Vote for Chris Love in the MIX Open Call
This year MIX is letting you, the community, determine some of the content available during the conference. I, along with many others submitted different sessions to be voted on by, well anyone! You can choose up to 5 sessions. Voting closes on January 15, 2010 and you can read more about the MIX Open Call on their web site. I submitted three sessions to the mix, Lightweight WebForms, JQuery and WCF: Going Beyond the UpdatePanel, Throwing Out Your Tables: CSS Layouts for Developers, Playing Small Ball: Making ASP.NET Sites for Mobile Phones. Each of these sessions are brand new for me and inline with areas I want to focus this year or spent a lot of time on in the recent months. I think they are all about user experience development and areas we as ASP.NET developers need to learn more about to be competitive going forward.
This session will be all about doing table less layouts. I will focus doing page layouts, navigation and tricks of creating good form layouts that can be repeated over and over.
Mobile devices, phones, etc are all over the place now and it is time we start making our web sites render in a usable format for these devices. I am making this a priority to learn over the next year. In this session I am going to review best practices for creating sites to work nicely on smaller screen devices.
If you followed my Thin ASP series over the past year you saw how I used custom httpHandlers with my JQuery AJAX calls. I am going to take it to the next level by showing how to easily integrate WCF services and true messaging patterns with JQuery AJAX.
So vote early!!! There are lots of great sessions and speakers to choose from, just choose my sessions :)