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Trade conferences are a steady companion for the tech industry. And it not just for tech people. Gathering together in crowd for annual events is a human need. We all do it. Look at the thousands of different conference held each year. ...
What’s the spring in my step this morning? Today kicks off the spring conference season for me. Hooray! Here’s the rundown: First up is SXSW. In fact, I’m here right now! I registered for this long before Microsoft announced the RTM of IE9 at the...
Attend a keynote at a big Microsoft conference and at some point in the presentation you will hear a musical fanfare followed by a breathless product announcement. Depending on the show and the time of year the announcements can be hum-drum or spectacular...
Mix09 is coming next week. I can’t wait to be there and see all the announcements about Silverlight 3. Since this is the main Microsoft RIA event it is loaded with enough Silverlight and WPF content to keep even an aged RIA veteran happy. ...
Once again the Seattle developer community is holding the Seattle Code Camp at the DigiPen campus in Redmond, Washington. The Digipen site has proven very popular at previous camps. Thanks Digipen!
The event is scheduled for November 15-16...
Apparently the entire Tuesday keynote at PDC will about the client side. My guess is there will be a lot of demos of Windows 7. I wonder if Ray Ozzie will talk about RIA’s too?
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The PDC 2008 web site has a nice Session planner tool. You can see all the sessions for the entire day or one time-slot, plan your schedule, see only your chosen sessions etc. Now available is a PDC 2008 Session PDF document that is more suitable...
This is a first for me. 2008 is the first time I’ll be going to all of the big three Microsoft conferences.
Mix08, TechEd Florida and PDC.
Plus I narrowly missed giving a session at TechEd Barcelona. Yes, it’s been a busy...
Planning your day at PDC is fun and frustrating. There is ~200 sessions for the week, approximately fifty per day. What to choose, what to do?
If you are interested in the future of graphics on the Windows platform you might want to add “Windows...
Ah, summer is coming to Seattle. Warm weather, mountain views, and the sun glinting off the lakes. Best of all, if you are a Silverlight fan, our first Silverlight dev camp is now official. There have been a few of these mini conferences...
Portland Oregon is home to a batch of dedicated techies. There seems to be an interesting programming event or conference every month in the Rose City.
A couple months ago I heard about a new family oriented conference, called PDX Webfoot...
Scott Guthrie writes another amazing article, this time about using Expression Blend 2.5. His 40 page, 4,000 word post shows how to build a Silverlight chat application with the upcoming Expression beta. Read More...
Soon, very soon, Microsoft will open the Mix08 information floodgates. Microsoft employees and partners will be released from their NDA shackles and we’ll finally learn what’s been cooking in the Silverlight kitchen. At Mix07 I...
It must be contest season in the WPF/Silverlight world. I wrote earlier about a MIX08 contest. Just prove your CSS ninja skills and win a MIX08 pass. WPF in Finance Contest Here’s another chance for fame and free travel for the WPF programmer...
Think you’re the best CSS wrangler out there? Do customers weep over the beauty of your web sites? You say you can create a three column layout, using only CSS and div tags, before your next coffee break? Do you want to spend a...
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