O’Reilly: Inside RIA

As they headed home from Las Vegas last Friday, the roughly 2000 designers and developers -- not to mention Microsoft employees -- returning from the three-day MIX09 web conference in Las Vegas had plenty to consider. For O'Reilly author and Silverlight MVP John Papa, the big news was the support for "out of browser" and line of business applications announced for Silverlight 3. For Vertigo developer Jon Galloway, the SketchFlow designer planned for Expression Blend 3 and demoed for the first time at MIX, promises to revolutionize the way designers prototype their user interactions. As for Scott Guthrie, VP of the Microsoft's Developer Division, reflecting on his keynote at an after hours reception, he was just pleased that MIX09 had come together without the "fire drill" of years past.

I've been looking for additional detail on Deep Zoom, a new Silverlight feature and the subject of one of the coolest demos shown in the MIX08 keynote: Hard Rock Memorabilia 2.0, a photo montage of rock and roll items found at Hard Rock restaurants, hotels and casinos around the world. The Memorabilia page presents 258 items -- instruments, letters, wardrobe pieces, public records and more -- which you can then zoom in on...

John Osborn, Senior Editor, .NET and Windows for O'Reilly Media blogs talking points from Microsoft MIX08. What's the case for Mono, Novell's open source implementation of the .NET Framework? I was surprised by the answers I heard from Joseph Hill, Mono product manager at Novell, in the course of a conversation at the TAO Beach in Las Vegas on Wednesday evening.

I'm sitting in on a panel discussion at MIX08 on the Challenges and Opportunities in Mashing up the Web. Panelists include Sam Ramji of Microsoft, Andy Gutmans of Zend Corporation, Shawn Burke, Director, .NET Platform and a developer of the AJAX Control Toolkit, Mike Schroepfer of Mozilla, and Aaron Fulkerson of MindTouch.

John Osborn, Senior Editor, .NET and Windows for O'Reilly Media blogs talking points from Microsoft MIX 08. In this edition: You've Got Mail, Courtesy of Silverlight, Olympic Apps, A Way Cool Hard Rock Demo, and SharePoint Extensions. Plus Cirque deSoleil & Silverlight.

John Osborn, Senior Editor, .NET and Windows for O'Reilly Media blogs talking points from Microsoft MIX08. Among the topics emerging from the event: a new Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, a new Silverlight 2 Beta 1 and the news that Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend will support Silverlight 2 development. John will follow up his notes with an analysis of the keynote.