>And you know this how? Because of some twit's tweet? Maybe it's true. It's also true that Mark Twain wrote a lie circles the globe while the truth is still getting its boots on
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>c'est la pitié qui se moque de la charité

Showing off your knowledge of German again, I see. (Joke).

Obviously I did not read Hank's link closely enough the first time. I did not catch who Scott Barnes was.If a former Silverlight product manager says Silverlight and WPF are doomed within Microsoft, I have to acknowledge it's at least a possibility. Just what I need as an aspiring .NET developer. The thing is so huge and constantly changing it's enough of a challenge to begin with. I don't want to have to worry about Microsoft junking core components over internal politics. Who wants to invest time learning something that may be killed off? As it happens I have a Silverlight book on order from Amazon.

Any advice? My best guess is to focus on C# and data access for now. Those are not going to go away, although having said that I realize the data story seems to have shifted from ADO.NET to EF. Still, you have to know how to build a GUI, whether for the desktop or the web. I thought I knew that WinForms had fallen out of favor vis a vis WPF. Now an insider says "WPF is dead." Lord, I hope HTML5 doesn't wind up being the "solution" as he speculates. I hate HTML. I hate XAML. I don't want to be mucking around with text files to build a user interface.


PS -- I see the Phillies won again last night. They are looking good for a playoff spot and I think they have a good chance to reach the World Series. They have finally started hitting and that three man rotation is scary. (Roy Oswalt must think he's died and gone to heaven, moving from the lowly Astros to the Phillies. He has won 7 in a row). All the other likely NL playoff teams have issues. The Giants have good pitching but very iffy hitting. Padres and Braves, eh, decent but it's hard to picture them going to the big dance. The Reds are in but I have never believed in them. They have benefited from playing in a crap division. The only other decent team in it, the Cardinals, have played far below their potential. So yeah, I can easily see it being the Phillies.

Re the Reds, let's see how many seasons they can keep it up. My guess is one or two, maybe. Dusty Baker is up to his old tricks of overworking his best pitchers. I will never forgive him for ruining Kerry Wood and Mark Prior. Down the stretch the year they just missed the World Series (the Bartman year) he would leave both of them out there to throw 130, 140 pitches. Wood had arm trouble and is now a reliever. Prior was completely out of baseball by his mid 20s. If it were up me Dusty would be in jail with the nastiest cellmate I could find.