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Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest…this list includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar : MSDN Webcast: Introduction to the Rock Paper Azure Challenge (Level 100) Tuesday, April 19, 2011 11...

Jennifer Ritzinger and Mike Swanson provide the latest on what’s coming for MIX11 . Click through to the full post for the video…

Registration for MIX11 is open, and if you register by February 11th (4 days from today), you can save $500 on the conference, and get a free hotel night. Pretty good deal for one of my favorite conferences of the year! This year there’ll be a ton of content as usual, covering HTML5, CSS3, Windows Phone...

Be a “Best of Web” Presenter at MIX11 Are you an expert on web development, design or monetization? Do you have interesting and unique information to deliver on creating next generation web sites? Submit your session proposal by Friday, January 14, 2011 . The MIX content team will select the best proposals...

One of the fun things about MIX10 this year was that the folks from Channel 9 were broadcasting live throughout the conference from The Commons: Channel 9 Live Day 1 Channel 9 Live Day 2 One highlight of my time at MIX this year was getting the opportunity to compete in the Geeklympics on Channel...

It’s quite long, but worth the read, so set aside some time and dig in to get their impressions post-MIX . Good stuff!

I’d love to post a thorough, informative, and thoughtful summary of my experience at MIX10 (which was a ton of fun, and was probably the most information-packed MIX in the 3 years I’ve attended), but my fellow DE, David Isbitski , has done such a wonderful job summarizing that I’m just going to point...

Here at MIX, the RC of WCF RIA Services has been announced. You can find out more about updates in the RC to ease deployment of RIA Services applications here . And Brad Abrams’ announcement of the availability of WCF RIA Services RC is here . UPDATE: Just talked to Brad, and wanted to clarify that the...

Going to try the liveblogging thing again…on wifi this time, so hopefully it holds up…stay tuned! 11:03am – and duct tape…the hardware is a prototype that’s literally stuck together with duct tape…which is awesome. 11:00am – the keynote comes full circle with the Project Gustav / Wacom hardware-software...

Though the parties are still going on, the sessions are long done. The big announcements included the release of the Silverlight 4 RC, Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools , Netflix app coming for WP7, and more. You can check out some of the resources for Windows Phone 7 Series development on MSDN . Day 2...

Sorry for the sudden end to the liveblogging…lost my 3g when the phone section started…irony indeed. Great keynote, more to come! 9:34am – it’s time for WINDOWS PHONE 7 SERIES! Bring on Joe Belfiore… 9:33am – Silverlight 4 RC is now available for download! 9:31am – fantastic to see what a real design...

All is quiet as I write this…most folks are likely still recovering from one of the several parties and tweetups last night, great opportunities to see old friends and meet new ones (and lose your voice and hearing for those of us who aren’t 20 anymore). In less than 3 hours, the first Keynote will start...

Titles and detailed abstracts have been posted for the Windows Phone sessions at MIX10, which kicks off next week. Check them out here: http://live.visitmix.com/Sessions/Tags/WindowsPhone Lots on Windows Phone, of course, including an introduction to the platform, Silverlight development, and more…featuring...

Fun with photo manipulation from Frank La Vigne at MIX09: (this one’s for you, Darcy !)

Wow. Quite a day. I’m not going to try to summarize all the information that came out, as there have been many posts on it already this one from Alvin Ashcraft does a nice job of summarizing the announcements succinctly ). But I did want to share my impression, which is that I saw some amazingly cool...

Are you ready for some great tech news this week? Well, stay tuned here and to the Live MIX site for all the latest from MIX 09. I got in a bit late last night, thanks to a delayed flight, but I’m up early as usual (see here for more on 0 Dark 30 ), and getting ready to go for a walk, and perhaps a swim...

So with Silverlight 2 having been out for a while now, you might be wondering “what’s next?” Well, the first answers to that question will arrive at MIX 09 in March. I’m looking forward to the sessions on Silverlight 3, and many more cool technologies: Silverlight 3 Sessions at MIX09 Join us at MIX and...

If you’ve been thinking of attending either MIX09 (March 18th-20th), or VSLIVE! San Francisco (Feb. 23-27th), read on…until February 13th, you can get $400 off the regular price of MIX09 registration: MIX09 is coming! Register by Feb 13 and Save $400! When you register by February 13, you’ll receive...

One of the fun events at MIX this year was Show Off, which was basically a contest in which the live audience got to take a look at user-submitted videos of cool applications written using various new technologies, like WPF, Silverlight, and XAML, but more importantly, were very cool apps. My two favorites...

One of the coolest examples of Silverlight 2 that has been announced at MIX is the Memorabilia viewer app created by Vertigo for Hard Rock Cafe: The application allows you to drill down into a selection of the Hard Rock Cafe's massive collection of rock and roll memorabilia. You can use the deep zoom...

From VisitMix.com: Mark your calendar and save the date for MIX08! Posted by Beth Goza on May 31 st at 8:02 PM We are pleased to announce that MIX will be returning to the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas on March 5-7, 2008. Stay tuned for announcements related to registration at MIX and don...

Think that you missed it all because you didn't make it to MIX 07? Think again...the http://www.visitmix.com/ web site has tons of videos, as well as downloadable session materials, including recorded presentations in Silverlight (as well as in both iPod and Zune formats, and WMV), slides, and more....