MIX08

Josh Holmes caught up with team from Yahoo! that's working on the Yahoo! Messenger Application for Vista. We talked a lot about the new feature set that went live yesterday (including an easter egg...) and how the process of developing a WPF application with Developer and Designers  went…

How did we take a boring old ballroom at the Venetian and convert it into an exciting and magical venue, replete with Scott Guthrie juggling and Steve Ballmer manhandling Guy Kawasaki's MacBook Air and cheering for web developers?  Watch this short timelape video to see the whole process from…

At the beginning of this month, MIX08, the annual Microsoft conference which brings together web developers, designers, and business and digital marketing professionals, was held in Las Vegas. From this conference, 88 video presentations were made available on the web for viewing or downloading.…

JavaScript is a massively popular language.  Programs written in JavaScript can be deployed to more users and more machines than any other language given the prominence of script-enabled web browsers and web surfing.  Yet the language hasn’t evolved since the spec was signed off in…

Here is the footage from Nokia's MIX08 Keynote announcement.

This is the IE8 keynote from MIX08, led by Dean Hachamovitch.  Dean talks about CSS, web standards, new AJAX features, and Activities and WebSlices.

Check out this footage from the MIX08 keynote; a mobile social networking application built in Silverlight by Stimulant and StepChange.  You can also see an interview with the guys from Stimulant, or check out StepChange's OpenSpace presentation.

The NBC Olympics demo was a highlight of the MIX08 keynote; an incredible media-viewing experience built in Silverlight.  Here is the footage from the keynote.  You can also see an interview with Perkins Miller talking about their solution here.

DoubleClick demonstrates integration between Silverlight and their ad-tracking platform, in this clip from the MIX08 keynote.

In the MIX08 keynote, Cirque showed off a WPF-based line-of-business application.  Check out this clip and you might even spy one of our VPs trying out for a new career as a performer!