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Posts Tagged ‘Travel’
MIX10 Registration Opens
For the fourth year in a row I have the opportunity to be on the team behind the Microsoft MIX conference. This year the conference will be held in Las Vegas at Mandalay Bay in March, 2010. We’re going to be doing some amazing things and I welcome your suggestions on how to make this [...]
PDC09
I am fortunate to be on the Microsoft team that hosts and develops the Microsoft PDC, Professional Developers Conference. The PDC conferences are the “premiere developer conference,” in the eyes of the community and brings thousands of attendees from all over the world. I was in the role of Creative Director for the [...]
Mayday & Zfunk
I was able to get to see my friends Johnny Mayday, (aka) John Coyle, and Zfunk (aka Zache Davis.) John and I went out to dinner in “Little Ethiopia,” his neighborhood in Los Angeles. I had a fantastic time with them and miss them both.
My Time at The Future of Web Design
Future of Web Design
November 3&4, 2008
New York
The Future of Web Design conference is in its second year and has a solid following. Armed with engaging and influential speakers, the conference seeks to provide guidance and inspiration to the audience (maybe 1000 people?) to which they speak. I attended this conference, held in New York, November [...]
PDC2008 Recap
I think it was interesting being the only designer in a sea of hardcore developers. In fact, some of the devs I spoke with were really surprised that Microsoft had people like me — Designers, people who care passionately about User Experience — actually worked here. The impression many had was we were 100% developer-focused, [...]
REMIX08: Norway
It’s already been a little while, but I thought I’d post the photos I took while in Norway, giving a session at the Norwegian Developers Conference in Oslo.
I used Expression Media 2 to generate the image gallery, using the “Make HTML Gallery” function and their “Ruby” template. It was super-easy to generate the gallery, and [...]
REMIX08 Australia Recap
I wanted to post a link over to DelicateGenius’s blog post regarding the REMIX08 Australia wrap-up. It gives a decent overview of the event, and might provide some enthusiasm for any Aussies reading this to attend.
REMIX08 Australia, Days 1-4
Tim Aidlin, Design Evangelist, writes about his experience as a featured speaker at REMIX08 Australia
REMIX08 Australia (Days 5-7)
I travelled to Melbourne and checked into my hotel the next day, after stopping by the event-site. Melbourne was much colder than Sydney, and I was a bit ill-prepared for it in the evening. I met up with the rest of the speakers and we ate.
I arrived at Town Hall in time for the keynote. [...]
Cirque de Soleil WPF & Silverlight
In addition to taking on the Creative Director role for the MIX08 conference, I worked in a team of 6 to develop the WPF and Silverlight applications they demonstrate during the Cirque de Soleil part of the Day 1 Keynote address. Check it out.
I *wish* that dialogue box hadn’t been open at the very beginning, [...]
MY Time At MIX06
Tami and I got back from Las Vegas today, and are crashing out, catching up on television recorded over the week with the DVR. We were in Las Vegas Sunday through today, staying at The MGM Grand Hotel. I was attending a Microsoft-Sponsored conference, Mix06 at The Venetian Hotel.
Sunday We left [...]