Well, read from people who made it :)
http://on10.net/blogs/benwagg/Silverlight-3-Beta-Whatrsquos-New-for-Media/
But it appears that some things are still missing, most important is authentication support when streaming from protected WMS publishing points.
Also, better integration with IIS authentication, using same security context, simplified - having single sign on, when web browser is authenticated against IIS, that Silverlight can use that context when dealing with WMS.
Well, maybe in Silverlight 4 :(
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
IIS Media Services
They dumped the old name, no more Media Pack.
But that's not really worth of blogging.
But this one IS!
Live Smooth Streaming
Can it be? Is it?
OH MY GOD, THEY DID IT :)
For now, it is not really clear is this true server side PVR or not.
But, this is start, they acknowledged the need, and trying to solve it.
Go go boys, you're on a winning strike with this one.
But that's not really worth of blogging.
But this one IS!
Live Smooth Streaming
Can it be? Is it?
OH MY GOD, THEY DID IT :)
For now, it is not really clear is this true server side PVR or not.
But, this is start, they acknowledged the need, and trying to solve it.
Go go boys, you're on a winning strike with this one.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Google Latitude - Hardware is Dead, Long Live The Software King
Ok, title is stupid.
But there is some truth inside. Hardware is necessary to evolve in front of software, physically it has to.
But in recent years we see the same old software just sitting on steep hardware improvement curve. Multiple CPU cores, APIs offering HUGE power of GPUs for general calculations, hard drives still increasing size exponentially, network bandwidths doubling every now and then.
And what software is doing in mean time? Doubling installation size. Adding meaningless features with huge speed impact, like idiotic menus inside Visual Studio. Each time you enter Debug menu, VS needs to search around your code for break points, analyze them, just to enable / disable features in menu.
Who in the hell cares if there are any break points in my files, when I want to delete them all. If there are any, delete otherwise just shut-up.
Providing that huge stream of pre and return information, about so many things that really nobody cares about, is making bloatware software.
And here is some fresh wind finally, Google Latitude.
Every mobile phone in five years will come with GPS, even today majority of better phones are GPS enabled. And what can you do with it?
See where you are? Great. What else? You can see map. Great. You can navigate somewhere? Great.
All that was possible 10 TEN years ago. What's new? They managed to put it into phone? So what. That phone has more processing power than supercomputers 20 years ago, when I was reading about supercomputers. And I not that old.
This article is not about Latitude, or about great hardware.
Instead it is simple cry for software being developed from people with absolutely no imagination. Most of today new software features are being developed just because they can be developed.
Come on people, stop typing code.
Start Imagining! Start Inventing!
But there is some truth inside. Hardware is necessary to evolve in front of software, physically it has to.
But in recent years we see the same old software just sitting on steep hardware improvement curve. Multiple CPU cores, APIs offering HUGE power of GPUs for general calculations, hard drives still increasing size exponentially, network bandwidths doubling every now and then.
And what software is doing in mean time? Doubling installation size. Adding meaningless features with huge speed impact, like idiotic menus inside Visual Studio. Each time you enter Debug menu, VS needs to search around your code for break points, analyze them, just to enable / disable features in menu.
Who in the hell cares if there are any break points in my files, when I want to delete them all. If there are any, delete otherwise just shut-up.
Providing that huge stream of pre and return information, about so many things that really nobody cares about, is making bloatware software.
And here is some fresh wind finally, Google Latitude.
Every mobile phone in five years will come with GPS, even today majority of better phones are GPS enabled. And what can you do with it?
See where you are? Great. What else? You can see map. Great. You can navigate somewhere? Great.
All that was possible 10 TEN years ago. What's new? They managed to put it into phone? So what. That phone has more processing power than supercomputers 20 years ago, when I was reading about supercomputers. And I not that old.
This article is not about Latitude, or about great hardware.
Instead it is simple cry for software being developed from people with absolutely no imagination. Most of today new software features are being developed just because they can be developed.
Come on people, stop typing code.
Start Imagining! Start Inventing!
Thursday, January 29, 2009
MS Surface is getting out of a fun tech
Into great platform for next gen serious applications.
And what can be more death serious then heart surgery?
See this amazing demo HERE.
And what can be more death serious then heart surgery?
See this amazing demo HERE.
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