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The 48-hour conversation that was ReMix UK 2008 may have come to an end, but you can still soak up the expertise! Check out the session list below; download the PowerPoint presentations 
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| Key: | More developer | More designer | User interaction / business | Beyond work | Everyone |
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Introduction to Silverlight 2 - Part 1 How to get started, where to get everything you need, writing your first program, events in VB & C#, adding Expression Blend and why you might do so, simple data binding, a quick introduction to the program model (zap files), images and media made wicked easy, There's so much more, memorize this url: a guide to resources. ADO.NET Data Services for the Web The new wave of Web applications are built on technologies such as AJAX and Microsoft Silverlight, which enable developers to build better, richer user experiences. These technologies bring a shift in how applications are organized, including a stronger separation of presentation from data. The goal of ADO.NET Data Services is to enable applications to expose data as a REST-based data service that can be consumed by Web clients within a corporate network and across the Internet. The data service is reachable over HTTP; and URIs are used to identify the various pieces of information available through the service. Interactions with the data service happens in terms of HTTP verbs, such as GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE, and the data exchanged in those interactions is represented in simple formats, such as AtomPub and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). Rich Clients from Silverlight to WPF Visual Studio IDE Tips and Tricks Performance improvements begin by speeding up the simple task you do every minute of every hour of every day you use Visual Studio. Just like a coin jar where you place your spare change, you'll see the time you save add up into the days, weeks, and into the months. This talk provides the best of the best, 21 tips that can be used in any language, which stretched across your 3 primary activities in the IDE: coding, customizing, and debugging. Silverlight Controls: Soup to Nuts A complete review of the role of controls in Silverlight, with an emphasis on what's in the toolbox. Creating Style objects. Understanding that all controls are lookless and a brief but full introduction to the parts model and the Visual State Manager and with that, skinning by hand and then with Expression Blend. Building User Controls for easy re-use and a quick guide to multi-page applications. Understanding the ASP.NET Model-View-Controller No Silverlight App is an Island (of Richness) "You have a Silverlight 2 application running on your web page and it's beginning to dawn on you that this is much more like building a client application than it is like building a web page. How does the Silverlight application get data? Can it grab files? Can it call services? Can it download images? Can it talk to the browser?In a nutshell - where can it get stuff and where can it put stuff? Come along to the session and we'll find out." Build a Rich Application with Visual Studio and Expression Bring some of this together and have dev & design input to build a decent looking LOB app. Internet Explorer 8: Pushing the Web Forward What every web developer needs to know about the enhancements to the Internet Explorer 8 web platform, including AJAX, CSS, DOM, scripting and new built-in tools support. Introduction to Silverlight 2 - Part 2 Design for the Wild : Sketching Experiences Get the thoughts of Bill Buxton on design and the design process. One of his personal mantras: 'Ultimately, we are deluding ourselves if we think that the products that we design are the "things" that we sell, rather than the individual, social and cultural experience that they engender, and the value and impact that they have. Design that ignores this is not worthy of the name.' Designing with Microsoft Expression Microsoft Expression now enables designers to target the rich desktop, cross-platform web and mobile. Working with Developers is also much easier than before. This session will show you how with hands-on examples utilising members of the Expression family of products. Digital Advertising - Now and the Future This session focuses on digital creativity and the evolution of advertising opportunities online now and in the future..explaining why advertisers need to re-think the way they communicate and reach out to consumers. Showcasing compelling and innovative rich media experiences including examples of collaboration with clients, agencies and creatives, encompassing demonstrations of new and exciting Microsoft technologies including Silverlight and the next generation of video content online. Beauty and the Geek - the perfect blend of left brain and right brain In this session, you will see a real world team of a visual designer, whose primary world has traditionally been in Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash and HTML/CSS; and a developer, whose whole world has mostly been Visual Studio. These guys work at Conchango, one of Europe’s leading web design agencies, on Silverlight & WPF projects, and have learned how the designer/developer story from Microsoft works in real life. In this session you’ll get strategies, tools, tips on workflow and design approach with relevant real project case studies. Also, some useful snippets to get you started with Silverlight and DeepZoom, with Expression Suite and Visual Studio very quickly indeed. How we built the wall Leading UK Creative Agency, AllOfUs, show how they built the remix ¨wall¨ interactive installation from brief through concepts and use of Expression, visual Studio, WPF and Silverlight to deliver the end experience everyone will enjoy at the remix event. Mobile UX Utilising his last 9 years of work in the digital industry, Antony will give a talk inspiring people in the creation of better user experience of small screen devices and discussion of the new breed of user-centred developers. Surface : Predicting the past A new inflection point in human-computer interaction is upon us. Along with other technologies, Microsoft Surface marks a departure from graphical user interface or GUI into the world of Natural User Interface or NUI. This talk provides a lens on how one design team is thinking about designing for a new era in which intuitive interaction is the imperative. Using theoretical models drawn from a mix of history, science, and philosophy—and even video game design—this presentation reveals some principles behind experience design for Surface and beyond. It's not necessary to be understood Brendan Dawes is a reknowned speaker, inspirational creative and more recently an artist with works in the New York MOMA collection. This session is sure to entertain but will also challenge your views on creativity and work as a Designer. Live Services Platform Overview - Take Windows Live and make it yours! Learn how to build dynamic and interactive applications using the full capabilities of the Windows Live platform including APIs that enable streaming media, messaging, storage, presence, authentication, and more. Also learn how to use the Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio to more easily integrate Windows Live services into ASP.NET applications. Virtual Earth – The Next Generation Happy birthday Virtual Earth. Microsoft’s mapping and local search platform just became 3 years old and will be in version 7. After introducing new features the session will provide tips & tricks for developers and discuss integration with the new SQL Server 2008. You will see a lot of code, learn about the does and don’t but also see a lot of the fancy stuff. SQL Server Data Services - Working the cloud! Come and learn about our new cloud-based storage service and how it addresses a number of application scenarios. This session introduces the new Microsoft SQL Server Data Services product and explores the service by example by creating and working with a data service. Instant Messaging - Your route to millions Reach out to hundreds of millions of Windows Live users by integrating Messenger in your Web site! Learn how your Web site visitors can engage with Windows Live Messenger users. The Windows Live Messenger IM Control lets you add Messenger IM to your site without any coding. The Windows Live Messenger Library is a JavaScript browser client library that enables your users talk to their Messenger friends directly from your Web site. With the Messenger Library, you are in full control of the IM and presence UI. You can code with the Messenger Library in JavaScript or C# (using Script#), and we also show how you can drive Silverlight UI with the Messenger Library. Data portability - Its Mine, Mine, Mine! No data should be an island. Users must be able to securely share THEIR data with third-party Web sites - users should demand this. In this session, we’ll drill into the Windows Live Data system which was unveiled at MIX 07. Since MIX 07, Microsoft has made lots of enhancements as well as provided more data sources to Create/Read/Update/Delete on: Photos, Contacts, and others. We’ll look at why delegation is a critical piece of the puzzle for increasing end user’s security and control. XNA Game Studio 3.0: What can it do and how to get started "This session will provide a spectacular demonstration of what you can do with the XNA Game Studio 3.0 as well as show you how to get started in XNA games development. The latest release of XNA gives you a chance to use skills you already know as it requires either Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition and higher (C# language support must be installed), or Visual C# 2008 Express Edition. With the recent announcement of XNA community games, this session could also be the start of a nice little earner for you! Robots and Beyond – See What You Can Do Today This session will introduce Microsoft's robotics technology which is delivered using Internet web service technologies and XNA Game Studio technology coupled with key additional technologies - making writing robot applications a lot easier than it sounds! Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (MRDS) provides technology that enables high levels of parallel processing enabling the exploitation of multi-core, multi-processor computers without the complexity of traditional multi-threaded application programming. Coupled with its REST’ful architecture and use of services this technology is just as valid to distributed computing solutions in large data centres as it is to programming your robotic man servant. Following an introduction to MRDS, involving two wheeled robots through to humanoids, you’ll see how to use the Visual Simulation Environment to build your own simulated world. Internationalizing WPF And Silverlight Applications Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications have as many similarities as differences from Windows Forms applications. The same is true for WPF’s localization model. This session illustrates how to localize and globalize WPF and Silverlight applications and pays particular attention to those issues that are unique to XAML, WPF and Silverlight. Digital Media at Work and Play Seb share's his experience at Plug-in Media putting the fun back into digital media, whether through Flash games, projects that involve the wider digital community, or public art installations (see Pyrotechnics for the People, www.pluginmedia.net/pyros). Accessibility in a Web2.0 World Robin will briefly discuss the new British Standard BS8878 to be published early next year and then go on to illustrate issues of accessibility good and bad practice using real life examples and a range of access technologies. Being blind Robin is ideally placed to appreciate first hand some of the challenges the web community faces in a Web2.0 world. Embrace Open Source on CodePlex CodePlex is the Microsoft open source project hosting site. We launched CodePlex in May 2006 and now host thousands of open source projects. CodePlex users can start open source projects with support for source control, bug tracking, wiki pages, downloads, forums, and project statistics. Additionally, CodePlex supports a wide array of source control clients. This talk presents the latest CodePlex features and the projects we host, including those on the rise. If you're a software developer interested in collaborative development in today's online world or just looking around for that particular open source project to download, come check out the latest from CodePlex. Becoming human; smiling like you mean it, and learning to say hello The Internet is changing the way smart companies sell to their customers. The traditional tones of corporate ad-speak sound lofty and unapproachable online – especially when the rest of the residents are talking with human hearts and voices. Denise will explore ways to help your web 2.0 startup connect with the people that matter – the ones who are going to use it. Designer Panel
Hosted by Tricky this is an open-ended designer panel with contributions and suggestions welcomed from the panel. A fantastic opportunity to engage and get the insights from some of our speakers, including Brendan Dawes, Bill Buxton and others. The story behind the ugliest website on the internet We will give a talk about the award-winning online multiplayer game Project Rockstar, designed and built from scratch using ASP and Microsoft SQL Server. The site has been running successfully for 5 1/2 years, and still boasts an active, friendly community, as well as engaging gameplay, which has resulted in some incredibly long-term players. We will discuss how the site has grown organically over the years, with features constantly being added or tweaked, and the benefits and pitfalls this approach brings. Running any online community can be quite a baptism by fire, and we will offer some anecdotes as well as advice as to how to best manage the huge variety of people that populate such a virtual world and encourage creativity and banter, while avoiding common issues such as alienation, bullying, and cheating. Computing power, screens, and networks: impact on authored content How will the plethora of screens, devices, networks, and raw computing power change the way we think about and consume professionally authored content? In this talk Tim will take two bites at this question by presenting two recent Microsoft Research projects from their Cambridge lab. The first, with Sky, looked at video sharing on mobile devices while the second explores the abstract visualization of children’s book series. 20/20 Talks Come see the speakers out of their comfort zone, in a fast paced speakathon. Each speaker has 20 slides and only 20 seconds per slide, no more, no less; so that's just under 7 minutes of speaker brain-dump before they are yanked off stage and replaced by another. Line 'em up, let 'em speak, push 'em off; repeat. It'll be fast, furious and highly entertaining. Photosynth: Art, Science, and More
Come find out about Photosynth – an entirely new visual medium and an exciting tool for photographers, designers, and developers. Just weeks ago, Microsoft Live Labs released Photosynth fully to the world as a free service that everyone can use and enjoy. This fast-paced session will explore the technology, how it works, and ways that it can be leveraged in new Internet solutions. Engaging for both experienced synthers and those entirely new to the technology, we’ll demonstrate a number of innovative uses of Photosynth being used today. John Penrose, Technical Director from digital agency Graphico, will demonstrate how Photosynth was used to deliver a novel experience for a well-known client. In addition to this session, we’ll also be conducting a hands-on “Master Class” later in the day to get out and start creating great synths right away. |
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