After our good friends from Microsoft Hungary learned about our DIWICON Simsim Advanced Metering Infrastructure solution utilizing .NET 4, Silverlight 4 and Windows Azure asked us to give a testimonial on their latest and greatest technologies presented at the Visual Studio 2010 Launch event.

I briefly introduced the AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) concept: how it helps energy suppliers reduce losses on the last mile on their infrastructure and how the instant consumption feedback to the consumers leads to more conscious behavior. It has been  described in more detail in my father’s presentation at Microsoft Hungary’s Azure Lunch event.
In the background photos can be seen from our deployed systems in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

Then I went on describing how the cloud computing revolution helped us to build a scalable, robust and global service version of Simsim on top of Microsoft Azrue.

Finally I talked about the topic closest to home: dynamic software prototyping, and namely Microsoft Expression Sketch Flow. I told the audience how it made our development workflow more effective and less frustrating by forcing us to making the big changes upfront, before real implementation would have started. And yes, prototyping is fun also!

I would like to thank Microsoft Hungary and my friend Zsolt Báthorfy for this opportunity and for their continuous support!

I am looking forward for our WPC10 keynote appearance with DIWICON Simsim!

I had the chance to demo our Silverlight application at Microsoft’s virtual CEE Remix event (thanks Dénes!).

It’s a web application for companies with many employees on the move.

Using the system you can track details like position, speed, driving behavior of moving units real-time or with reports. You also have a personal security function, with real-time alerting and messaging.

This solution called DIWICON-M is tracking more than 20 000 units worldwide. If you are interested have a look at it on my company’s website.

You can also download the demo video from here!

Live demo: http://dwminterface.diwicon.com

P.S. I also speak CEE English because of the event.. ; D

This little lolcat will show you a cool feature I discovered recently.

Using its ‘Tag’ property you can add metadata to a FrameworkElement (so practically every graphical element Silverlight provides) and read it out in code as a string.

Even better, you can set Tag property in design-time with Expression Blend support!

This is a start of my new project, SilverBites. It’s a series of bite sized video tutorials on Silverlight 2 with a maximum length of 90 seconds.
I’m pretty microphone shy yet, but watch my alterego in the coming parts!