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Demos and Links from Edge of the Web, Nov’08 Perth

During the 50 minutes of presentation (including at least 9 ICHC images), I demonstrated the following bits and pieces of open source and or free Microsoft bits.

Demo set 1: Web Standards

• Live Mesh Mobile : take photo to mesh on laptop
• MacOS X 10.5 client available too [not demo’d]
• DataModelBrowser to apis.mesh.com; showing REST/JSON/APP [part of Live Framework SDK]
• Oomph: Microformats toolkit (source on codeplex.com) incorporating:
• LiveWriter; hCard plugin; publish; show IE plugin, same site with Firefox Tail

Demo set 2: PHP, SQLServer 2008 & IIS7

• IIS7/PHP; Modules mapping via FastCGI
• Microsoft Web Platform Installer and Web Application Installer
• MSSQLPHPDriver; show PHP + results; codeplex

Demo set 3: IronPython

• IronPython; ipy hello world winforms
• using as aspx as "code behind" and ASP.NET
• F# integration with via .NET compiled .dll  (calling from IronPython)

Demo set 4: IronRuby

• IronRuby; flickr.net example from John Lam’s PDC2008 session
• Photoviewer; using local Chiron, browser, ruby in browser doing HTML/DOM

Demo set 5: Silverlight

• Silverlight 2 tools for Visual Studio now support Visual Studio Express
• Silverlight 2 also supporting Eclipse (see, competition is a good thing)
• Silverlight Toolkit, run from chrome-less Google Chrome (contains Microsoft Windows Template Lib)

Published Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1:08 PM by nhodge