Hard to believe it has already been nearly a month since we held the Fox Valley Day of .Net. John Ptacek of Skyline Technologies (on of my co-workers) was kind enough to present a great talk on Silverlight. We both worked on the material for the talk, but John did the hard part and actually got in front of everyone to present. He did a fantastic job, anyway here are the Power point slides from the presentation.

We also showed a demo of an application that I have been working on. I am building a fairly simple Silverlight front end application to Amazon. View Shop Amazon Demo 

I have been busy working with the Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 since its release. I thought this would be a good showcase for what I have been working with. It combines a fairly unique interface with Amazon REST services to search Amazon for books by author or title.

Silverlight 2.0 is amazing. Every now and then, Microsoft really nails it, and they sure have with this. The further I dig the more impressed I am. It is part of why I stopped blogging for the last month, I have spent all of my free computer time (which isn't much) delving deeper into Silverlight. I will begin posting entries about the more interesting work that I have completed.

In the meantime take a look at the demo and let me know what you think. I have already started to change the way the images of books are displayed. I thought the ellipse was a cool effect at first, but I think I have come up with a more efficient method to display the books. I should have the new version completed over the next two weeks.