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Mix 07 was probably the most exciting experience I have ever had at a conference. The big rollout of Silverlight and seeing how to actually use it was just simply amazing. I was sort of half asleep and half awake thinking about how I could use Silverlight on just about everything I have done in my career. There has been a lot of reaction and ...

Just finished a session with Jeff Prosise showing some great tricks with some very custom AJAX JavaScript using the ASP.NET AJAX Base Class Library. very good stuff. Jeff was a little worried about it being outdated already with the release of SilverLight. I think it will be relavent for a while to come. We have been way too excited about AJAX for ...

How Silverlight and .NET framework will be a two and a half hour session, so this will be part 1. They will be covering how this works. Right now he is talking about the characteristics of a RIA application. He is talking about Outlook Web Access and how that is a decent RIA application, but the best we can do now. Silverlight is a development ...

Rob and I were out late last night, in bed by 11:30! But when you consider we are East Coast guys that is pretty late. We enjoyed dinner with Mark Dunn, a Regional Director from Atlanta and former co-host of the popular DotNetRocks Podcast. That was a great experience and I got to pick his brain a bit about things going on in Atlanta, DotNetRocks ...

I just finsihed a session on monetizing sites with the Virtual Earth API. It was pretty good, I got to see how some companies like TripHub.com and Redfin.com have integrated the map API into their sites to provide a much richer user expereince. I went to this session in particular because I want to upgrade my www.FindMyGolfCourse.com mapping ...

So after the keynote Rob and I decided to head to the Sandbox so I could get my copies of Vista Ultimate and Expression Suite (awsome!). We ran into Todd Fine, Jeff Prosise and Peter Ludauti while we were there. It was good to talk to them about what they think about the new stuff hitting the world right now. Jeff is really excited about ...

The main keynote just wrapped up and there were a lot of really cool demos and some offical announcements. The main thing is the official announcement of Silverlight and the .NET CLR being available in IE, FireFox, Opera and Safari, which means .NET can now run on MAC. I refered to this a couple of months ago and it is now true. All the demos were ...