Archive for July, 2009

Last Thursday we had our fourth Meetup.  It was great to see a number of new faces to the group.  We talked about everything from Visual States to Xaml guidelines; however, the upcoming Atlanta Silverlight FireStarter was the main focus.  Soon we’ll be posting the registration for the event.  All in all it was great conversation and company.

Up until now, we have been primarily a get together, have a few beers, and talk Silverlight kind of group.  We have quickly matured to a critical mass, meaning in order for our group to grow we need to have a little more focus.  Next month, will be the first month we have a presentation.  This won’t be the typical User Group story where we have formal presentations.  We want to keep all the goodness of our informal group, but introduce focus for the night.  So the presentations will be lightening sessions.

Thanks to Dennis Estanislao, aka Forward Animation http://www.forwardanimation.com, we have a logo for the Atlanta Silverlight FireStarter.

The Atlanta Silverlight Firestarter is coming August 22nd.  Soon we’ll open registration, but until then here is the purposed agenda.

· Keynote
· Silverlight soup to nuts
· Break
· Tools and runtimes (incl SketchFlow)
· XAML, controls, what is an app
· Lunch
· Services (REST, SOAP)
· Data & Binding
· Browser interaction (HTML, javascript, out of browser, storage)
· Break
· Animation & 3D
· Media
· Styling & Templating
· Blend 3 features (SketchFlow, behaviors, sample data)
· Deployment strategies
· Break
· Ecosystem/community, 3rd party controls, skins, etc
· Best practices for LOB apps, games, media apps, etc
· Ask the experts
· Build your own/Open Lab