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Entries Tagged as 'Silverlight'

Where to now developer

July 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments

There is no denying that the future of how we use computer is changing.  The advent of applications that live on the network/Internet is making the developer think twice about where he should be headed.  As a developer, you need to be ahead of the curve as by the time your product is ready your [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Apple · Development · Microsoft · Silverlight · Standards · flash · flex

Apple Quicktime X, a new Flash/Silverlight competitor.

June 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments

The Apple hype engine has been going into overdrive lately about Sproutcore. “What is Sproutcore?” Well, to a long tooth net developer, its JUST ANOTHER JAVASCRIPT FRAMEWORK.  But to the Apple alumni, its the biggest thing to happen to net applications in a long time.
My Web/Javascript programming friends do not even consider sproutcore is as [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Apple · Silverlight · Sony · flash · flex

Microsoft has a lot to loose. Adobe goes THERMO

November 1st, 2007 · 1 Comment

Recently my work has taken me into researching and developing RIAs. (Rich Internet Applications) These are business applications that are developed to operate over the web. Just type in your URL address, login and work. In many ways this is the future (Unless you have a good reason like doing graphics, and video editing.)
As [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Development · Microsoft · Silverlight · flash · flex

Last opportunity to be a OSF pioneer of the Internet. Streaming Media Servers.

September 24th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Video has become the future of the internet. Between 40-90% of all traffic has been reported to be P2P sharing, with the bulk of that Video. And if its not P2P traffic, its most likely from YouTube or any of the hundreds of copies.
Obviously there is a great need to bring this unabated use of [...]

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Tags: Apple · DRM · IPTV · Microsoft · Silverlight · codecs · flash

Open source DRM and what it means to projects like Web-Joost

July 31st, 2007 · 1 Comment

Firstly I would like to say that this article is not about the possible evil use of DRM. In the blogesphere, the word “DRM” has a very negative connotation. I would like the reader to look past this and examine some of the technical issues I would like to discuss. However, I do [...]

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Tags: Apple · DRM · IPTV · Microsoft · Silverlight · codecs · flash