RIA Development Center

		What Does it Take to Build the Best RIA? With the proliferation of Rich Interactive Application (RIA) platform choices out there, you no longer have to take a one-size-fits-all approach to developing your next RIA application. Knowing the strengths (and weaknesses) of each platform can help you to decide the best RIA for your next application.
		Leveraging Your Flash Development with Silverlight You're not giving up Flash any time soon (and we don't blame you.) But if you could get your Flash application working in Silverlight, why wouldn't you? We show you the tools and techniques required to have your rockin' Flash application rolled for Silverlight.

Make a Clipping Mask for Video with Microsoft Expression Blend 2

Adjusting images in video relative to each other is a task ideally suited to clipping masks. In this 30 second mini-demo, developer Justin Whitney shows you how easy it is to create a clipping mask for video using Microsoft's Expression Blend 2. »

		Part 1: Creating Fading Controls with Microsoft Expression Design and Expression Blend 2 Creating fading controls for Microsoft Silverlight is easy with Expression Design and Expression Blend 2. In part one of this 30 second mini-demo series, developer Justin Whitney walks us through how to get started by creating a XAML asset. »
		Part 2: Creating Fading Controls with Microsoft Expression Design and Expression Blend 2 In part two of this 30 second mini-demo series, developer Justin Whitney continues to walks us through the process of creating fading controls. This part looks at what it takes to create a timeline for the fade which determines how long the fade event will last. »

		Method ~ of ~ failed—Tim Heuer's Blog You'll never meet someone more passionate about Web development. With a love for code, matched with great respect for user experience and design, Tim works daily with rich Internet application development. If you want to know what is happening with Silverlight and Web development, Tim's your man. »
		Artificial Ignorance—Anand Iyer's Blog Anand works as a Developer Evangelist, Microsoft's .NET ambassador to the Northern California region. Anand is the brains behind SilverlightDevCamp and other Silverlight outreach programs for developers. Learn more about Anand's foray into the RIA world. »

		The Hottest Mobile Platform Meets the Hottest RIA Platform With the Symbian OS now supporting Microsoft Silverlight, mobile developers can bring new and exciting capabilities to handsets all over the globe. Find out why developers now need to make mobile devices a core part of their RIA development strategy.
		NiFTyTV and Silverlight NiFTyTV.com has constructed a Silverlight-based solution that allows them to emulate on the Mac the end-user behavior of the NiFTyTV application, which runs natively on PCs. The independent nature of the Silverlight platform was a big draw for NiFTyTV. Silverlight is used as the component of the Mac version of NiFTyTV to decode and display Windows Media video streams. Check it out today by downloading the demo player.
		PHP Developers Don't Need Silverlight—Or Do They? Think PHP developers don't need Silverlight? Think again. By dynamically generating XAML (Extensible Application Markup Language), PHP developers can buff their skills with some very cool Microsoft® Silverlight™ tricks, adding a whole new responsive visual element to their PHP pages. This walkthrough goes through the details of building a simple Silverlight app just using XAML code, JavaScript, and PHP.
		Get Going with Silverlight and Windows Live Want to get started with Silverlight and don't have a clue as to where your services should go? Have no fear. In this feature we'll walk you through setting up an account on Windows Live and getting your services hosted there, both for development and deployment.
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Updated: 03/22/2008 at 1:18 AM EST

State Management and Isolated Storage in Silverlight 2 Beta 1

Some of the questions that came out of the Silverlight for Business Applications webcast I did on Wednesday centered around how to handle "global variables" and how to handle state. I'll address both of those here as they are very common...( read more )...(read more)

Updated: 03/22/2008 at 1:10 AM EST

Adobe Media Player Prerelease 2 Released on Labs

Adobe Media Player brings the best of both the broadcast television and web video worlds to your desktop. This second prerelease version includes a new UI, many new features, and compatibility with the latest Adobe AIR beta 3 runtime. See...

Updated: 03/22/2008 at 1:10 AM EST

CommunityOne 2008 Call for Participation now open

CommunityOne 2008 Call for Participation now open. Wide open.

Once again, Sun Microsystems will be opening our tent flap to the free and open source community for CommunityOne. Please join us as a speaker; CommunityOne is a unique opportunity to bring together your community and engage with others.

We're looking to you to define what the conference program should cover. We'll provide the basics: space, sustenance and invites (we'll make room for more than 2,500 innovative developers), you bring your projects, your expertise and your colleagues. No sleeping bags needed.

The Call for Participation is open from now until January 31, 2008.

Submit a session on the subject of your choice:
1. Free and Open (Any and all topics encouraged. It's your conference, help create it.)

Or submit a session in one of the proposed topics (this list will change based on your proposals):
2. Projects and Strategy
3. Operating Systems
4. Web Servers and Databases
5. Scripting Languages: Content Authoring and RIAs
6. Tools and Integrated Development Environments
7. Next Generation Web Applications
8. Web Scale Computing
9. Chip Multithreading (CMT)

Or if you want to learn about a subject, but don't want to lead a session, add a conference topic to the CommunityOne wiki.

Key dates:
Call for Participation closes: January 31, 2008 Submit your proposed session today
Notification of acceptance: February 15, 2008

Registration now open for CommunityOne.
Registration is free, but space is limited. Register now

Plus, plan to stick around and check out the latest developments in Java technology at the 2008 JavaOne conference. Register for and attend CommunityOne on Monday, May 5, and you'll also have free access to the JavaOne Pavilion and General Sessions on Tuesday, May 6.

Questions or comments?
Post to the wiki or email the conference team at communityone-info@sun.com.