Entries tagged with mix08 - Channel 9

Yahoo! Messenger Application for Vista

joshholmes — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:14:15 GMT

Josh Holmes caught up with team from Yahoo! that's working on the Yahoo! Messenger Application for Vista. We talked a lot about the new feature set that went live yesterday (including an easter egg...) and how the process of developing a WPF application with Developer and Designers went for them.

Douglas Crockford, Alex Russell and Joseph Smarr: On the Past, Present and Future of JavaScript

Charles — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:17:14 GMT

JavaScript is a massively popular language. Programs written in JavaScript can be deployed to more users and more machines than any other language given the prominence of script-enabled web browsers and web surfing. Yet the language hasn’t evolved since the spec was signed off in 1999. Why?

At MIX08, we were lucky enough to get three of the world’s top JavaScript experts to talk to us about the future of the language, the “Zen” of JavaScript, and tips and tricks on performance and management of large JavaScript projects.

Douglas Crockford is the guy who first identified and evangelized some of the techniques like closures and lambdas that are now mainstays of JavaScript ninjas. He works at Yahoo! on JavaScript frameworks including the widely-use JavaScript toolkit in YUI. Alex Russell is the creator of the popular Dojo Toolkit for JavaScript, and heavily involved in pushing improvements across the various runtimes. Joseph Smarr is chief architect and employee #1 at Plaxo, and is a well-known expert on JavaScript best practices – you can see the talks he gave at Mozilla and Yahoo! on JavaScript performance.

Enjoy!

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This Week on Channel 9 @ Mix: March 14 Episode

Dan Fernandez — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:51:29 GMT

In this week's episode, Brian, Dan, and Clint finish off our Mix spectacular with clips from:

- Clint interviewing Miguel De Icaza including what Karate Kid Part I can teach students (0:50)
- Chris Auld demonstrating an IIS module that dynamically combines resources (css, images, javascript, etc) resulting in 400% perf improvements, all with no code changes (2:57)
- John Sagiovanni showing of Zumobi, a free, extensible Windows Mobile app that connects your favorite services (6:57)
- Scott Hanselman and Clint Rutkas talking about Clint's segway skateboard and how Scott helped Clint redesign his other application for extensibility (12:33)
- 3rd Place Show Off Contest - Wii Data Visualizations and Multipoint by Veracity Solutions (19:18)
- 2nd Place Show Off Contest - Realtime Physics in Silverlight by Bill Reiss, Andy Beaulieu, and Jeff Weber (21:43)
- 1st Place Show Off Contest - Crayon Physics Deluxe by Kloonigames (24:47)
- Scott Hanselman does Jerry Seinfield and William Shatner/Captain Kirk imitations (27:45)

This Week on Channel 9: Feb 15 with Scott Hanselman!

Dan Fernandez — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:51:16 GMT

We had lots of laughs in the studio with Scott this week! Here's the show recap:

- We have a new logo (courtesy of Lincoln Anderson at 352 Media) and Scott Hanselman joins us in-studio (0 - 1:45)
- Microsoft Entertainment and Devices acquires Danger Inc for consumer mobile phones (1:35 - 3:38)
- Microsoft Virtual Earth acquires Caligari for 3D rendering (3:38 - 5:32)
- Dan - Charles Torre's Wayne Kelly's post after Lang.NET on moving Ruby.NET efforts to IronRuby and the DLR. (9:04 - 11:57)
- - Movie Trailer and Star Wars trivia (14:20 - 16:00)
- Brian's Pick of the week: Fixing SLN files that don't open (16 - 18:13)
- Dan's Pick of the week: Geek proves LifeHacker's story on Felonspy.com is a scam (18:31 - 20:15)
- Scott's Pick of the week: ASP.NET MVC is source changeable (20:15 - 22:39)
- Scott pulls a "BillG" and bails early on us (24:10)
- Scott does some *not to be missed* hilarious imitations of what it would be like if celebrities were coders Bill Cosby, Jimmy Stewart, Johnny Carson, Ross Perot, and more (24:55 - End)

Code to Live: Rich Weston and Morty Nivers on the Phizzpop Design Challenge

joshholmes — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:45:09 GMT

Josh Holmes caught up with Rich Weston and Morty Nivers from Neudesic and talked about the Phizzpop Design Challenge.

See Josh's full writeup on the event at the Phizzpop Design Challenge Austin.

Also, this is my first attempt at a remote interview with Camtasia, Live Meeting to share the screen with me and then I recorded the phone conversation...

Scott Guthrie: What's Coming for Mix, Part 2: Windows, Web, and RIA

Dan Fernandez — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:52:46 GMT

In the second part of this two-part interview, Scott discusses how this year's Mix (http://visitmix.com/2008/) is going to be even larger than last year's, covering everything from Windows Presentation Foundation improvements to Web development frameworks including Dynamic Data and the MVC Framework, to dropping some hints about upcoming tooling support, and the major improvements in Silverlight 2.0.

You'll also hear Scott talk about the different needs of developers and designers with Expression, how he personally wrote the <asp:Calendar> control, the unique challenges in building controls and how XAML enables unmatched control composability.

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Scott Guthrie: What's Coming for Mix, Part 1: IIS7 for Developers

Dan Fernandez — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:20:27 GMT

In this two-part interview, Scott Guthrie gives a preview of the technology that will be discussed at Mix (www.visitmix.com). In Part 1, Scott talks about IIS 7.0 for developers, how they've improved hosting scalability, improvements to configuration management and deployment with the recent release of Web Deployment project tools, and the improvements to production debugging and instrumentation.

MIX 2008: What the hell is this MIX thing, anyway?

Charles — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:07:16 GMT

Some of the brains behind MIX08 went for drinks and discussion with me to talk about what’s new, what’s hot and what’s not about the upcoming consumer web conference happening once again in Vegas at the Venetian hotel on March 5-7, 2008. Why is Steve Ballmer keynoting? What’s the scoop with Guy Kawasaki? Do we really care about designers or is it a developer world? Will Microsoft have anything new to say? What’s the scoop with Silverlight? What's the difference between MIX and PDC (and TechED for that matter)? Who should attend MIX? Why?

Be a fly on the wall and watch the conversation with the MIX team (forgive the lighting . . . it’s a little dark . . . we were in a real bar after all on a dark, rainy Seattle night). Then go and register at http://visitmix.com/2008 and take Thomas Lewis up on his offer for a free drink in Vegas!

Enjoy. Lot's of candid info about MIX in this one.