The next wave of websites and applications will be incredible
Although I am unable to attend MIX '07, I find it very inspiring to hear the announcements that Microsoft is making at the event. It sounds as though it may even be enough to make Sam Gentile back into a web programmer.
The tools that Microsoft is delivering at an ever amazing pace is really making it even more difficult to deliver the traditional websites and applications that a lot of developers have been producing in the past.
Moving forward the pressure is really on us, as software and website architects, engineers and developers to really deliver website and applications that will finally be able to meet high expectations on end user usability. Our projects will finally be able to and must deliver the fully immersible applications that our end users will buy and fall in love with using.
Here's the first few applications coming out:
Vertigo's Family.Show
Virtuoza's Fusion Desk
The New York Times' TimesReader
Regarding the New York Times' TimesReader, I have heard that Seattle Times and other large newspapers will very likely partner with Microsoft and release their own applications. So, why not just have ONE NewsReader that can communicate with any and all newspapers. Then they can focus on what they do best, content, and Microsoft or whom ever, can focus on the generic application. If you have not seen the Topic Browser view of the search feature, it is the most exciting feature. The ability to display relational data in this format, much like Vertigo's Family.Show, can definitely revolutionize the User Interface offerings of many traditional applications.
If you know of any other websites or applications taking advantage of Silverlight (WPF/E) and WPF, let me know.
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About dwalker
David Walker has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant with companies such as: Texaco, Bank of Oklahoma, Winner Communications (ESPN.com) and IBM Global Services. At the age of 14, he began his application development ambitions with a Commodore 64, BASIC, and a 300 baud modem. Even at that early age, he primarily focused on two specific application types: multi-user communities and database applications.
His hunger to learn as much as possible about development lead him through courses such as DBase III, DBase IV, Pascal, C, C++, Java, and several in UNIX. He started his development career first doing heavy processing with Access and VBA, then moved on to VB 3, Oracle, and Delphi. Visual Basic was one environment that remained constant for many years, including his very first .NET projects performed in Visual Basic.NET.
After working several years on very high end internal Corporate applications, the consultant company he was working for, sought out his ideas for actual software products that could be packaged and sold. He had already developed several prototypes of a dynamic portal application, before portals even became popular, so this became the logic decision and he became the Director of Product Development. Under his direction, a team of developers and graphic artists, took a skinning approach before that become popular, and completed the core portal application, and continued on to developer 15+ add-on modules, including things such as: Help Desk Ticket Systems, Change Control, Records Management, Human Resources, and many more applications. Eventually, it spun off into it's own separate company as KnowledgeGEAR, a complete intranet in the box solution.
Having worked as a consultant, he has had a experience with a very wide range of applications and architectures, at one time, even converting several Fox Pro and GW-Basic applications to VB 6 and ASP. His early training of Unix and the C language and years of experience with JavaScript, lead him very quickly to C#, where he has remained focused ever since.
He is the current President of the
Tulsa Developers .NET user group.. He has been an MCP since 2003 and MCAD and MCSD since 2005. He is currently pursuing his MCDBA and then on to MCSE.