OpenSpace Blog

Billy Hollis did an Open Space session on the good and the bad of Windows Presentation Foundation in the real world. He talks about the experiences he's had in learning WPF and using the technology in real world applications.Billy Hollis is a great speaker and has termendous experience with the…

Check out The Code Trip bus that will be traveling around the western United States. The Code Trip is a road trip, a bunch of developers cruising around in a tour bus and geeking out. It's also an online TV show (or video podcast, or vodcast, or whatever the kids call it nowadays) chronicling…

In this video, Alfred Biehler talks about SQL Server Data Services and his thoughts on how the technology will impact the industry. Alfred is on the developer evangelism team from the UK.

In this spill-over from a panel discussion at MIX, the attendees continued a conversation about the Business of Design. The topics in this recording range from how to spec a project, to the designer/developer workflow, to hiring vs growing talent.

Una vista rapida del area abierta en Mix 2008, donde se presentan demostraciones y mesas de discusion. Completamente en espanol.

PureChat is an ASP.NET based application that you can install on your website to enable real-time chat with your customers.In this video, some attendees from Axosoft did a quick demo of the application.

John Lam led a Q&A session with attendees on an update of what Microsoft is doing with IronRuby. This is a very interesting discussion that includes updates on language implementation and the plans to get Rails working on IronRuby.

Vertigo goes over their Slide.Show Silverlight application. They talk about how they built it, where its used and how to customize it for your own needs.Slide.Show is an open source project available on codeplex.com.

In this video, Peter Laudati interviews Nikita Polyakov about what it means to be a Microsoft Student Partner. Nikita has being making his presence known around MIX08, having great conversations and collecting content for students around the world to see what happens at a conference like MIX.

Chris Love gave a presentation on how to build HttpModules for ASP.NET and the IIS7 integrated pipeline. The HttpModule interface gives developers an opportunity to extend IIS7 and ASP.NET in different ways than otherwise possible.Chris demonstrates a background thread module as well as a…