MIX is a gathering of developers, designers, UX experts and business professionals creating the most innovative and profitable consumer sites on the web. Sessions range from technical, code-based topics to expert advice on content strategy, usability and design. Explore the future of the standards-based web – join the conversation at MIX11.
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MIX11 Day 1 Keynotes
MIX11 day 1 keynotes featuring Dean Hachamovitch, Steven Sinofsky, and Scott Guthrie.
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Microformats and Semantic Markup
Microformats are simple HTML design patterns for adding semantics to your web content. With additional semantic meaning, your content becomes more findable, extensible, standards-compliant and usable. And when built on a solid foundation of Plain Old Semantic Markup (POSH), your content also becomes...
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ECMAScript 5: The New Parts
The first complete implementations of the first revision to the JavaScript, I mean ECMAScript, Standard in 10 years are now coming online. This talk will introduce the new, mostly good, parts.
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Is that a Sherpa on Your Shoulder?
In this session, Aaron Gustafson will introduce you to Web Standards Sherpa, a new resource from the Web Standards Project. The goal of Web Standards Sherpa is to "provide helpful, pragmatic and up-to-date advice on best practices for web professionals everywhere" via brief, focused instructional critiques...
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Designer and Developer: A Case for the Hybrid
Should designers code? Or is is okay for one to specialize in visual design and expect others to build their vision? As we get farther and farther away from the days of the "webmaster," and become an industry of specialists, are we losing some of the beauty, efficiency, and innovation that can be found...
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Writing Maintainable JavaScript
Is your web app drowning in a sea of JavaScript? Has your client-side codebase grown from "a snippet here and there" to "more JavaScript than HTML"? Do you find yourself writing one-off snippets instead of generalized components? You're not the only one. Learn about a handful of strategies you can use...
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What Exactly Are We Doing on the Web?
Nearly 20 years into this industry -- one that we mostly just made up as we went along -- it's time to ask, what exactly is our craft? What do we do and how well do we do it? Byron will ask questions about a professional ethos, values, and ongoing growth from the early days to now and the future. He'll...
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HTML5 for Skeptics
If you build sites with Silverlight and have been watching all the HTML5 hype with bemused skepticism, this session is tailored for you. I'll show you how Vertigo approaches modern web development, and more importantly, how we talk to our customers about it. I'll cover how we balance HTML and Silverlight,...
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Riding the Geolocation Wave
It’s pretty obvious by now that geolocation is a heavy player in the next wave of applications and APIs. Now is the time to learn how to take advantage of this information and add context to your own applications. In this session we’ll look at geolocation at every layer of the stack –...
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CSS3 Takes on the World
In the war chest of the web developer, there is Photoshop, HTML, JavaScript, and, of course, CSS. While CSS started off with a minor role, it is increasingly taking over. This session will review the latest and greatest of CSS3, how we can apply it to projects right now, what benefits can be had, and...
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Designing Great Experiences for SharePoint 2010
Learn how to design a great user experience for SharePoint 2010. As a web developer, you will learn simple techniques for branding your SharePoint web sites and Master Pages using CSS3 and HTML5. Also see how to easily transition from basic to advanced techniques to quickly add value to your web designs....