The Women’s Meditation Tradition in Tibet
Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone in 90 seconds!
Everybody can spare 90 seconds, so why not put that time to good use and learn something new?
Take your ideas from concept, to completed apps quickly and easily with Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone. Built in templates for Windows Phone, controls that automatically take on the look and feel of the phone and the ability to test your application on the Windows Phone emulator or directly on a Windows Phone device are all features that help keep you focused, thinking creatively and building compelling apps for your users.
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With the recent release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4/Silverlight 4 (Managed 4), I figured it was time to learn a thing or two about some new native functionality, specifically in the STL (Standard Template Library) that ships with VS 2010.
Who better to dig into some STL internals than the great Stephan T. Lavavej? Stephan spends most of his time maintaining the STL (along with the core producers of the library, who last I heard work from a remote location in Hawaii…). Stephan is no stranger to those of us who spend time in the native programming world (and use C++, specifically, to compose), and you’ve already met Stephan a few times on C9.
As always, this conversation just happened. Stephan and I didn’t draft up some highly structured and scripted plan. Spontaneity is always our goal, and we met that goal here! So, if you are interested in STL internals and C++ in general, then this is for you.
Thank you, Stephan, for another great lesson.
Enjoy!
NAB: Silverlight in 3D
While at NAB this year, Alex Zambelli showed us 3D streaming with Smooth Streaming. NAB this year was all about 3D and we had several announcements of our own for that. It’s only a matter of time until Channel 9 is in 3D. Also announced at NAB this year was IIS Media Services 4.0 support for Smooth Streaming over multicast networks which supports transmuxing for adaptive streaming on iPhones. Apologies for how dark the video is, it was very dark on the floor this year and it looked brighter on the monitor than it does now. 
Dr. Cormac Herley spends most of his time thinking about why and how computer users reject security advice (from both fellow humans and software security warning prompts). Recently, his paper, “So Long, and No Thanks for the Externalities: the Rational Rejection of Security Advice by Users,” received a fair amount of attention from the general media (Boston Globe, Tech Republic, NPR, etc). The paper also prompted our favorite software renegade, Dr. Erik Meijer, to send me an email, simply asking that I “please set up an E2E with Cormac Herley.” I did just that and the following conversation is what happened…
Enjoy.
Ford and Microsoft Hohm Team Up
Recently, Ford and Microsoft made an announcement about teaming up to help people who charge their vehicles, allowing them to do so when it has the least impact on the grid, and hopefully at a time that saves each user money. Hohm is a Microsoft sponsored program that lets people identify where their power is going and compare that to others around them. At the same time, Hohm provides a way to determine what changes can be made to result in lower energy use and a lower energy bill.
Right now, Hohm works using analysis based on the characteristics of your home that you feed it. In the long term, however, the idea is that all of our devices will be part of a smart home system that gives you consumption patterns, diagnostics, and control at distance.
Sketchflow in 90 seconds
You are pressed for time, but you are dying to know what SketchFlow is? The thought of watching an hour of demo video, like presented here, makes you look frantically at your watch?
The solutions is here: Jon Harris presents SketchFlow in just 90 seconds in this video, and does so with a friendly British accent to boot. It does not get any shorter (or better) than that.
Effective collaboration between developers and testers is paramount and can make the difference between shipping quality applications on time, or slipping because bugs are found late.
In this session you will discover the six mechanisms in Visual Studio 2010 that enable more effective collaboration between developers and testers. These mechanisms include tools to create actionable bugs, debug historical events, and automate functional testing.
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Bill Buxton & Microsoft Student Insiders at MIX10
Microsoft Student Insiders, Joe Osborne and Tom Ziegman, were lucky enough to spend some time with the busiest man at MIX10, Bill Buxton. Bill talks about the complexity (and necessity) of integrating the disciplines of technology, business and design. And true to his Canadian heritage, he uses a hockey analogy to explain why all members of the team need to play a part in creating Natural User Interfaces.
Get the latest on the Microsoft Student Insiders by watching the #MicrosoftSI tag on Twitter.