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 [...]
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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…
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This is the first of a series of short blogs documenting some of the little features and improvements that have been making me smile since starting our latest Silverlight project at Synetrix, using Microsoft Expression Blend 3.
On the whole it’s been a good first couple of weeks getting to know version 3. I would have [...]
I received this email from a good friend and former colleague yesterday; a very experienced senior web designer who’s been away travelling for the last 8 months or so.
My old boss sent me this as way to get working again when I get back but it looks a bit like you do loads of graft [...]
After a pretty crazy few days of sensory and information overload in Vegas, it’s time to look back and take stock of what has come out of the conference. I’m writing this from by the Pool at the Venetian – it’s nice to have time to myself again, and no obligations save making sure i [...]
After a great couple of days spent chilling out in and around Boulder City, NV - I headed to Vegas, dumping the rental car and ‘enjoying’ a high-speed taxi ride to the Venetian. I think the driver may have had too much coffee, as he also drove off as soon as i had paid and [...]