I had a great time in my Mix session today... there was great buzz in the room. Silverlight download ASP.NET Futures download Live demo site Here are a few highlights... I started off talking about the importance of having your site "Look Great and Feel Great". In the demo for this section, I showed off I Expression Media Encoder . What is really cool is that Expression also outputs the brand new asp:Media control . This is so cool because it handles all the issues of using Silverlight in the different browsers with NO client side javascript and fully use the power of the server (databinding, etc). Check out the new ASP.NET Futures release to get these bits. The next principle I talked about was "Uninterrupted Flow". The goal here is to make...(read more)

Former Lotus employee Judi Lazerus has started a web site called the Lotus Museum that you might find entertaining. ? I have dozens of items I should donate, I'll have to find the time! ;-)



I found the navigation a little awkward. ? If you click on one of the main headings, like "Clothing" you end up at a blank page. ?Instead, you need to choose a specific item from the drop down list. ? I imagine that will get hard to maintain if the list of items gets long. ?I'd rather see a "gallery" of image thumbnails in each section, and then click on them for larger photos. ?But heck, Judi is doing this in her spare time so who am I to complain!

I had a chance to talk to the great folks over at .NET Rocks about a couple of the big Silverlight announcements we did here at the show. Check it out and let me know what you think! Show #233: Brad Abrams Announces Silverlight The whole think is great, but the interview with me starts at about 12:20 Read More......(read more)