Welcome to the Kitchen

  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 version 2.0, now with DLR SilverLight 2.0 Expression Design running on a ...

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, (remember that UX is not just about looks) and would be at home ...

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 of data.  So here's your chance to take their data and build something ...

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, I have a similar WPF control called ''Sunburst'' in the works for ...

Surface presents some interesting problems with UI.  One is how do you handle large scale datasets?  For example, my digital camera has a 4 gig SD card for storage, which can hold about 1200 photos, what happens when 1200 photos ''spill'' out onto the surface?  Could you imagine having to manually move around 1200 photos?  ...

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, the good people at Fingerworks (oh, I mean Apple's iPhone) work, and the work ...

I see the day (soon) when all of these applications that we see on TV and in movies are going to be made with WPF.  Until then, check out the guy that creates all of these.  His name is Mark Coleran, and man does he have talent.  Found by way of Information Aesthetics, one of the blogs I read.