MIX08 Begins Tomorrow

Just arrived in Vegas for this year’s MIX conference. The big thing at this conference is Silverlight 2.0. A greatly enhanced Silverlight platform will bring a trimmed down version of the .NET CLR to the browser. Allowing you to write RIA apps hosted in the browser in your .NET language of choice.

Silverlight Version 1.0 your only choice for langauge was Javascript – and for me if I can avoid Javascript I will do it anytime that I can. It is not that Javascript is a bad language – but C# is much better – at least for me. 

Looking forward to the conference – it my first conference since going out on my own 9 years ago. I hope to get energized and inspired by getting away and being able to focus on some new technology – sort of like a mini-sebatical.

I will try and blog each day with the highlights from the sessions and conversations.

I had two .NET celebrity sightings – first was checking into the hotel – Miguel de Icaza- of the mono project - who I saw present a few years ago at a user group meeting in Waltham MA. The scecond was during the Wintellect scavenger hunt. One of the things we needed to find a Silverlight illuminary and we ran into Scott Hanselman of the famed Hanselminutes podcast. He was gracious and let us take a picture with him – he obviously just arrived and all he wanted to do was check-in – thanks Scott.