ULab 1.0
There are a lot of things that happend in the past which I will be mentioning in upcoming posts. For example my role in ULab 1.0 from February 2008 till June 2008.
Evident Interactive, a company which primarily focuses on existing .NET technologies, was keen to know the latest ins and outs on new Microsoft technologies, such as Silverlight and mapping technologies (Virtual Earth & Google Maps). Although mapping technologies aren’t that new, Silverlight could deliver the extra punch of User Experience the company was looking for in creating small lightweight webapplications.
Evident Interactive made an agreement with the Hogeschool Utrecht to hire students from IT related studies to study and to develop a pilot given these technologies. We the students, Bryan, Bastiaan, Ruben and I took the opportunity to join the team.
left to right: Ruben, Bastiaan, Pieter (coworker@Evident), Bryan and me
While we where studying and developing we had contact with Martin Tirion, who is a Microsoft User Experience Evangelist. He proposed that we’d demo the pilot at MixEssentials 2008, which was concurrent to the DevDays 2008. So we did!
- Short impression of the presentation (video with funky music)
- Full presentation (requires Live passport.. booooo!)
- Screencapture
It was pretty exciting and cool to demo an application in front of 150 people, trying to take their breath away.. ;-) For all the efforts we received a nice bottle of Prosecco (the bottle was empty next day) and a trip to TechEd 2008 in Barcelona! Pretty nice.. but unfortunately I’m going on a trip to Bangalore, India from the 2th till the 22th of November for my study.. Too bad..
