Schematic Tech Summit 08 at Costa Rica

One more video from Schematic. This one is about the Schematic Tech Summit 08 at Costa Rica.

Schematic Costa Rica Office Inauguration

Check out this video from the Schematic Costa Rica Office official inauguration were I gave a speech for the President of Costa Rica, Costa Rica Government executives and Schematic folks.

Schematic Costa Rica Office Reel

Check out the Schematic Costa Rica Office Reel !!!!

Tech Camp Costa Rica

Today is the Tech Camp Costa Rica, which will be taking place at the "Universidad Latina". The event will be mainly focused on Web Development and Design with the latests y tools and frameworks.

There are a few colleagues of mine that will be presenting. Among them, Marvin Varela, Carlos Zumbado and Karolina Hidalgo will be presenting today. I know that Ricardo Jimenez from Microsoft Costa Rica will be also taling about Silverlight and the Expression Suit.

It seems that the event will be full and fun, and it's great to see people going beyond what the local market is doing and pushing professionals and students to learn new technologies and new techniques for next generation web applications.

Enjoy !!
-arbbot

Silverlight Physics Library

I was recently visiting Corey Schuman's blog since he has been focusing on Silverlight + Blend development for a while now. Among his posts I found his Blend section which contains information about behaviors and how to include a recommended Physics Library for Silverlight that allows you to create Physics behaviors by using mostly Blend.

I actually went ahead and watched the "Basics" video and I got so excited about how easy it seemed to play with it that I downloaded and installed the Physics Helper library and started to play with it right away. I can't tell how fun and easy is to start playing with it and actually create something. I'm sure that in order to build useful and more complex stuff you will need to dig deeper and get into the C# code, but I believe the library helps a lot and gives to many tools to start with.

In the CodePlex site for the Physics Helper library you will find information, installation instructions and a few videos that will help you to start playing and building things right away.

Thanks to Corey for the information and I hope you jump right away into Silverlight Physics behaviors after reading this.

Cheers!
-arbbot

Schematic Touch Blog

Interested in Touch technologies? Wondering who is working with Touch technologies and where you can find good information about it and what's is the market coming up with for Multi-User/Multi-Touch hardware and applications? Maybe is time you go ahead and check out the Schematic Touch Blog !!! Check it out, and enjoy yourself over there !!!

Enjoy Multi-Touch !!!
-arbbot

SanDisk Sansa TakeTV + Fanfare Service Memorial

Lately I was going through many of the projects I have worked in the last couple of years. I already did a few posts about some of them (and of course, only the ones that went public and that I can talk about). I mentioned the massive Multi-Touch/Multi-User Schematic Touch Wall presented at the 2009 Cannes Advertisement Festival, and also the PlaySafe ActiveX control prototype that I developed for Sesame Street.

Now I wanted to mention a really cool project I worked on as the Platform Lead and .NET architect that unfortunately was shut down after a few months of being online. That's the TakeTv + Fanfare Content Service SanDisk multi-platform project.

The SanDisk Sansa TakeTV was a USB device that allowed users to download content to their PC, transfer the content to the USB device and then plug it into a dock that was connected to the TV. The device was made by SanDisk, and I worked on the implementation of the Fanfare Content Service, that was a Flex desktop application embedded into a .NET Windows application that connected to a .NET backend service and a content delivery network to retrieve and serve TV content to users.

It was a very cool and complex project, implementing a robust and secure .NET CMS (built in ASP.NET 3.5), a .NET Web Service layer (WCF) to serve the embedded Flex Application and several .NET back-end services that controlled, ingested and published the content online.

The project itself was interesting and innovating, although it wasn't as successful as expected and later it was shut down, it was a very cool prove of concept of SanDisk idea for making the integration between TV and the Web a little more seamless.

You can also check out a short description of the project in the Schematic web site.

Cheers!
-arbbot