Today I had a workshop at Axinom – developers of the worldwide #2 Windows Media Center application – ZDF Mediathek (IPTV service of ZDF - a public service television channel in Germany).
It’s not a shame to be #2 - since the #1 application worldwide is FOX Sports (if I remember right) and if you think about how “tight” FOX Sports is integrated into the Windows Media Center shell, they can be pretty proud about being #2. In fact ZDF Mediathek is the #1 IPTV service in Europe!
So today I had a workshop with Johannes Jauch (one of the CEOs of Axinom) and Frank Zehelein (DevLead of the project – can’t tell which project due to NDA). We worked through the concept(s), discussed different parts of the design in detail – and sometimes… you can discuss something very obvious like ”recognizing a focus indicator” very extensively. But thats actually necessary - if you want to provide a self-explaining user interface :)
After the workshop I met Damir Tomicic – like Johannes, he is one of the CEOs of Axinom. Damir is also the president of INETA Europe (International .NET Association) and member of INETA Worldwide Executive Council. I know Damir for a while now and it’s always a pleasure to talk with him about Windows Media Center, great technologies that are available today and solutions you can provide powered by those technologies! He often comes up with the business aspects related to all this very quickly – which is great because developing Windows Media Center applications became a part of my personal income.
I hope I can present some of the projects I am involved in soon.
