Want a job? Learn Silverlight, not WPF

By tim, on September 17th, 2007 Follow tim on Twitter

I keep an occasional watch on technology trends in the UK by the haphazard technique of browsing to Jobserve.com, bashing in some developer platforms, and seeing how many vacancies come up. I last blogged about this in August 2006, and before that in January 2006, March 2005, and August 2004.

Real-world job vacancies trail

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iPod database successfully hacked – for now

By tim, on September 17th, 2007 Follow tim on Twitter

A couple of days ago I blogged about the database hash in new iPods, which prevents their use with song management software other than iTunes. There is no iTunes for Linux.

The good news is that apparently the hash has been cracked, “using a debugger on Windows.”

Miguel de Icaza goes on to observe:

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New iPod locked more tightly to iTunes, will not work with Linux

By tim, on September 15th, 2007 Follow tim on Twitter

Apple has apparently made some changes to the iPod that make it increasingly difficult to use with anything other than iTunes. Since iTunes does not run on Linux, this affects Linux users more than anyone.

I wrote a piece a while back on Linux multimedia, and was impressed at how well my old iPod

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Ninja Gaiden 2 announced

By tim, on September 14th, 2007 Follow tim on Twitter

Ninja Gaiden 2 is on its way for XBox 360. A few snippets of info and screens here.

I mention this only because its predecessor on the XBox is my favourite game ever.

Technorati tags: xbox 360, ninja

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Tried Vista speech recognition yet?

By tim, on September 14th, 2007 Follow tim on Twitter

I had not, but gave it a try today. It is almost a hidden feature, but if you go into Control Panel and double-click Speech Recognition Options, it all starts happening.

I have a few advantages. My microphone is of high quality, I use an external mic preamp, and my office is relatively quiet.

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LiveStation uses peer-to-peer, Silverlight for live TV

By tim, on September 13th, 2007 Follow tim on Twitter

My final report from the UK Mix07 “Sneak peeks.” We were shown LiveStation, a Silverlight application which uses peer-to-peer technology developed by Microsoft Research to show live TV in a desktop application. Desktop and Silverlight? Yes, the app we say uses browser hosting to transform Silverlight into a desktop runtime. This is not too

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Transactional memory draws applause at Mix07 UK

By tim, on September 13th, 2007 Follow tim on Twitter

Simon Peyton-Jones from Microsoft Research in Cambridge enthused about transactional memory during the “Sneak Peeks” session at Mix07 in the UK.

I have mentioned this before on this blog; it is also favoured by Herb Sutter as a better way to do concurrent programming.

Peyton-Jones says it will eliminate a whole class of bugs

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Microsoft to support PHP in Expression Web 2.0

By tim, on September 13th, 2007 Follow tim on Twitter

The closing session of UK Mix07 was a “Sneak peeks” in which we were shown a variety of snippets of varying degrees of interest. One was a brief glimpse of Expression Web 2.0, Microsoft’s web design tool, showing “PHP script” on the File – New menu.

The extent of this support was not discussed.

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Microsoft Silverlight vs Adobe Flex

By tim, on September 12th, 2007 Follow tim on Twitter

I am at Mix07 in London. Having looked in some detail as Adobe Flex and AIR in recent weeks, it is interesting to compare and contrast. I am looking primarily at the developer aspect, rather than video or multimedia.

Silverlight is not a direct competitor to Adobe AIR, in that it does not run

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Silverlight at Mix07 UK

By tim, on September 11th, 2007 Follow tim on Twitter

I’m at Mix07 in London and Developer Division General Manager Scott Guthrie is talking about how to code a Silverlight 1.1 application. For me, it follows detailed briefings from Adobe on Flex and AIR, so I’m interested in comparing and contrasting the two technologies – look out for a post on this soon. I’m

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