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Countdown to MIX09: Who, what, where, when, why, and how
Welcome to the inaugural edition of our MIX09 series, the 10 minute show (according to the chicken) that will give you a behind the scenes peek into the planning and preparation for our premier consumer web conference, MIX, happening March 18-20, 2009 at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas. Over the up-coming weeks Mike Swanson and Jennifer Ritzinger, members of the MIX09 planning committee, will regularly share insights and tips about the … More
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Advanced Tools & Practices Workshop Track Announced
MIX09 will feature a third pre-event workshop track: Advanced Tools & Practices. The first workshop in this track is called “Shio O Totte: Using What You Know” and will be lead by Adam Kinney, one of Microsoft’s resident UI experts. The second workshop is called “Hiking Mt Avalon”, and will be jointly led by Robby Ingebretsen of Pixel Labs and Jaime Rodriguez of Microsoft. Not only do all three of these speakers bring a hearty sense of humor (yes, they supplied the workshop titles), but they will also share their hard earned experience and best practices for implementing Microsoft technologies … More
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Win big in the MIX 10K Smart Coding Challenge
Have you heard about the MIX 10K Challenge? We’re shaking things up with a new contest for MIX09, and we’d like you to be a part of it! The grand prize winner will live large at MIX09 with a free pass to the MIX09 event, three nights at The Venetian Hotel, and a $1,500 Visa gift card. The community choice winner will receive a USD $1,500 Visa gift card. And, three runners-up will each receive a $500 Visa gift card. Winners will be notified after the close of community rating on February 13, 2009. All participants that have their … More
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It’s All About the Content at MIX
MIX09 is for everyone involved with creating rich web or client applications. Although successful applications start with exceptional design and user experience, they now must also properly include complex online and offline services, optimized designs for increasingly complex client devices, viable business models, and much more. The content at MIX this year will be expanded to better cover these key topics and will help attendees learn how to effectively design and build great applications. To demonstrate this commitment, the initial MIX09 sessions focus on key topics for web professionals ranging from user experience design methodologies and standards-based web development techniques … More
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Scott Guthrie to Keynote MIX09
Join Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President of the .NET Developer Platform, as he explores the future of Web and Client focused products and technologies at MIX09 in Las Vegas. For the third year in a row, Scott will unveil Microsoft innovations that are pushing the boundaries of the Web. A founding member of the .NET Framework team at Microsoft, Scott runs the development teams that deliver .NET and related technologies including ASP.NET, Silverlight, WPF, IIS7, and the Visual Studio tools for Web, WPF, and Silverlight development. Be sure to join us for a keynote that is sure to inspire and … More
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MIX Online Re-launches with a New Attitude
MIX Online (our sister site) is a community site for web designers and developers who are building and believe in the innovative web. In the past, the site has given you a varied perspective of what is happening on the web, a view into our conference called MIX, and interviews with amazing people with incredible ideas and stories on how you can take advantage of the web. MIX Online has always been a year-round companion to the event. MIX Online moves forward by taking more of a scenario focus around emerging web trends. For example, Microformats is an interesting movement … More