No Regrets 2010, For Such a Time as This - #36

Posted by Greg Hudy | Posted in , , | Posted on 11:06 AM

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I went to this conference knowing that it would be a "good experience" and that there would be "good messages", which it was, but it was more than that.  Dr. Voddie Baucham, the keynote speaker of the day, was a great speaker, he spoke as someone really speaking from their heart.  He was convicting in what he was preaching and a few things stuck out to me that I was able to take from the his messages.  They were:
#1 - The Bible is not a book of Principles to mind, or a book of rules to follow.
It is more than that.  Sure, there are principles and rules in the Bible, but they are there to point us to Christ and to what he has done for us.  It isn't about, do this and that and things will work out for you.  I knew this, but he was able to present it in a new light for me.


#2 - The Bible is not a book of Stories
This hit rather close to home as Angie and I are Sunday school teachers.  We tend to teach the lessons as "stories" in the Bible and it is good to be reminded that these are not stories, they are all things that are pointing to Christ in one way or another, and are not just stand alone stories in the Bible.

Here is the link to the No Regrets, 2010 messages if you want to listen for yourself.

Flash vs. Silverlight - #72

Posted by Greg Hudy | Posted in , , | Posted on 10:38 AM

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I want to preface this post by letting you know that this may be a bit on the boring side for you non technical folks, but with that being said this was a goal of mine and I had a great time at this event.

The event was led by two incredibly smart guys for their side of the ring.
For Silverlight
Curtis Gibeaut of Insomniac Development is an expert's expert in Software Architecture including, Java, .Net, WPF, WCF, LINQ, nUnit, mbUnit, RhinoMocks, Silverlight, HTML/XHTML/DHTML, XML, SOAP, REST, JavaScript, VBScript and WTF.  You can follow him at @cjibo.
For Flash
Romke de Haan.  He is currently Presentation Layer Architect at Hanson Dodge Creative. His path has taken him from Homeboyz Interactive to Razorfish to HDC. He teaches Adobe Flex classes at C2gps and recently taught Flex at Disney in L.A.  He can be followed at @romke.  

Both of these guys had great 1-2 punches against each other, and each always had a counter attack ready whether it was for rapid prototyping, benefits for the designer or developer, or just overall ease of use.  I must say that if anything stuck out was that it took forever to open the Silverlight development environment, even longer than it takes the Flash IDE to open.  

All in all, a great explanation was given of both products was that Flash was built for Designers looking to do animations and has developed into a great Rich Application tool, and Silverlight was built for Developers in the .NET environment so they could add some excitement and interest to their data manipulation.

I am going to be sticking with Flash! 

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