SilverEnLightening is born!

August 19, 2009

I really wish I could take credit for the title of this blog.  My friend Jeff gave me the idea when he asked me “How’s the Silver-enligthening going?”  I had been trying to think of a name for my blog about exploring Silverlight and in about 30 minutes after reading Jeff’s e-mail, silverenlightening.com was registered.  The purpose of this blog is to keep up with my enlightening adventure of learning Silverlight.

Why blog about learning Silverlight?

I find that maintaining a weblog while learning a new technology is a great way to stay on task, document the learning process, and interact with the online community.  When I was first learning SharePoint, I created a blog to document my experience.  I ended up having to stop blogging because my focus at work shifted from tinkering with SharePoint to transitioning to a new ERP system, but it was good while it lasted.

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