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Windows Phone: No need for Jedi training

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:58:00 +0000

Granted... this is not a Windows Phone ad, it's all about Vodafone Red Box service, but something that did caught my eye and the main reason why I want a Windows Phone, is that it just works... everything is there at you fingertip, all integrated... no need for Jedi training.

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A Dream: A Person-Oriented Society

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:15:00 +0000

We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thanks Seth for reminding us how much we are forgetting in these digital days.

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Oh, the Places You'll Go

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:12:00 +0000

We are off for a brand new year and this one, like the one before, has been up for great surprises and adventures... and just like so, I found this video today and thought it might as well be the best way to start the year off... let this be a happy new year for all!

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Making our users succeed... thru ego

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:42:00 +0000

One reason that so many of the most popular sites online are those that permit people to express and expose their ideas is that those are the pages we care most about. We go back to see how people responded, how the traffic is, what we can do to improve the page.

- Seth Godin

Social media, crowd-sourcing, build it and they will come... there are so many cliches these days about content generation leads and yet there are not that many players thinking truly in how to empower your contributors to be successful... at the end of the day it's thru their success that you will succeed.

Wondering, what are you doing to make your tribe succeed?

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Inspiration to make the impossible... doable!

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:39:00 +0000

it's not everyday that I seat infront on a video, lecture or reading that inspires me to a level of just remain speechless and immersed in the afterthoughts for a few minutes.

this video right here is one of those... it starts with a poem... if follows with a great inspirational comment and it ends by making you rethink your now, your past and your future.

it's just about lunch time in my country... so if you are looking for something to accompany your bites, search for it no more and just hit play.

PS: loved it? the domino project just released this great book from the poem. get it.

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Entrepreneurs can change the world... just like a kid

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:19:00 +0000

I've been reading a few books lately on entrepreneurship and a recurrent topic on them is how important it is to plant the seed of exploration in our kids and nurture that feeling as they get older.

Now more than ever this exploration is needed to move the world forward and even though there is a lot of artificial buzz been created around the myth of becoming a millionaire from one day to the other, the truth is that if we want to advance as a society we need to do so in the collective of great ideas... owned by many.

This little video here represents that and I am thankful to this TED talk from Cameron Harold on how to teach kids to be entrepreneurs. This is not only a call to action for today's parents or soon to be ones, this is a call for the humanity.

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Experiencing Natural History the NatGeo way

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:10:00 +0000

A few days back, I shared with you a new AR assisted experience LEGO put out for kids and grownups to play along this holidays season, today I want you to explore a more of a group-oriented, public interactive experience.

Recently, National Geographic peered up with London studio Appshaker to create a new way for people to interact and discover content from the network's collection of amazing footage.

In order to do so, appshaker came out with a public AR experience that let thousands of people to interact with everything from a T-Rex to Dolphins swiming around you to even a playfull cheetah.

Take a look yourself in the video above. Look at how, both the people that step up to the markers and the people around the mall experience the display. It is in showcases like this that not only brands get something to show for but the society gets the chance to start seeing what the future is going to look like. It prepare themselves for what's around the corner and gives creatives new grounds to explore.

Immagine what would happen if you add a kinect camera into the mix, if you have smart enough movements into the characters that could let people interact with the animals like if they were there, imagine what if you could dress the people with new clothes and take them into a new journey.

Academics: get the ball going, take your research outside, it's time to take all of those experiences out of the lab and into the world!!

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LEGO Life of George - A playful use of AR

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:52:00 +0000

This morning Helguita sent me a link to the new Lego Life of George experience and got to say it made me smile and more than that it put me mind to fly.

This hybrid game combines the physical task of assembling legos with that of a virtual-checking using an Augmented Reality app for the iPhone.

Wit this app you can go against the clock with the models the app suggests, while you can also start building your own stages as well, saving them, sharing them and exploring new ones.

Now imagine if we could take this experience and apply it to more complex tasks, verification processes in real time and with the tools with have at hand today.

I think we are living in exciting times of innovation and as I noted yesterday on my Google Profile, it is in the exploration of this new experiences, the key eye to forward thinking and the inherent value for the aesthetics in today's toys that we are setting foundations for a creative society that will move the needle forward in very revolutionary ways in just a few years.

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Winter is coming - let's build an iglu

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:35:00 +0000

Been from a caribbean country I always wondered as a kid how did the iglus were made and if they really were used at all - or if maybe it was just something cartoons had invented... years later I came a long with Sue Harrison's Pre-historic Trilogy which took place in Alaska - and from where I borrowed the nick Samiq - and the intrigue grew more, as it reminded me of me childhood.

Now move the years forward to today and thankfully to the power of the interwebs and HD cam's I have to wonder no more... here is how you get to build one.

Enjoy!

PS. I know I could have find this way before but sometimes I just forget about my intrigues and then the answers alone find their way back to me thru me rss feed. that's good!

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Art & Exploration = Passions

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:32:00 +0000

Art is form of exploration, of sailing off into the unknown alone, heading for those unmarked places on the map. If children are not permitted–not taught–to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world of adventure, of stories, of literature itself?

Because it's in the action of letting me mind flow that most of the great ideas have come from... it's in the disconnect from the virtual and the reconnect with the physical that you can in itself get the most of both and to strive in beauty, form and action.

This little excerpt from Manhood for Amateurs reminded me of me been a kid and painting, playing and running; climbing trees and just think in the hugeness of the world... now I realize how much I need that to start happening again.

I need to kick start my passions... and you? What are your passions?

PS. Thanks to Swiss-miss for finding it for me ;)

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Photosynth: The Future of Mobile Photography

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:10:00 +0000

sometimes you have to test stuff yourself just to see how grant it is... this has happened to me in a couple of ocacions before: when I got my first iphone, when I got my first retina-enabled iPod touch and now I can add a third... and it's from Microsoft!

The Photosynth App just works as advertized, the app sports Microsoft's Metro look and feel that, to say the least, it feels fresh on a device that is all but different (is it that a good thing?!) but that's just icyng on the cake... you have to tap start and just go flashing away those pictures... it's amazing!

Mobile photography really won't be the same after you test this app.

Kudos to Blaise and his team of researchers... this trully is a step closer to the future!

PS. Care to know where did all this came from? then check out Blaise demoing Seadragon and Photosynth and the future of Augmented Reality Maps at TED and then follow on dreaming!

Update: better yet... skip those videos and watch them later and just jump straight to Blaise's account of the app experience.

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Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:17:00 +0000

A few years back I had the chance to collaborate reviewing the book Reality Check by Startup Legendary, Guy Kawasaki. That book changed the way I looked at startup formation and made it spark the fire of entrepreneur in me... in a lot of ways this book was the reason that made me resign to my status in the industry and head across the world to Korea to restart, and as result Discovr Places was born.

Now, 2 years later, a new book comes from the vault of his ideas and with Enchanted, Guy tries to show us the value of soft skills in practice. Something that, in my personal opinion, is key to succeed as a leader, regardless of your industry, in what you do or have to offer.

I just bought the book today and from the early look at it I believe it will become a most read for explorers, for those early stage startup CEO's, that just as technology savvy, it's expected of them to become enchanters in their practice and as service providers.

The info-graphic below is a guide to the book, something you can print and hang in your wall or just around the office so you and your peers can be reminded of those little things that can make a difference in the way you can be perceived. Take a look.

I like the way Guy writes, it's just like having a pal over for drinks and tell you stories that work. I hope you guys find as much motiviation in his ideas as I've done, and don't worry, be happy and trust you can do a great change in the world by enchanting others.

Cheers!

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XAML + C++ is this Microsoft's UX.next?

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:00:00 +0000

There has been a lot of discussion lately about the current status of Microsoft UX strategy and where is it going. Microsoft reps keep on with the same story of "depends" and away from concrete answers, they keep adding their own weight of uncertainty into the whole equation.

My pal, Scott Barnes, has been probably the most vocal among the outsiders (even though he was an insider not long ago) and making use of his position in the community, he has been reviving the waters of an old discussion. Where is Microsoft.UX going next... what is happening with WPF and, for what is worth, where does Silverlight fits in the whole equation?

To no one is a secret that HTML5 + CSS3 + JS are poised to the be the future of the interaction technologies, not only is the true open cross platform equation, their feature set have been gaining more and more power lately, to the point that it is been brought at par with a lot of its plugin counterparts… it might not be there in full right now... but believe me, it is going to get there very quick.

But the story doesn't end here, there is more to the interaction experience than just web. We need tools and frameworks that let us reap the benefits of the hardware beneath and that of the great user experience that (some) platforms provide, and it's for those scenarios that we wonder: what'd be Microsoft's take?

Enter XAML + C++

Among some slides posted today by Mary-Jo Foley about the new Windows Embedded Compact relase, a few interesting bits where shown… imagine you can take the power of XAML-based UX with the power and reach of native execution. No more performance issues, fat-out frameworks in the middle and as the slides put it no Garbage Collector pauses like in Managed Code.

Now keep in mind these slides are referring to the new Windows Embedded Compact released yesterday and it's not an official announcement of bigger proportions, yet… but it might be what has been missing to bring Windows + Dev units together within Microsoft and help start fresh with a more cohesive story… parallel to HTML5… and for togheter, to build some trust and show us a clearer future.

I know this might not be the best scenario for everyone, but it might be right scenario to move native development further… .NET is one the most ubiquitous development platforms in the Windows world and with Mono doing the dirty work no one at Microsoft have wanted to address… their footprint is pretty much everywhere. But .NET has it's limitations and Microsoft has been aware of them ever since they reset Longhorns from what-is-was-supposed-to-be to what-Vista-ended-up-being. XAML was probably the best outcome from that effort and it has prove to be a great DSL for UX development.

Back to the future, Windows 8 is just around the corner, coming along with its ARM and x86 flavors, it's supposed to be all about tablet support, energy efficiency and for what's worth it will be the tiding bone between a true cloud driven experience across all 3 screens… if anything we will need portability and we will need increased performance… away from all the cluttered bits in the middle and that's what XAML + C++ could bring to the party.

What do you think? Os this too crazy? or is Microsoft lost… still?

One thing is for sure, whatever Microsoft is set to release next I wished it came with a clear proposition of unity, an homogenized strategy and best of all something we, developers and designers (don't forget about those), can really believe in, not for a season or two but for years to come.

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It's all about making happy products

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 03:30:00 +0000

via youtube.com

These days there are a lot of us in the business of making things... wether they are tangible or intangible products we are constantly creating. We are creators! And it's under this reality, the rapid advancement of technology and the easy access to it that now, more than ever, the creation process has been democratized world wide, from north to south, all over the place.

But with this democratization of creation there comes a responsibility... a responsibility of making happy products. Products that don't get in our ways and more often than not, help us live a better life, at work, at home and on the streets.

In this short video Don Norman talks us into what he belives are the 3 keys to Emotional Design:

Beautiful products
Functional products
Reflective products... or those that make a connection with us even after we stop using them

We need to convey emotion into what we do, into the people who uses our products and even more with the surroundings.

It has to feel organic to our shores... so go ahead and have fun creating!

PS: if you feel like exploring more on this subject, here is Don Norman's book on the subject.

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Let the Tablet Madness Begins

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:58:00 +0000

via skattertech.com

With only a couple of days into February and the diversity of slate offerings is just starting to spice up and with that the diversification of offerings, flavors and most importantly, experiences start their lineup to bloom.

So what's in for us? Let's just take a look at the infographic above which pairs up some of the known offerings available until now; as for concerns in design and implementation the lesser common denominator for all of them comes to be Webkit, which means that more and more HTML5 will become the de-facto technology we will catered to if we want to target all them as one as we wait to see how they penetrate in the consumer world individually.

These are interesting times and I'm exited to see how the slate market will evolve. Android is probably the platform with the biggest opportunity to make a dent in Apple's reign, specially given Apple's almost dictatorial behavior as of late and Google's non-stop grow in mobile.

In the mean time Google has a lot to catch up to in terms of facilitating the making money process to developers, if they expect more and more developers to make the jump, which as of now has remained below expectations.

The show is not over and the war of slates will just get hotter as the days advance, next week HP is set to unveil their line up of WebOS based devices, which has been creating a lot of expectation lately, same goes for the iPad 2 whose announcement is eminent and as for Microsoft, well... we'll have to see what MIX '11 has to offer in this arena, since their strategy is still quite vague.

The pastures for us creators is greener than ever, imagination is at bloom and the displays are opening up... democratization for content, experiences and more is becoming reality one bit and pixel at the time... at a very fast rate.

Exited?

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ONTWIK: a source of lectures for web developers and designers

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:06:00 +0000

As the year comes slowly to its end, the pase of work also comes slowly into the holidays and even though this should be a time to relax and meditate, we geeks always come up with some free time and look out for something new to put in our toolbox, well look for it no more and enter ONTWIK.

Ontwik aims to provide the web community with a hight quality, latest, and best web development lectures and conferences from the best web developers and designers.

I don't know how long has this website been up for... but for what I can see there are quite a few jewels hidden inside.

So don't waste time looking around, now you know what to do with those free hours!

Happy holidays everyone!

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The Noun Project : icons made beautiful

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 15:42:00 +0000

I came across this project just a few days back and today it came the chance to put it to use.

Honestly I'm amazed at the level of quality and variety of icons available, it's just amazing!

The project’s mission is to collect, organize and make available an extensive library of free pictograms/icons for common nouns and concepts that make up the universal visual language, and best of all, all icons are guaranteed to be free.

Wether you are working on a new project or thinking in redesigning your current project, take a look and if you use what it's there remember to donate a couple of bucks!

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The Most Awesome 450 Page Presentation Ever

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 03:20:00 +0000

via youtube.com

enough said... just click play!

liked it? then visit Google Demo Slam for more... got to say it's awesome!

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Facebook Art

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:50:00 +0000

via eu.techcrunch.com

Even though I still haven't got to like the new redesigned Facebook profile page - I think they made more complex tasks that before was just a click and type - here it's an interesting use of it.

A true expresion of your face :)

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In the middle

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 02:41:00 +0000

via fubiz.net

powerful snapshots of what's in the middle... breath-taken... think!

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Bits and Posts and the world

Gilbert Corrales — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 23:50:00 +0000

To the regular visitors of this site, you might have noticed that I haven't post much in the last couple of years; now that doesn't mean that I haven't remain active getting my thoughts out 140 characters at a time and sometimes, once or twice, in a bigger sort of form.

It just happens that during this time I was pretty much heads down on my research, and thru that, I started playing around with analyzing and sharing what I found, rather than sharing what I made - somehow when you are down with research, creating is neglected to the final act and that's what I can of did here as well.

If you were subscribed to my rss feed nothing changed, as the feeds were aggregated long ago, but if you were not, then now you can do so by getting all things samiq in one place.

Samiq's Posts is where my sharing live, and here, Samiq's Bits, is where the things I create, the things I find through experimentation and some other things worth of a bigger space will find their space.

I hope that as you join me in this journey, you'd get to learn a thing or two, smile at times and contradict at best, at the end of the day these are just some bits of samiq.

cheers and be happy!

On Apple, HTML5 and the "open web"

Gilbert Corrales — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:02:00 +0000

If you are a developer - at least a web or mobile one - you probably have heard the news on Apple's latest HTML5 show case and how cool their demos are... and cool they are. But there is something that stroke me the most and that was the dialog I got when I tried to see the demos from my Google Chrome browser (see image above).

If indeed this were the future of open web then why do I need to download a proprietary browser to see how the open web looks like? or, why can't I use my browser of choice (Chrome) which also is developed on top Safari's same HTML5-friendly layout engine and which, by the way, is more actively developed than Safari itself?

As mozilla veteran Mike Shaver points out

lots of -webkit- stuff in there, from my quick view sourcing; webmonkey has the article about it.

The open web is about openness and freedom of choice, Internet Explorer has it's own showcase ( a bigger one if you care to look ) and it works just fine with other browsers, even when it was put together to showcase the goodness on the preview build of IE9.

If Apple indeed wants to fight the fight against Flash and proprietary plugins it has to do so from an stand of true openness and support for true standards, -webkit- stuff is not standard and what it creates is nothing more than the next generation Internet Explorer 6.

There is a reason why HTML5 is not finished yet and until that happens we as developers have to be careful not to bend to corporations whims if what we stand for and what we choose to support is openness.

There is a long way to go in this story but we as developers have the power to stop or support things from happening. What will be your stand?

Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems

Gilbert Corrales — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 06:11:00 +0000

Today I came along with Steve Krug's latest work on Usability, Rocket Surgery Made Easy, and have to say I couldn't wait a minute before placing an order for it.

This probably is one of the best investments you can do for your team (on top of his first book) and I'm sure it will pay back enormously within moments of putting it in practice.

I'm a fan of Steve Krug and ever since I read his first book I knew I had to dig a bit more about Usability and Human Factors... hence here me in grad studies on it.

Usability is not something one should leave aside, or something you do just before shipping a product... usability should be part of the process, should be what drives product creation.

It's us as designers and technologists who are ever more responsible of the user's productivity than any other craftsmanship before... we make what they use and what they use more (hopefully) and it should be our main goal to make them feel empowered in their experience.

Stop reading this and go ahead and get the book and if you haven't started thinking about how people interact and uses your product then it's about time you start.

It ain't easy to start investing on the right stuff, but you will find out that in the minimal things can reside that feature that will make the difference in your product or website... and by doing some you will find out you make your customers happy!

So long Mossy... I still ow u a beer!

Gilbert Corrales — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:35:00 +0000

Today the news broke public that Scott is leaving Microsoft as of November 1st, so this post is to say thanks for all and good bye. Microsoft is loosing a great piece in their chess game, I hope they will keep a list of his rants and points and keep making the Interactive world a better place to be.

I meet Scott first because of our relationship with the Rich Internet Application world, he had recently switch to Microsoft from a long standing career in the Adobe front and who better than him to put the dots in the i's for what Microsoft needed to do in order to move the whole Silverlight wagon forward and create a community around it.

Scott doesn't get scared easily and with full commitment to his position he started pushing the boundaries to make Silverlight a better place to be among all RIA technologies out there. He was vocal and he was loud, something Microsoft was in need if they wanted to make a change in the way we build experiences.

Fast forward a year in and a lot of emails back and forward and there I was in his office in Redmond discussing the future of Silverlight, what needed to get done and how, we were even putting code together past 2am just to make our point into how some feature or other should be modeled.

Scott backed up things that in an house of engineers will otherwise will be let out unseen. He knew the business and he knew that in order for Silverlight to make it, it'd had to be something other than just pretty C# & XAML code behind.

We as a creative industry are loosing a voice inside the interactive team that fought the battles not a lot of people knew they were facing, Microsoft has done a lot of good things to improve but it's still far from finished and venturing in a field like creative, they need creative people like Scott reminding them that things are not only strings of 1 and 0s but rather a rainbow of colors.

Now, we as an industry are gaining quite a loud voice to partner with. Scott will now be able to be vocal about the industry itself and put his hands to work to help other companies succeed with great experiences. Pushing the pins from the wild and with no front other than the community and its business.

I'm sure he leaves behind a lot of battles that have resulted in things we now give for granted and I'm sure there will be more results to come. There are still people in the house that will pick up those fights.

Dude, as I told you not that long ago... you fight great for us here behind the wheel and now your job at Microsoft is done... time to move up and look forward to more awesomeness from Oz.

Cheers,

Ubisoft’s R.U.S.E. & the future of multi touch experiences

Gilbert Corrales — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:48:00 +0000

Even though the Microsoft Surface has been around from conference hall to conference hall showing up how cool their technology is for the last few years, I haven’t been able to see one single implementation in a large scale where this really interesting interaction medium is at the front of the experience.

Now, I know the piece only went live last October at PDC and that its near $12000 price tag ain’t a really accessible price, but… remembering the day I first lay hands on one in Schematic’s LA office back in 2007, there were a myriad of opportunities flashing thru me mind on stuff that would be possible once this toy hit mainstream; yet I’m still waiting.

What if there could be a way were we could take these experiences a little bit further? I know my friends at Identity Mine, VectorForm and my buddy of whacks Rick Barraza at Cynergy Systems, have been able to take it a little further, creating really cool demos of their own… but what if we could all make it into something engaging? Something that will make us remain interested after 10min of using it… something that transcend the feeling of “just a demo”.

We as experience designers are as responsible for engaging our audiences, as the medium we use to deliver them is. The Nintendo Wii showed us that you don’t need fancy graphics and 3D life-like experiences to entertain us for hours. The iPhone and iPod Touch brought gestures and natural interaction to regular non-tech savvy people, lacking features even the cheapest phones had at the time.

Today I saw Ubisoft’s R.U.S.E. teaser, and that’s when I saw there is a compelling future for table top experiences out there.

It might not be available today… but it serves as inspiration for the stuff we might have to ship tomorrow.

Enjoy!

G.

The Universal Desktop is Out

Gilbert Corrales — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:00:00 +0000

Today Ryan Stewart wrote his last post over at ZDNet and with that the Universal Desktop, the all-things-RIA from ZDNet, stops it’s publishing.

Sad!

I am sad of this happening, with the RIA space sparkling in its foundations, rather than loosing spaces for covering their experiences, they should be evolving and growing with the industry.

On the other hand, I know that since Ryan joined Adobe, a couple of years ago, it has been difficult for him to keep his blog up to what it used to be, even when he did his best at it - When you are traveling around the world evangelizing one of the many technologies you’d to cover, time is at its best not your friend. But buddy, you will be missed!

Heck I even started this thing blogging after reading his blog and getting all hipped from this new cool thing named RIAs and after I meet him, I found on him a really cool buddy and an awesome professional.

Now RIAs are going at its mainstream, and as Ryan says new niches have been created base on the different front empowering them. Guys like the ones at O’Reilly’s InsideRIA even when trying their best, are still kind of an Inside-Adobe, as most of what they cover are Adobe based techs. We are missing a broader view.

We are missing one person or group of persons who can help the rest of the world see the RIA space for what it is. For their players as kind competitors trying to do their best with faults and gains. At analyzing upfront for all those companies and persons looking for their next rich platform to build upon.

I remember talking about this with both softies and adobe’s in several occasions, still no one has step out to this world.

Hopefully ZDNet will be able to help close the void Ryan leaves, and rather than empowering pissing contests on what platform is better at it, we could get true insight to the world of RIA, which now more than ever before, this game is truly getting Universal.

Good luck buddy and keep up the great work at Adobe ;-)

Cheers,

G.

MIX 09 Sessions Video Podcast RSS for iPod & Zune Available Here

Gilbert Corrales — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:38:00 +0000

Even though I couldn’t assist to MIX this year - I’m stocked in South Korea pursuing my Master’s in HCI - I have been watching on-line some of the sessions that caught my attention from the conference, specially those on User Experience.

Just as previous years, Microsoft did a terrific job at making most of this year’s sessions available on the web within the first 24 hours from them happening, and for people like me, between that and twitter, it felt almost like been there in person – of course, if staying late at night in the Lab with no beers IS like been there - but you get what I mean.

Sadly, though, just as last year, there was no friendly way to get access to ALL of the session’s videos in batch (alas RSS) - and no the RSS feed from the sessions page doesn’t give access to ALL of videos – or if on the other hand, a way existed where there were an RSS feed who aggregated all, iTunes (my preferred way to Podcasts) only displays the latest 50 episodes of a show, which is nowhere convenient either.

So thanks to Mike Swanson who posted a friendly list to click and choose videos from the sessions, a few minutes with Excel, LINQ and C#. Here I give you the RSS feeds (divided in chunks of 50 items per feed) to the MIX videos that have been made available until now.

So, go get your preferred Podcast software to point to this babies, lay back, relax and wait for your videos to download.

Now, who said there were not a convenient way to get the Mix conference with you on your device?!

Enjoy!

Zune*:
RSS for the first 50, second 50, and the remained 19.

iPod*:
RSS for the first 50 and the rest 11.

*Disclaimer: As per Mike’s post there are 119 videos available in Zune format and 61 in MP4 format, so be aware of that when looking for your session of choice and you don’t find it, it might be because it’s not in the list yet. Cheers!

Life from Seoul it’s MIX: Keynote Day

Gilbert Corrales — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:49:00 +0000

Update: if you are looking for today's bits... you can go here to download them.

editorial comment: wow! this dudes rocked the world of interaction today… looking forward to play with all this goods!

11.23: And this is it.

11.22: Silverlight 3 is out in beta and will have a single beta before release later this year.

11.21: Silverlight 3 is 40K smaller than Silverlight 2.

11.19: Installation happens straight away with no glitch to the user experience.

11.13: First out of the browser experience demoed: radio station with support for offline access. Really neat.

11.09: Silverlight out of the browser support running on a sandbox environment and support for online capabilities.

11.08: Silverlight is a full compatible sub-set of WPF allowing for scaling up to full desktop experience with ease.

11.04: Data form coming to Silverlight 3. Creating LOB application is great and easy.

11.00: Data push support to the client, binary xml to reduce payloads and support to multi-tier data services… lots of data improvements.

10.59: Eclipse support for Silverlight comes to the mac.

editorial comment: Blend is rocking the house!!!

10.55: demoing sample data to be used in design time from local sources or remote source with drag and drop support.

10.52: support for behaviors, transitions and state wire framing for low-fi interaction prototyping.

10.50: document generation for the experience design right from within blend.

10.49: demoing Sketchflow player running on safari on a mac with feedback support for wireframes.

10.45: hmmm wireframe support right within Blend, this is getting better and better. Controls can be as real or conceptual as needed for the moment at hand.

10.44: The application that was in the sketches of bill earlier is now live on the stage.

10.43: First public preview of Blend 3 by John Harris.

10.42: Expression Blend 3: Sketch Flow, similar to the prototype Bill Buxton showed earlier, for low-fi prototyping (I want to get my hands in this)

10.41: The egg slides just made it’s appearance he he… who has not used those slides.

10.40: playboyarchive.com is going live with this user experience and 15 issues made available free.

10.40: Official release on Bondi for Rolling Stones will be in November this year.

10.38: Demoing touch support in Silverlight.

10.35: Vertigo showing a deep zoom application for The Rolling Stone Magazine. – got to say this guys are amazing at it.

10.34: Bondi Digital Publishing & Vertigo in the house.

10.32: Clear type support both in mac and windows. Multi touch support. Supports library caching. Deep linking WOW

10.31: Support for monetization

10.29: This new features should be used to do good no evil. True!

10.28: Perspective 3D support. bitmap and pixel API. pixel shader effects. deep zoom improvements including Hardware Acceleration.

10.24: next Olympics will be delivered using Silverlight. with DVR experience. providing the experience customer expect after the Beijing Olympics. (hope Schematic is also part of the renewal)

10.22: Going over statistics from Beijing 08. A phenomenal partner success (a great work from my mates at Schematic too).

10.22: NBC Sports is in the house.

10.20: Live content can also take advantage of smooth streaming but also pause live video with a tivo-like experience and replay.

10.19: Instant seek in streaming thru a hack on bit-rate to minimize stop playing.

10.17: Demo time for expression encoder multi bit-rate support with smooth streaming and automatic publishing to the web server.

10.15: Akamai now offering smooth streaming thru their services.

10.14: IIS Media Services. Available for free (now here is hard on Flash… how much is Flash Media Server?)

10.13: SL3 will have hardware based acceleration. New codec support (H264), raw bit stream support. Improve logging support for media analytics.

10.13: Silverlight 3 is in the house.

10.11: Netflix: Because of the experience they got from Silverlight they now have made Silverlight their main platform for web deployment. An a great way to test things to be used later in their device-based experiences.

10.09: Netflix: user benefits from progressive delivery of experiences. every 2 weeks there is a release of an improved video player.

10.08: Netflix: Adaptive Streaming => more bits = better video.

10.06: Netflix: installer experience is awesome and took complexity out of the ways with support out of the box for content protection and a great platforms (ouch Flash)

10.05: Netflix: With Silverlight the cross platform is real.

10.04: Kevin Mc Entee from Netflix is on stage talking about their experience using Silverlight to deliver Nextflix streaming to the Mac.

10:00: Virtual Earth SDK and World Wide Telescope now available thru Silverlight.

9.55: Now it’s Joel Spolsky, from joelonsoftware.com and Jeff Atwood, Coding Horror; on stage talking about stackoverflow.com an amazing service running in ASP.NET MVC.

9.54: Talking about Bizspark, a great opportunity for startups.

9.53: New .NET services available thru Azure and made available this year. Azure is still in preview mode but will be made available full later this year.

9.52: Azure will support not only .NET application but also PHP.

9.52: Azure is now making it into the scene.

9.47: A demo of Web Platform Installer is done.

9.44: Scott is announcing the Web Platform Installer and the Web Application Gallery to help the provision of new and free web tools and applications to help with the development and distribution of web apps under the Windows platform.

9.42: With .NET 4 and VS10 there will be support for url routing and web caching thru velocity, just as well support for multiple web.config files depending on the stage where they are been used.

9.41: Scott is going thru Visual Studio features made available with VS10, got to say it is a really big list of features and features into authoring, deployment and testing.

9.37: SuperPreview will be available as part of Expression Web 3 as well as a standalone application which will be made available for free.

9.36: Expression Web SuperPreview supports side by side preview of different browsers including IE6.

9.33: Erick Saltwell, PM of Expression Web, is on stage talking about a new feature called SuperPreview. Letting you test your websites on multiple browsers, life.

9.32: Expression Web 3 is announced with support for both ASP.NET and PHP development.

9.32: the mission is to make Windows the best platform.

9.32: the Gu starts introducing the tools and web server technologies that will allow to create great experiences.

9.31: Scott makes a rock star entrance.

9.30: funny Brian Goldfrab just appear as a buddy guard. I will swear he is like that even in real life.

9.29: a video shows back of the stage on the Gu dancing disco. in an indian haha. hilarious.

9.28: now bill buxton is introducing the gu where he is gonna talk about how microsoft will enable us developers and designers deliver.

9.27: six degrees of separation between technologies. all connected all between by design. all singing the same song: how to help developer thru a unified way to return on experience thru their work.

9.26: and the shortest demo of a win 7 hp touch pc. gone.

9.24: 3 years ago only 1 design. Now 10. significant grow in hiring. double of the tech hiring's are in design fields.

9.23: we are in an industry with a lack of tools for experience design. we are doing magic with out the right tools but be careful not get biased on your design.

9.21: bill buxton is showing the sketches of a tool he dreams of to take sketches and start adding transitions… movement… still in low fidelity.

9.20: if can’t characterize the interaction then something is wrong. states are just as important as the transitions. they need to be design as there is some much ways to do them and a high chance get them wrong.

9.19: if you are a developer don’t start design programming. get away from it.

9.18: use post-it notes to do low-fidelity prototyping (wireframes). it is fun and easy… better than touching technology artifacts.

9.16: if we cannot come up with 5 different ways to do something and not to be emotionally tied to one of them then we are doing something wrong.

9.15: our job is not to come out with answers but creating the correct question that will get us to the right answer.

9.13: designing objects is different from designing experiences. anyone can draw objects. experiences? we are use to not think of it.

9.10: experience designers are about creating stories with our product. not the product itself but shaping the experience to get the desired return.

9.09: learn from the past is key. kodak made their first model colorful after the first iteration. apple did the same. ivy didn’t copied he learned from experience of others.

9.08: bill goes around successful stories about products that made it thru design. bell labs. kodak.

9.06: people need stories, it is the best way to get viral marketing. As experience designer we help our clients make it. our companies.

9.05: ux is the best position to be ever, it’s not about luck it is about been able to influence the next wave of experiences to make it in the return of experience.

9.04: cool video plays and Bill Buxton takes on the stage. Feeling lucky? and making fun of the economy and experience design :-) so much power.

9.02: keynote is starting, the screens are full with this event’s sponsors. announcements go on about the party and events. MIX 09 has officially started!

8.53: here I’m seating and waiting for the keynote to start. live feed from the Venetian couldn’t bee best. music is really lame though.

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It’s just minutes before one of the coolest conferences will start. Microsoft MIX is about to start with Bill Buxton and the Gu as keynote presenters, and I’m exited.

This year I have gone back to the life of an student and happen to be in Seoul where I’m taking my masters, yet there is no reason to be missing all the fun. So here I’m live blogging the keynote.

Bookmark this page as I will be updating it live as it goes.

Come get the bits from this year’s MIX

Gilbert Corrales — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:50:00 +0000

Microsoft’s MIX has not even started and the new bits are already in the wild and waiting for you to come and get them…

The good bag of candies is open, come get what you like:

Silverlight 3 Beta SDK: The Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3 SDK contains online documentation, online samples, libraries and tools for developing Silverlight 3 applications. Usage of the SDK is subject to the SDK License (included in the package).

Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio: This package is an add-on for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 to provide tooling for Microsoft Silverlight 3. It can be installed on top of either Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with SP1, and it provides a Silverlight project system for developing Silverlight applications using C# or Visual Basic.

Expression Blend 3 Mix Preview: announced during the keynote and after blown away demos of all the new features, Blend 3 is shaping its way to become the tool for experience designers, as Bill Buxton stated, that has been always needed and never existed.

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Final: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 provides a new Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework on top of the existing ASP.NET 3.5 runtime.

And all new and fresh out of the oven things no one knew of before:

Microsoft .NET RIA Services March '09 Preview: Microsoft .NET RIA Services simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms. RIA Services provides a pattern to write application logic that runs on the mid-tier and controls access to data for queries, changes and custom operations. It also provides end-to-end support for common tasks such as data validation, authentication and roles by integrating with Silverlight components on the client and ASP.NET on the mid-tier.

Which have to say it’s the first product offering from Microsoft using the noun RIA as part of it’s name, guess this is a good step towards making RIA into the mainstream, specially nowadays where the competency in this field is somewhat growing with JavaFx joining the party a few months ago.

So go on and play… and make sure you keep coming back for more news.

Update 1: And the goodies keep coming now in the form of a configurable UI controls for Live Messenger, just as a JS Library to integrate with your properties. This means you can add support for you live messenger right in your web properties.

The following is a video that shows how the new toolkit from the Liver Services team works:

Update 2: Just also out of the presses is Expression Web SuperPreview, a companion tool for Expression Web to help you with multi-browser targeting development. Super Preview supports preview from both local as from remote browser, kind of call in the multi platform world that we live on today. Get the bits here and go here to learn more about this release.

Update 3: Web Platform Installer 2 has also been updated and set out free as a beta. From the website it says:

The Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 (Web PI) is a free tool that makes it simple to download, install and keep up-to-date with the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including Internet Information Services (IIS), SQL Server Express, .NET Framework and Visual Web Developer. In addition, install popular open source ASP.NET and PHP web apps with the Web PI.

Now yours for download here.

#MIX09 and #NotAtMIX09

Gilbert Corrales — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:58:00 +0000

In just a couple of hours the Venetian Hotel in Vegas will give place to one of the coolest conferences there are for Web Developers and Web Designers a like.

Microsoft MIX is one of my favorites conferences to attend, not only because of the introduction to new stuff from Microsoft for the Web, but because the variety of minds that you get access to. From Interactive Designers to Hackers, Creatives, Futurisst… to even artists of the napkin drawing.

Mix is a great way to inspire yourself, and different from Adobe Max, Mix goes farther than just been a tech showcase of Microsoft technology. It’s a vehicle to the next generation experiences… it’s a way to get to know new cool people. Oh! and don’t forget it’s VEGAS, baby!

This year will be no different and the list of speakers is amazing, I am looking forward to Bill Buxton’s keynote just as well to see what’s in the stake for Microsoft this year relating to Web, Cloud and Silverlight.

Unfortunately this year I won’t be there in Vegas, I will be sleeping while most of you are enjoying the many talks you have on schedule and I will be catching up while you party… after all, not all is pink in the life of an student.

Fortunately, though, Microsoft will be making available most of the sessions on-line within the next 24 hours of their presentation, meaning for you and me not attending, or for those of you hangover, that it will not be lost… and we will enjoy it in some way or another.

So for all of you out there be happy, relax and enjoy the show that #mix09 and #notatmix09 is just about to start! As my body Mike Brown just twit:

Man...I feel like a parent watching his kids open their presents on Christmas hopefully #mix09 has some surprises in store for me too

Oh and btw… if you didn’t saw my twit on Monday, here is my hacked approach to a homepage to #notatmix09… my tribute to all of us not attending this year’s conference. Cheers!

Live from SFO it’s MAX: Keynote Day 2

Gilbert Corrales — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:50:00 +0000

A bit late today but here no the less…

Today’s keynote will be focused on tooling and showing off the new stuff in CS4

11.48 Thanks every one for coming!

11.43 Introducing groups.adobe.com a multi cultural community website targeted to user groups around the world as a way to find and collaborate thru the user groups around the world.

11.43 Ted Patrick is now on stage talking about the User Groups Communities around the world. 423 adobe groups across the world.

11.42 Some homework for all, get the tools and try them yourselves.

11.38 Introducing support of dynamic streaming from within Live Stream feed and DVR functionality right from within the live feed enabling pause and seek on a live streaming.

11.35 Introducing dynamic streaming for adaptive streaming without glitches or faults on On Demand Video. The player monitors the network and makes the changes automatically. Available as part of Adobe Flash Streaming Server 3.5

11.34 Adobe is endorsing the SWFObject as one of the ways to embedded your Flash in your pages so the bots will recognize it, the other one is using the Google Flash Kit.

11.31 Showing SEO support from Flash using a Virtual Agent (collaborative developed with Google) that renders the experience as a regular user will do and traverse the content and state changes and looks for text and indexed its, if a button then generates a click and repeats with the new render.

11.25 Introducing the new Ajax support from within Dreamweaver, really cool CSS and JavaScript authoring improvements on the tool. – I wish I could see Aggiorno running on that jewel.

11.20 Introducing support for Flex authoring right from within Visual Studio, enabling .NET developers to enter the Flex world right from within their IDE of choice and even with support to AMF3 right from .NET.

11.17 Introducing support for server side integration between Flex and CF as a straight forward data management wizard that will generate the right code to handle the complexity.

11.11 Ben Forta introducing support for Cold Fusion development right from within Flex Builder and available as part of CF5.

11.09 Now into Gumbo and ColdFusion.

11.07 Showing Nintendo NES simulator running inside Flash.

11.06 C++ integration is about productivity – questionable about that given the complexity of the language, would have been cool to see C# integration, but oh well C++ is good.

11.04 Support for codecs and plug-ins using C++ to incorporate support for features not available in the framework but available as open source libraries else where.

11.02 Showing SSL encryption algorithm built in C++ and invoked from a Flex application.

11.01 C / C++ support from within AIR 1.5 and Flash 10, no .dll loading but transformation of portable C++ code into AS3.

10.58 Early preview release of Catalyst available this week and Beta will be lunch early in ‘09.

10.55 States are really similar to those in XAML, but taking advantage of the features of Flash 10 in the sense of richness (3D, Pixel benders, etc).

10.54 Full round trip of workflow between Catalyst and the rest of the CS4 designing tooling is thanks to FXG which enables

10.48 Ryan Stewart on stage Introducing Flash Catalyst. Using Photoshop artwork to create user controls, states and transitions - really sleek execution.

10.47 Photoshop support for smart scaling, smart painting on 3D surfaces and effects making it easier for the designer

10.45 Flash support for bones animation and manipulation of point to point animations, making it easier than ever to animate elements on stage.

10.44 Ben Forta and Tim Buntel are on stage dress of agents F and B with a group of guys showing Flash CS4 and now Photoshop, really cool features been shown on.

Join me at the Microsoft eXpert RoadShow ‘08 Costa Rica

Gilbert Corrales — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:13:00 +0000

Microsoft Multi Americas invited me to talk at their eXpert RoadShow in the Multiamericas and I will be speaking in my home country Costa Rica.

I will be delivering the Next Generation Technologies session where I will be going around a central theme of building a solution from the scratch showing some of the cool technologies Microsoft has to offer to the enterprise nowadays.

If you are in Costa Rica during the first week of December, make sure you join me in one of the following events and you might have a chance to win a license to the really cool Aggiorno.

San Carlos

Where	Auditorio TEC, San Carlos
When	Dec 3rd, 2pm
What	eXperts Roadshow

Heredia

Where	Plaza Bratsi, Heredia, 200 norte del Paseo de la Flores, Contiguo a la Universal
When	Dec 4th, 2pm
What	eXperts Roadshow

Puntarenas

Where	Universidad de Costa Rica, Sede Puntarenas
When	Dec 5th, 2pm
What	eXperts Roadshow

Hope to see you there!

Live form SFO it’s MAX: Keynote Day 1

Gilbert Corrales — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:34:00 +0000

A’ight boys and girls it’s Monday November 17th and I’m seating next to Kurt Brockett and Adobe’s Ryan Stewart for the first day Adobe Keynote.
If connection is good to me I will be blogging live from my seat with all cool actions going on from the Moscone Center West in San Francisco.
9.34: lights are off and a VJ is mixing Adobe on 30, really hilarious videos.
9.35: Video of little MAX going across the sceneries, really cool animation.
9.36: Shantanu Narayen, President of Adobe Max takes the stage and greets the over 5000 attendees that joined Max this year.
9.38: Shantanu, “Adobe technologies makes of for impossible experiences”. Reality of devices reach and the possibilities that were not possible with PC’s before. Multi screen possibilities and the better of experiences you can deliver while maintaining the continuum.
9.40: Adobe Flash Platform, enables an agile process with their pillars of Tools to Design & Develop (Flash, Flex Builder and Catalyst), Framework (Flex), Clients (Flash Player & AIR) and Servers (Cf and Ls).
9.41: Thermo is now Flash Catalyst, an interactive design tool that avec Adobe Gumbo will enable a complete workflow between Developers and Designers.
9.43: Now a video of Bono and Project RED on how using Adobe technologies the project has grow awareness across the world.
9.45: Introducing RED Wire: A Music discovery service where everyone can contribute and with a $5 monthly subscription you get music thru an AIR application, this application will be available later in the year.
9.47: Shantanu introducing CTO Kevin Lynch, Resident Magician also known as Harry Potter.
9.48: Kevin talks about current trends that we are going to be looking at today: Client + Cloud, Social Computing & Devices + Desktop as third trend. This trends makes the development challenging but ever growing opportunities.
9.51: Kevin introduces some of the features on Flash Player 10 as a result of work together with the community to enable easy and powerful experiences before hard to develop.
9.54: Showcasing Hobnox.com, dynamic audio processing and dynamic wave form analysis in real time to enable sound mixing and visualizations using Flash 10 built in 3D capabilities.
9.55: Showcasing other applications from digital artist who uses new expressive capabilities including pixel benders in Photoshop Online.
9.56: Flash 64bit coming to Linux.
9.56: Dub Albers, CTO Disney Interactive Media Group, gets the stage to talk about how Disney is going take advantage of new Flash Video capabilities.
10:00: Disney is showing a Wall-e experience branded portal where taking advantage of the new capabilities in Flash 10 can improve the experience of dialog-less communication with kids.
10.01: With the capabilities of broadband adoption across the world, Disney is able to take their viewing experiences to next levels, including social capabilities for kids around the world.
10.05: Announcing MLB.com going AIR and Flash starting initial day ‘09, making it the 4th of the 4th bigger sport leagues in the states to use Flash to stream sports over the internet.
10.06: Announcing Adobe AIR 1.5 today with all the power of Flash 10, Webkit + Squirrelfish and the Encryption of Local DBs. Available today for Windows and Apple. Linux in a couple of weeks.
10.09: NYTimes announcing an AIR-based News Reader for the International Herald Tribune. Showcasing the newsreader with some really cool features thanks to Flash 10 text rendering capabilities. Enabling access from different devices.
10.12: NYTimes: video advertising can be embedded as part of the experience making the monetization process come to live and enable advertisers new ways to present their content.
10.14: Kevin is showcasing AIR running on a MID device similar to the Nokia Tablet running on a Linux OS. AIR for MIDs will be available next year.
10.16: Kevin is now showcasing an experience by the California Museum where history content is made available as interactive experiences. A special application made available is the Learning Lab, an AIR App where teachers can interact with content and build curriculum around it, interacting with their students thru assignments and collaborative work. Available in ‘09.
10.20 Maria Shriver, First Lady of California, and Ann Lewnes VP Marketing take the stage to talk about the California Legacy Trails. A project to educate the community on the trails that made California what it is today.
10.23 Kevin, Adobe is exposing APIs to most of their services in the cloud. Showcasing Tour de Flex, a reference application for all the APIs with live examples, code access and language reference for developers.
10.30: Executive of Force.com takes the stage. Enterprise software is where innovation comes to die, but this is changing today with cloud computing. Enabling a new technology model that enabling platform as a service to virtually any company in the world.
10.37: Kevin back in stage to talk about Social Computing.
10.38: Kigel Pegg introduces Cocomo for realtime social applications in Flex, beta now available in labs.
10.40: Showcasing Acesis, a demo application for Medical Review. Support for AV conferencing and data sharing using real time collaboration.
10.46: Introducing Adobe Wave, displaying desktop notification is as simple as sending an email = anyone can do it. A service aggregation service for the desktop extending the experience of the Web 2.0.
10.49: Taking devices.
10.50: Flash Lite enabled in more than 1 Billion devices by ‘09.
10.51: Open Screen Project targets to 2 problems: 1. Web Browsing and 2. Standalone Applications.
10.52: Full Flash Player 10 to run in the higher end of the smart phones. Showcase time hot right from the engineering labs.
10.54: Nokia N85 running S60, HTC running WinMo and Opera Browser, iPhone (we are working on it, not ready yet) and HTC G1 running Google’s Android. Really cool demos of YouTube, Last.fm and some sleek Flash animations. – in my opinion Opera and Flash made the Windows Mobile platform a real alternative to the iPhone.
10.59: Andrew Rubin, Director of Mobile Platform of Google, takes the stage. Talks about the possibilities of the new mobile platforms to build great experiences in top of.
11.03: Introducing the Flash Lite distributable package enabling partners to distribute their applications on the web with the functionality to download Flash Lite player if not available. A great experience to deliver content on the mobile
11.08: Showing multi screen support with a Samsung UMPC and a tablet pc thru a mash up of current hardware technology.
11.11: and this is it… thanks a lot everyone!

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Come join me at Adobe MAX in San Francisco for some Flex/AIR and .NET fun!

Gilbert Corrales — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:57:00 +0000

A few weeks ago I got confirmation that my Birds-of-a-Feather session on Flex and .NET was accepted and hence I would have a slot available to Connect, Discovery and hopefully Inspire some of you into creating new experiences using the power of Flex and AIR front experiences with the power of .NET technologies running in the back end.

The session has now an official name, room and date so make sure you booked it in your agenda for some inter-op fun between 2 of the most powerful platforms out there.

What	Developing Flex and AIR applications in a .NET Environment
When	Monday, November 17th @ 9.30pm
Where	Room 2006

Things like WebORB for .NET, ASP.NET MVC, WCF and some cool data access will be covered and if time allows I will be demoing a couple of cloud surprises that I am azure will inspire more than one to go out and play with some great Microsoft technology out there.

It’s Monday evening and I’m sure there will be stuff going on after the session so come meet some other folks doing stuff with .NET and let’s get started for a great week of experiences.

Cheers!

Technorati Tags: Adobe,Adobe MAX,.NET,Flex,AIR,WCF,WebORB,ASP.NET,MVC,LINQ,Azure,Windows,.NET Services,Mesh

Aggiorno on Channel9’s The Continuum Show

Gilbert Corrales — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:29:00 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, the Aggiorno team had the opportunity to share a booth with the Internet Explorer 8 team at Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference and I was lucky enough to be there with Aggiorno’s Product Manager, Federico Zoufaly.

Lots of great feedback we got along the week, specially around our new feature called Smart Search and Replace, a revolutionary way for you to transform your markup based on templates - trust me is really cool!!

During these day I had the opportunity to showcase Aggiorno’s latest build to a lot of people and it was great, one of those guys even got a camera… it was my friend Adam Kinney who was shooting some awesomeness for his show “The Continuum Show” and greatly enough Aggiorno made the cut of how awesome things were.

So here it is with out further adieu, enjoy!

Smart Search and Replace with Aggiorno

Live from LA it’s PDC: Keynote Day 3

Gilbert Corrales — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:41:00 +0000

10.10am the show is over after a glance a all this new technology and hope to see more in the years to come.

10.08am a mini surface can be enabled by using an infrared camera enabling interaction with a mobile surface by using the same infrastructure of the surface and just refracting light to approach the gesture and context.

10.05am the way it works is that it transparent the 1st surface by applying a voltage letting the light pass thru to a second diffuse surface, at a rate that makes it invisible to the naked eye and providing the effect of 2 displays.

10.01am Demo. Wow! so there is a second light projection going on that behaves similar to a magnification glass in top of the surface, really really cool!

10.00am Steve Hodges is on stage and introduces SecondLight, interaction beyond the Surface.

9.59am Rick is back on stage on showing a video of a prototype for Surface using a projector on a table.

9.56am now showing a video of things that could be possible with Boku. really cool and complex stuff made simple. I ain’t no kid but me kid inside is craving to play with it.

9.51am Boku is a functional, rule based system that let kids associated actions to intuition. – it kind of takes me back to me time in CS101 learning Scheme *cool*

9.49am Demo time. How to use Boku to write a hello world, using an Xbox Control.

9.47am Boku is a lightweight programming for kids by means of building games.

9.45am Rick is talking about his 9 year old kid programming C# programs using generics, WPF and console programming and introduces Mat MacLaurin to talk about Boku.

9.39am World Wide Telescope has over 1.5 million active users and as now there is a new release called Equinox with a set of data that doubles the initial set of images available in the previous release.

9.36am Education is another big center for collaboration with the Academy in robotics, children learning mechanisms and use of technology in educational communities.

9.30am Rick is back on stage and is introducing the use of Machine Learning Theories on the investigation of vaccines by mean of simulation and data analysis based on large data sets.

9.19am showing the use of sensors in building energy efficient solutions.

9.10am Feng Zhao now is introduced to talk about sensors in our environment. *for those in PDC, check out the Windows 7 booth for your sensor card, so you can build your own prototypes*

8.59am Research pushes the process into one that is agile and can come into rescue when things go not as expected.

8.57am Research is a source of IP and new product technologies generating over 25% of the company’s patents, generally categorized as more “fundamentals”.

8.52am DirectX, Windows Media and the Tablet PC are examples of products who made it out of the Research Division.

8.48am as of today there are more than 800 PhD researchers making it one of the biggest faculty facilities in the world. 4000 papers published in the last 17 years with facilities in over 4 countries including India, China, England and the US.

8.47am MSR uses a University Org model and behaves as one. Focusing on Open Research with Strong ties to University Research.

8.45am Code that was written by Rick back in Carnegie Mellon is still running on Mac OS X and the iPhone; inspiring on the basic focus of expanding the state of the art in the field of technology by Research.

8.42am 1990 a Memo was written to BillG and the board of directors to open a basic research laboratory, when the company was still a small company.

8.39am Rick Rashid takes the stage and introduces what Research is in the 21st Century.

8.38am One of the things MSR provides Microsoft is that it allow them to “see into the future”. Focusing on problems that they could only dream.

8.33am Lights are out and a video introducing Microsoft Research. Really inspiring video on what the goals and the tasks at hand on going in this Division of the Company.

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Day 3 is out, it’s Wednesday, October 29th 2008 and the time comes for Microsoft Research to make its appearance in the stage.

Here is the live blogging.

Live from LA it’s PDC: Keynote Day 2

Gilbert Corrales — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:32:00 +0000

Update: My computer battery died before the end of the keynote – and my Nokia Tablet didn’t like the conference wireless set up - just went they were introducing Live Services. For more information regarding Live Mesh Development check this out.

My computer’s battery is dying switching to the Nokia Tablet…

10.25am Live Services = Identity + Directory + Communication and Presence + Search and Geospatial

10.24am Time for Live Services.

10.23am Announcing Silverlight in side the browser and out using Live Mesh.

10.20am Announcing the Silverlight toolkit. A set of controls that are available in WPF and now into Silverlight 2.0 including charting controls and made available under the MPL Open Source license.

10.18am Silverlight. NBC Olympics – kudos to my mates in Schematic for this ;-) - with adaptive streaming. And announcing IIS Smooth Streaming to enabling this features for free on Windows Server.

10.17am Support for different Web.config’s depending on the scenario it’s been publishing. *nice*

10.16am ASP.NET 4 is on the road with VS10, including Web Forms, MVC, Ajax and Distributed Caching using Velocity.

10.14am ASP.NET is first and he is talking about the current state of the Web technologies, including full intelligence support starting today of JQuery within VS2008.

10.13am The Gu is back and now is time for the .NET Continuum.

10.11am really cool demo with support for barcode recognition using the integrated webcam. Kudos to cochango for this really neat demo.

10.07am Demo time, TESCO – biggest grocery shopping in the world. A grocery store API coming soon, nice. Showing a cork board application, letting users interact from within the kitchen.

10.05am Showing new extensibility capabilities for VS10, based on MEF and able to take full advantage of WPF right from within -Looking forward for aggiorno to take advantage of it. *awesome*

10.01am Visual Studio 10 build with WPF and support for Multi-monitor and richer code visualization.

10.00am WPF Improvements: multi-touch, deep zoom, visual state manager, text. Huge: .NET CLR 2 will be able to load on the same process as the CLR 4, enabling support for legacy assemblies.

9.58am Silverlight and WPF shares the same templating tooling so you better reuse your assets.

9.55am Now it’s time for touch.

9.50am Showing how to take advantage of new features of Windows from an existing WPF app. Introducing the new Ribbon control and contextual task support for Jump Lists.

9.49am Demo time.

9.48am Windows Applications for .NET has improved significantly with the update to .NET 3.5 SP1 and will be built into Windows 7.

9.47am VS10 will have support for very large code bases and multi core development, along with Native APIs for Windows 7 specific features.

9.47am The Gu takes the Stage.

9.43am Calls to action: Install Windows 7, Develop 64-bit, Integrate to Windows Desktop and Write for Standards - btw remember you can use aggiorno to get your Web sites and apps standards with just a couple of clicks.

9.41am Path to RTM: Pre-beta, E7 Blog, Beta, Feedback tool. Customer Experience Improvement. Release Candidates to RTM phases.

9.30am Cool, support for VHD, multi monitor support and boot from there to test and development environments. Really cool features handy during development.

9.29am Fundamentals for Windows 7: decrease memory, disk i/o and power consumption; while increasing speed and efficiency.

9.20am Developer features for Windows 7: Ribbon UI, Jump Lists (group of applications in the start menu and taskbars), Libraries (storage groups that work seamlessly across computers and devices), Multi-touch, Ink and Speech, and the DirectX family.

9.17am WordPad now supports the OpenXML format out of the box. Part of their commitment to standards, following the steps on IE8.

9.15am Ecosystem Readiness, Standards, Compatibility and Scenarios of use, is what they learned from Vista RTM up to the day to make Windows 7 the best choice for Desktop OS.

9.14am Steve is talking about the feedback they got for Vista, including blogs, press… oh some commercials.

9.12am Windows Live Essentials is a suite of Rich Applications that enhances the experiences in the desktop. Windows Live Services will enable a complete set of communication and experiences across PC + Web and the Phone.

9.10am Demoing Paint to interact with finger painting.

9.10am touch is mapped to mouse events, so even if the application doesn’t provides support for gestures, mouse events will be triggered to augment the experience.

9.09am IE8 supports on screen keyboard with words assistance and gestures understanding.

9.07am Windows 7 now supports touch (way better than Mac gestures) even on applications that don’t know about touch.

9.04am Showing personalization features in Windows. Glass colors, system tray icons configuration and performance features are now just a couple of clicks away.

9.02am Side bar gadgets are now able to dock anywhere in the desktop and not only on the side.

9.02am Printing management capabilities depending on location.

9.01am Showcasing a new and rich device manager. Allows to access all capabilities from the device and exposed to the user.

9.00am Windows Media Player now sports support to play music from other galleries in the home as well as to devices hooked to the network – similar to iTunes capabilities.

8.59am Showing new network discovery capabilities for content management and discovery. Allows to search and access information in other computers within the same work.

8.56am Windows Explorer. You can add libraries to storage views, so mixes different storage locations into a single view, really handy when several external hard drives

8.52am First demo of Windows 7. A new task bar. Really cool. When you hover the apps it will bring all of the Windows of that application into a thumb view and when hover the thumb will bring the window to the front.

New improvements into the Windows management system, multi monitors friendly, docking and manual rearrangement of windows in the task bars.

8.50am Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 share the same kernel but we will focus on the client today.

8.50am Steven takes the stage to talk about Windows 7.

8.49am Ray is introducing the next set of speakers.

8.47am Ray is talking about Web Apps that can be download, work offline: a continues experience - wait what?! Silverlight Offline?

8.46am applications that can be easily installed, isolated. Delivery the best of experiences under a given context.

8.45am platforms should work together and yet we want to have access to the power and capabilities of each.

8.43am the web is a common place of gathering. Between the URL and email, the web has become everyone’s front end, yet the browser should not be central point because of its boundaries and limitations.

8.40am Ozzie tell us we need to focus to make the most out of combined value for our customers investments. Our objective is to enable a combination of PC + Web + Phone that is greater than the sum of its parts.

8.38am Ray introduces the position we all share around the PC and talks about how the web and the PC have been up today 2 different worlds.

8.35am Ray Ozzie takes the stage and welcomes the audience. Today will be focused on the front end infrastructure. The future of experiences of personal computing: pc, phones and web.

8.32am Lights are out and video is playing. with all new .NET logos and great set of applications been showcased.

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Alright it’s Tuesday, October 28th 2008 and things are getting ready to rock on for Microsoft’s most important conference in the last few years.

Today we will be focusing on Windows 7 and the next generation of Development tooling focusing on VS10 and .NET 4.0. I am eager to see the strategy on Live Mesh as well and the next generation of services targeted to consumers.

Good times to be in the industry indeed and I am exited on been here.

Once again, check often this post as I am ready for live blog this event.

Cheeers!

PDC Day 1: A cloudy recap

Gilbert Corrales — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:17:00 +0000

Wow, the first day went on with a lot of new stuff announced in the cloud spaces and the cool part is that things are still coming.

Yesterday Ray Ozzie announced Windows Azure, a Serviced Based Operating Environment that is set to drive Microsoft Cloud strategy on and which is set to define the bar high for a lot of services that are already on the grow of demand.

A key changing strategy in Microsoft’s horizon

From distributed storage with SQL Data Services, access to Live Services, SharePoint and CRM to your own set of .NET Services; this platform was build to grow to internet sizes. Following Microsoft’s previous efforts in the personal and enterprise computing.

Build to scale and expand, Microsoft’s offering differentiate from any of its competitors by providing a set of tools that build on the maturity of C# and the Visual Studio tooling, enabling the wide range of Windows and Web developers out there to take advantage of Cloud services after a small curve of learning of the basics.

A foundation to extend

I am looking forward to today’s announcements. Even though Azure is a hint at what is coming in the years ahead, today Microsoft will announced their strategy into Mesh, the more personal approach to cloud services and the one who, avec Live Services, will help drive the more general consumer adoption of such models. Windows 7 looks like it’s taking shape quite fine and for the first time in this decade it seem Microsoft is getting its act together and set to execute.

PDC Keynote for today is just about to start, so I better head over there. Make sure you check out my live coverage from yesterday for a more descriptive view of what went on and wait for today’s.

Cheers!

Live from LA it’s PDC: Keynote Day 1

Gilbert Corrales — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:38:00 +0000

10.13am: This is it for today and tomorrow will focus on the Computing Experience. Thanks all.

10.10am: Azure.com is live and open for start playing with the services. SDK is up and people can start using it right now. 2008/09 will be timing for testing and development before it gets released commercially.

10.08am: Ray Ozzie is back on Stage summarizing the news that were delivered today.

10.05am: Demoing a Silverlight app that showcases end to end scenario of Federated services with a CRM application using a Silverlight portal.

10.00am: Showcasing the setup of Microsoft Services Connector, which will allow companies to Federate their “on promise” services with the cloud services. – Looks powerful and really straight forward.

9.54am: All Microsoft’s enterprise services moving forward will be enabled with the possibility for an online service, either provided by Microsoft or 3rd Party Partners.

9.52am: Talking about Customer Challenges face in today’s IT shops.

9.48am: On-Premises Platform translates to Cloud Services, allowing companies to transition and inter collaborate among services as needed and scalable per demand.

9.42am: Showcasing a LOB Cloud app, supported by a LOB Silverlight application. – side note: MSFT u guys have to work better on your demo’s so far nothing really cool.

9.35am: Inviting Red Prairie to demo Product Recall solution running on top of Azure.

9.33am: Introducing SQL Services = Database + Data Sync + Reporting + Data Mining + ETL + Reference Data

9.30am: Service Bus is the way enterprises will get their “On Promises” services to connect securely to the cloud. Access Control is the federation between identity services. Workflow Services will allow workflows to span from within the enterprise and into the cloud making them available to everyone.

9.29am: Introducing .NET Services = Service Bus + Access Control + Workflow Services.

9.27am: Talking about the requirements needed for a successful cloud infrastructure

9.25am: Introducing the 5th Generation of Computing: Services. 1st (1970’s) Monolithic, 2nd (1980’s) Client-Server, 3rd (1990’s) Web, 4th (Today) SOA. 5th is based on all 4 prior tiers and build upon to provide the best of all them all. Enabling scale out services across a set of devices today.

9.22am: Now welcoming Bob Muglia.

9.18am: showcasing the Azure Management Console. Showing the configuration setting of instances for services which can just be switch and swap as needed. As easy even a CEO can do it ;-)

9.16am: Bluehoo.com is on stage to show how they built an application for the cloud.

9.15am: ASP.NET Dev skills will make you a Cloud Developer already. There will be a “Cloud on your Desktop” simulation environment to help Developers debug their applications locally. Applications build in the cloud can be accessed using the http://yourapp.cloudapp.net

9.11am: Demo, how to build and deploy a “Hello World” service in Windows Azure.

9.09am: Apps and Services are isolated between them making applications run independent in a high availability model.

9.05am: Apps and OS services are managed separately, making the application publication and execution management as easy as the current model of monolithic OS. Fabric Controller is the name of the Service Manager that will make the magic happen, making your services work in a stable, high scalable way.

9.03am: HiperV seats as a key player in the way Azure run. Azure is an OS that seats distributed geographically, including managing the global data center infrastructure.

9.00am: SQL Data Services are been renamed to SQL Services. Plus Live Services, .NET Services, SharePoint Services and Dynamic CRM Services, define the pillars that will empower and run on top of the Windows Azure infrastructure.

8.57am: Windows Azure is not a server to run in the enterprise but rather a service that runs a set of distribute infrastructure is been released today as a CTP with just a fracture of all the services that are coming later as part of this new effort.

8.56am: To leverage the Windows brand it has to provide the same foundations to developers as present in the rest of the Windows Family.

8:54am: Announcing Windows Azure: Windows in the Cloud, with support for RIA distribution. Service based Operation Environment for a platform that will empower the future of experiences.

8.53am: Ray is acknowledging Amazon innovations with EC2 and says all of the other cloud providers will be walking on their shoulders to differentiate.

8.51am: Ray is introducing the different tiers of the technology experience: Tier 1 is the personal computing, Tier 2 enterprise level one and Tier 3 is of the size of the web.

8.47am: Talking about the cost and complexity of building secure, effective infrastructures in a world of global customers in a way that is efficient, always on, and available as needed whenever needed. Making relevance to a shared infrastructure build for the demands of the Web today and with the capacity to scale as the world demands.

8.45am: Talking about how the world of communication has made the web become a key generational demand mechanism, setting expectations higher than ever in the way people interact inter office as in their personal life.

8.40am: This morning you will learn Microsoft’s takes in the revolution of S+S with a strategy merging Services, Tools and the Infrastructure itself.

8.39am: Talking about his experience as a developer and how Microsoft is key at making ISVs been successful with the platform they build and the innovation across the infrastructure.

8.35am: Ray Ozzie takes the stages and welcomes everyone.

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Alright it’s Monday, October 27th 2008 and things are getting ready to rock on for Microsoft’s most important conference in the last few years.

I happen to be one of the dudes with the best seat in the house which I am sharing with great guys like Coding Horror’s Jeff Atwood, Kip Kniskern from LiveSide and Walt Ritscher from WPF Wonderland.

I will be live blogging from the event here, so make sure u keep refreshing this post for news just as they happen.

Cheers!

Welcome PDC 2008

Gilbert Corrales — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:25:00 +0000

Today is the day where all the geeks in the world turn their looks to Microsoft for a sneak peak at the future of all things Microsoft and the coolest part of all? I am here to be part of it!

Got to tell you, the pre-con experience couldn’t been better. Activity in the Cafe lounges was exiting and relax at the same time. Having access to great minds a la carte and been part of great talks are pretty much priceless and I expect a lot of those to go on during this week.

Party with Palermo was one of the events I got to attend last night, and even though I was expecting a bit more, it was a good source to network and see friends I haven’t seen in a while. I hope this will be the rule for the PDC evenings this week and starting today I am in full motion!

Now, let’s the games begin and kudos to all the teams that have made it happen thus far. I’ve had the chance to glimpse at some of the stuff been shown this week and I am eager to be able to talk about them in the public.

Cheers!

CS4 is out… now let them come in!

Gilbert Corrales — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:53:00 +0000

Indeed it’s has been a great week for RIAs and it seems like it goes non-stop. This time coming from the guys across the lake: Adobe.

Creative Suite 4, which just got announced a few weeks ago, was released today and has started shipping all across the world.

From all the new stuff coming, I am really exited about the new features the guys from Flash put together in their latest release. For the first time in a long time myself, as a creative developer, am eager to get my hands on these bits.

~~Trials are not yet available but you can~~ ~~sign up~~ ~~to get notified once they do~~. Trials are up for download now and as the bits downloads, I would recommend to head over to Lee Brimelow’s TheFlashBlog for a good run on tutorials and overviews of what’s in box for Adobe’s Interactive Tool.

Lot’s of great news this week and I don’t see them stop anytime soon, Microsoft PDC is just around the corner and Adobes own MAX follows right thru…. cool times for been a geek.

Happy Learning!

P.S. Don’t you think it’s about time to get your hands into Aggiorno and save some precious time out all the web coding you do? I know you could use that time on learning some of these cool stuff :-)

Update: Mike Chambers just published a list of articles and tutorials you go check to get started in this new release.

Update: Trial bits are up for download, go get them here

Technorati Tags: CS4,Adobe,Flash,RIA,RIE

Silverlight 2 final bits are out… come get them!

Gilbert Corrales — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:12:00 +0000

Just as I blogged earlier, Microsoft went public today with the final bits for their Rich Internet Platform, Silverlight 2.0, and well here the bits are now out for you to go grab them.

Now back to keep up updating a little app I’ve been working on lately… hopefully will be released to beta later in the week.

Cheers!

P.S. Thanks to Brian Henderson for the heads up in twitter.

Update: Even though the Silverlight Tools for VS reads RC1, it seems like it’s just because of a typo, so go on and rock on!

Update: Now that the news are out the Gu and Tim Heuer have a couple of amazing posts describing the news.

Silverlight 2 announced with plans for development support on Mac and Linux

Gilbert Corrales — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:44:00 +0000

It was a year ago when I took the stage at the Silverlight DevCamp in Chicago with my white MacBook and a beer in hand. I was set to talk about building MVC driven applications in Silverlight 1.0.

At the time I was working on a project for WWE and even though the project was secret, I got to show some of the tech we build behind the scenes for such project: A MVC approach to manage data visualization and an small framework to orchestrate its functionality.

My History with OS4SL = Aptana + FireBug + Blend

I started my career on Silverlight using Visual Studio and the Expression Studio, although in the middle of a development sprint a bug in the dev tools made me go shop for an alternative other than rebuild my dev machine… time was a constrain. I found Aptana and stick with it for the rest of my Silverlight 1.0 experience, Firebug did what it did for debugging of JS and Blend, well… let’s be honest, there is nothing like Blend for XAML authoring.

People was shocked to see me use open source technologies to build on Silverlight. Heck, I even got Larry Clarkin and Chris Bernard to twit about it (here and here). Things were good though.

Silverlight Dev Tools for Visual Studio have gone a long road since then and they are in a State of the Art sort of thing. Since those days Silverlight has embraced full support for the CLR and a mature architecture aroused from all those initial CTPs and long run Betas.

Delivering on a Promise for Better RIAs using .NET

Today Microsoft delivered on the Rich Internet Platform promise and made public its official release of Silverlight 2.0 along with a set of Open Source initiatives that not only will allow us access to a big set of controls source but also the ability to build Silverlight apps outside Visual Studio and even outside of the Windows Platform… now things are getting interesting in the RIA world.

Eclipse4SL

As part of this big announcement day, Microsoft made public its partnership with Soyatec, a French company that will take Eclipse up to support development of Silverlight applications, including C# editing support, a XAML WYSIWYG editor and debugging tools.

Such an effort goes by the name of Eclipse4SL and it’s first preview is available now for Windows. With support for other platforms coming along in the future.

Silverlight Control Pack

And finally to put the cherry in the pie, Microsoft will also be releasing a bunch of complex controls under the Silverlight Control Pack umbrella, also available is their source code which you can modify, rebuild and reuse.

The reason behind this is to not only provide better support for the already set of controls shipping with the runtime, but to serve as an example for the community on how controls should be build, setting a standard that both people and companies could take as reference point when building their own.

Exciting Times

Exciting times no less for the RIA world this next 5 weeks will be, with PDC just around the corner and with Adobe MAX following just right after with all the goodies from Flex and Flash 10, the ecosystem for better and greater experiences on the Web is nothing but starting… and I am thrill to be part of it!

So go ahead and get up to speed with the learning curve as there is be a lot to be digested in the weeks ahead.

Now ,that’s just another reason to give Aggiorno a try and get all those time consuming tasks we all go thru while web developing, automatically fixed. That way you can put that time to better use.

Cheers!

Technorati Tags: Silverlight,Open Source,Flash,Flex,Microsoft,Visual Studio,Eclipse,Aptana,Firebug,Blend

A Better Place

Gilbert Corrales — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:09:00 +0000

I know I've been absent for the last couple of weeks heads down working on the release of Aggiorno 1.2... but as I get back my grip into blog again I wanted to share this.

Today, I ran across this site called Better Place, focused on making reality a plan on renewable energy sources for the world itself, with the mission of decoupling ourselves from oil and into a better world.

Now, here is what I have to say!

Do you have something else to say? then come join me!

Cheers!

I'll be Speaking at MSDN Tour Costa Rica this week

Gilbert Corrales — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:20:00 +0000

Tomorrow Tuesday 23nd and Wednesday September 24th, I will be speaking at the MSDN Tour in Costa Rica as part of a series of events going on across Latin America this week.

I will be covering a little bit of the future of the new Services Platform that Microsoft is empowering as well as their S+S plans based on Mesh and the Live Platform.

I will also be doing a couple of demos of the new Internet Explorer browser and showing how you can take advantage of aggiorno to facilitate the transition of your web sites to more standard grounds.

To register to any of this two events check out the following links.

When	September 23rd
Where	Microsoft Offices
What time	2pm - 5pm
Address	Oficentro Plazaa Roble Edificio El Patio 2do Piso Escazú, San José
RSVP	Here

and

When	September 24rd
Where	Artisoft Free Zone
What time	6pm - 9pm
Address	Torre La Sabana, Piso 11 300 metros Oeste del Edificio del ICE, Sabana Norte
RSVP	Here

See you guys there and keep on rocking!