Back to the Black Board with Tech Plans: Sketching out My Personal Production Lines

I showed off my last sketch which was really a mess. This one is a bit saner:

The number-one take-away: Windows Presentation Foundation will be the center of my production efforts. What’s liberating for me is that it does not matter that WPF is less popular than, say, Adobe Flash. The latest iPhone ‘revolt’ against Flash and the promise of HTML 5 encourages me to declare that WPF is the state of the art UI technology—so why not build the “concept car” with the best tool—then it should be an academic exercise to transfer the “concept” to other platforms.

There are multiple directions out of WPF land:

• WPF to Silverlight
• WPF split into ASP.NET MVC and Silverlight (this implies that a WCF service is in reuse)
• WPF to Flex/AIR
• Silverlight to Moonlight (should be ‘easy’)
• ASP.NET MVC and Silverlight to Zend Framework and Silverlight (jQuery/CSS should travel without modification)

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