Silverlight Designer and Developer Network Meetups Everywhere

We have 2 speakers this month - Justin King talking about the Microsoft Media Platform, and Jason Schluter on recreating http://script.aculo.us/ in Silverlight.

Justin's Abstract:

Microsoft Media Platform ? Discovering the video stack of tools

With video streaming and viewing now accounting for 30% of down traffic bandwidth adding video to your websites is more important than ever. In this session Justin will run through the components that make up the Microsoft Media Platform, MMP Player, Content Manager, Video Editor, Audience Insight and Expression Encoder. We will run through adding Smooth Streaming/Adaptive Streaming to your site and creating a workflow to speed up the process, as well as adding rich functionality such as Frame Linking, Analytics and Advertising to pay for the bandwidth you are going to consume.

Justin's Bio:

Justin has 15 years Developer/DBA experience in cross platform technologies. Currently working with ASP.NET MVC 3 for most projects and a Silverlight Smooth Streaming for a SQL Server Training website hosted on Windows Azure.
Jason's Abstract:

Light.aculo.us

Recreating http://script.aculo.us/ in Silverlight.

Javascript frameworks are out there to make animation easy. How easy is it in Silverlight? I?ll run through recreating the effects demos on http://madrobby.github.com/scriptaculous/combination-effe... in Silverlight. Expect Blend, demos, and No talk on Win8! ;)

Jason's Bio:

Jason Schluter has been a keen Silverlight programmer since Silverlight 1.1 alpha following the rise of Silverlight in huge media and business application projects, and waiting patiently for the arrival of 3d Support in Silverlight. Jason currently works as a contractor on a large Silverlight project and has been building a variety of web projects on the side.