MIX 2011 Open Call: Vote For Me!
Earlier this week Mix released the list of over 200 sessions in the Mix Open Call competition. I have three sessions up for vote and I hope you will help me get the nod with a chance to present. Mix is at the Mandalay Bay in Vegas April 12-14 and is my favorite event to attend each year. As as ASP.NET web developer this is the one event I personally recommend. I have had some of the best experiences at this conference and each year it expands my knowledge and creative boundaries.
My three proposed sessions cover AJAX, Windows Phone 7, Mobile Web Development and cloud based security. Each of the topics offer exposure to some new concepts I have found important in leveraging popular emerging technologies.
The ModelView View Model pattern has become widely adopted by XAML developers and designers to build rich client experiences. This same pattern can be easily implemented using the jQuery Templating and DataLinking plugins. This session demonstrates how to efficiently leverage these plugins to create a MVVM AJAX application.
WebMatrix is a new web development environment that anyone can use to build a web siting using a variety of server-side languages and techniques. jQuery has become the leader of the AJAX frameworks. Combing these two resources a developer can create engaging mobile web experiences. This sessions reviews how to efficiently architect a mobile web application using WebMatrix and jQuery. We will also look at properly architecting a contextually engaging experience in the mobile web context.
Everyone hates managing a large set of username and password combinations. Fortunately the concepts of OpenId, CardSpace and OAuth are driving a much more unified authorization experience. However this puts a heavy burden on application developers to maintain working interfaces to potential authorization sources like Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.
This session will demonstrate how the Azure ACS system solves this maintenance headache for developers. I will also show how to integrate Azure ACS in Windows Phone 7 and Web applications.
Last year’s open call produced some great sessions and the choices this year are even better. You can vote for up to 10 sessions this year, so I encourage you to vote for mine of course, but please take the time to review the entire list and choose 7 more topics you would like to see.