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Predictions for MIX08
I thought I'd put together a list of predictions for MIX 08. Some could happen, some will happen and some could not happen, you decide! Steve Ballmer gives Keynote in black turtleneck and jeans. IE 8 demo IE 8 uses the "Office Ribbon" toolbar. Popfly Read More...
RIA is about to get richer
Over at the ISV Developer Evangelism blog, jpelak posted about a couple of preview SilverLight control toolsets, that are now available. They're from ComponentOne ( the Sapphire toolkit ) and InterSoft ( the WebAqua toolkit ). Both are beautiful and usable, Read More...
Show off your mad WPF skills
And win... The good people over at Lab49 (New York's finest WPF consultancy) have a contest focused on using WPF in finance. I've long felt that WPF is a perfect match for the financial market, due to the rich visualization needs and the shear amount Read More...
Flare - An Interesting Visualization Toolkit
Found via UX magazine ... Flare, "ActionScript 3 (Flash) libraries for interactive visualizations on the web". Here's a cool toolset for interactive visualizations using Flash, check out the demo reel for some cool stuff. I like the "Star Burst" view, Read More...
Microsoft Surface on a tablet
Over at Long Zheng's site , he's got a video of the good people over at Microsoft Research Cambridge demoing a tablet version of Microsoft Surface . In the video you'll see Steve Hodges demo the functionality and how they did it. With Jeff Han's work, Read More...