I work at PBJS a creative agency that does a lot of work as a vendor for Microsoft. As a creative agency we do a lot of design work on Macs. The entire Art Department has Macs, I have a Macbook Pro laptop, our editing stations are Mac Pros. You get the idea. This is nothing shocking, the majority of creative agencies I've seen have Macs as their primary workhorse machines.

Since I do a lot of development I have a PC as my primary work machine, along with my fellow Interactive developers. I use Visual Studio for a lot of my coding. I'd even say "I'm a PC" on one of those ads. The fact is, I use them both to do my job depending on the given task.

Right now we are doing an installation for the new Microsoft Company Store. This week myself and the art director are going on-site to tweak in the space. Since we need to have our work computers with us, we needed to find a way to sneak a Mac Pro into Building 92. A picture is worth 1000 words!





MacPro box, turned inside out with Simon, our logo, and the words "I'm a PC". That should do nicely!

Labels: Microsoft, PBJS

Microsoft is doing a bus tour to highlight the new technologies and software they've developed for the interactive/web communities. It will highlight their new Expression Suite and Silverlight. The bus tour called "The Code Trip" is set to kick off in 2008.

I've been looking for some ways to learn Silverlight for work and this could be a good opportunity to jump right in. Of course it doesn't hurt that reposting this link on my blog should get me some swag!

My big reason for doing this is MS is one of our biggest clients. As a flash developer/designer I know we could get a lot more business from MS if we used Silverlight. I've told my boss I was willing to learn. I'm interested in learning about any plans MS has to cater to the Flash community since in some cases they are direct competitors. Will they try to convert them, work with them, create modules to allow Action Script and MXML to integrate or even be swappable with Visual Basic/C# and XAML. Now that would be cool!

Labels: Code Trip, Microsoft, Silverlight, thecodetrip