Two of my favorite events I attended last year were the SilverlightDevCamps in San Francisco and Chicago. The DevCamp event is run in a community-driven barcamp style where conversation is open and free and results in intriguing dialogue and sessions. (my SF Recap, video from SF, photos from…
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This Saturday I will be attending and speaking at the PDX Webfoot event. Webfoot is a web-focused event for all creatures, techie and non-techie alike. Bring the whole family for a day of education, entertainment, and fun! If you take a look at the schedule, you'll see that we'll be talking about…
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In case you haven't heard, we meaning Microsoft threw a little party in Vegas this month called MIX. You should really come visit MIX sometime maybe next year, say around March 18-20th in 2009? We like to have 72 hour conversations and talk about all the things we have going on for the web.&nb…
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Next week I will be presenting an overview of Silverlight 2 at the March PDXUX meeting in Hillsboro, OR, US. The PDXUX defines itself as: This is a group for both developers and designers, something unique in Portland as all other groups target either one or the other. The "UX" in the name …
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Starting last week on March 5th after Silverlight 2 Beta 1 was announced, a lot has been said about Silverlight 2. Presentations have been given, demos have been shown, bits have been released, tutorials have been posted and many conversations have been had. As an attempt to catalog som…
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I just noticed Dave Campbell's post announcing the 3rd meeting of the Phoenix Silverlight User's Group Meeting tomorrow night. Being one of the first dedicated Silverlight groups I've heard of, I feel compelled to send some Silverlight swag. I bet we still have some of those Silverligh…
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Recently I've been talking about Silverlight News on Twitter and how you can add it to your blog and that's all up and running fine and dandy. During this time, I've also been continuing to post to the Silverlight Events Twitter account. This works out great as I continue to find new events w…
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Of course any day is fine day but while tracking events covering Silverlight, I've noticed that January 26th is an especially good day to learn about Silverlight. There are three events this coming Saturday that include a lot of Silverlight goodness: Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter in New York …
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On November 29th 2007, a group of people gathered together to study Silverlight. "What is it, really?", "What can I do with it today?" and "There really is more than just a Media?" were all questions answered that day. Video and audio of the event has been captured on the Silverl…
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In building 33 on campus today we have a large number of people who have come to learn more about Silverlight. Luckily we, we being Mithan Dhar, Laurence Moroney, Arturo Toledo, Ernie Booth, Adam Nathan and myself, have prepared for this day. We have a nice line up of sessions on the age…
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Based on the fact that you are reading my blog, I'm guessing you have an interest in Silverlight. If only there was some sort of grand conference where you could hope to learn more about Silverlight and its future. Although content, news, plans and other details are still in process, Microsoft MIX…
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I subscribe to the internet in general whenever the word "silverlight" is mentioned using a variety of search feeds such as Technorati and Bloglines. This results in a lot of posts, many times duplicate posts, but I also get the chance to find blog entries I would normally miss. A grouping of …
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Frank La Vigne has organized a Silverlight DevCamp in Washington, D.C. this Saturday November 3rd. He has the full details on his blog and has been twittering speakers and their session descriptions. "51 Attendees and Growing!" On November 10th there will also be a Silverlight DevCamp ta…
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I had the opportunity to interview one of the interesting people I met at the SilverlightDevCamp in San Francisco this weekend (full DevCamp recap here). Tyler Ballance works for Slide.com, the group behind popular Facebook Apps like FunWall and Top Friends. He knows a lot about Mono, Pyth…
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I had a great time this weekend at the SilverlightDevCamp in San Francisco. I had never before been to a DevCamp, BarCamp or any other type of camp that happens indoors. The casual yet academic atmosphere was well set and provided for by our hosts Kurt Brockett, Kevin Marshall and Anand …
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I mentioned earlier I would be attending the SilverlightDevCamp in San Francisco (which starts tomorrow, I'm coming to see you Jeff Atwood! Ok not just you but I felt like pointing). Well in two weeks, there will be another SilverlightDevCamp held in Chicago (9/28 - 9/29). I…
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I just signed my name on the attendee list for SilverlightDevCamp San Francisco: SilverlightDevCampSF is an upcoming gathering, inspired by BarCamp, to build Silverlight applications, It's organized by volunteers & Silverlight enthusiasts, with attendance free to all. While similar to i…
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Silverlight and many of its cousins appeared in a funny keynote animation during the Web on the Piste conference. The animation was created very skillfully by the Nectarine group out of Australia. Taking a look at their portfolio certainly is inspiring. Anima…
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Brad Abrams posted last month about events taking place in Second Life on Visual Studio Island. After hearing about these, I added them to the Upcoming Events page on the Silverlight wiki. Then it got it a little weird. Looking to spread the word about these unique events a little f…
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Two years ago on this very date of June 20th, I started my first day here at Microsoft. It was an exciting day, it was just new employee orientation, but it was my first job in a technical company with more than 20 employees. I was hired on to become the newest web developer on the coole…
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MIX07 was awesome. I was involved in supporting the VisitMIX site, posting an array of Silverlight screencasts on Channel 9 and a few other community events. I was lucky enough to go a few sessions, including the WPF Comics session which impressed me enough that I had to blog a…
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...which reminds me, that I need to get my plane ticket. I'm very happy to hear that MIX will have as full of an attendance as possible, providing the opportunity to get the most out of the conference. Although sessions and keynotes are the driving factor for conferences, the in-the…
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We've released dates, prices and an rss feed for updates. And if you take a quick look you'll notice the site domain name is http://visitmix.com. So as you can now see, Haacked, we won't have to end MIX in 09 :)Edit: This image is a reminder that I need to reskin my blog soon...…
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I've lined up two conferences this summer to attend this summer. Both conferences align with my interests and work in web design, ux and community-focused sites. I'm looking forward to the diverse crowds as well. I plan on snatching one of the cameras from 10…
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