The Flight Today I arrived in Las Vegas for the Mix 08 conference. After our airplane had taxied out to the tarmac for takeoff, the pilot informed us that since we were going to Las Vegas, our lucky number for the week would be 34. That was the number of planes in front of us on the tarmac waiting to take off. So we got to wait for an hour while all the traffic ahead of us took off. Ready, set, wait. The Hotel Got to the airport and to the Venetian Hotel just fine. Checked in, and the room was just as nice ...
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Ray Ozzie Ray Ozzie kicked off the Mix08 conference with launch announcements. New Beta1 versions have been released of Internet Explorer 8, Silverlight 2.0, IIS 7, Windows Office Live, SQL Server Data Services, and a New Expression site ( expression.microsoft.com ), just to name a few. Ray focused on the impact of Content, Commerce & Community on Microsoft's strategy. He discussed the shift to Utility Computing - the iea of Business services to have servers in the Internet Clout that host Exchange, SharePoint, Office Suite, etc. instead of in the data center. There will be a new focus on software's impact on advertising, which ...
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There are lots of similarities and lots of differences in the way Silverlight operates as compared to Flash. This session covers some of those, as well as some of the improvements to Silverlight 2 Beta 1. Basics In Silverlight 2, all objects now inherit from the userControls base class. In Flash, X and Y are properties, you could create a "ball" object, and get and set X and Y as properties to make it more like Flash The Point object is similar to the mouse object in Flash. Create a Point and call it mouse, and the C# starts to look a lot like ...
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This session was very interesting. As a technology professional, the business side is not as transparent as it could be sometimes. This session opened the door to understanding how advertising, both online and traditional media, work today and could work in the future. Microsoft is investing in this vertical very heavily, and through some of these ideas is looking to become a major player. Market Overview - Now and In The Future The advertising market is manual - media is purchased through phone calls & emails The advertising market is opaque - there is no pricing transparency The advertising market is inefficient - there ...
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This session was conducted by the famed Scott Hanselman . I had been looking forward to this session since I heard he was speaking - one, to meet him, and two, to learn about the MVC framework and design pattern. I had been neglecting my duties as a technologist to follow up on MVC, and this was my time to catch up. Besides, we had already bumped into Scott at the Scavenger Hunt , and he was pretty cool about that. Here are my notes from the session about ASP.Net MVC and the design pattern MVC is a new web project type for ASP.Net ...
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