…and the industry said corporation is part of. I am a better geek, a better public speaker, a better writer, a better performer and even a better person for my experiences at Microsoft. For all this and more, they will always have my gratitude. I entered as a friend two and a half years ago, and next week, I leave as one.
Thank you, Microsoft. It's been a great journey.
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- Global Nerdy: Someone Comes to DPE, Someone Leaves DPE (or: Welcome, Susan Ibach!)
- Trevor Turk: Links for 1-13-11
- Gears Within Gears: Microsoft technology isn't what killed MySpace
- ZURB: Develop for Chrome First
- » Product Launch Blog: Launched: MetroPulse Analytics and Mapping Platform
- Lessons Learned: The Lean Startup SXSW + bundle + tournament
…to sound like a crazy cheer leader or anything, but the future looks bright. Or to put it in my own humble terms: Microsoft has seen the light and is accepting what we have known all along: Web standards and open source is where the future lies.
You can read the whole thing over at his blog, Design is Philosophy .
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- John Resig: Spring 2010 jQuery Talks
- casperfabricius.com: Curiosities of HTML5
- jimmy.thinking: MIX10 - IronRuby and IronPython - Part 1 (Intro)
- carpeaqua by Justin Williams: From iPhone to Windows Phone 7
- Opscode Blog: Opscode Reaches Three Thousand Platform Customers, To Launch New Service Capabilities
- ZURB: Develop for Chrome First
Nothing good can come from this. Here are Scott Hanselman , Miguel de Icaza and Phil Haack , hanging out right by the Channel 9 Live soundstage at the MIX conference , working away on something so very wrong that Scott can't conceal the guilty look on his face.
The Channel 9 soundstage is where they're holding interviews all through the day at MIX - tune in to live.visitmix.com to see them!
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- DigitalHobbit: Upgrading an older MacBook Pro to 6GB of RAM
- Videos related to 'Ruby on Rails - Part 1: Hello World': Context Aware Computing: Understanding Human Intention
- Transcending Frontiers: Nearmap - showing how to be responsive
- Scottish Ruby Conference: Brightbox - Gold Sponsors
- jimmy.thinking: Leadership of IronRuby and IronPython
- casperfabricius.com: Curiosities of HTML5
…Sites . In this session he showed how you can make your own sites pinnable for IE9 (and 10) and why you'd want to do it: increased return visits!
If you weren't at MIX, fret not: in about 24 hours, you'll be able to catch the video of John's presentation on his session's page .
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- casperfabricius.com: Curiosities of HTML5
- Vineet Gupta | Computer Programmer: Microsoft's Recent Announcements on Web Technologies
- Bamboo Blog: HTML5-powered Ajax file uploads
- Axon Flux // A Ruby on Rails Blog: IE still runs 65% of the web, and that sucks. But luckily, there are some references that can help.
- I can't code! Now what?: You got served! The Epic: Part 1.
- Dr Nic: Dead simple JavaScript Unit Testing in Rails
Don't forget to mark September 13th through 16th, 2011 in your calendar: it's when the next major Microsoft developer conference takes place. Stay tuned for more details.
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…Android and even more so than Safari for iPhone. Attention other mobile browsers: it's on!
The Payoff
I'll leave it to Super Popped-Collar Guy to say it for me:
That's right: your first chance to get your paws on the dev tools comes next month. Watch this blog for the announcement, and start working on your app ideas!
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- carpeaqua by Justin Williams: From iPhone to Windows Phone 7
- Nick Hammond: Cloud based backup choices
- : Rhodes To Ruby
- ZURB: Should Designers Listen?
- Brian's Tech Blog: Mobile Ruby - cool stuff
- How Software is Built: Interview with Stefano Fornari - CTO - Funambol
As with Day 1, today's MIX11 keynote - which largely focused on what's coming up in Windows Phone (and yes, lots of good stuff there) - is available via live stream. Point your browser, whether it's IE9 . IE10 Platform Preview 1 or any of those other, lesser browsers at live.visitmix.com to catch it.
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- casperfabricius.com: Curiosities of HTML5
- A Piece of Our Mind: The MetaSpring Blog Carnival: Issue 7 - Web Development
- Signal vs. Noise: Product Blog update: tons of new Extras, Basecamp for beginners, a funny Campfire video, and more
- jimmy.thinking: MIX10 - IronRuby and IronPython - Part 1 (Intro)
- John Resig: Spring 2010 jQuery Talks
…Internet Explorer 9 (and 10). Their murals were shown in the main hall afterwards and I snapped some photos of them - click any of the pictures to see them at full size:
If you like this sort of thing, you might enjoy this video produced by RSA Animate, in which an artist provides a rendition of Dan Pink's lecture on motivation:
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- jimmy.thinking: MIX10 - IronRuby and IronPython - Part 1 (Intro)
- John Resig: Spring 2010 jQuery Talks
- ZURB: What Motivates Us To Create Awesome Product?
- Lee Munroe: SXSW Here We Go
- Transcending Frontiers: January at The Frontier Group
- New Relic: Web Developers: If you haven't tried New Relic, sign up during #SXSW and enter to win an iPad 2! Come by booth 1327
…sides of the maze, rather than emerging from the other side, you emerge in a new Pac-Man maze. And there are a lot of them. Hence the name.
The World's Biggest Pac-Man runs on any browser that supports HTML5, but thanks to the hardware acceleration, it's even nicer on Internet Explorer 9.
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…Fishbowl is an update to the original FishIE tank that now uses more HTML5 technologies. Paintball is another great demonstration of what fully hardware accelerated HTML5 Canvas delivers.
Get your hands on IE10 Platform Preview 1 and take it for a spin!
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- ZURB: Develop for Chrome First
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