Inaugration: Photosynth on the Mac: via Silverlight

nhodge — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:43:58 GMT

No matter your political standing, the election and inauguration of Barak Obama is a moment for all time. Even if you are not a US citizen, like myself, you probably watched (or saw) the ceremony.

Crowdsourcing digital images from the front of the millions of well-wishers; CNN ‘synth’d photos using Microsoft Photosynth to create a unique view of ‘The moment’. I noticed that one of the Obama children, and new VP Biden, were taking digital photos.

Photosynth has been a Windows-only experience.

Thanks to Silverlight, this has been extended to Mac and Windows browsers without the special plugin:

Open Source Developer Conference, Sydney, 2008

nhodge — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:52:26 GMT

During the 30 minutes of presentation, I demonstrated the following bits and pieces of open source and or free Microsoft bits.

Demo set 1: Open source licensing and giving back

ASP.NET MVC on Stackoverflow.com: licensed via MS-PL
Codeplex.com; the main, but not only, Microsoft repository of our open source bits and source
Oomph: Microformats toolkit (source on codeplex.com) incorporating:
- LiveWriter; hCard plugin; publish; show IE plugin, same site with Firefox Tail for that other browser.

Demo set 2: PHP, SQLServer 2008 & Frameworks

Demo set 3: Dynamic Language Runtime, IronPython, IronRuby

IronPython; ipy hello world winforms and as 'code behind' in ASP.NET
Photoviewer; using local Chiron, browser, ruby in browser doing HTML/DOM
Silverlight Toolkit: MS-PL controls and data visualisation tools. MS-PL
Mono team's Moonlight. Silverlight for Linux

basketweaving for the mind : silverlight

Inaugration: Photosynth on the Mac: via Silverlight

Open Source Developer Conference, Sydney, 2008

Demo set 1: Open source licensing and giving back

Demo set 2: PHP, SQLServer 2008 & Frameworks

Demo set 3: Dynamic Language Runtime, IronPython, IronRuby