Just watched the video of the BBC Silverlight app we created being presented at the day 2 keynote for MIX 07. There’s been a lot of traffic in the last couple of days with regards to Flash/Silverlight etc, and I’m not going to get into any of that here. The feature-sets and SDKs/players for the two products are out there for you to decide yourself as a professional whether it suits your needs. I just enjoy working at a place that throws so many new challenges my way, keeps things exciting!

However it was interesting to jump into a very different technology, of course it is a challenge to stop and think about how I would attack a problem in the apps I’m used to such as Flash, and whether that was a good technique to bring to the table, or whether it would take a different approach to accomplish what I needed (in reality, a mixture of both). It was also interesting to jump back into JavaScript, it has been a few years now since I partook but it came flooding back, in particular OO and inheritance which I really solidified when I learnt AS1 (I still think this is one of the best articles ever written for ECMAScript coders full stop).

Check out the video of the app here

(video requires Windows Media Player or VLC for us Mac folk, gotta love VLC)