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Chadk wrote:



asli wrote: So to answer your question - do you have to be technical in order to be an evangelist?  I would venture to say yes.

Poor blowdart. Now he cant be an evangelist

Poor Blowdart.

Big Hug.

Fun Video. 

A 98 to 1 ratio seems about right.

Now what industry must I switch to?

Very interesting video.

I guess I am an "integrator"--web designer/web developer--or int for short.

Used to do Flash but lately doing mostly videos.

When will the Expression Studio have NLE video and  motion graphics applications as part of the Expression Studio?

A great series of Videos.

Thank you again Charles and Microsoft.

Outstanding video.

Uncle Bob's remarks regarding "static typing is a failed strategy" and his final comment the real stuff and the relevant stuff is happening in the Ruby community calls out for a reply by Anders.

A very interesting happy accident video.

From Death Star to Mother Ship--nice scale down!

The kinder, gentler Microsoft. 

LOL

Ruby on Rails vs .NET - Commercial #9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z99EHyG2jQA&mode=related&search=



Looks like Visual Basic and C# are moving up as is Ruby.

Position Oct 2007	Position Oct 2006	Delta in Position	Programming Language	Ratings Oct 2007	Delta Oct 2006	Status
1	1		Java	21.616%	+0.44%	A
2	2		C	14.591%	-3.07%	A
3	5		(Visual) Basic	11.166%	+1.44%	A
4	3		C++	9.584%	-1.48%	A
5	4		PHP	9.498%	-0.36%	A
6	6		Perl	5.351%	-0.12%	A
7	8		C#	3.740%	+0.68%	A
8	7		Python	3.433%	-0.03%	A
9	9		JavaScript	2.685%	+0.48%	A
10	13		Ruby	2.386%	+1.30%	A
11	12		PL/SQL	1.966%	+0.87%	A
12	15		D	1.594%	+0.96%	A
13	10		Delphi	1.539%	-0.61%	A
14	11		SAS	1.383%	-0.67%	A
15	14		ABAP	0.849%	+0.20%	A-
16	18		COBOL	0.683%	+0.14%	B
17	48		Lua	0.596%	+0.53%	B
18	16		Lisp/Scheme	0.572%	-0.05%	B
19	17		Ada	0.559%	0.00%	B
20	21		Fortran	0.446%	+0.05%	B

http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm

I could listen to Dave Thomas for several hours.

He really nailed it about what is going on at colleges in the USA with Java.

More interviews like this Charles!

Fascinating interview.

Please try to get him and Uncle Bob for at least an hour interview in the near future.

Thank you Charles.

Great interview Charles.

"Uncle" Bob is an agile Java kind of guy.

http://www.objectmentor.com/omTeam/martin_r.html


May 2007

JChung2006 wrote:



PerfectPhase wrote: Is it really necessary for ES to have this functionality when you already have the likes of Premier etc out there?  I would have thought that the workflow would be to edit video in an external application and then import into Expression to be encoded?

Yes, it makes sense if Microsoft wants to compete with Adobe.  Microsoft should add a non-linear video editing application to the Expression Studio suite and integrate it with the rest of the applications in the product.

As things currently are, Microsoft has a long way to go to catch up with Adobe, and there isn't a compelling enough story for designers to pick up Expression Studio.  Adobe is the incumbent.  Microsoft is just getting started.

I currently use both Adobe Premiere Pro CS 3 and periodically Adobe After Effects.

Most people buy suites or studios of software not individual applications.

The web is more and more about video including Channel 9 and Youtube.

If Microsoft wants to capture the creative professional market, it has no choice but to have both a NLE and motion graphics applicatons as part of the Expression Studio.

This is a very glaring hole in Expression Studio that I am assuming the Expression team is working on.  My guess is you may see it in version 2.0, but more likely 3.0.  If they are not, forget the creative professional market.

Currently Adobe owns the creative professional market:

Photoshop
Illustrator
Flash
Dreamweaver
Fireworks
Premiere Pro
After Effects

and several more but why rub it in.

Need I say more.

Microsoft has its work cut out for them.

Their key advantage is the .Net Framework, Visual Studio and SQL Server that they must leverage with the Expression Studio as the tool set for creative professionals and the developers that work with them.

Good luck, they will need it.

User Interface is everything. Three cheers.

Designers involved in the user experience of the application--all the time.  Amen.

What teams are actually practicing this at Microsoft?

I bet there are very few.

The applications should be several orders of magnitude better if you practice what you are preaching.

What is the soul of your application?

Sounds like a religious question or thread--lock it Charles. 

He is definitely on to something about decentralization away from the Redmond command and control center. Let a hundred hubs bloom.

Right on target about software and film making.

Are you (Moshen) by chance involved with the Expression Blend/Visual Studio user interface experience?

If you are, when will Expression Studio have an NLE application for video?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-linear_editing_system

Very interesting conversation.

Thanks for sharing the video on Channel 9.