The Summer of Silverlight

When we know Silverlight will be ready for browsability this summer on a Cellphone, do we begin the sprints now? When Agile has been LEAN for eons - decades even - does it occur to use it and make it more than what we use it for now (what, a shopping list?) or do we waterfall for another few eons until someone eats our lunch? So proud of our VS.NET IDE with agility and silver-lightspeed we spring forth to populate the Cloud with droplets of applets and so we are happily growing toward a 4th version! As the price of Windows falls and love for well written XP rises, so we rewrite future history to include a branching of this thing we loved for the ginormous set of old and fully functioning XP compatibles? (answer yes to this one).

I'm writing to tell you about Agility. I know it's not well specified... that's entirely the point of a one-size-fits-all pseudo-methodology or mantra - shall we decide now?

I'm writing to the excellence of VS.NET and it's future growth beyond all borders... growth knows no borders except what we previously knew. Open your collaborations with this IDE and the Cloud (aka Azure aka Internet) and learn to power program. TECH! SAVE OUR SOCIETY!! THE EARTH WILL SURVIVE BY THE BLADE OF TECH!!!

I'm writing to where Summer's release of Silverlight will put our world community of devs. When there are so many thinkers in the world, who know how to turn a thought into a sprint, and to use VS.NET's IDE and Expression Blend's IDE to mashout Silverlight at Lightspeed...
only good should reach fruition through good thinking and good action.

I'm in love with XP lightness and tainted by security issues and by beauty of bloat, but feel unless a freakadelic turn on a dime choice is made to branch and keep alive our beloved XP w/o bloat... I write and will contribute to a Windows footprint less weighty, more agile, yet well endowed with beauty, grace and security... not what we see in the future of windows
... and oughta try to seek to find a way for our now sage Microsofties to feel our expressions
... to help determin a new source for the lightness we love in XP in future enhancement to Windows. (I mean I'm gunna participate in the Win7 beta and promote NON bloatware)

Ok, I'm not a great poet. I love winders and the web and VS.NET's IDE and Silverlight/XAML - and even WPF and WCF and LINQ. Thanks to Devon (ex-Microsoftie) for suggesting I actually do write a blog to let the world know what I know.

Thanks,
Dan Wygant, Sr. Software Consultant - Silverlight 2 ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 LINQ WCF WPF
MVP 04'-08' Windows Customer Experience
Founder HUNTUG.org VSdotNetUG.org HowToVS.NET
INETA.org Mentor for Al/Ms/La