{"id":125,"date":"2007-05-01T12:59:01","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T19:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jsholmes31.wordpress.com\/2007\/05\/01\/thoughts-on-mix07-so-far"},"modified":"2007-05-01T12:59:01","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T19:59:01","slug":"thoughts-on-mix07-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/thoughts-on-mix07-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on MIX07 So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"msgcns!6C72B8E39DF8C4E1!795\" class=\"bvMsg\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silverlight.net\">Silverlight<\/a> is pretty freaking sweet. Check it out.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m actually excited to learn about <a href=\"http:\/\/ajax.asp.net\/\">AJAX programming with ASP.NET<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>It looks like DevDiv is doing some really <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asp.net\/downloads\/futures\/\">kick-ass work<\/a>. Congrats guys!<\/li>\n<li>That said, I&#8217;ve had a freaking HARD time getting <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=89146&amp;clcid=0x409\">Orcas Beta 1<\/a> installed. The DVD I got with my conference welcome pack was corrupted or something and downsloading it is a <em>pain<\/em>. Kitty&#8217;s going to get her DVD for me now and I&#8217;ll give that a try.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m really glad to see more Mac support from Microsoft. Nobody&#8217;s going to write a web app that doesn&#8217;t work on Macs, especially in this age of social computing.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m totally excited for my new job. And totally excited for what I was working on in my old job to be released to the public. It&#8217;s going to blow people away what they can do with that stuff.<\/li>\n<li>The moderator for the social networking discussion was suboptimal.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s freaking <a href=\"http:\/\/weather.msn.com\/local.aspx?wealocations=wc:USNV0049\">hot in Vegas<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The Venetian has <a href=\"http:\/\/venetian.com\/#ID=VTNLUXURY\">super nice basic rooms<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I haven&#8217;t gambled at all yet. That makes me sad. I&#8217;ll have to go lay $100 on the pass line.<\/li>\n<li>I was too tired last night to go to the Facebook party at the Playboy Club. I&#8217;m either getting sick or getting old. Given the events of this morning, I think sick is the answer.<\/li>\n<li>What can I get for a souvenier for Heather?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<div style=\"display:inline;margin:0;padding:0;\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/MIX07\" rel=\"tag\">MIX07<\/a><\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silverlight is pretty freaking sweet. Check it out. I&#8217;m actually excited to learn about AJAX programming with ASP.NET. It looks like DevDiv is doing some really kick-ass work. Congrats guys! That said, I&#8217;ve had a freaking HARD time getting Orcas Beta 1 installed. The DVD I got with my conference welcome pack was corrupted or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/thoughts-on-mix07-so-far\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thoughts on MIX07 So Far<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3ictG-21","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":123,"url":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/the-end-of-an-era\/","url_meta":{"origin":125,"position":0},"title":"The End of an Era","author":"john","date":"April 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"After something like 5 years on the MSN (now Windows Live) Messenger Team, I'm moving to a new role at Microsoft. 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