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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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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Windows Azure from Startup to Scale
As a consumer web startup, you spend a significant portion of your time raising awareness of your brand and driving traffic to your site. But, what happens when you succeed? How do you scale instantly from on-boarding 1 new user an hour to 1 new user every 5 seconds? MyWebCareer operates one of the...
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A Whole NUI World: Microsoft Surface 2 and Windows Touch
Heard about Microsoft Surface 2? In this presentation we will introduce you to the new Microsoft Surface Hardware and explain how you can write applications for it. By the end of the presentation you will have learned how to use the Microsoft Surface 2 SDK to write an application that bridges the physical...
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Fonts, Form and Function: A Primer on Digital Typography
Typography in digital experiences is unavoidable, and for years it was a fight we mostly lost. Today, however, technology is on our side! High resolution screens, an expanding library of open fonts and new flexibility in nearly every UI technology have made digital typography more fun and more interesting...
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Deep Dive MVVM
In 2010, the MIX session "Understanding the MVVM pattern" helped you to understand the basics of this very important pattern used in Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone 7 applications. Building on this foundation, this year’s session will show you with a lot of code samples how to build complex...
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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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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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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,...