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BUILD 2012 - Day 1

Yaniv Rodenski — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 06:30:00 GMT

This year's BUILD opening gave me a great opportunity to put aside the need to deal with our travel arrangements affected by hurricane Sandy. Steve Ballmer gave what is in my mind his best keynote ever. I am not a client guy and the new Windows 8 user experience will not affect most of my day-to-day use of command-line but in the time passed from last year's BUILD windows 8 really matured and it feels nice to meet windows at both ends of this journey.

Steve Ballmer (Photography by Bnaya Eshet)

Getting a new Surface tablet and a Nokia Lumia 920 helped keeping me excited throughout the day. Another announcement that got me all excited was the fact that the Microsoft music streaming service is going to be free on all Windows 8 devices.

Other than that the day was really more client side oriented and left me filled with expectations for day two where the cloud sessions really start.

Windows Azure Community Israel - Here We Go...

Yaniv Rodenski — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 22:14:00 GMT

A while ago I posted about my busy June, speaking in two major conferences NDC Oslo (I’m actually posting this from Oslo right now) and QCon New-York. Well June just got even more special for me. On the 25th we are kicking off the Israeli Windows Azure Community that is being managed by Gal Kogman and yours truly. The community is going to meet every month on Monday of the forth week, in ILDC hertzelia.

This community is special for me. I’ve been working for a while now to create a home for Windows Azure developers in Israel (both online in our msdn forum and now physically) and it is nice to see that vision comes alive, with a lot of help from the guys at Microsoft Israel.

For our grand opening we have Noam King over as well as lot’s of cool new things lined up, but we just can’t tell you about them quite yet . So for now just register here for the event and keep following us.

See you there

Yaniv

There will be no Silverlight bullet in mobile development

Yaniv Rodenski — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Ever since Microsoft announced Silverlight is going to be the framework for developing applications on the Windows Phone platform. I was very excited, I thought Microsoft have finally came to there senses and are going to take the mobile world by storm. Soon we will have an Android implementation and RIM will sure hope on the wagon and one of the biggest issues in mobile development, lack of cross platform client is about to become history at least for big chunk of the smartphones market and that’s a step in the right direction. This will also attract a lot of developers to develop Windows Phone applications and everybody win, But since then there was no movement in that direction.

Jason Zander with the Sela experts (Photograph by: Ido Flatow)

This afternoon I was present in Jason Zander’s meeting with the Sela experts and I got to ask a question in I had in mind for a long time: Are Microsoft going to invest in Silverlight on other mobile OSs, and the answer was a polite no. He did say that HTML 5 is going to be the cross platform environment for mobile applications as well. I run it by Alex Golesh and explains the financial side of it: while developing a Silverlight support for other OSs will cost Microsoft many millions, developing HTML 5 support is done individually by every platform.

I still think there is a huge market need for a a runtime like Silverlight, a place that is being filled today by Java and that’s a shame. In the near future we will see some Mono implementations on other mobile OSs, but probably, much like their older sibling they will not be able to keep up with the original.

I hope Microsoft will come around since they can change the developer story for for the mobile world and that would be grate for us. Until then, we will always have HTML 5.

Have a nice one.

Yaniv Rodenski