My numbering of the days makes sense until I get too large a number, so I just said “Last Day” … :)
I’m soooo bad with names and there’s so much people and information overload… I think I need to start doing what Jesse Liberty and Tim Heuer were doing, and that’s taking a picture of everyone they collected a business card from…. or take notes :)
I realized after I posted earlier that I had spent some time waiting for that first event on Thursday night talking with Rob Burke.We had some great conversation and I had him mixed with someone else when I blogged obviously.
Another developer that I met early on and keep forgetting to mention is Brian Henderson. Great guy from Seattle, and I can’t go any further without mentioning John Stockton! … he was one of the breakfast club on Wednesday! (Brian may have been there too… too long ago!)
Friday I woke up tired… or had too little sleep maybe.
I intended to hang out at 3rd Place since I was going to be leaving at noon.
I went to Seema Ramchandani’s talk on Building an Optimized Graphics-Intensive Application for Silverlight and it was great… got her blog down so I can check out that material. I sat behind Mike Harsh and next to Steve Commisso. When I had checked email earlier, CigDem (CrocusGirl) had started following me on Twitter. About 2 minutes later I feel a touch on my shoulder and she introduces herself. I had forgotten she was going to be there, so that was a nice surprise meeting one of the few female Silverlight bloggers outside of Microsoft!
I combined my ‘meet and greet’ in 3rd Place then with introducing CigDem to various and sundry Silverlight folks. Gotta make and keep that network humming :)
I ran into Galen Murdock of Veracity and got one of those awesome TShirts with the acronyms arranged in a star on the back… thanks Galen, and I look forward to exchanging email with you.
After saying goodbye to everyone, I ran into Bryant Likes maybe two times in different areas of the Venetian on my way to the shops … go figure!
A bit of shopping, then to my truck and down the road. For those of you that asked, I wrote down the “going over Hoover Dam” experience:
From the time I hit the first backup north of the Dam until I was freely moving south of the dam, I traveled 5.1 miles. That 5.1 miles took 43 minutes!
One stop in Kingman for gas, then to the house.
Another MIX in the taillights and I must say I enjoyed every minute!
If I could change any one thing about MIX for next year, it would be to NOT have it only two weeks apart from the Summit… whew… what a month!
Now to try to catch up on blogging Silverlight :)
If I met you at MIX, stay in touch, if I didn’t, email is always cool anyway!
Stay in the ‘Light!
posted @ Saturday, March 21, 2009 7:45 PM