I have to admit I am one of those who extremely enjoy looking at “future technology vision” videos, and I envy those who are creating these concepts as their day job and even getting paid to do it. Microsoft’s Healthcare vision is no exception. Tamir Khason looked at this video with a less wow-eye, and...
So, like millions of my partners in geekness, I have read the comic , and downloaded Google Chrome for a spin. Let me tell you first, that I don't envy web developers recently. Just after the release of Firefox 3, soon the test matrix will have two new browsers: IE8 and Google Chrome. So, I am glad...
At Arstechnica, there is an article detailing some amazing numbers on how Silverlight spreads thanks to the NBCOlympics.com site. It seems there are about 8 million plugin installs per day. To put things in perspective, there are 10 million Flash installs daily. 8 million is an amazing number, here is...
We are very proud, that not just one, but two of our WPF applications are featured in Microsoft's official WPF Showcase presentation. One of them is the Innovation award winner "Művész", (also featured as the first ever case study in The Architecture Journal) the other is our Organization...
I love outside-the-box thinking. Heck, even my company 's logo is based on a classic out-of-the-box puzzle. I encourage out-of-the-box thinking with myself and my employees. When we're stuck with a problem or we feel as if we reached a dead-end, we always ask: what is the box I am in that I cannot...
Matthew rarely speaks, but when he does, we should listen. His latest article, " Why Free Software has poor usability, and how to improve it " is a real gem. Most of the things he talks about is not only applicable to free software, but to any software driven by technical people. I tend to...
Note: This post contains bits and pieces from my class at the Hungarian Architecture Academy on User Experience and various other speeches. Last year, I had the privilege of having lunch with Tim O'Brien, director of Platform Strategy Group at Microsoft. It has been a very interesting and defining...
I often find myself in the situation where I have to explain in 2 sentences what WPF and Silverlight is. Now, this is a very tricky question, especially if the person asking about these fine technologies is not a technical mind. Yeah, the official definition is that they are Microsoft's next generation...