Dave Bost

Back in September, we held our first SilverlightDevCamp in Chicago. There was a lot of interest from several designers/developers wanting to know about this new technology and how it’s going to play a part in building the next generation web experiences. The participants at the SilverlightDevCamp were mostly new to the whole Silverlight technology and were begging for more opportunities to learn more about this exciting technology. Silverlight is a fast paced technology and it’s difficult keeping up with the pace.

Adam Kinney, a member of the Silverlight Technical Evangelism team and SilverlightDevCamp Chicago participant, tells us of a recent event him and his team hosted in Seattle called Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter. This event brought out interested parties for a day to learn more about Silverlight 1.0 and it’s place in today’s world of Web User Experience. Thankfully, they were thoughtful enough to roll the cameras and capture the entire event for the rest of us to enjoy. Thanks, Adam!

Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter includes great demos and talks from the likes of Adam Kinney, Jesse Liberty, Ernie Booth, Adam Nathan, Arturo Toledo and Mithun Dhar. There is a lot of great content here for you to learn the ins and outs of Silverlight. Even better, every session is available for download in video or audio format. What better way to spend your commute then to listen to 8-hours of great Silverlight content!

These videos of the Fire Starter event is just a small part of all of the great learning material that you can find at the MIX University. MIX University contains a wealth of other great content for you to learn about technologies like Windows Presentation Foundation, ASP.NET AJAX, Gadgets, Expression, Internet Explorer Extensions (yes, IE does extensions too), Media Center, RSS, Virtual Earth and Cardspace. Wow! That’s quite a line up and a hidden gem of some great learning resources on some really cool technology.

Enjoy!