{"id":153,"date":"2007-07-02T11:20:22","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T03:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2007-07-02T11:20:32","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T03:20:32","slug":"microsoft-remixsea07-final-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft ReMixSEA07 (Final Summary)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cleanup is finally done &#8211; with slightly more grammatical English, a few more pictures links and videos. You can now read them in order:<\/p>\n<p>Part 1 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=146\">Keynote<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Part 2 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=147\">Panel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Part 3 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=148\">Developer track<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Part 4 &#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=149\">Business track<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Part 5 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=150\">Design track<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was this final session too where &#8220;industry leaders&#8221; came together to discuss Web 2.0 (again!) &#8211; but I didn&#8217;t attend it as&nbsp;I was too busy trying to collect the new MS keyboard \/ mouse in Funan (won from PC Show &#8211; yey!).&nbsp;I got so bored after I came back (for the lucky draw), I decided to open up the really really well wrapped Expression Studio box they gave us. Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s inside:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"535\" alt=\"Expression Studio\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/remix2.jpg\" width=\"600\" border=\"0\"> <\/p>\n<p>From top left clock wise: the box, a flip-over that has all the shortcut keys for manipulating the 4 tools, 4 Quick Start Guides and a bunch of CD installers. Now you know why you should always attend MS events?<\/p>\n<p>Well, software is useless until one uses it. Too bad my laptop ran out of space otherwise I would have started working on it right away. Maybe after my Maya tutorial is done&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Some final thoughts (after sleeping through 2 days and going mad at my company family day) about REMIXSEA07 in general:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The audience&nbsp;maybe less eager than&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/events\/mix\/default.mspx\" target=\"_blank\">MIX<\/a> &#8211; or is it yet again a national culture thing? I thought mix is supposed to be a conversation about technology, but if you look clearly, yeah the local MS folks and their US counterparts were deep in discussions, with a few sort of like &#8220;newbie&#8221; questions being raised here and there,&nbsp;but the rest of the my eavesdropping &nbsp;of other people&#8217;s conversation doesn&#8217;t seem to show that people are passionate about it (or other stuff they are doing). I mean, shouldn&#8217;t there be like a gang of Flash loyalist going around comparing Silverlight? If everyone&#8217;s just here to say &#8220;Wow, ok I&#8217;ll install and try it at home&#8221;, then it&#8217;s not MIX, it&#8217;s YAMME (Yet Another Microsoft Marketing Event). <\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m hoping the audience gets the message that Silverlight is in Alpha\/Beta (depends on which version you&#8217;re talking about) &#8211; don&#8217;t expect to go live with it soon. This means incubation, product building, sure, no problem, can recompile later after release and go live together. End consumer, be ready for a bugging run. Systems Integrator, watch out &#8211; there will be no support when things fail. The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/singaporedpe\/about.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">developer and platform evangelism<\/a> team is notorious for doing this: they will tell you how cool things are (I Know!!) with no idea what their other teams doing support can or cannot do about it when things go wrong.<\/li>\n<li>I see a lot of key innovations in Orcas &#8211; and after more reading online, I think I&#8217;ll be willing to put my own startup behind this one. Yeah it&#8217;s costly, like all MS products (when compared to open-source), but talking about rapidly bringing something to market and doing all these customization for small shops, this one has all the bits. From a Singapore&nbsp;industry standpoint, we shouldn&#8217;t be putting so much services dollars to actually building the pieces that&#8217;s going to be the SAME throughout the world. Just like I told students years back when I was teaching: <em>you shouldn&#8217;t ever have to reimplement a linked-list<\/em>. This was when people were like &#8220;huh, why is Java&#8217;s linked-list so slow &#8211; I will implement my own!!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theartshouse.com.sg\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Art House<\/a> is a really nice place to hold this function &#8211; but maybe a smaller crowd would be more comfortable. There&#8217;s something about doing these things in historical places, as SKW was eluding to in the opening &#8211; it&#8217;s about the continuity, the legacy of innovating and bringing new things into our lives. Everyone who went was or is going to be a pioneer in some respect, and when they can draw a link to what was done in the past that gives what they do a whole lot more meaning. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Time to do &#8220;real work&#8221;. Hope you&#8217;ll see my spanking new Made-By-Expression app by the time I post my next blog entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cleanup is finally done &#8211; with slightly more grammatical English, a few more pictures links and videos&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","content-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}