December is a month of festivities, presents and great food. With Christmas just around the corner, the year has been flying by even faster than the previous one.
To go out with a bang (or should I have said bing…), I have decided to come up with something special called “the Silverlight Advent Calendar”. As probably, many of you don’t know what an advent calendar is as it is something only known in some cultures, let’s start with a little explanation I found on Wikipedia:
An Advent calendar is a special calendar which is used to count or celebrate the days of Advent in anticipation of Christmas. Some calendars are strictly religious, whereas others are secular in content.
Today, most advent calendars are made for children. Many take the form of a large rectangular card with many "windows", one of which is opened every day during Advent. In less elaborate calendars, each window opens to reveal an image, a poem, or part of a story such as the Nativity story itself. More elaborate Advent calendars have a small gift concealed in each window, such as a toy or a chocolate item.
Here are some examples:
However, in my calendar, there’s no chocolate for every day you open it! I have something much better… Each day, starting December 1st, I will be posting a Silverlight article here on www.snowball.be. That’s right, a free article on Silverlight for every day you stop by! You don’t even have to open a little door or something to get a free gift!
Christmas must be early this year!
Disclaimer: I HOPE to be able to post each day, as December is a very busy month for me…