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John Papa on DotNetRocks
Parts.Common.Body.Summary.cshtml – The template for summary of a content item's body.Carl and Richard have John Papa over to discuss XAML, Silverlight, and the landscap of Microsoft technologies. [download MP3]
Carl and Richard talk to John Papa about his views on the client development landscape. John has recently left Microsoft where he was a Silverlight and Windows 8 evangelist. The conversation starts off talking about the state of Silverlight now that Silverlight 5 has shipped and the ascent of HTML 5. John talks about his favorite HTML 5 libraries, including KnockoutJS and JS Render. Finally, the show wraps up with how Windows Phone 7 and Kinect will change the world.
John Papa is a former Evangelist for Microsoft on the Silverlight and Windows 8 teams where he hosted the popular Silverlight TV show. He has presented globally at keynotes and sessions for the Build, MIX, PDC, TechEd, VSLive and DevConnections events. John is also a columnist for VS Magazine (Papa’s Perspective) and author of training videos with Pluralsight. Follow John on Twitter at @john_papa
Jeremy Likness Talks Silverlight 5 on Dot Net Rocks
Parts.Common.Body.Summary.cshtml – The template for summary of a content item's body.Here’s another great episode of .NET Rocks. In show 737, Carl and Richard talk to Jeremy Likness about Silverlight 5.
It contains some great content on the new features of Silverlight 5 and the question that’s on everyone’s mind.
Carl and Richard talk to Jeremy Likness about Silverlight 5. Is Silverlight dead? Not by a long shot. Jeremy talks about the great work going on the Silverlight today and how it still is the most efficient way to build applications that run on both Windows and OSX. The conversation drills into the new features of Silverlight 5 and dispels a lot of the myths around the future of Silverlight. Jeremy also talks about Jounce, his MVVM+MEF framework on Codeplex and the relationship between Silverlight and WinRT.
Jeremy Likness is the author of “Designing Silverlight Business Applications” and was named Silverlight MVP of the Year in 2010. Now Senior Consultant and Technical Project Manager for Wintellect, LLC, he has spent the past decade building highly scalable web-based commercial solutions using the Microsoft technology stack. He has fifteen years of experience developing enterprise applications in vertical markets including insurance, health/wellness, supply chain management, and mobility. He is the creator of the popular MVVM framework Jounce and an open source Silverlight Isolated Storage Database System called Sterling. Likness speaks and blogs frequently on Silverlight, MEF, Prism, Team Foundation Server, and related Microsoft technologies.