posted on Friday, February 17, 2006 5:12 PM
by
Sean Gerety
Mix06
When I was at the PDC last year, one of the best things was the lounge area. If you didn't want to sit and listen a speaker, you could go and hang out with the orange shirts (WPF Team), look at some code, demos and chat. It was an actual conversation with the people that owned whatever technology you where interested in. If Mix06 can achieve this feeling that will be a nice departure of running from room to room catching speakers. And it actually will be a conversation.
So a little about Mix06. It's in Vegas, in March ,in 2006, inside the Venetian Resort.
There's lot's of speakers, and not just people from Microsoft. People from Frog Design and O'Reilly. There's breakouts, discussions and hands on labs. And there's Vegas.
There are two tracks. "Beyond the Browser" (weighing in at 21 sessions) and "Next Generation Browsing Experience" (weighing in at 30 sessions). Beyond the Browser deals with things like WPF applications, UX, and non browser based apps (Media Center, Sidebar and Mobile). Next Generation Browsing is exactly what you would expect. Talks about IE7 and beyond, WPF/E, AJAX.
However there are two sessions that I would think belong in the Beyond the Browser track.
Developing a WPF Application by Filipe Fortes and a Designer's Overview of WPF by Robert Ingebretsen. Maybe they are just sprinkled in there for curiosities sake, should a web developer stumble in I'm sure that they'll be surprised. (In a good way, not the bad way of waking up in your hotel bathtub with ice around you and a missing kidney).
Another cool thing about this conference will be the first public unveiling of WPF/E. WPF/E is Windows Presentation Foundation / Everywhere. Seeing what WPF/E will run on will be tasty. I'm sure they'll demo Firefox, and possibly a Mac, maybe cell phones, and hell if they get a wild hair, a SPOT watch.
Did I mention that I'll see you there? I'm going. Booked and Registered. But did I mention that there is a contest to get you there? You can win airfare, admission and lodging at the Venetian and a moded Xbox 360. And they've got flair, hey after all this is a UX conference
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