Designer Silverlight

They’ve just posted the Show Off winners from MIX 08, and my Wiimote Visualization squeaked in at number 3. Here is the complete list of winners:

1. Crayon Physics Deluxe by Petri Purho
2. Real Time Physics in Silverlight by Bill Reiss, Andy Beaulieu and Jeff Webber
3. Wii Data Visualization and Multipoint Nonsense by Matthias Shapiro (that’s me!)

I’ll post the full video on this blog and on the Veracity blog by Monday. Thank you for everyone who attended and voted… and go check out the other videos! There was alot of cool stuff besides physics and Wiimote hacking in those videos. (I’ll post a link when they post one on the MIX site.)

I wanted to take a moment to apologize to everyone to whom I promised more Wii goodness on my blog. I couldn’t get internet access from my hotel last night (despite a 45 minute conversation with a tech support guy). And, in a somewhat ironic turn of events, the internet access here at MIX08 is pretty miserable.

 As in… I have trouble even pulling my own blog up half the time.

 So I’ve decided to wait until I get back to Salt Lake City before I try to finish all my posts.

Put me on your RSS feed… I’ll be going nuts on the blog over the next week putting up all the WPF/Wiimote stuff, catching up on my normal WPF tutorials and starting to dive into Silverlight.

And, because I know that my wonderful fiance is reading this (as well as picking me up from the airport)… I’ll see you this evening, lovely.

I just signed up for MIX 08, Microsoft’s annual Vegas conference for web developers an designers. They’ve extended the early bird deadline to January 31st, so head over there and sign up now!

As a general rule, I’m more inclined toward the hard client at the moment, but that has been in a large part because:

• I’m getting paid to do WPF stuff.
• I’m not a coding guru which makes alot of the more intense web development stuff somewhat outside my reach.
• Its easier to do fun and cool stuff with WPF than with Silverlight. Or Flash. Or Javascript.
• I’m getting paid to do WPF stuff.

Even so, it should be a fun time. Especially if the MIX promotional material (seen below) is to be believed.

I am under the impression that the women in the rightmost image are the kind of cutting edge web developers I will be schmoozing with at MIX08.

Please, leave me to my ignorance.