Let's join the party :) Silverlight 2 RC0 is out....

What do you need to setup?

1. VS 2008 SP1
2. Silverlight 2 for VS 2008 SP1 RC0
3. Expression Blend 2 SP1 Preview

What's new :)
From my perspective, most important, SL will now be able to call Secure Web Services.

All this in bigger & better article, here.

Microsoft ICE

http://research.microsoft.com/ivm/ice.html

Stitch those pics into nice panorama for free :)

Others have noticed also...

From charming company to not so charming in record time,

Silverlight 2 News

Ok, this one is old :)
But with big B :), I've found many things I actually forgot, so maybe you did also :)

On Scott Guthrie Blog, Silverlight 2 What's New

H.264 in Silverlight

Why?

A lot of good reasons :). Open platforms tend to stick longer, better investment of too expensive developers time, guarantee that platform will survive more challenges of tomorrow.

Anyway, good article from Ben :)
H.264 and AAC support coming in Silverlight

For good old times...

Want to kill some one :)

Web Development Helper

This is excellent web development help tool. It helped me, and specially guys in my office....

Page Features:

• DOM inspector allows viewing all elements, selected elements, or elements matching an ID or CSS class, their attributes and styles.
• Capturing a screen shot of the current page.
• Viewing page information such as metadata, tags, and linked resources.

Networking Features:

• Logging HTTP (and HTTPS) requests initiated by the browser or Ajax scripts
• Viewing request and response details.
• Ability to filter the types of URLs to log.

Scripting Features:

• Trap script errors to see detailed (and correct) call stack for the script error.
• A script console to provide trace functionality to scripts using the window.debugService script API.
• An immediate window to write and run script.
• A script class browser to browse classes defined in script (specifically classes written to the ASP.NET Ajax or Script# pattern).

ASP.NET Features:

• View view state in the page in raw, decoded, and parsed forms, to understand what is being generated into the view state (esp. useful for control developers).
• View items stored by applications into cache, and the ability to remove them for purposes of testing.
• View trace information, and hide it from the page, so it does not get in the way of your page layout.

Canon & Microsoft

Maybe you didn't notice, but they are pretty similar last twenty years or so.
They both dominate market, with technology far more advanced that most of the competition.

And, yes, they were both asleep for last four years, with just a few really revolutionary products, they used to create.

But I really feel that that time is over, Vista is great OS, from underneath, on user outside, it doesn't bring that much. And people were unhappy :).

But the beauty shines from inside, and new generation is coming, I can feel it, new generation of MS OS, new generation of Canon cameras.

They both woke up, about year ago, looking around and seeing competition has found a way to catch up.

And yes, they moved their asses and did what they do best, revolutionary products.
http://www.canon.com/moon/en/index.html

This is just a teaser, but :) soon :)

I just have to join the buzz :)

Jerry Seinfeld in MS commercial.

If it is good product, they will talk about it :)

Google Chrome EULA

Bastards...

This is really nuts, EULAs from software companies are becoming ridiculous.

Let me quote:

"By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. "

Ok, this EULA thing has to stop. There are enough free browsers out there to have a choice.

Repeat after me:
GOOGLE DON'T & WON'T OWN MY TEXT, MY PHOTOS, MY CONTACTS!