MIX10

On this week’s show, @anyware and @ritzy talk about a cornucopia of MIX activities, including mobile content at MIX10 where you’ll learn about developing applications *and* games for the next generation of Windows Phone.  Yes, there will be Phone sessions.  No, we can’t say more than…

One of the more interesting uses for Silverlight is casual gaming. When you add Windows Phone 7 Series into the mix, it becomes even more exciting. At MIX10, I met up with Microsoft MVP and all around cool guy, Richard Costall. He showed me how, with no real changes, he was able to get his…

The unique nature of The Phizzpop Design Challenge is that it pits agency Davids and Goliaths against one another to show the most innovative integration of Microsoft technologies to achieve the website redesign goals of BGCA. Don’t miss your opportunity to show off your skills to an elite panel…

Jennifer is missing, and Mike manages to stop talking just long enough for Nishant Kothary to explain what user experience means, how survey results help to refine content, and what kind of sessions he’s planned for the UX theme at MIX10. Mike talks about session recordings and what they have to…

Creating your whole website using Silverlight isn't usually the approach you'll take--unless you happen to be a company specializing in Silverlight development. At MIX10, I caught up with Emil Stoychev, founder of SilverlightShow. His company, CompletIT, located in Sofia, Bulgaria, created a very…

Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud with news, features, tips, and tricks. You can follow and interact with the show at @cloudcovershow In this special MIX episode: Get the inside scoop on the Windows Azure Presentations at MIX Discover a tip on…

I recently ported my own site and blog from a combination of community server and custom code to the Umbraco open source CMS and Blog4Umbraco 4. There are several other sites at Microsoft that are following a similar path. At MIX10, I caught up with a bunch of dudes related to  Umbraco,…

During the final hours of MIX10, I ran around randomly shoving a camera in front of people and putting them on to the spot to tell me their "Favorite thing at MIX." Watch to see why MIX is more than just the sessions, more than just Silverlight and Windows Phone, more than the Next…

It's the FINAL Countdown!!! @anyware and @ritzy report on MIX10 statistics and tell behind the scenes stories from the conference.  Guess how much coffee and how much bandwidth MIX10 users went through this year, and who got a broken nose!

While at MIX10, I met up with Robert Kihm, Director of Product Architecture at Aptify. We talked about how Aptify enables you to create metadata for an application as well as surface the UI, including bindings and validation rules across multiple user interfaces (Silverlight and Windows Forms…