silverlight

silverlight related

Silverlight 4 Beta Released – Did you get what you wanted?

During his keynote speech at the Microsoft Professional Developer (PDC) conference, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of Silverlight 4 Beta, going on to demo many of the features and improvements this release brings to the table. With Silverlight 3 only three months out of the oven the pace with which Microsoft is iterating on this product is unusually fast for the Redmond behemoth, continuing to demonstrate their commitment to the technology and to pushing Silverlight on to ever more devices with ever more functionality. Silverlight 4 brings a whole host of new tricks to the party, with some 70% of them coming straight off the feature request lists...

posted @ Friday, November 20, 2009 9:46 AM | Feedback (3)

Scottish Government data visualised with Storm Ideas’ Interactive Silverlight Mapping Application

Storm Ideas has completed a rich interactive mapping application and web site for the Scottish Government, visualising a wealth of data for the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD). The web site comprises a careful balance of the latest advances in mapping technologies and optimised accessibility, engaging as wide an audience as possible with this data. The SIMD identifies concentrations of deprivation across Scotland. Indexing these areas allows effective targeting of policies and funding with the aim of focusing on concentrated areas. The mapping application incorporates a broad range of data indicators covering areas such as...

posted @ Friday, October 30, 2009 10:48 AM | Feedback (2)

New release of colaab has gone live!

Over the last couple of months we’ve been working hard on improving, adding to and polishing colaab and are happy to announce that we have a new release available as of now. This release combines both a host of small improvements and bug fixes with some major new functionality. Here’s the lowdown on what’s in this release. Comment statuses and the actions tab One request that consistently came up from our users was the ability to work with comments in a more efficient manner. While they were finding the comments themselves great, they found that when working with lots of comments over...

posted @ Thursday, February 19, 2009 4:03 PM | Feedback (0)

Getting Silverlight to work in Google Chrome

Google Chrome was a no no for me due to it’s lack of Silverlight support, but with the latest builds it seems to be much improved. So much so that I was using it as one of my browsers when demoing colaab lately. There’s a few hoops to jump through to get the latest build: Goto: http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel And download the: Google Chrome Channel Chooser Run this and you get the following dialog: Select the second option and click “Update”. Next open Chrome, click on the spanner icon: And...

posted @ Sunday, September 21, 2008 11:41 AM | Feedback (3)

That would have been REMIX08 then wouldn’t it

Got back into Edinburgh late Friday night from a couple of excellent days in Brighton for Microsoft REMIX08, here’s some notes and thoughts on some of the sessions I saw there. Keynote – Bill Buxton, Scott Guthrie Bill Buxton kicked off the keynote discussing the importance of design. He went on to suggest that in many cases in the software industry design was added as an afterthought in the process rather than being an equal component right from the start. Had to laugh when he showed an image of a lipstick alongside an image of a pig. “Putting...

posted @ Saturday, September 20, 2008 11:50 PM | Feedback (0)

New Platforms - Big Opportunity

I had (what felt like) a bit of an epiphany this morning regarding this. Thought I'd get it down while it was still running hot. Background In recent years we've seen the emergence of various new application platforms – in particular I was thinking about the Facebook Developer Platform and the iPhone AppStore from Apple. In both of these cases we've seen small, new or unknown companies able to get in and make significant returns with relatively simple applications. One of the reasons behind this is that you tend to have an existing large audience (Facebook users, iPhone owners) in an environment where...

posted @ Monday, September 15, 2008 7:14 PM | Feedback (0)

Silverlight hits its stride. Is Microsoft starting to ‘get’ the web?

"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten." Bill Gates. When developing applications for the web there comes a point when you start to push at the boundaries of its base technologies. HTML was designed to present hypertext documents, with its initial incarnations not even supporting the display of images. With the rise of broadband driving the demand for richer experience, over time we've managed to push the HTML + JavaScript paradigm to extraordinary lengths. We tried to ditch the page refresh,...

posted @ Monday, September 15, 2008 6:58 PM | Feedback (0)

About storm ideas

storm ideas ltd, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, was formed in April 2008 with the purpose of building web applications that allow communities, networks and businesses to connect and collaborate.

In this vein, we are passionate about the viral framework of social media and the opportunities networking sites represent to connect web-users from across a socio-geographic spectrum.

Equally, we are inspired by Microsoft Silverlight as an enabler for creating richer applications within the browser and, with this in mind, we look to create systems that provide new ways of understanding and interacting with information.

Get in touch hello@stormideas.com
Visit our latest app: Twibbon

News

Storm Ideas has completed official branded Twibbon destinations for hit reality television shows, The X Factor and I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. Following these successes, Storm Ideas has been commissioned to invigorate the social media drive for ITV’s Dancing On Ice.

Archives

Post Categories

design

general development

microsoft

products

silverlight

web, startups and tech