows Vista) the browsing experience is rock and roll.
Now you can browse through their collection online. This is just wow.
Tafiti: Search on a different plane
Mashup using Microsoft’s Live Search. Created in Silverlight. Go have a butchers at the video.
New Revision of Popfly (19th July 2007)
… New revision of Popfly is up…
Just in time for me, as I return to business-as-usual.