04.23
Holy hell the last week has been busy. Last week while I was up at Web09 I was talking to Nigel Parker from Microsoft and he invited me along to the Expresion For Art’s Sake workshop that he was holding here in Wellington this week. It just finished today and since it started I have spent pretty much spent every waking hour knee deep in Silverlight development.
Before this week I had hardly touched Silverlight and now I don’t think I can live without it. Even though Silverlight is very different from Flash, I think having that Flash background let me pick it up fairly quickly. I have spent most of this week working on a Deep Zoom project which I will keep chipping away at over this weekend and hopefully have something to show next week.
Its unreal to think how much I have learnt from this event. On Monday I wouldn’t have known where to start yet now I feel like I could knock anything out as a Silverlight app. I have to redevelop our wayfinders at work by the end June and I think that this will be an ideal project to truly put Silverlight through its paces.
Ah well big thanks to Nigel , Tim and Arturo - for the awesome week thats been.
[...] Tim Tate came up to me after the keynote and we started discussing how I had built the demo and how he could look at productionizing the code for an upcoming exhibition at Te Papa museum in Wellington. Following our conversation I invited Tim to the Expression For Art’s Sake event in Wellington the following week and the rest as you say is history. Tim was able to solve the big problem I had above and this lead to me building a V2 of my demo which I will show you soon. [...]
[...] end-to-end on the development of the application (mainly building the mosaic and the extension that Tim Tate created to make the tiles [...]
[...] TePapa – Tim [...]