A day in the life of a humble software architect... doing C#, WPF, Silverlight, Legos, Fuzzy Logic AI and/or whatever is the latest and greatest or more importantly the coolest techo mumbo jumbo...
Working with the Silverlight media element probably has absorbed most of my time 'Silverlight' time the past couple of weeks. And since we got community server to allow us to do popfly I thought I would put out a cool Media Player we built using Silverlight. The backend is all JavaScript and the Xaml is all dynamically created. This particular sample shows just about all the basics in Silverlight. At the top we have a play list that animates in and out and you can scroll through it. There is a play pause button in the middle and you have a small volume control. Also when the control is downloading video their is a small bar at the bottom that animates across to the size you need. Most of the complexity of the control is actually the fact it is implemented as a JavaScript object that dynamically writes out the entire control Xaml, manages all the events and sets all the properties so that the control can be used at any number of sizes. Also I cut up this cool clip of Jared talking about the Identitymen Comic he worked on which is really cool as well.
About david.kelley
David for the past 10 years has focused on distributed application design and emerging Microsoft technologies on the web. Having helped design and build some of the largest systems for companies like Microsoft, Onyx Software, Saltmine, Giordanous Group and more and of course our favorite company Identitymine, he has been on the leading edge of applying the latest tech to real world business problems. David’s technology breadth includes everything from SQL Server to Windows/WCF and Silverlight. David’s accomplishments also include developing new technologies such as self editing XML files and related XML technologies to fuzzy logic systems and advanced web user interface design.