Scott Stanfield from Vertigo brings his toys to the luxurious studio and comes up with the new acronym WYNWYNI (What You Need, When You Need It). Time is taken to reminisce about demos like FM Stocks and ASP.NET Starter Kits and talk about the current Family.Show (and consanguineal marriages) and Slide.Show. Then the show really gets rolling with special guitar grease for Guitar Hero, how 18 employees attack the MIX conference, Scott’s super-secret blacklisted MIX08 session (“one of the coolest things I’ve seen from Microsoft in a long time”), and Mike’s new catch-phrase…we’re so hot!

The Signal is a weekly podcast that connects you to behind-the-scenes activity related to MIX08. We’ll interview speakers, attendees, staff, and other notables. If you have a question for them to address on a future show, e-mail signalm@microsoft.com or leave a voice-mail message for them at (425) 703-4650.

This episode features the return of the Spider King where Thomas and Mike talk about bit shift operations and blogging. Then, Erik Saltwell and Nishant Kothary join the discussion and touch on user experience, why “designer” is an imprecise term, the aesthetics of markup, upcoming features in Expression Web, PHP IntelliSense and #includes, the WordPress and PHP session at MIX08, and Erik on customer intimacy (SFW). Enjoy!

The Signal is a weekly podcast that connects you to behind-the-scenes activity related to MIX08. We’ll interview speakers, attendees, staff, and other notables. If you have a question for them to address on a future show, e-mail signalm@microsoft.com or leave a voice-mail message for them at (425) 703-4650.

In this week’s episode, find out why Mike and Thomas should have their podcasting license revoked. Then, hear from Drew Robbins, a Technical Evangelist for IIS, who will be speaking about PHP and IIS7 at MIX08. Learn a bit about developing PHP applications on Windows Vista and deploying them on Windows Server 2008, including the new FastCGI component. Drew also talks about the Open Space area at MIX08, self-organizing content, recording and publishing of conversations, and taboo topics. So say we all.

The Signal is a weekly podcast that connects you to behind-the-scenes activity related to MIX08. We’ll interview speakers, attendees, staff, and other notables. If you have a question for them to address on a future show, e-mail signalm@microsoft.com or leave a voice-mail message for them at (425) 703-4650.

This week on The Signal, Mike and Thomas discuss Show Off (http://www.visitmix.com/2008/showoff.html), an opportunity for you to show off the cool things you are doing with Microsoft technology at MIX08. Then, they go behind the scenes at the MIX ’n’ Mash and interview Kip Kniskern from LiveSide (www.liveside.net), Molly Holzschlag (www.molly.com) and Jonathan Snook (www.snook.ca).

The Signal is a weekly podcast that connects you to behind-the-scenes activity related to MIX08. We’ll interview speakers, attendees, staff, and other notables. If you have a question for them to address on a future show, e-mail signalm@microsoft.com or leave a voice-mail message for them at (425) 703-4650

This week on The Signal, Mike and Thomas use Oprah as an excuse to talk about some of their favorite web sites, including Slashdot.org and TMZ.com. Then, they interview Michael Suesserman, the MIX08 Content Owner on topics like: where does the MIX08 content come from, sessions versus panels, the fact that nearly 50% of the content is delivered by third parties, Battlestar Galactica, using “math, science, and dumb luck” to balance sessions, Twitter feedback, the elements of a good session, Michael’s day job with gadgets, and finally, gambling, math, user experience, and the Fairy Forest.

Thomas is alone in the big, cavernous studio and introduces the interview Mike and Thomas did with Hans Hugli and Glenn Podany. They explain all the great opportunities at MIX to immerse yourself in the technology discussed there. If you are more of a “hands-on” person, this show is for you.

The Signal is a weekly podcast that connects you to behind-the-scenes activity related to MIX08. We’ll interview speakers, attendees, staff, and other notables. If you have a question for them to address on a future show, e-mail signalm@microsoft.com or leave a voice-mail message for them at (425) 703-4650.

It’s time for another episode of The Signal. This week, we respond to a listener call about what traditional developers can expect at MIX08, and Thomas talks to Mike about his seam carving project called SEAMonster. Then, we hear from Robert Hess (who you may recognize from The .NET Show). Robert has been doing keynote demos for over 19 years and has a lot to share about what it takes to make them happen. Along the way, he touches on topics like: why the demoer may know too much, what we can learn from Mark Twain, the hardware behind the stage, Bill Gates, the VB demo, and an 8-day workweek, what to do when 5 blocks of internet access goes down, and his alter-ego at DrinkBoy.com. Oh…and why Robert uses a dial-up modem. You don’t want to miss this.

The Signal is a weekly podcast that connects you to behind-the-scenes activity related to MIX08. We’ll interview speakers, attendees, staff, and other notables. If you have a question for them to address on a future show, e-mail signalm@microsoft.com or leave a voice-mail message for them at (425) 703-4650.