MIX10 – Second Day Wrap up

MIX10 – Second Day Wrap up

This is the wrapping up
of the second day I had in
the MIX10 conference.

In the keynotes Dean Hachamovitch talked about
IE9 and how it will support HTML5 standard. There will be a lot
of improvements in IE9 which include: performance, standards
support, GPU powered HTML5, an IE9 platform and the punch line
hardware accelerated HTML5 video. After Dean Scott Guthrie
talked about the Microsoft web platform which include a lot
of enhancements and there were demos of VS2010 by Scott
Hanselman. Then the main part for me started. Douglas Purdy
talked about the OData protocol which will give a uniform 
protocol for services powering experience. The protocol is being
used by SharePoint 2010 which exposes OData services. Also, there
is Excel support plug-in for OData and more. Much to expect in this
area. For more details I encourage you to go to http://odata.org.
Then Bill Buxton talked about our real role has developers and application
creators which isn’t the technology which is our tool but the experience
that we deliver to our users.

The first session I went for was Pablo Castro’s OData: There is a Feed
For that. Pablo explained what is OData which is

• Uniform way of representing structure data.
• Uniform URL conventions.
• Uniform operations.
• Based on the AtomPub (or Json)

Then he showed how SharePoint 2010 exposes lists as OData.
Also he showed that we can use OData in reporting services and many
more examples.

The next session which I attended was Nikhil Kothari’s Developing
with WCF RIA Services Quickly and Effectively. Nikhil showed an end
to end application that uses WCF RIA Services under the hood.
I enjoyed that session since it was a long demo that showed how to
do stuff with WCF RIA Services which is an area that I want to explore
further.

I then went to Mike Flasko’s session – Implementing OData: How to
Create a Feed for That. Mike is a great presenter and since I like
WCF Data Services I enjoyed this session a lot. There were a few things
that I learned such as $select operation which perform data projections.
This was the second OData session I saw this day and it completed the
first session by Pablo so if you are interested in OData go and see both
of the sessions.

The last session was How jQuery Makes Hard Things Simple by jQuery’s
creator John Resig. It was a Tips and Tricks like session.

Wrapping the day, the second day had lots of interesting sessions
and I need to see some of the sessions that I missed in the future.
Stay tuned for more updates.