Earlier this month (January 2009) I made the prediction that Silverlight penetration would approach Flash penetration (80%+) . It's a bold prediction, especially since it is widely held that as of this month, penetration is in the 25% range. There was a string of very large scale successes just this...

I was surprised when I heard the announcement that Sun was getting into the Rich Internet Application (RIA) Platform business. But they are, with an offering called JavaFX. I've dropped a couple of posts comparing Silverlight with Flash, but clearly I need to go to work and start looking at JavaFX...

A lot has happened over the past couple of weeks in the ongoing fight between Microsoft's Silverlight and Adobe's Flash . We're seeing uptake in interest in the Toronto and Canadian markets for Silverlight-based solutions (including Silverlight with Sharepoint and Silverlight for Mobile)...

The recent article in Macworld ( Analysis: For Microsoft shops, Silverlight 2.0 trumps Flash ) has generated quite a bit of interest over the past week in the Microsoft community. If the comments at macworld.com are any indication, the article was not well-received by the Apple community. The salient...

I love top 10 lists... Seamless download and install The widget shows non-private information Option to load on startup Configurable with your preferences Uses a small amount of resources (<5MB of memory) Has "Blink value" - value you can get in <1s. You can look at desktop widgets that...