Why no Silverlight Holiday and what to expect going forward

See all these 2X4's?



That is why I posted no Silverlight of my own during the holidays.... none of that framing was there on Dec 23rd, and shortly it will all be painted white and be screened in... 350 square feet of "Arizona Room", and boy am I glad I don't do THAT for a living!

After reading Mike Palermo's Post about tripling his blog posting in 2008, and Jesse Liberty's Post about posting a Tip of the Day at least 5 days a week beginning today, I thought I'd take that challenge myself :)

With my Silverlight Cream posts, I'm already blogging a bunch, but not necessarily my own product as much as I'd like. In an effort to pick up that pace, I'm going to try to do a "Silverlight Monday" post.

Note how clever I am to let myself off the hook for this first week :) Actually, my reason for choosing Monday as a post date is to give myself from Monday through the following weekend to produce something worthy of posting. I figure in 7 days, even if I am teaching a University of Phoenix class I can also crank out some Silverlight that others might want to see.

It might be a Tooltip or a Tutorial, or it could be a larger article, but I'm going to try my best to stick with that schedule. So watch for the first one on Monday the 7th!

Stay in the 'Light!

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Free MS eBook on LINQ

I did this from home early this morning (probably at the same time that I messed up Daniel Vaughan's name in my Silverlight Cream post). By the time I got everything fired up here, the blog post I used had rolled off my blog roll, but I found it again here from Tom Mertens.

The implication is that you can get all 3 eBooks, but what I actually got was selected chapters of the ASP.NET Ajax book and the Silverlight book, but was able to download the LINQ book complete, and I figure that's great! If I had to pick one, it would be that. I have the Silverlight book, and I have a great ASP.NET AJAX book already.

The actual Microsoft site has a "Special Offers" section with not only the free eBook offer, but also information about a free clinic.

Free stuff is always good, particularly if it's useful!

Silverlight Cream for January 2, 2008 -- #164 -- Author Correction

First submittal of 2008, and therefore first Cream of 2008 is "Legion: Build your own virtual super computer with Silverlight" by Daniel Vaughan it was submitted to me by Sean Blakemore -- sorry for the confusion, I should do this when I'm awake

From SilverlightCream.com:
Legion: Build your own virtual super computer with Silverlight
Daniel Vaughan has a large article at Code Project that is best described by Daniel himself: "Legion is a grid computing platform that uses the Silverlight CLR to execute user definable tasks. It provides grid-wide thread-safe operations for web clients. Client performance metrics, such as bandwidth and processor speed, may be used to tailor jobs. Also includes a WPF Manager application." Personally, I think there's a lot of learning in this project ... a good year-starter!

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