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48 hours in Melbourne: AURemix07

Monday, May 7th, 2007

The Crown Promenade is a good hotel. Above is a view of my hotel room late last week. You are a walk away from losing your cash playing poker in the casino; a little further away from Southbank eateries.  Oh, and Melbourne does the best coffee outside Venice, in my book.
Now imagine never seeing outside, [...]

John Lam and Jim Hugunin: DLR Presentation

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Microsoft's John Lam and Jim Hugunin go large with the DLR at MIX07. Here are my notes whilst listening and watching the presentation:
What to expect: a Mac, TextMate, Javascript, Python, Ruby, Safari and Silverlight.  TextMate equals text editing. Silverlight is not binary, its just XML and text. You can break it apart and look at the [...]

By the light of Dynamic Silverlight

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Keeping secrets is tough. Hearing about the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) from John Lam in February this year was one of those secrets that kept well.
John Udell interviewed John Lam, and has a backgrounder here. Some in the Ruby community didn't see this coming.
Jim Hugunin has a posting on the new DLR, open source nature [...]

Doing more than Dumb Video

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

Dumb Video is hard. You spend all your time editing, fixing audio, encoding and uploading.
Smart Video is going to be easy with this Microsoft Silverlight stuff. URLs, chapters, and deeper sub-tagging. All these ideas are flowing through my mind from this conversation from Uncle Dave, the Life Kludger.
Imagine a canvas of videos and podcasts. Zoom [...]

Las Vegas is booked out. So ReMIX in Australia

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Are you are losing sleep because:

Elvis left the building some 30 years ago in August 1977?
Myf Warhust thinks Elvis serves fish and chips somewhere in Bendigo, Victoria?
Las Vegas MIX07 has been completely booked out?

Don't lose another minute of sleep!
The MIX experience is being transported and ReMIX'd at the Crown Promenade on 25-26th June 2007.
Remix Australia will be the first of its [...]

You will want to visit MIX07

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Michael Arrington Will Mix it Up at MIX!
Michael Arrington, founder and editor of TechCrunch, will be joining Ray Ozzie, Scott Guthrie and many more web luminaries at this year’s MIX. Via TechCrunch, a weblog “dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies”, Michael is known for being one of those most likely [...]