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March 2009 - Posts

Extending Your Brand to the Desktop with Windows 7

What is Windows 7 doing at a web conference like MIX09 ? Last week I went along to the above titled session, in which Yochay Kiriaty , an irrepressible evangelist on my team, presented the case for a desktop application in an increasingly web-orientated Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 24, 2009 7:23 PM by tims | 2 Comments

Overview of Windows Azure

Windows Azure isn’t particularly “on-topic” for this blog, but hey, just because I’m a client guy doesn’t mean that I can’t show any interest in other technologies, right? Manuvir Das presented a session on the subject at MIX09, and since I’m sat at home Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 24, 2009 5:04 PM by tims | 1 Comments
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Building an Optimized, Graphics-Intensive Silverlight Application

Seema Ramchandani works on performance as a Program Manager on the Silverlight team. She gave a fast-paced talk at MIX09 covering the graphics and media that contained some helpful tips for performance profiling, debugging and optimization. Silverlight Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 24, 2009 2:07 PM by tims | 4 Comments

Exploring the CoreCLR Inside Silverlight

Brandon Bray gave an interesting presentation at MIX09 on how the CLR (the execution engine that underlies the .NET Framework) was refactored to support for Silverlight; I thought I’d share my distilled notes from the session. Bringing .NET to the Silverlight Read More...
Posted Monday, March 23, 2009 5:07 PM by tims | 7 Comments

MIX09 Day 2 Keynote Pt 2: Deborah Adler on Changing Behavior by Design

Deborah Adler presented a fascinating case study of how user experience design can really have a positive impact on the lives of those who touch our products. She was the principal designer behind Target’s ClearRx drug prescription packaging , which has Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 11:27 AM by tims | 4 Comments
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MIX09 Day 2 Keynote Pt 1: Dean Hachamovitch on Internet Explorer 8

Dean Hachamovitch is the General Manager for the Internet Explorer team. Amazingly, he managed to blog about IE8 at the same time as he was delivering his keynote – he must have been typing with his feet :-) Dean started with a humorous video on the “history Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 11:08 AM by tims | 4 Comments
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Eight Reasons to Fall in Love with Internet Explorer 8

As announced at the MIX09 conference today, we just shipped the final version of Internet Explorer 8 . If you haven’t yet given it a try, here are eight reasons that might persuade you to check it out: You want a web that moves as fast as you do: Highlight Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:37 AM by tims | 7 Comments
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About to Start Live Blogging the Day 2 MIX09 Keynotes

At 9am Pacific (GMT-7), I’ll start live blogging the second day of MIX09 keynotes. As with yesterday, I’ll post the live version at this location on the visitmix site , and then within a couple of hours of the end, I’ll post a better edited, linked version Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:50 AM by tims | 1 Comments
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MIX09 Day 1 Keynote Pt 2: Scott Guthrie on Advancing User Experiences

Bill Buxton talked about why user-centered design is so important; now we’re going to talk about the “ how ”. We’re going to be talking about three key categories today: web , media and RIA . One of the things we’re trying to do is to provide a single Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:16 PM by tims | 9 Comments

MIX09 Day 1 Keynote Pt 1: Bill Buxton on Experience Design

Earlier today on the visitmix site, I posted a “live blog” of the first two MIX09 keynotes here in Las Vegas. Now that the dust has settled a little, I wanted to provide an edited version for broader consumption. If you’re looking for a comprehensive, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 1:47 PM by tims | 6 Comments
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Tracking MIX09

In previous years , I’ve posted a live blog here of the major announcements at our flagship developer conferences. This year I’m going to try and do the same over on the MIX09 site , with “raw” regular updates of the key announcements; I’ll then wrap-up Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 2:19 PM by tims | 1 Comments
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