Adam Kinney posts tagged with 'windows 7'

Windows FireStarter, free event on Dec 12th

Adam Kinney — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 07:41:00 GMT

On December 12th in the grand Kodiak room of the Microsoft Conference Center, there will commence a free training Windows event of the greatest proportions seen in the area for awhile.

Take a look at the line up:

Mark "Inside Windows" Russinovich will be there to explain Windows oddities.
Glenn"Prism Fingers" Block will be there to discuss MEF and Prism or Composite WPF.
Crispin "Standard User" Cowan will be there discussing the right and wrong way to perform privileged operations.
And much more...

Here's a glance at the official schedule:

*Time*	Session	Presenter
8:30 - 8:45	Kick off	Mithun Dhar
8:45 – 9:30	Keynote/Why Vista!	Chris Henley
9:30 – 10:45	The Case of the Unexplained	Mark Russinovich
10:45 – 11:00	*Break*
11:00 – 12:15	Building Differentiated UI Applications Using Composite WPF	Glenn Block, Bob Brumfield & David Hill
12:15 – 1:00	**Lunch (Provided by Microsoft)**
1:00 – 2:00	Best Practices for Developing for Windows for Windows Standard User	Crispin Cowan
2:00 – 3:00	Windows Security and Bitlocker	Byron Hynes
3:00 – 3:15	*Break*
3:15 – 4:00	(Windows 7 + Windows Server 2008 R2) Teaser Session	Byron Hynes
4:00 – 5:00	Windows for everyone!	TBA

Register on the MSEvents site, tell your friends you are going on Upcoming and then send Mithun Dhar a thanks for organizing the event.

Vectorform wins PhizzPop New York with Study Right

Adam Kinney — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:18:00 GMT

On the heels of my fascination with SurfaceDJ, Vectorform impresses again by winning the PhizzPop with Study Right, an innovative education application concept.

The application visualizes what the classroom of the near future may look like when students have Multi-touch laptops and the teacher has a Surface at the front of the room. The software provides tools for the teacher, students and parents.

Teachers can check attendance, student profiles and create lesson plans. Students use their own custom portal to to read and watch videos at their own pace while preparing for the next interactive test. Parent can login from home and see how well their children are progressing.

Its a great concept and I don’t want to ruin it, especially the ending. You should check out the Study Right video on the PhizzPop site. You can also find more information there like when the Chicago event is happening and how you can accept the challenge online.

Multi-touch enlightenment with IdentityMine and Vectorform

Adam Kinney — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:30:00 GMT

Something about companies with compound names...

Being a UI guy, one of the biggest impressions PDC2008 left on me was Multi-touch. This is the first time I've seen it done in so many forms. There were Surface tables everywhere, in the Lounges, Hand-on Labs, Exhibitor booths, in the hallways and even in rare cases under the escalators.

Along with the abundance of Surface tables came the abundance of applications written specifically for Surface. Multi-touch at this scale presents a new design challenge and opportunity, these aren't your basic data entry apps.

IdentityMine's multitude of Multi-touch apps (3:26)

Surface beats with Vectorform (5:26)

IdentityMine had all of the Multi-touch bases covered. On a whirlwind tour of their booth, provided by Kurt Brockett and Meg McAllister, we get to see their Photo Sharing app running on Surface, their Photo Slideshow app using NextWindow touch screens and their AirHockey game running on an HP Touchsmart running Windows 7.

As an added bonus, Gilbert Corrales and Laurent Bugnion make a quick cameo in this Hollywood worthy action film.

You can see more IdentityMine's Surface work on their Surface technology page.

In this video, Vectorform performs using their SurfaceDJ application. Not only is it Multi-touch, WPF-based, Surface-enabled and spouting out fun electronic beats; it is also a great example of a new collaborative type of application. This app makes me want my own Surface table.

Check out Vectorform's Surface blog to see some of their other Surface applications. Yes, they are the ones behind NBC's Electoral application.

With the video interviews and the working and the talking and the more talking, I missed every session but one. Here a few of the relevant Multi-touch sessions, pulled from Mike Swanson's PDC2008 Sessions page, I plan on catching up on.

PC17 | Developing for Microsoft Surface (Brad Carpenter, Robert Levy)
PowerPoint
PC03 | Windows 7: Developing Multi-touch Applications (Anson Tsao, Reed Townsend)
PowerPoint
KYN04 | Day 3 Morning Keynote (Rick Rashid)

Did you get access to the Surface SDK? Are you building something with it? If you are, I'd love to hear about it.

The Continuum Show - Essential Editions

Adam Kinney — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:55:00 GMT

Episode 1 of the new show is an 18 minute interview with Phil Haack discussing ASP.NET MVC. This can be a lot of fun to watch, especially if you are a fan of ASP.NET MVC or Phil Haack.

But what if you don't already know about the topics at hand? Would you continue to watch the video for 3 minutes and 38 second when the question is finally asked "What is MVC"?

Probably Not.

This is where the concept of the "Essential Edition" comes in. In order to make the video easier to watch by more people, I'll be extracting out the "Essential" bits into a much shorter video.

After extracting out the tastiest most informative morsels from this video, the end result is a crisp 2 minutes and 41 second interview. You can now find out what MVC is, what's new in Preview 4 and how to find out more information in the time it takes to eat lunch at your desk.

I'll be posting The Continuum Show - Essential Editions on a new YouTube channel and on the TCS Facebook page. For a sample, check out MVC Preview 4 - Essential Edition.

Enter The Continuum Show

Adam Kinney — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:06:00 GMT

The Continuum Show has begun!

In this new show on Channel 9, we'll be exploring the world of the Microsoft Client Continuum. The Continuum refers to the array of UI technologies available form Microsoft including WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET, IE8,Windows 7, Surface and more.

We'll be showing new features, patterns and practices from experts and samples of awesome applications. There's a lot of stories that don't always make it out to everyone and I'm excited to be presenting those stories with the new show.

Episode 0 - Hello World and Episode 1 - MVC Preview with Phil Haack have already been published and I have a few more in stock waiting to be published. Some of the episodes already filmed include the NBC Olympics site, Kaxaml and a Facebook application built with ASP.NET and Silverlight.

If you have any suggestions for topics or applications you would like to see covered leave a comment.

To stay tuned to the Continuum Show you can follow along on Twitter, join the room on FriendFeed or become a fan on Facebook.

Now back to the editing room...

Looking for a Windows '7' Evangelist

Adam Kinney — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:24:00 GMT

Tim posted today about the new opening for a Windows '7' evangelist. And he's not looking for just any old Windows '7' evangelist, but the Windows '7' Evangelist (at this point in time).

It's pretty interesting to think about when you read his description about the role:

Windows is one of the most complex and sophisticated pieces of software in existence, and since it's about the most widely-used piece of software on the planet, it's a pretty exciting project to be working on.
I've got a once-in-a-lifetime open position on my team that I'm currently trying to fill - a Technical Evangelist for the next Windows client release. In fact, the Technical Evangelist at this point in time. This is an extremely challenging, high-profile senior role, with tremendous reach and influence across the organization. Not only will you be the first to see what's coming down the pipeline, but you'll actually have an influence in setting the agenda for Windows development. This isn't just any software gig - it's one of those career-defining roles that puts you at the heart of the software revolution. In years to come, you'll be able to look back with pride and say, "I was part of that".

I think that says a lot. I look forward to seeing who ends up getting the job. I don't think there's much left to do here but plop down a giant Windows logo.