Martin Heller
Contributing Writer

ReMIX 07

analysis
Oct 8, 20071 min

I spent most of the day Monday at ReMIX07 in Cambridge, MA. I got there a little late, just in time for Miguel de Icaza's Linux/Moonlight demos near the end of Brad Abrams' keynote. Fortunately, Brad has already blogged a summary of his whole talk: ReMix Boston Keynote thoughts. I can verify firsthand that he got a good reception. I heard a good talk by Rocky Lhotka (a developer) and Tony Handley (a designer), b

I spent most of the day Monday at ReMIX07 in Cambridge, MA. I got there a little late, just in time for Miguel de Icaza‘s Linux/Moonlight demos near the end of Brad Abrams’ keynote. Fortunately, Brad has already blogged a summary of his whole talk: ReMix Boston Keynote thoughts. I can verify firsthand that he got a good reception.

I heard a good talk by Rocky Lhotka (a developer) and Tony Handley (a designer), both of Magenic, about how they collaborated on a WPF project. It was originally supposed to be a Silverlight project, but Silverlight 1.0 doesn’t have a Text Box control, and the application requires a lot of text input.

After lunch, I had a good discussion with Ed Blankenship and Grant Hinkson of Infragistics about their collaboration on a WPF reference project, Tangerine. I also had some very interesting discussions during and after lunch with several designers about how they felt about what Microsoft had been showing them.

I want to digest all this before I draw any conclusions. More soon.

Martin Heller

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2010. From 2010 to August of 2012, Martin was vice president of technology and education at Alpha Software. From March 2013 to January 2014, he was chairman of Tubifi, maker of a cloud-based video editor, having previously served as CEO.

Martin is the author or co-author of nearly a dozen PC software packages and half a dozen Web applications. He is also the author of several books on Windows programming. As a consultant, Martin has worked with companies of all sizes to design, develop, improve, and/or debug Windows, web, and database applications, and has performed strategic business consulting for high-tech corporations ranging from tiny to Fortune 100 and from local to multinational.

Martin’s specialties include programming languages C++, Python, C#, JavaScript, and SQL, and databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase. He writes about software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning, contributing technology analyses, explainers, how-to articles, and hands-on reviews of software development tools, data platforms, AI models, machine learning libraries, and much more.

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