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The Microsoft Expression team just released a new version of it’s Deep Zoom Composer tool. You can get it here.

This release fixes some issues, namely high memory consumption and support for transparent PNG (remember to export to PNG and not JPG, if you are exporting as a collection).

The big improvements are in DeepZoomTools.dll. Me and a lot of other people were getting this bug many times, which has apparently been fixed. I tried it with a couple of images which always failed, and they’re now successfully imported.

Read the team’s post here.

Esta semana apresentei no DevDays09 a sessão WUX303 – Optimização de Performance de Web Sites. A sessão teve um feedback muito positivo tendo ficado em 7º no ranking final das 75 sessões do evento.

A apresentação foi um resumo do livro “High Performance Web Sites” onde se constata que na experiência de navegação numa página Web, a maior parte do tempo é gasto após o HTML chegar por completo ao browser do cliente, ou seja, no carregamento de componentes diversos como imagens, scripts, css, etc. Foram apresentadas as 14 regras para melhorar a performance e User Experience de um site conforme sugerido por Steve Souders no seu livro.

Demonstrei também a utilização das seguintes ferramentas:

• YSlow
• IBM Page Detailer
• Microsoft Visual Round Trip Analyser
• Hammerhead
• Cuzzilion
• Performance Webpage Test (Online)
• Fiddler2

Eis os slides da apresentação e as demos utilizadas.

Hi everyone. My Microsoft DevDays 09 session about Deep Zoom was great! A lot of fun for me and hopefully for everyone who attended. The whole DevDays was great! Met a lot of people, lots of old friends and some new ones. Learned lots of new stuff on some great sessions.

For anyone that wants to get in touch with me, my email is . Please don’t hesitate to ask questions, show me your deep zoom and Silverlight projects or just say hello.

Now that it’s over, it’s time to start preparing for Mix 09 in Las Vegas, where Microsoft will hopefully present us with stuff they’ve been working on, trying hard to improve all the great products developers use on a daily basis.

Before Mix, it’s time to pick up the electric guitars again and go on a mini tour with my band (guys and red-shoed gal, miss you!) through Spain, which will for sure be fun as hell!

Now the links for the DevDays stuff:

Great DeepZoom websites and projects:

EDIT: http://www.microsoftnatal.com/

http://livelabs.com/seadragon/

http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/

http://www.mojaveexperiment.com/

http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/44.president/inauguration/themoment/index.html

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/HDViewSL/

http://bigpicture.vertigo.com/obama

www.laguna-coupe.com

zoom.record.pt

http://photosynth.net/Default.aspx

http://photozoom.mslivelabs.com/

Jose Fajardo on DG.TV showing killer Deep Zoom ideas (watch this video for awesome deep zoom ideas by Jose Fajardo!)

DeepZoom tools:

Microsoft Deep Zoom Composer

Microsoft Image Composition Editor

HDView / DeepZoom Photoshop Plugin

2nd Factory Jellyfish

DeepZoom links:

Microsoft MSDN Library – Deep Zoom

Microsoft Silverlight Forums

Microsoft Expression Forums – Composer

Jaime Rodriguez – A Deep Zoom Primer

As promised, The Group Photo:

NOTE: This is what happens when your pictures are not so good!

NOTE2: I used Microsoft Image Composition Editor, and all it took was to drag and drop 4 pictures into it and export it as Deep Zoom. Try it yourselves (with higher quality pictures!).

FINAL IMAGE HERE: http://www.fullsix.pt/rfiel/DevDays09/groupphoto/wux209.html

I’ll be posting some more Silverlight/DeepZoom related stuff. Stay tuned.

EDIT: Microsoft ECard Natal was missing from project list.

Cheers.