So I’m back from being MIA for oh… about 4 months. :-)
I had a lot going on in my personal life and just couldn’t find the time or motivation to write any posts (there I go making excuses again). Part of the reason I’ve not had time to write is that I’ve been spending a lot of time working with Silverlight, specifically SL3 and I’m loving it. Silverlight is such a powerful development platform and the tooling support is great – minus the designer surface no longer working in VS2008 for SL3. The only good thing that’s come from that is I’ve been forced to use Blend 3 + SketchFlow and I’ve fallen in love with it. I introduced SketchFlow at work for doing rapid prototyping and everyone loves it – designers, developers, and stakeholders. If any of you Microsofties out there read this, I wouldn’t mind if a copy of Expression Studio 3 mysteriously showed up on my doorstep. ;-)
Anyway, much has happened since I posted last:
- Silverlight 3 RTM
- Expression Blend + SketchFlow RTM
- Azure July 2009 CTP
- RIA Services July 2009 CTP
- ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1
That just means we have a lot of new goodies to play with and there are now plenty of topics for me to write about. :-) I’ll be kicking off my next round of posts with one about the ASP.NET MVC XML Sitemap project I just launched on Codeplex. If I can keep my eyes open long enough I might just hammer it out tonight.