http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/VTL30
Bottom line, I recommend you watching this session on Video when it would be available probably tomorrow.
Why?
- Cool Demos. All demos are visual and interesting, it’s really hard to exite most people with a clustering algorithm, but give them a DeepZoom app and sea how everybody starts to the enjoy the smooth experience.
- Interesting tips on driving innovation on your team.
I also liked UI tips being discuessed some are a bit trivial like never life work on you UI thread, push everything to a background thread, to a more subtle illusions. For example while zooming inside a tiled a pyramid, only the centered tile is downloaded first base. the surrounding tiles will get downloaded only after. The human eye concentrate on the center tile, and until our peripheral vision understands what it is seeing, all the tiles have finished downloading. Also there is an animation for each mouse transition you have feeling that there is a time the layouts is used inside a shock absorber, the time the animation give SeaDragon an extra time to download more stuff. Really cool.
Bill also talks about ways to increase involvements of team members and driving them for innovation. Bill speaks about once a quarter doing an “Out of the Box” week which each team member can work on anything he wants too.
Ariel