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Things that happened in 2011 MIX11 was a good conference, but not as great as MIX11. I blogged about the precon day (aka “boot camp”) the “Open Source Fest” day 1 , day 2 and day 3 The BUILD conference (here’s my short recap ) at first did a good...
Over the years I have grown very sceptical of the “fewer slides, more demos” kind of presentations. I simply have seen too many presentations where things went downhill from the moment the speaker opened Visual Studio. In an internal presentation or at...
There is always something sad about the last day of a conference. The sight of attendees with suitcases in the hallways, the noise of (de-)construction outside the session rooms during the talks and the overall fatigue after several conference days (not...
Keynote The second keynote of MIX11 covered (mostly) Windows Phone 7, Silverlight 5 and Kinect. Before getting to upcoming Windows Phone features, Joe Belfiore explained what happened (or not happened) with the WP7 updates. While it sounded plausible...
Keynote With the pre-con day being somewhat underwhelming, the hopes were high for some energy from the keynote to get MIX11 truly started. In the end it not only failed to energize the crowd (judging by the comments on the hallways and on Twitter afterwards...
On the evening of the pre-conference day Microsoft hosted the “Open Source Fest”. Open to all MIX attendees, this event allowed authors of open source software using current Microsoft technologies to present their projects. This was a very interesting...
I started MIX11 with a day of "boot camps". Last year they were less dramatically called "workshops", but the overall concept remained the same: Two half-day sessions covering a specific topic each, with the promise that this topic can be covered in a...
In about 6 weeks I’ll start packing my bags, getting ready for my trip to MIX11 . MIX10 was a great experience so I don’t mind the long hours in the cramped space of economy class during my flight from Germany to Vegas. Let’s hope that the Silverlight...
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