Silverlight: what is it and what is it not!
Join us at the Perth .NET Community of Practice, Thursday February 5th to hear Stephen Price and Ola Karlsson present an introductionto to Silverlight as a concept, a technology and to some of the tools used for Silverlight development. We will look at what Silverlight is and is not, whether it is ready for ‘real’ application development, reasons to use it and how not to use it and make a brief comparison with other rich internet applications. The presentation will include a section showing how to host Silverlight on a budget. Utilising a LAMP web host, you can host your Silverlight application and make it talk to PHP on the back end. This makes for a low cost, web application that looks great. All this can be done with the free Visual Studio Express Web edition.
TOPIC: SilverLight with Ola Karlsson and Stephen Price
DATE: Thursday, February 5th, 5:30pm
VENUE: Excom, Ground Floor, 23 Barrack Street, Perth
COST: Free. All welcome
Ola Karlsson
Having spent his teens dabbling with web development and BBS's all around Sweden, Ola worked his way around the globe as a scuba diving instructor. Later, after resuming studying web development, the .com crash hit and he moved to Perth, graduating University in early 2005. Since then he's been working in the IT industry and lately as an ASP.NET developer for a medium sized Microsoft Gold Partner in Perth. Ola has been following Silverlight since version 1.1 Alpha, and has a keen interest in most things web. You can visit Ola’s blog at at http://weblogs.asp.net/olakarlsson/.
Stephen Price
Stephen has been interested in computers for most of his life, and has been working in the IT industry for 14 years, the last 5 as a .NET developer. In his spare time he is a cartoonist. This puts him close to the middle of the Designer - Developer curve, being able to develop and do artistic things such as user interfaces. This is one of the reasons he enjoys working with Silverlight so much as it gives him the opportunity to code AND make great looking web applications all in one box.