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Project Rosetta – Migrating from Flash to Silverlight
You have previous knowledge of working with Flash. You have heard about Silverlight. Now you want to use your previous knowledge and explore what Silverlight offers you. That’s just plain cool because here is Project Rosetta to help you out with some nice resources.
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Channel 9 source code released
I’m sure you’ve heard about Channel 8, or Channel 9 (we all know about that one), or Channel 10 or… And few days ago Microsoft has released source code of the original Channel 9 web portal, and one is now available on Codeplex. So, just go get it and show your new killer project to the world.
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Photosynth now available for all users to download
Almost two years after Microsoft showed off beta version of its uber cool Photosynth technology, it is finaly available for everyone. Photosynth takes a collection of regular photographs and reconstructs the scene or object in a 3D environment, and the final results are breathtaking.
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Microsoft Silverlight in Opera browser
Although Opera is not listed as one of the officially supported web browsers for Silverlight, there is a workaround to get Silverlight up and running in Opera. Please note, however, that this is not supported or encouraged procedure, it is listed here for educational purposes only.
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Principle of least astonishment
These days I’ve stumbled upon something called Principle of least astonishment (surprise) and it caught my attention. I guess you can already derive some meaning from the name of the Principle of itself – but let’s see what PLA actually is.
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