I refer to it as 'drinking from a fire hose', which from this picture, you can imagine would get messy:
the big red houseMy standard comment is that you get more 'on you' than 'in you'.
I referenced a great blog post titled
Back-Logged Life in my old blog.
That definitely came to mind this morning when I read the first few lines of the latest post by Nikhil Kothari titled
WPF/E and Script#, about the first WPF/E CTP release Microsoft announced Monday morning. I'll paste snippets of Nikhil's post here:
A whole bunch of technologies working together - AJAX, Script#, JSONP, and the just announced, WPF/E client runtime that enables scriptable media and vector graphics in the browser...
Earlier today, the first CTP of WPF/E was announced which enables some compelling AJAX scenarios by providing cross-platform and cross-browser scriptable media and vector graphics based on XAML markup...
I built a WPF/E-based Flickr application to demonstrate the confluence of HTML, XAML and scripting. The application uses the JSON services offered by Flickr to search for some images by tags, and then display the resulting set of pictures in a WPF/E powered presentation...If that makes perfect sense to you and you totally understand it on the first reading, just shoot me!
Can this technology move any faster? ... Ok let's see, if I only sleep 4 hours a night, that will give me.....
Must See Demo:
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posted @ Wednesday, December 06, 2006 8:50 AM