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The premise behind this session is the idea of separation of UI designers and developers. The UI people don't know how to code business rules. But the UI people need to be able to 'try out' the user interface and easily make changes. This is the designer/developer
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Continuing from the previous post Guy commented on how Microsoft is different. Responsive, helpful and a change from what Microsoft's image has been historically. Some questions from the audience On Adobe They are a big competitor in some areas. Specifically
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The keynote is actually an interview between Guy Kawasaki (as interviewer) and Steve (as interviewee). A number of interesting points. Regarding competing with Google Of the four areas in which Microsoft is focused, Google is really only present in one
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I have to give credit to Nikhil Kothari. He just ran a session the way that I like to see sessions run. As I read the title and abstract for the session, I was expecting not much in the way of new information. I actually attended the session mostly because
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I'm sitting through the first part of the Building RIA using Silverlight 2 session. The starting point is some of the new, but quite fundamental elements of Silverlight 2 First off, the schedule of releases at the moment are: Beta 1 = today, with a non-commercial
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Silverlight 2 beta includes Multi-language support - VB, C#, Iron Ruby, Iron Python WPF UI, including data binding Networking stack - REST, SOAP, WS-*, sockets. And cross-domain stuff is supported Integrated Data Support - LINQ, and the ability to cache
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Silverlight is a major part of the Olympics 2008 Site 2200 hours of live streaming coverage over 22 days. This, plus the 1100 hours of content on the 5 NBC broadcast networds, will be made available as Video On Demand. Also, through Silverlight, you will
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Silverlight 2 Beta 1 is available for download after the keynote Changes include enhancements for media. Sorry, but this section includes terms that don't mean that much to me. High Def? I thought he was a rapper. ;) But let me make some notes Adaptive
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Dean is responsible for IE 8. And he is talking about 8 points (because developers can count higher than 3). If you've given presentations, you'll understand that reference. 1. CSS 2.1 There are issues with CSS support in IE7. IE8 addresses these by focusing
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The idea behind the concept of connected devices is to create software to provide a personal device mesh using the Internet as a hub. By having a central personal data store, complete with synchronization, the devices will become much more a part of 'you'.
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If you want to know why Microsoft made the play for Yahoo, look no further than one of the three main focuses that Ray Ozzie sees for the near future. He expects on-line ad revenues to double to $80B annually over the next two years. And to not make such
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So one of the question about MIX is whether there will be a 'surprise' announcement. Last year, it was the Windows Live Streamer that allowed people to store video in the cloud and have it served to your site. I don't think the availability of Silverlight
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First off, let me comment on the dearth of posts for the last few months. As always, it has to do with my workload. I have been working heads down on a major project for client for about six months. On top of that, my evenings are spent co-authoring the
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