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I seriously think I spent as much if not more time at Mix in the Open Space area than my hotel room. The reason is this seemed to be the place to find anyone. My friend Peter posted some of the recordings done in the Open Space area, which two feature
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Last week at Mix 08 I got to meet Nikita Polyakov , a student from the University South Florida. He was running around doing candid interviews for Channel 8 , Microsoft's new site to reach out to students with technology. I noticed he posted a couple
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Last night I got to visit the Code Trip Bus before it took off to Salt Lake City. This bus is a multi-city tour by several of the Developer Evangelist on the West Coast. they are starting here at Mix and running up and down the West Coast stopping at
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Last night I had a very special treat to a backstage tour of the Cirque de Sole Beatles show. Brian Hitney , our wonderful Carolinas Developer Evangelist, has an old friend that works on the show. Katie took us through various aspects of the show, from
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Much about coming to Mix 08 or other conferences is networking and making great friends. Last night I had a fantastic dinner at David Burke in the Venetian with several of the Microsoft Architectural Evangelists. The meal was great and the conversations
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Good day so far, learned more about IE8 Activities and WebSlices. I like both technologies and I 'should' have something up to demonstrate them very soon (this is called keeping me accountable). After that session I did a presentation myself. I have not
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Ok, so I am almost 0 for 2 with the first two sessions. Oh well I will catch them tomorrow or just download them to the Zune for the trip home. I went to 10 minutes of David Ebbo's Dynamic Data Controls session and realized it was almost identical to
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So this week I am in Las Vegas at MIX08 . Right now I have just finished breakfast and I am waiting on the Keynote to start at 9:30, which is.......really 12:30. There is a 3 hour difference for me. I stayed up for 21 straight hours yesterday, and had
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Kudos to Josh Carlisle for stepping up to the plate and helping an attendee at the MSDN event having an epileptic seizure. The gentleman was having a pretty severe attack and fortunately Josh has a medic background from his military days. He was able
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