MIX07 in Las Vegas
The MIX conference is currently held in Las Vegas, just as last year. The reports are pouring in and most of them are containing the word “Silverlight” in one way or another.
Posts in category ”Coding”
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Return of the flatshade polygon cubes
During the golden age of demo coding, people were in awe if you managed to code a large 3D cube in 50 fps. These were the days before graphical APIs so you had to write everything by hand in assembler language, including line drawing routines and polygon clippers.
WPF/E rebranded as Silverlight
Not very surprisingly, Microsoft has dropped the odd codename “WPF/E” and chosen an easier name for their upcoming “Flash killer” technology. Even though “Silverlight sounds a bit too much like “Flash”, I suppose “Blue and white electromagnetic discharge” was unavailable for registration.
Report from Microsoft Live 2007
Just as last year, Microsoft arranged a spring presentation of their upcoming stuff for developers. The speakers were Johan Lindfors and Robert Folkesson from Microsoft, as well as Patrik Löwendahl and Marcus Olsson from Cornerstone.
Visual Studio Orcas is getting closer
I have been using various blends of Visual Studio since 1998. Back then, we coded C++ in version 6.0 and thought we were happy. Four years later, Visual Studio .NET (version 7.0) came along and made most of us say goodbye to unmanaged development environments.
Creating CSS Control Adapters
There can be a gap between the drag-n-drop ASP.NET cowboys of Visual Studio and standards-aware CSS developers. The cowboys produce fast results in a fire-and-forget environment and couldn’t care less for the quality of the HTML output, which in turn drives the standardistas insane.
The legacy of software
When I go to old cities such as Rome, I love to visit the ancient buildings. Some were built over two thousand years ago and still stand before my eyes. But when future historians and archaeologists will rediscover the year of 2007, it is unclear if they will find anything.
The evolution of games
Computer games used to be considered as merely a toy for children. Today people of all age and genders play games every day, whether it be to interact in global virtual communities or simply for the pleasure of killing pixel dragons for the loot.
The evolution of coders
In the beginning, programmers looked like Santa Claus and chewed trees for breakfast. Or something like that. Coding used to be a lot harder with tons of restraints and limitations.
WinFX renamed to .NET Framework 3.0
As expected, WinFX has now officially been renamed to .NET Framework 3.0. It contains the same lovely ingredients as its previous incarnation: WPF, WCF, WWF and now also WCS.