May 2007 - Posts
Looks like I was correct in my last post about Microsoft's surface using WPF. Here's a quote from ArsTechinca article about "What lurks below Microsoft's Surface" . <quote> Surface applications can be written in Windows Presentation Foundation or
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It's great to see all of the announcements about multi - touch computer interaction and surface computing these days. How we interact with devices is only going to become more and more interesting. Of course, that also means that how we interact with
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Simon Guest has a great one hour video on how you can put User Experience back into Software Design, from the Canadian Strategic Architect Forum. It uses the new Silverlight video player which has a wonderful "chapter" feature that lets you navigate through
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I'm currently waiting for the rest of the Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta to finish downloading (it's at 77%). Who says people won't wait for a great user experience.
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After MIX07 more and more people will be looking around Microsoft.com for information about UX or User Experience. If you search for it from the Microsoft home page here's what you get. A multitude of results sprinkled around the Microsoft site. There's
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Here's the base concept. Code coming next. If you can't see the verbiage on the right view this in my photos .
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At MIX07 one of the sessions that I went to see was one by Clement Mok , titled " Fumbling towards AGENCY 2.0 ", it was a fantastic presentation. I was looking at it from a software architects perspective and jotted this down in my moleskine during his
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Here's a cool video of a multi-touch panel display desktop from Microsoft. It's got some interesting data viz and concepts. There's two panels, one translucent and the other about a 40 inch panel. Check out the video . Hmm, I wonder if they used WPF
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I sit on the advisory board for the CIS program at Gwinnett Technical College which met last night at Scientific Atlanta which is now a Cisco company. They demo some of their technology, the coolest being the Cisco TelePresence product that was on 24
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So far today has been a hit with sessions. I attended the Clement Mok did a session on Agency 2.0 which really had great inofrmation. I'll post some thoughts later about his talk from a architecture viewpoint. Then I attended the Microsoft Dynamics demo
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Last night BarCamp got moved from TAO to the Playboy Club at the Palm. It was a great mixer with everyone from Adobe to Microsoft to Metaliq having some interesting discussions. I'd like to thank the organizers for putting it together. We rolled out at
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