As every year, next week TechEd Developers 2008 will take place, for European audiences, at Barcelona's Convention Center. This event is the Microsoft premier technical education conference just for developers. For five days, more than 4,000 of your peers have countless opportunities to explore about the latest cutting-edge technologies from Microsoft related to embedded devices, web 2.0 and upcoming or existing developer tools. I'm sad they moved the conference from Amsterdam to Barcelona like 3 years ago (being a Spaniard I preferred traveling Amsterdam than Barna) but the same learning opportunities are offered.

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After spending last week at SHiFT'08 Conference in Lisbon I must say that it surprised me a lot being surrounded by such a great amount of people and speakers. I participated in the conference delivering a workshop about DeepZoom during the first day of the conference, the presentation is also uploaded to my Slideshare account and the content used in PhotoSynth was uploaded to my synth account.

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Next week, the Lisbon's International Fair Meeting Centre will host SHiFT'08, an international conference around human factors, interaction design and user experience. This is going to be the second edition of SHiFT, short for Social and Human Ideas For Technology, that, after 230 attendees in 2006, expects to gather around 500 people participating during 3 whole days.

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A couple of days ago, I was watching this small Silverlight vs. Flash: Stray Sheep sample and perceived something strange in the rendering. If you pay attention to the Silverlight implementation you'll notice that the sheep gets blurry in one of the frames. So, as many of my clients asked me a lot of times about this issue with bitmaps in Silverlight and WPF applications, I'll try to explain the technology concept behind this "undesired" side-effect of device rendering.

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It seems that nowadays we have two big players on the RIA framework/tools market willing to win the battle: the older and experienced Adobe and the newer but powerful Microsoft. Sometimes it's quite difficult to see the differences in both of them, but it's even harder when they have more than a single framework tool for it. After looking through my visitor statistics and search keywords I've decided to write a bit about some of the differences and how I see them so it may keep simpler for some of you to decide or clear your mind.

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