Comments on: Post Microsoft MIX 2008 Thoughts http://jessewarden.com/2008/03/post-microsoft-mix-2008-thoughts.html A blog on software development, technology, games & movies. Mon, 12 May 2008 13:58:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: endquote » Flex vs Silverlight: Development Tools http://jessewarden.com/2008/03/post-microsoft-mix-2008-thoughts.html#comment-68922 endquote » Flex vs Silverlight: Development Tools Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:08:42 +0000 http://jessewarden.com/2008/03/post-microsoft-mix-2008-thoughts.html#comment-68922 [...] reading Jesse Warden's MIX recap, it became pretty clear that there's not a lot of real knowledge in the Flash community about how [...] […] reading Jesse Warden’s MIX recap, it became pretty clear that there’s not a lot of real knowledge in the Flash community about how […]

]]> By: Joey http://jessewarden.com/2008/03/post-microsoft-mix-2008-thoughts.html#comment-68674 Joey Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:29:18 +0000 http://jessewarden.com/2008/03/post-microsoft-mix-2008-thoughts.html#comment-68674 I dont know MS how to optimize their SL binary code in 2.0 after they put a lot of .Net controls in. Actually, I will not expect a browser plug-in which is larger than a browser. I dont know MS how to optimize their SL binary code in 2.0 after they put a lot of .Net controls in.

Actually, I will not expect a browser plug-in which is larger than a browser.

]]> By: erikbianchi http://jessewarden.com/2008/03/post-microsoft-mix-2008-thoughts.html#comment-67846 erikbianchi Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:43:16 +0000 http://jessewarden.com/2008/03/post-microsoft-mix-2008-thoughts.html#comment-67846 Jesse, To your point about the potential with Blend / Silverlight in the agency world, there is a small problem. Almost all of the agencies I've worked for (Blitz, Juxt, YR, saatchi & saatchi, wunderman, proxicom, DNA etc) are almost 90% mac based. When I was the Technology Evangelist with Xamlon (preached .net to flash devs and flash to .net devs) most .net devs had the same reaction they had to the silver light presentation. It wasn't so much about what xamlon did, but what xamlon enabled .net folks to do. I wish MS would have just exported to Flash instead of having yet another plugin and dealing with issues Flash Player resolved years ago. But i understand why MS would not want to put them selves at the mercy of a third party player. Regardless, I'm still not installing the plugin. I'm personally not given any compelling reason to. -erik Jesse,

To your point about the potential with Blend / Silverlight in the agency world, there is a small problem.

Almost all of the agencies I’ve worked for (Blitz, Juxt, YR, saatchi & saatchi, wunderman, proxicom, DNA etc) are almost 90% mac based.

When I was the Technology Evangelist with Xamlon (preached .net to flash devs and flash to .net devs) most .net devs had the same reaction they had to the silver light presentation. It wasn’t so much about what xamlon did, but what xamlon enabled .net folks to do.

I wish MS would have just exported to Flash instead of having yet another plugin and dealing with issues Flash Player resolved years ago. But i understand why MS would not want to put them selves at the mercy of a third party player.

Regardless, I’m still not installing the plugin. I’m personally not given any compelling reason to.

-erik

]]> By: erikbianchi http://jessewarden.com/2008/03/post-microsoft-mix-2008-thoughts.html#comment-67842 erikbianchi Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:27:50 +0000 http://jessewarden.com/2008/03/post-microsoft-mix-2008-thoughts.html#comment-67842 Phillip, hey dude long time! Robin Debreuil and I use to work for a company called Xamlon that was a .NET to Flash converter. It seemed like an amazingly brilliant product but for whatever reason it was dropped in favor of an AJAX IDE that i never agreed with. Its unfortunate because i felt there was more market potential for Flash and .NET peps to consider it but the decision was made during the peek of AJAX hype. Phillip, hey dude long time!

Robin Debreuil and I use to work for a company called Xamlon that was a .NET to Flash converter. It seemed like an amazingly brilliant product but for whatever reason it was dropped in favor of an AJAX IDE that i never agreed with.

Its unfortunate because i felt there was more market potential for Flash and .NET peps to consider it but the decision was made during the peek of AJAX hype.

]]> By: Stefan Richter http://jessewarden.com/2008/03/post-microsoft-mix-2008-thoughts.html#comment-67635 Stefan Richter Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:30:14 +0000 http://jessewarden.com/2008/03/post-microsoft-mix-2008-thoughts.html#comment-67635 The pace at which Microsoft is stuffing money down people's pockets to adopt Silverlight is equally massive in proportion. I wonder when we'll see a cool Silverlight app that didn't require handing out bribes. The pace at which Microsoft is stuffing money down people’s pockets to adopt Silverlight is equally massive in proportion. I wonder when we’ll see a cool Silverlight app that didn’t require handing out bribes.

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