…IE9 team promised to release new previews of the browser about every eight weeks. Eight weeks after MIX10, they kept their promise and released Platform Preview 2. It featured improved JavaScript performance and better adherence to HTML5/CSS/JavaScript standards.
Eight weeks has passed since Platform Preview 2, and it's time for another release. I'm pleased to announce the launch of Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 3! Go ahead, download it , …
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…MIX10 Conference back in mid-March. If you missed it, here's MIX10's Day 2 keynote session , in which the Internet Explorer team's supreme Kahuna, Dean Hachamovitch , made the announcement (it's the first part of the keynote, so you don't have to watch or scan through the entire two hours):
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or watch the video in WMV , high-def WMV or MP4 format.
As …
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This post is part of the " MIX10 - Pumping Iron on the web" series:
Part 2.1 - Server-side web development with dynamic languages
Part 2.2 - Client-side web development with dynamic languages
Part 3 - Using scripting in static applications
Coming soon: Part 4 - Web-app extensibility with scripts
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This post is part of the " MIX10 - Pumping Iron on the web" series:
Part 2.1 - Server-side web development with dynamic languages
Part 2.2 - Client-side web development with dynamic languages
Coming soon: Part 3 - Using scripting in static applications
Coming soon: Part 4 - Web-app extensibility with scripts
The original post was mistakenly removed, so it's been reposted with the original post date, 4/26/2010. Sorry if this confuses your blog readers or causes any other inconvenience.
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…actually impressed with how humble and down-to-earth the VIP's of the .NET community seemed to at MIX10. Another thing you could about us is that we are trying to avoid dealing with real-world problems by going into Ruby. We leave the .NET developers to maintain and extend existing enterprise solutions built on Microsoft technology, while we go out and build entrepreneurial web apps from scratch. Personally, I like being curious, passionate and on the cutting edge, but it might not be for …
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This post is part of the " MIX10 - Pumping Iron on the web" series:
Part 2.1 - Server-side web development with dynamic languages
Coming soon: Part 2.2 - Client-side web development with dynamic languages
Coming soon: Part 3 - Using scripting in static applications
Coming soon: Part 4 - Web-app extensibility with scripts
The original post was mistakenly removed, so it's been reposted with the original post date, 4/25/2010. …
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- Talk Like A Duck: Of Procs, Blocks, and Dancing Angels
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- Rails Inside: Screencast: How To Upgrade Your Rails 2 App to Rails 3 in 25 Minutes
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This post is part of the " MIX10 - Pumping Iron on the web" series:
Web-app development with dynamic languages
Using scripting in static applications
Web-app extensibility with scripts
This past week I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at MIX10 in Las Vegas about using IronRuby and IronPython on the web. If you're a TV-person instead of a reading-person, here's a video of the talk:
As I usually do, this series of posts will be a write-up of my talk ... but first ...
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Some Design Sessions from MIX10
Want some interesting lunchtime viewing on design? Look no farther than these two videos.
The first is Bill Buxton's MIX10 session, simply titled An Hour with Bill Buxton , a conversation about design:
Don't have Silverlight? Get it here or download the video in
WMV , WMV (High) or MP4 format.
If you haven't the time to watch the video of Buxton's presentation, …
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- John Resig: Spring 2010 jQuery Talks
The Videos are Up!
It's only been a couple of days since MIX10 has wrapped up, but as promised, we recorded videos of all the sessions and they're now available online. It doesn't matter if you missed a session or missed the entire conference, you can now catch (or re-catch) them all. The videos are all "two-shots"; that is, they feature two views: one of the speaker, shown in a window on the left, and one of the current slide, shown in a view on the right. They're …
- How Software is Built: Interview with Stefano Fornari - CTO - Funambol
- Nick Hammond: Cloud based backup choices
- Hampton Catlin - Home: Rhodes To Ruby
- Brian's Tech Blog: Mobile Ruby - cool stuff
- Luigi Montanez: Respect the Browser - Lessons from JSConf 2009
Pictured above: The scene at MIX10 after the Day 2 Keynote.
Whether you've just come back home from SxSWi , are heading back home from MIX10 or expect to go to a conference sometime soon, you want to make sure that it was worth the ducats you or your company spent sending you there. It's one thing to come back from a conference, all inspired to try out the ideas you picked up, test drive the new technologies showcased and stay in touch with the people you met, …
- John Resig: Spring 2010 jQuery Talks
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