Saturday, October 15, 2011

The Tablet Show

The Tablet Show

a "Spin-off" podcast of excellent .NET Rocks.

"Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell bring you the best minds in software development for tablets, covering WinRT/Metro, iOS, and Android development"

Calling the show "tablet" is admitting reality that there is more to (Windows++) programming than .NET ...

Near the end of the first show there was a question how to start Metro development without a tablet? The answer was not "run VM"; it was "go buy the tablet" :)
That is Samsung Series 7 Slate, that was received by all 5000 attendees of Build with Windows 8 CTP installed.

iPad sales are safe for now, since this Windows 8 device is more than $1100, more than twice the price of iPad...

WinRT: A bad picture is worth a thousand long discussions

A bad picture is worth a thousand long discussions. « Doug Seven

Microsoft "marketecture diagram" presented on Build conference


Adjusted, closer to reality

AI-class Artistic notes (LarveCode)

An online (YouTube) "experiment" in education,
ai-class
free online training by some of best experts,
attended by over 130,000 students in more than 190 countries.

And there are some artistic students, taking notes
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