Today is the MIX07 keynote (watch it live right now). Scott Guthrie is currently on-stage spilling the beans about what's been going on here. He just announced that Silverlight (v1.1) includes a cross-platform (Mac/PC at the moment) version of the CLR and the .net framework. I'll be talking about this alot in the coming months. It's incredibly exciting stuff.
The NetFlix guys are on-stage showing off a demo of their new over-the-web movie viewing experience. I hadn't seen this demo before. Very cool.
Scott just did his chess demo where the CLR engine plays chess against the IE javascript engine. Very funny.
Scott just demoed cross-platform debugging (Running a Silverlight program on the Mac and hitting a breakpoint inside VS running on a PC). Fantastic.
Scott's doing his airline demo. I love this one because he starts with a cheesy "Hello World" app, and ends up with a fully-functional airline flight schedule viewer with crazy animations of planes flying around.
Scott just announced open source Ruby for .NET (IronRuby). He's developing a Silverlight app with Ruby on the Mac with standard Mac tools. Good job, John. Now he's showing the dynamic language console, that gives you an interactive REPL console with Intellisense that can use any of the dynamic languages, or even mix the languages together on the fly. All in the browser. Freaking awesome. I think alot of people missed the announcement about the DLR (dynamic language runtime) that anyone can use to build a dynamic language on top of .Net.
Wow, I've seen the MLB demo, but I hadn't seen the version running on the mobile phone!
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