MIX08: Deep Zoom, Deep Fish, Deep Mystery

March 07 2008

I've been looking for additional detail on Deep Zoom, a new Silverlight feature and the subject of one of the coolest demos shown in the MIX08 keynote: Hard Rock Memorabilia 2.0, a photo montage of rock and roll items found at Hard Rock restaurants, hotels and casinos around the world.… read more

From MIX08: Three Use Cases for Novell's Mono

March 06 2008

John Osborn, Senior Editor, .NET and Windows for O'Reilly Media blogs talking points from Microsoft MIX08. What's the case for Mono, Novell's open source implementation of the .NET Framework? I was surprised by the answers I heard from Joseph Hill, Mono product manager at Novell, in the course of a… read more

MIX08 Panel Notes: Challenges and Opportunities of Mashing up the Web

March 05 2008

I'm sitting in on a panel discussion at MIX08 on the Challenges and Opportunities in Mashing up the Web. Panelists include Sam Ramji of Microsoft, Andy Gutmans of Zend Corporation, Shawn Burke, Director, .NET Platform and a developer of the AJAX Control Toolkit, Mike Schroepfer of Mozilla, and Aaron Fulkerson… read more

Silverlight Available on Mobile Devices and More, Live from MIX08

March 05 2008

John Osborn, Senior Editor, .NET and Windows for O'Reilly Media blogs talking points from Microsoft MIX 08. In this edition: You've Got Mail, Courtesy of Silverlight, Olympic Apps, A Way Cool Hard Rock Demo, and SharePoint Extensions. Plus Cirque deSoleil & Silverlight. read more

Microsoft MIX08 Talking Points

March 05 2008

John Osborn, Senior Editor, .NET and Windows for O'Reilly Media blogs talking points from Microsoft MIX08. Among the topics emerging from the event: a new Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, a new Silverlight 2 Beta 1 and the news that Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend will support Silverlight 2… read more

Codename "Jasper": Rails or Django for .NET?

August 03 2007

Codename “Jasper” is an incubation project at Microsoft that aims to deliver the advantages of Rails-like dynamic database application programming to .NET developers. Database expert Julia Lerman, well-known to the Microsoft community as a speaker and trainer, explains the new technology with a hands on example in a new Windows… read more

Live Earth: Of Pledges and "Wedges"

July 10 2007

[Note to readers: Ever the editor, I have taken the liberty of updating this blog and tightening its arguments since first posting it last weekend. — John Osborn] If you were among those who attended one of the seven Live Earth concerts held around the world on 7/7/07, or tuned… read more

Partying with Jeff Palermo at Tech Ed 2007

June 03 2007

Yes, I’ll be there, along with O’Reilly User Group maven Marsee Henon from our Sebastopol office. O’Reilly’s a sponsor this year and we’ve got books to give away, including the just release “Learning WCF” by Michele Bustamante. Be sure you look for Marsee and me, the lint on our our black… read more

Microsoft developers ponder the ALT.NET credo

May 21 2007

Is the growing availability of open source, free and third-party tools, as well as the passion of their users, finally getting the attention of .NET developers? Or to ask the question differently, can any .NET developer these days afford ignore a solution like Rails or a tool like NHibernate? David Laribee,… read more

MIX 07: Wrapping Up and Returning to Earth

May 08 2007

The 72-hour conversation known as MIX 07 is over, and I’m home again, with a real lawn that’s filled with unplanned violets and dandelions and neighbors who are still asleep when I step outside to pick up the morning paper. What’s the right Las Vegas image to press into service as… read more

MIX 07: Wrapping Up and Returning to Earth

May 07 2007

The 72-hour conversation known as MIX 07 is over, and I’m home again, with a real lawn that’s filled with unplanned violets and dandelions and neighbors who are still asleep when I step outside to pick up the morning paper. What’s the right Las Vegas image to press into service as… read more

Moonlight: Why the Mono Project Will Implement Silverlight for Linux

May 06 2007

In his blog last week, Mono Project leader Manuel de Icaza explained why implementing WPF has never in the past been a high priority. But Silverlight is another matter, he wrote: …Unlike WPF [which ]requires people to rewrite their software to take advantage of it, Silverlight is aimed at the Web… read more

MIX 07: Two [O'Reilly Publications] for the Show

April 27 2007

Just in time for MIX 07, we’ve released two new online publications that should appeal to attendees and those who plan to listen in on MIX sessions over the web: one is a new O’Reilly Short Cut on Microsoft Silverlight and the other is a Rough Cuts edition of our… read more

O'Reilly @Microsoft MIX 07: Counting Down

April 27 2007

The much-hyped (and sold-out) Microsoft MIX 07 conference gets underway next week in Las Vegas, starting with an evening mash-up brainstorming session and social hour on Sunday , April 28, and ending Wednesday afternoon, May 2 with a MIX Chat lunch, at which attendees get to mingle with speakers, Microsoft… read more

Revised Short Cut Details ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel RTW Changes

March 14 2007

The O’Reilly ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel Control Short Cut (previously known as the Atlas UpdatePanel Control Short Cut) has been completely updated by its two authors, Matt Gibbs and Bertrand Le Roy of Microsoft. The content of this popular tutorial now reflects the changes made to UpdatePanel and its attributes for… read more