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It's hard to believe that MIX08 is over. I was involved in so many aspects of the event that it seems like I attended in some parallel universe! At least I got to see many of you there. Thanks to everyone who submitted an entry for Show Off . Thomas and I weeded out the less inspiring entries and ended up with the 16 videos we showed on Thursday night. The room wasn't completely packed, but we had strong attendance, and our audience was pumped-up and supportive. It was great to hear applause after each video. We tallied up the results, and here are the top five submissions (as voted by the audience): Crayon Physics Deluxe - like many of the comments on the voting forms, I want this game now! Real Time Physics in Silverlight - a very cool open source physics library for Silverlight hosted on CodePlex Wii Data Visualization and Multipoint Nonsense - using the Wii for some Minority Report fun 40 - My Life in Silverlight 2 - probably the only computer application that's ever caused me to have Read More...
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Well, I had good intentions. Ever since my first post about SEAMonster in October, 2007, I've wanted to refactor and clean-up the code for release. In the meantime, I've received many, many e-mails asking when that would happen. To everyone who has patiently waited, today's the day. SEAMonster is now hosted on CodePlex . Before you get too excited, know that I haven't had the time to do any clean-up (at all). I finally realized that I just had to let it loose. This is one of those "20 lines of code" test projects that evolved into an unarchitected proof-of-concept with a load of TODOs. There's no doubt that it could use a lot of help from the community. If you'd like to contribute to the project, please drop me a line . Here's a sample image that ships with Windows Vista that I've resized using both SEAMonster and Photoshop. Notice the "squashed" and distorted look of the bicubic resize as compared to the seam carved version. The seam carved version looks like it could be a real photo, Read More...
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A few days ago, I received the following e-mail: Help me out here. I've been reading your blog off and on for years and I can't figure out what it is you do. Your obviously involved with the PDC and MIX conferences, you send a lifesize cardboard cutout of yourself as your resume, you've made a plug-in for Illustrator and a converter for Flash files (which rock BTW), you take amazing photos, you implement seam carving in your "spare time", you write Tivo gadgets, you taught me about continuous integration with your orb article, your article on code review was mandatory reading in one of my classes, you read quite an collection of books, you seem to be pretty good at design considering you claim to be a geek, you build small arcade machines, you counted to a freakin' million, you worked with Tom Skerrit, you write music, you build medical software, and who knows what else. Don't worry, I'm not stalking you. :) I just read through your old posts cuz I couldn't remember all of this! Just what Read More...
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I tend to read a lot of books , and most of them have a technical focus. Every once and awhile, I run across a gem that is timely, coherent, unique, and well written. Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications by Toby Segaran is one of those books. If you've ever wanted to understand how search engines perform their magic, how a site like Amazon.com knows what products to recommend, how spam detection works, and how dating sites predict good matches (among others), this book is for you. Check out Toby's Web 2.0 Berlin slides for a quick overview. Many of the algorithms and methods that Toby describes are very complex, but he doesn't assume that you have any special knowledge of data analysis, machine learning, or statistics. Toby does a fantastic job explaining mathematical concepts in a remarkably straightforward and simple fashion. If you have a programmers understanding of math, you should do just fine. The book is full of real-world examples that pull live Read More...
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It's been awhile since my last post! The group I'm in, Developer and Platform Evangelism (otherwise known as DPE), is responsible for both MIX and PDC. If you hadn't heard, our sold out MIX07 event took place earlier this week in Las Vegas, and the weeks leading up to it were hectic for many of us. The event itself was a blast, and Silverlight stole the show. If you weren't able to attend in person, or if you couldn't make all of the sessions, there's good news. All of the keynotes, breakout sessions, and panels were recorded, and many of them (I just counted around 80) are already available for viewing and downloading online . Traffic to the site has been very heavy, so please be patient if it takes a few moments to load. To "up our game" this year, we decided to see if we could publish a rough version of each session within 24 hours. By rough , I mean a version that contains whatever was displayed on the screen in each breakout room with audio from the presenter. On average, we were able Read More...
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Do you consider yourself a CSS master? If so, how would you like to use your skills to redesign the MIX home page ? We recently announced the REMIX contest , and if you submit one of the top three designs, you'll receive paid registration to the MIX07 conference, three nights at The Venetian hotel, and $1,000 USD. Ka-ching! That's over $3,000 USD of Total Vegas Value. Oh...did I mention the Tourneau store near The Venetian? Just saying...you can get a nice watch for $1,000. And if you need help picking one out...I mean...I do like watches. I'd be happy to help. :-) Here are only a few of the 100+ REMIX entries from last year's MIX06 event: If you're looking for more inspiration, here are some places to check out: The original css Zen Garden , an amazing demonstration of the power of CSS. The Mixtify site which contains a lot of great graphics and bling to get you started. Smashing Magazine's 50 Beautiful CSS-Based Web-Designs in 2006 , 30 Dark Designs You Should’ve Seen , and 45 Fresh, Read More...
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You're probably familiar with our big Tech·Ed and PDC events, but do you know about MIX ? We had our first MIX conference in 2006, and it was a big success. Like any good movie (and some bad ones, I suppose), the sequel was being planned- and budgeted-for almost before the credits rolled on the first one. MIX07 is being held at The Venetian in Las Vegas from April 30th - May 2, 2007. I know that many of you have to be picky about which conference you attend each year, so let me break it down in simple terms that are sure to get me in trouble from someone around here: Tech·Ed is the conference to attend to get training on shipping products and be productive as soon as you get home. PDC is where you learn about future technologies and come back with early bits that won't ship for awhile. MIX is the event to attend if you build consumer-facing web sites and applications. Of course, my summaries don't do the conferences full justice, and before you drop some coin, you should visit the sites Read More...
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