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Building a Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application using Silverlight

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Re: Building a Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application using Silverlight

#4

Post by axod »

icco wrote: post #2

The only words in the title that didn't make me want to puke are "Building", "a", "Application", and "using". I think I need to come to terms with the fact that I am becoming an open source bigot.

I don't think it's an open source thing. I'm not an open source fanboy, but I recoil in horror when I see a website using silverlight, and windows on a mobile phone just seems like a terrible idea.

Maybe it's just me, but I don't consider Windows 7, Silverlight etc to be hacker news. It's just spam.

Re: Building a Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application using Silverlight

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Post by benologist »

axod wrote: post #4
icco wrote: post #2

The only words in the title that didn't make me want to puke are "Building", "a", "Application", and "using". I think I need to come to terms with the fact that I am becoming an open source bigot.

I don't think it's an open source thing. I'm not an open source fanboy, but I recoil in horror when I see a website using silverlight, and windows on a mobile phone just seems like a terrible idea. Maybe it's just me, but I don't consider Windows 7, Silverlight etc to be hacker news. It's just spam.

Pretty sure labelling this spam specifically because you don't like the platform leans more towards open source fanboy than you might think ... would it still be "spam" if it was about building a twitter app on Android?

Re: Building a Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application using Silverlight

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Post by bad_user »

axod wrote: post #4
icco wrote: post #2

The only words in the title that didn't make me want to puke are "Building", "a", "Application", and "using". I think I need to come to terms with the fact that I am becoming an open source bigot.

I don't think it's an open source thing. I'm not an open source fanboy, but I recoil in horror when I see a website using silverlight, and windows on a mobile phone just seems like a terrible idea. Maybe it's just me, but I don't consider Windows 7, Silverlight etc to be hacker news. It's just spam.

I for one am interested ... as I'm also interested in iPhone / Android / Symbian tips, news, tutorials ... since mobile development is a trend that can't be ignored anymore (not to mention it's pretty cool for your non-technical wife to find something you did actually useful :))

What Silverlight does best, is to give a pretty painless experience for developers. For instance, iPhone developers complain that Android's SDK is too complicated (simple things aren't simple to do) and that it lacks an interface designer.

In this regard it seems to me like WinMo 7 is going to kick ass.

As for any other complaints related to Silverlight, keep in mind that WinMo7 was designed for it, and you probably won't have performance or look&feel issues.

Re: Building a Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application using Silverlight

#7

Post by thibaut_barrere »

axod wrote: post #4
icco wrote: post #2

The only words in the title that didn't make me want to puke are "Building", "a", "Application", and "using". I think I need to come to terms with the fact that I am becoming an open source bigot.

I don't think it's an open source thing. I'm not an open source fanboy, but I recoil in horror when I see a website using silverlight, and windows on a mobile phone just seems like a terrible idea. Maybe it's just me, but I don't consider Windows 7, Silverlight etc to be hacker news. It's just spam.

> Maybe it's just me, but I don't consider Windows 7,

> Silverlight etc to be hacker news. It's just spam.

I'm truely interested to see how Silverlight (mobile or not) works. It's just as valuable as a node.js or mongodb write-up to me.

My main motive is that you can work with Silverlight using IronRuby or IronPython, which means being able to develop mobile apps and (rather) portable desktop apps (off-the-browser mode) in these two languages.

So yes, I'm really interested in this personally.

Re: Building a Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application using Silverlight

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Post by thibaut_barrere »

thibaut_barrere wrote: post #7
axod wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think it's an open source thing. I'm not an open source fanboy, but I recoil in horror when I see a website using silverlight, and windows on a mobile phone just seems like a terrible idea. Maybe it's just me, but I don't consider Windows 7, Silverlight etc to be hacker news. It's just spam.

> Maybe it's just me, but I don't consider Windows 7, > Silverlight etc to be hacker news. It's just spam. I'm truely interested to see how Silverlight (mobile or not) works. It's just as valuable as a node.js or mongodb write-up to me. My main motive is that you can work with Silverlight using IronRuby or IronPython, which means being able to develop mobile apps and (rather) portable desktop apps (off-the-browser mo…

Well - why the downvote, honestly ? Is my comment lacking facts in some way ?
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