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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Joe Cleaver's Blog : Live</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/jcleaver/archive/tags/Live/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Live</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>The MSDN Developer Conference is coming…Are you ready?</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/jcleaver/archive/2008/11/04/the-msdn-developer-conference-is-coming-are-you-ready.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:32:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9041063</guid><dc:creator>jcleaver</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/jcleaver/comments/9041063.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/jcleaver/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9041063</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/jcleaver/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=9041063</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.msdndevcon.com"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="clip_image001" border="0" alt="clip_image001" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/jcleaver/WindowsLiveWriter/TheMSDNDeveloperConferenceiscomingAreyou_F021/clip_image001_3.gif" width="563" height="64" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h5&gt;The nature of software development is radically changing... Are you ready?&lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Prepare yourself for a demanding future. Attend the &lt;a href="http://www.msdndevcon.com"&gt;MSDN Developer Conference&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ol&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Experience Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform&lt;/strong&gt;       &lt;br /&gt;Create applications that seamlessly bridge the gaps between PC, Web, and phone &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Be among the first to see Windows 7&lt;/strong&gt;       &lt;br /&gt;See the latest advances in Multi-Touch Application Development &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Take your .NET skills to the next level&lt;/strong&gt;       &lt;br /&gt;See sessions on WPF 4.0, Silverlight 2, ASP.NET 4.0, Parallel Programming, Live Mesh and more &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ol&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Cost? 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