They posted a little tool to figure out which sessions you want to go to on the Mix 08 conference, and I'm pretty stoked about it. This thing is pretty much shaping up to be a rock star event in terms of speakers. Obviously it's very Microsoft-centric (seeing as how it's their conference), but keep in mind that development technology (and Xbox) is the part of the company that generally gets things right. I've had a number of e-mail exchanges with that VP doing one of the keynotes, because that's how engaged they are with the people who use their stuff.
There a couple of time slots where there are two things I want to see, so I'll have to pick one and see the other in online video after that.
Recent interesting extra-curricular activities include the epic party (and open bar), where that Donkey Kong high score guy is gonna try to set a new record. If he does it, and it takes hours, I'll no doubt be drunk dialing people or something by then. They're also going to have a RockBand contest with stage and lights and stuff. I'll have to check that out.
I'm pretty excited. I went in '06 on a comp ticket (they don't do that anymore because it's so popular), and paid my own hotel and air. This time the I-COM is paying my way. I got a lot out of it because of the diversity of the audience and sessions, and I suspect I will this time as well.
And I was surprised too that there's a session on using PHP on IIS, Silverlight media on the LAMP stack, a panel discussion on open source with people from Mozilla and Zend, and a fairly extensive user interface tract. It's definitely not the Microsoft we knew circa 2001 or so.
I leave a week from Tuesday for Vegas and The Venetian!
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