Over the past six months I’ve had the amazing opportunity to work with a highly talented team (Mason Brown, Casey Britt, SmartyP, and many more) at IQ Interactive.  We’ve been working on an amazing, ground breaking, Silverlight application.  There wasn’t a stone unturned while developing.  Items such as Pixel Shaders, custom Panels, animations for purpose (as they should be), LINQ, dynamic loading of xap, Prism, and much more illustrate the breadth of the technology. I want to share the experience/application with you so badly but it will have to wait until the end of this month.

The biggest win over the past months is not the use of technology, but the team.  When I joined there was a large Silverlight project without any Silverlight knowledge.  Everyone rallied, designers were brought up to speed on Blend and Flash devs were put to work.  IQ now has a competent and competitive team of Silverlight developers/designers, and I am so happy to have been, and continue to be part of that. 

Over the next few month, and into the beginning of next year, I will be taking on a consultant role with IQ to ensure the project sails smoothly into launch and advice  with the direction of IQ’s Silverlight practice.  Doing this enables me to work on a number of key Silverlight projects in the media space in Turin, Italy.  Hopefully the jet lag wears off soon, because I’m ready to dig in, build awesome Silverlight projects, and most importantly build another team of kick ass Silverlight developers.

From Turin – ciao ciao

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