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

nhodge — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:08:11 GMT

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

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)

Codeplex now supports SVN

nhodge — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:19:24 GMT

Woohoo! Codeplex now supports SVN.

As an SVN user (via TortoiseSVN) and follower of a few Codeplex projects: this makes scripting life much easier!

(via @john_lam)