Quick, quality Silverlight tutorials on Nibbles

Nibbles (beta), snack tutorials for hungry designers has some great Silverlight samples and clear, quick tutorials: Animations, Buttons Basics and Buttons Advanced.

Nibbles is new (they claim to be the first tutorial web site that is built 100% using Silverlight 1.0.) and I really like the name. A nibble is the computing term for a four-bit aggregation, or half an octet (an octet being an 8-bit byte). As a nibble contains 4 bits, there are sixteen (2⁴) possible values, so a nibble corresponds to a single hexadecimal. A full byte is represented by two hexadecimal digits; therefore, it is common to display a byte of information as two nibbles. According to Wikipedia, the term "nibble" originates from the fact that the term "byte" is a pun on the English word "bite". A nibble is a small bite, which in this context is "humorously" construed as "half a bite".

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• Anonymous
  August 06, 2007
  Nibbles (beta), snack tutorials for hungry designers has some great Silverlight samples and clear, quick