I haven't worked on the chat app a lot this week, but I think an important aspect of it is to show that there's still activity going on behind the scenes. I had to do my taxes and work on finishing up another project, but I can't wait to get back to the app. Actually, i tried to find a way to post it to my website to let people play with it as I work on it. But my first approach ended up failing miserably. I have another trick up my sleeve and should end up posting it to my site some time soon...
Also, I thought about possibly changing to a different deployment technology. I was going to make it a Silverlight app, but people have complained about having to download the Silverlight runtime. So I pondered changing it to html5 canvas or svg meaning the app would have integrated browser support right off the bat without additional downloads. Upon some inspection of those technologies, I've decided to stick with Silverlight. I haven't found any matured frameworks for canvas and svg that would allow me to do what Silverlight does with that level of efficiency. Plus Silverlight can be directly ported as a Windows app. So it gives me a lot more flexibility out of the box.
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