Having seen a few of these posts over the last couple of years as people have moved on from established roles, I thought I’d have a bash myself. It seems a good way to draw a line under one period of my career and set out the manifesto for the next phase. Feels a little like the Queen’s speech, but without the Corgis.
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A somewhat overdue post, due to a very busy week catching up on work, sleep and feeding back on everything that I learnt during my time in Las Vegas. In looking back at the few days spent attending MIX10, I thought I’d approach it by addressing the various aspects I considered in my pre-MIX post, and see how the reality compared with my expectations. Read More »
Tomorrow morning at 5.30 AM, I begin the now annual trek from Birmingham, UK to Las Vegas, Nevada for Microsoft’s MIX conference, now in its 5th year. They describe it as being…
… for designers and developers who build innovative consumer web sites. Attendees are coders, strategists, information architects, visual designers, UX professionals and digital marketers. They represent top web sites, web start-ups, interactive agencies and other organizations that do business on the Web.
It is the most relevant conference to what we do at i2Q / Synetrix in terms of our choice of technology (as Microsoft Gold Partners) and in that almost all of our applications are web focussed.
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I travelled back from London yesterday after a great couple of days at the BETT show. Last year was the first time we’d really shown off any of our applications, demonstrating our Silverlight and SharePoint based VLE, but this year we were launching our new brand OPENHIVE and releasing our full suite of products to the world.
there were a number of other stands I wanted to visit during my time there having heard a lot of chat on twitter (#BETT2010) in the days before and at the start of the event. So here are a few of my personal highlights…
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The voting on session submissions for the MIX 10 conference in Las Vegas on March 15th-17th has opened! I have submitted one entry around Designer – Developer collaboration, focussing on best practices with the aim to provide an overview of how to keep designers happy and achieve the best possible outcome for your Silverlight applications.
It’s my intention that this would be supported with demos of our real world, existing Silverlight (2 and 3) applications, and the content comes from the experience we’ve gained at i2Q/Synetrix over the last two years we’ve spent working with Silverlight.
Please cast your vote here and help me spread the word on…
“Baking a great Silverlight UX: the recipe for successful designer-developer collaboration”
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Compelled to write this after having had an unexpectedly good user experience with all of the above last night. The main thing is that it wasn’t each one in isolation, but the combination and how well they worked together that made it a good experience.
The fundamental elements of win…
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After speaking at Saturday’s Multipack event and catching Bruce Lawson’s HTML 5 talk for the second time in a couple of weeks, I had some time to ponder on my walk home through the city.
By the time HTML 5 is prevalent across all major browsers, say maybe up to two years away (and I suspect still to be largely reliant on how long the fully HTML 5 supporting version of IE has been available), Silverlight should be up to version 5, going on 6 – by the current rate of progress.
The talks given by Bruce (of Opera, opinions his own :), and also Aza Raskin (of Mozilla) at FOWA point towards the future of HTML web applications and their integration with the browser. By adding more application oriented standards to the markup, and increasing the intelligence of the browser, they are becoming a more powerful tool in themselves, devolving some of the control from the applications within.
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Or “Getting R.A.D. with Silverlight and Expression Blend”!
The idea behind this set of talks was to take a look at the options currently available, or on their way for creating Rich Internet Applications. Unfortunately we couldn’t get representation from the Flash community, but Bruce Lawson was there to give his popular talk from FOWA on HTML5, and I offered an insight into the features of Silverlight and Expression Blend 3.
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More notes, mostly for my own benefit – if you want any more info, just drop me a line. Good day today, despite being shattered after a long week and good party last night. Shame I have to leave early, sure the remaining talks will have as much quality content as the rest. Good job from Carsonified team – feel shame they got let down by the WiFi, but doesn’t seem to have affected the conference too much.
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A few notes from Day One of the Future of Web Apps conference (#FOWA) in London. My first FOWA after not being able to attend last year, but having been to a couple of FOWD events in previous years I was interested to see how this alternative event might be more relevant to the work I’m doing these days.
The notes were mainly written during the talks, and may include some thoughts of my own around the potential applications of the technologies and approaches mentioned.
First up after the introduction was Kevin Rose – founder of DIGG.com…
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