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Time is Running Out for MIX08 ReMIXes

Posted By: Denise Begley | Jun 2nd, 2008 @ 1:45 AM
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If you have friends who missed MIX08 this year, you can show them this little video to make them jealous (more over on Channel 10).  MIX08 was a blast, from Scott Guthrie juggling to Steve Ballmer screaming "Web Developahs!!!"

For people who live outside of the US, we have been running MIX08 "ReMIX" events in several countries.  The season of ReMIXes is almost over, but we have another 9 countries to go.  If you are located in the UK, Germany, South Korea, Hong Kong, or one of the other countries with future ReMIX events, be sure to sign up!

PDC2008 Registration is LIVE

Posted By: Denise Begley | May 28th, 2008 @ 12:44 AM
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The PDC is part of a whole family of Microsoft technical conferences. Just as the PDC is focused on the future of the Platform and technical strategy, our annual Tech-Ed Developers Conference (June 3-6, 2008 in Orlando) offers in-depth technical training on our current products. Our annual MIX Conference (March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas) is aimed at developers, designers and business decision makers who build next generation consumer web sites.

A Data Center Built With Shipping Containers

Posted By: Joshua Allen | Apr 2nd, 2008 @ 4:06 PM
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Yesterday, Microsoft became the first in the industry to announce a data center designed entirely with shipping container-based server modules.  It's a sizable data center, supporting somewhere between 150,000 an 440,000 servers.  Mike Manos revealed some specifics about the Chicago data center at a talk at Data Center World.

James Hamilton has some commentary on his blog.  James has been evangelizing the advantages of shipping container-based data centers for years, inside the company and within the industry.  As he points out, several of the largest equioment companies are now providing containers, and you can be sure that we are not the only company buying them.  But this is the first time anyone has talked publicly about a real industry-scale data center designed from the ground up for containers.  I'm particularly interested by the fact that the containers use angle parking instead of being arranged at right angles.

This is a big accomplishment, and no doubt a sign of where the rest of the industry will be moving in coming years.  Congratulations to Mike, James, and the rest of the team!
Tags: Cloud, Search

Fresh WPF Boot Camp at MIX University

Posted By: Joshua Allen | Mar 24th, 2008 @ 7:57 PM
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Karsten just posted 3 more days of intense WPF Boot Camp training at MIX University.  This is our most updated training, delivered recently here in Redmond by several experts from Microsoft and our partners.  It takes you from beginner to intermediate in the first two days, and then dives deep into some real-world implementations on day 3.

The viewer is written using Silverlight 2, and you can get the source code for the viewer app over at Karsten's blog.
Tag: WPF

On the Road again....

Posted By: Denise Begley | Mar 21st, 2008 @ 4:57 PM
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It was a tough choice on the night of Thursday, March 6, 2008. I was in the garage of the Venetian Hotel with Greg Visscher and my team mates Laurence Moroney and Arthur Yasinski and a tour bus (rumored to have been used by the band STYX). Could I stow away and travel for 45 days for a Code Trip adventure with seven Microsoft evangelists traveling the West promoting Microsoft technologies?  It was tempting, especially as the tour goes through some of the cities I have lived in.  (I am pointing to Missoula in the picture where I lived while studying at the University of Montana).  With one more day of MIX and the finalists of Rock Band to be seen perform, I decided to live vicariously through the blog entries at:  www.thecodetrip.com. 

I heard that the bus may do a cross-country tour for PDC2008.  Now that would be fun!  Find me at PDC and I'll tell you stories of living on a bus for 18 months in Europe and North America.

Watch the MIX08 Keynotes in Hyperspeed

Posted By: Joshua Allen | Mar 20th, 2008 @ 9:35 AM
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How did we take a boring old ballroom at the Venetian and convert it into an exciting and magical venue, replete with Scott Guthrie juggling and Steve Ballmer manhandling Guy Kawasaki's MacBook Air and cheering for web developers?  Watch this short timelape video to see the whole process from bare ballroom through setup, rehearsals, keynotes, and then final teardown after the show. 

If you want to see the keynotes at normal speed (or at 1.5x speed by playing in media player with ctrl+shift+g), you can view these links:
Tags: Keynote, MIX08

WeatherBug MIX08 Keynote

Posted By: Joshua Allen | Mar 19th, 2008 @ 10:14 AM
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Here is the keynote footage from WeatherBug in the MIX08 keynote.  You can see an in-depth interview with WeatherBug here.

Nokia MIX08 Keynote Announce

Posted By: Joshua Allen | Mar 19th, 2008 @ 10:11 AM
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MIX08 Keynote: Dean Hachamovitch

Posted By: Joshua Allen | Mar 17th, 2008 @ 7:30 PM
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This is the IE8 keynote from MIX08, led by Dean Hachamovitch.  Dean talks about CSS, web standards, new AJAX features, and Activities and WebSlices.
Tags: IE8, MIX08

MIX08 Keynote: Silverlight Montage

Posted By: Joshua Allen | Mar 17th, 2008 @ 7:29 PM
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Here is a clip from the MIX08 keynote, showing a montage of masses of sites using Silverlight, followed by some announcements by Scott Guthrie.
Tag: Silverlight. MIX08
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