robburke.NET » Top Three http://robburke.net Robert Burke's home on the web. Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:15:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Top 3 of Mix08 (for me) http://robburke.net/2008/03/top-3-of-mix08-for-me/ http://robburke.net/2008/03/top-3-of-mix08-for-me/#comments Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:37:37 +0000 Rob Burke http://robburke.net/2008/03/08/top-3-of-mix08-for-me/ 1. The Cirque du Soleil keynote demo, the most engaging articulation of WPF’s “richer, smarter, more productive line-of-business app” message since Avalon Healthcare.

ScottGu interviewed by Cirque du Soleil as part of the WPF keynote demo

2. More Microsoft Research innovation sees the light of day in the product groups and for developers at large. Deep Zoom becomes available to developers through Silverlight and demoed by the Hard Rock Cafe, and Surface makes an eye-catching if early-days appearance in the Mix Sandbox.

Hard Rock Cafe Memorabilia Site

3. The designer message gets taken seriously by attendees, perhaps motivated by the increasing maturity of nascent designer tools like Expression Blend. Although this year’s keynote term “dev-igner” chafes me, unlike in previous years, the MIX08 crowd spoke with their feet, packing dev-design crossover talks like The Human Brain Relationship and Nerd + Art.

Goodbye, Las Vegas

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