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.
Featured
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MIX11 Day 1 Keynotes
MIX11 day 1 keynotes featuring Dean Hachamovitch, Steven Sinofsky, and Scott Guthrie.
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50 Performance Tricks to Make Your HTML5 Web Sites Faster
Learn how you can make your sites faster directly from the Internet Explorer Performance Team. These are the same guys who brought you GPU accelerated graphics and compiled JavaScript with Internet Explorer 9, and they’re going to share their favorite 50 best practices for web developers. This...
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Reactive Extensions for JavaScript (RxJS)
Nobody likes sluggish web interfaces that get stuck when interacting with servers and services. Asynchrony has become the way of life to enhance user experiences. The A in AJAX pinpoints this observation precisely. Moreover, the sheer amount of asynchronous data sources is overwhelming: stock tickers,...
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Good JavaScript Habits for C# Developers
It seems that far too many people come to jQuery thinking that their previous knowledge with object-oriented languages like C# or Java will help them be successful at client-side scripting. In many cases, you can be successful with this approach, however, the more JavaScript you write you will inevitably...
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Interactive Panel: JavaScript
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Doug Crockford,
Luke Hoban,
Tomasz Janczuk,
Allen Wirfs-Brock
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HTML5,
Languages,
JavaScript,
Panel,
Research,
Third-Party Speaker,
Client App
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300
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RES02
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Day 2
- April 13, 2011
from 3:30PM to 4:30PM
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(5)
JavaScript is one of the most widely used general purpose functional, dynamic and prototype-based object-oriented imperative programming languages on the web with considerable amounts of JS even running outside of the browser in other hosts.
The JavaScript language has matured, but it is still...
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Script#: Compiling C# to JavaScript using Visual Studio
Script#, a C# to JavaScript compiler, brings the power of Visual Studio and .NET Tools to build a productive development model for creating, testing and managing applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript along with popular frameworks such as jQuery. This session provides a hands-on look at using Script#,...
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Making Better Web Apps For Today's Browsers
Microsoft Research is working on several cool ways to make web applications faster and more robust. In this session, James Mickens will describe two projects that leverage JavaScript to improve web programs running on unmodified, commodity browsers. His talk will focus on Silo, a system that exploits...
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Node.js, Ruby, and Python in Windows Azure: A Look at What’s Possible
Most people using Windows Azure are using ASP.NET and PHP, but Windows Azure is much more general than that. Steve Marx will show how he built a few web apps (including his blog) that run on Windows Azure and don’t use .NET or PHP. Server-side JavaScript, Ruby, and Python will be the most prominent...
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Building Data-centric N-tier Applications with jQuery
Come see how simple it can be to develop dynamic, data-centric JavaScript applications with WCF RIA Services. Our new jQuery dataSource plug-in offers a rich, client-side cache and a simple programming model – enabling dynamic data editing and visualization with jQuery templating, data-linking...
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JavaScript: The Language
While JavaScript has become one of the most widely used programming languages in the world, it has also unfortunately remained one of the most misunderstood programming languages. This session will give a thorough review of the core ideas in the JavaScript language, including topics such as objects,...
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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...