My last blog post was about my new baby, Daniel, born in August. At 10 lbs. he was one BIG baby!   My most recent birth was to Slide.Show, another rather large baby of mine. After nearly two months of long hours and a few weekends, our team proudly released/launched/birthed Slide.Show on CodePlex as an open source Silverlight 1.0 control for publishing highly-customizable photo slideshows on the Web. It's now part of the .Show family of products recently released by Vertigo, which includes Family.Show and Video.Show, equally cool and impressive projects that you should check out, too.   Slide.Show been getting quite a bit of attention lately, especially after Nikhil Kothari blogged about it. In just one week after our 1.1 release, we've had over 500 downloads and quite a warm reception. That brings us to nearly 1000 total downloads in under a month, and puts us in the top 50 projects at CodePlex (out of 3000+ total projects), and #1 and #3 in the "slideshow" and "Silverlight" categories, respectively!   My team poured its heart and soul into this little baby, trying to make it as extensible and customizable as possible. I just can't wait to see how the open source and design communities foster it and help it grow...    Technorati Profile