Adam Kinney posts tagged with 'silverlight streaming'

Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter video site is now live

Adam Kinney — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:53:00 GMT

On November 29th 2007, a group of people gathered together to study Silverlight. "What is it, really?", "What can I do with it today?" and "There really is more than just a Media?" were all questions answered that day. Video and audio of the event has been captured on the Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter video site, a newly inducted member of the MIX University.

You can stream the videos directly within the site or you can download the sessions in video and audio format.

The session titles are as follows:

An Introduction to Silverlight - Mithun Dhar
Getting Started Programming Silverlight - Jesse Liberty
Workflow of Silverlight with Expression and Visual Studio - Arturo Toledo
Silverlight XAML - Laurence Moroney
A Development Story - Adam Kinney
Media, Markers and More - Ernie Booth
Popfly and Silverlight - Adam Nathan
Silverlight in the Future - Ernie Booth

As an added bonus, if you like the design or interactivity of the site feel free to grab the source code. The code is not been specially prepared for review, but the code managing the HTML and Silverlight integration may be particularly interesting.

Enjoy the content and thanks to all of the attendees who showed up and really made the event a fun time!

Greenwood All*Stars on campus

Adam Kinney — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:05:00 GMT

Friday afternoon at work we were treated to a live band outside of our offices. The Greenwood All*Stars were invited as an event that was part of our Employee Give Campaign. We brought the people food and beer and the All*Stars brought the rock. So much so they were having power problems.

I was able to grab a glimpse of their appearance on video, but I unfortunately missed them playing "Highway Ninja Shark". I had never heard the song, but its been added to my "stuck in my head" list. The lyrics are crazy and the singing is dramatic. And when they played it on Friday they fell into a pretty sweet jam session in the middle.

You can watch the video below to get a Greenwood appetizer and once you're done with that, trot on over to their site and check out the Highway Ninja Shark animated video.

Hiiiighhh-wheeey Niinnnnja ..... shark!

And as a side note, this was my first video posted to Silverlight Streaming. Very simple once I found the Quickstart on packaging your video file and I could get the video encoded small enough to fit.

Silverlight Streaming Apps in Channel 9 forums

Adam Kinney — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:07:00 GMT

A few days ago Duncan added support for embedding Soapbox videos into a post in the Channel 9 forums using this simple BBCode style tag:

[soapbox video="(soapbox video id)"]

Very nice and simple. And as he mentions in his next post, I bugged him about adding a tag for Silverlight Streaming Apps. Working tirelessly through the holiday weekend, Duncan has now added the requested tag.

[silverlightstreaming accountid="32" appname="sllogo" width="258" height="100"]

More parameters but also more functionality as a Silverlight Streaming App can be more than just a media player. Looking forward to see where this goes on Channel 9.