Not a big crowd but we were able to pack into the conference room at www.beanstalknetworks.com and it made for a very pleasant and interactive session.
Here are many of the links we explored tonight:
www.silverlight.net - Go to "Get Started" to see what to download and install. You will find many of the demos there.
www.visitmix.com - Mixx Conference had many silverlight presentations, demos and hands on labs.
http://dev.live.com - Free media storage up to 4 gb.
http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2007/06/07/silverlight1-1-asp-net-photoviewer-application.aspx - Chung Websters Silverlight Pictures demo on Brad Abrams blog
http://labs.live.com/photosynth/ - Not Silverlight but ideas of what could be done with UI
www.ineta.org - For user groups worldwide
www.fladotnet.com - South Florida and Tampa user groups
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/timesreader.htm - New York Times Readerhttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb497969.aspx - Developers Mapwww.searchdotnet.com - Dan Applemans customized Google search
Here is a link to Brad Abrams who posted the code from Chung Webster's Silverlight presentation at Teched 2007 on June 7th.
http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2007/06/07/silverlight1-1-asp-net-photoviewer-application.aspx
I almost skipped the Keynote as the entire west hall D at the Olrando convention center was filled. But as i was standing in teh middle hemming and hawing, i was pointed to few rows of seats, 10 rows back that had just opened so here i am!
The video was back to the future with doc showing Bob Muglia the Microsoft Bull Shti (MSBS) from past "visions".
The cumination of the intro was the back to the futre AMC driving out on stage with Doc and Bob M.
Now into the Micro-speak...
Four new areas of technolgy focus for "Dynamic IT"
1. Unified and Virtulized
2. Process-led model driven
3. Service Enable
4. User Focused
Energizer Cast Study Video..
-They are using all the Microsoft products but of course no detail at all
Tom Bittman - VP Research - Gartner Group
- IT and the need for Agility
- Response time expectations are shrinking, no tolerance for delay
- Relationships are online and shortlived
- Windows of oppotunity are smaller but more frequent
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