REMIX11 SYDNEY, JUNE 1-2

1. 01

   Shane Morris & Nick Randolph

   Real world Windows Phone 7

   Real World Windows Phone 7

   The next update for Windows Phone 7brings with it a host of new features such as multiple live tiles and background agents. In this session Shane and Nick will walk you through what these changes will mean for your application, what features will make your Windows Phone 7 application rock and how you should be designing your application today in order to take advantage of these features when they ship. Watch as Shane dissects the stunning user interface of the Qantas showcase application, only for Nick to have to pick up the pieces and stitch them back together in code.

   Nick Randolph

   Nick runs Built to Roam a consulting company that specializes in training; mentoring and assisting other companies build mobile applications. Nick currently presents, writes and educates on the Windows Phone 7 platform.

   Shane Morris

   Shane is a UX mentor; consultant and all round guru. With over 300 years experience in the industry Shane is never short of wisdom and is genuinely passionate and determined in his pursuit to help developers get better UX.

   
2. 02

   Vaughan Knight

   Game On with HTML5

   HTML5: Game On!

   Want to know what it takes to write a game in HTML5? Vaughan will demonstrate what is possible today, looking at 2D and 3D on the HTML5 canvas, game frameworks, managing audio and video, and streamlining the development pipeline. All you need to set you on your way to creating HTML5 gaming experiences that are high in doses of awesome.

   Vaughan Knight

   Vaughan has over 12 years experience working in the mobile and online space, leading cutting edge projects across media & telecommunications. Most recently he has been focused on delivering new interactive experiences for customers on web and mobile, and has found himself diving deep into HTML5. In doing so Vaughan has worked very closely pushing the limits of the HTML5 canvas, audio, and video, and has gained insights into the future of HTML5 as an entertainment platform.

   
3. 03

   Russ Weakly

   CSS3 is everything we used to do wrong

   CSS3 is everything
   we used to do wrong

   Many developers used to believe that class-free, lean markup and descendant selectors were the answer. Many developers still build websites for a single resolution, or a small range of devices. However, these practices are now being questioned. In an era of, media queries or mobile/device sniffing, semantic class names, deep selectors, hacks vs conditional comments and css driven fluid grid layouts where do we stand? What is best practice web development today? Russ Weakley will explore these topics and more… or possibly less…

   Russ Weakley

   Russ has worked as a web designer for over 20 years. His expertise covers graphic design, interface design, site architecture and standards based development especially in the area of HTML/CSS. Russ chairs the Web Standards Group which was set up to assist web developers learn about new technologies and accessibility issues. Russ has produced a series of widely acclaimed CSS-based tutorials as well as a book, "Teach Yourself CSS in TenMinutes".

   
4. 04

   Tatham Oddie & Justin Taylor

   HTML5 and Silverlight: a love story

   HTML5 and Silverlight: a love story

   All around the web, developers, bloggers and lunatics are drawing battle lines between HTML5 and Silverlight. One to rule them all? Tatham 'Tats' Oddie and Justin 'JTango' Taylor have a very different idea and they're here to spread a message of peace. In the space of an hour and using a real world example, they'll show you that one doesn't have to exclude the other and that it really is a case of 'it depends' when deciding which technology stack to harness. Even better, they'll show that both technologies can coexist in harmony rather than behaving like children in the school yard. Warning: Please check your prior preconceptions at the door, they may not apply here.

   Tatham Oddie

   Tatham is a four time Microsoft awarded Most Valuable Professional and regular presenter at conferences and events throughout Australia, New Zealand and North America. As a Principal Consultant with Readify he works with businesses to better utilise their technology investments and develop their teams. His technical focus lies around harnessing the heterogeneous environment of networks, devices and software clients we like to call 'the web' for both fun and profit. http://tath.am or @tathamoddie

   Justin Taylor

   Justin is a developer in a committed relationship with WPF, though he more and more frequently finds himself partaking in secret dalliances with Silverlight. As much as he enjoys doing this for his own personal amusement, the icing on the cake is that as a Senior Developer at Readify he actually gets paid to do it as well. Furthermore, people seem to be interested in his opinion on such issues, which is great news because it's something he's only too happy to give. He blogs at http://blog.jtango.net and rambles as @jtango18

   
5. 05

   Steven Nagy

   Ten(ish) things you didn’t know you could do with the Windows Azure Platform

   Ten (ish) things you
   didn't know you could do with
   the Windows Azure Platform

   The Windows Azure platform offers more than just the scale out PaaS features you are familiar with. In this session we'll explore some of the less well known features of the platform and new ways to leverage existing features to build highly scalable applications in the cloud and hybrid scenarios.

   Steven Nagy

   Steven is a Windows Azure MVP and a Senior Consultant with Readify. He has been delivering solutions on the .Net platform for over 7 years and currently leads projects all across the Microsoft stack.

   
6. 06

   Philip Beadle

   Making the Web easy again with WebMatrix and Razor

   Making the Web easy
   again with WebMarix and Razor

   Remember the good old days when no one chastised you for not writing unit tests, design patterns were for wall paper and code behind was the code you left on your old PC? Scripting up a bit of Classic ASP was fun, you just whacked in a few angle brackets and FTP'd your file right onto your production site and you were done. Since then ASP.Net has become a massive framework, writing tests and using design patterns has become a part of normal development and the job has become really quite difficult. Well I want to show you how two new releases from Microsoft, called Razor and Web Matrix are here to make building dynamic websites fun and especially easy again. You'll learn how to use the new Razor syntax to add some dynamic content to your site and see how cool WebMatrix is for writing Razor, deploying your site and also getting traffic reports from your site.

   Philip Beadle

   Phil has been working on DotNetNuke since the project was started way back in 2002! Philip loves to drive the quality of DotNetNuke by automating processes and testing. Philip started to work for DotNetNuke Corp in December 2009 and is loving working on his pet project innovating in the testing and build process side of the engineering team. Philip's motto is, if you can automate it you can improve it :). Philip's other passion is writing music with the awesome Ableton Live software, be careful not to ask about this unless you have a few hours to put aside.

   

1. 07

   Aaron Powell

   Chasing the evolving web: things you need to know to be a modern web developer

   Chasing the evolving web:
   things you need to know
   to be a modern web developer

   It's been a long time since we've seen browsers evolving at the rate which they currently are with Microsoft, Mozilla and Google releasing preview versions of their future browser rolling every few months, not every few years. And with each browser release we see better HTML5 support, more CSS3 support and occasionally experimental features. But how do you hit the moving target which is the modern web? Readify Senior Developer and Internet Explorer Development MVP Aaron Powell will introduce some handy tools and libraries like Modernizr, HTML5Boilerplate and others that a modern Web Developer should know about

   Aaron Powell

   By day the man in the hat is Aaron Powell, Senior Developer and Technical Specialist (Web) with Readify. By night he is a Microsoft Internet Explorer (Development) MVP and contributor on several popular open source projects such as Umbraco CMS and FunnelWeb and crusader against poorly written HTML, miss-targeted CSS selectors and ugly JavaScript.

   
2. 08

   Chris Anderson

   Silverlight 5

   Silverlight 5

   In this session, we'll take a look at the new features you'll find in Silverlight 5, and the cool things that it now enables you to do in Silverlight. There has been a lot of speculation on Silverlight's future lately, so we'll start with an overview of what Silverlight is, how it compares with HTML5, its role in the Microsoft technology stack, and what types of projects its best suited for. We'll then look at the new features available for, OOB, Elevated trust, Debugging XAML, Media, Profiling, 3D and much more.

   Chris Anderson

   Mr Anderson has been a professional developer for over 13 years, specializing in building desktop, web, and mobile business applications using Microsoft technologies for industries as wide ranging as accounting, property valuation, mining, the fresh produce industry, logistics, field services, sales, and construction. Chris works as a consultant, author, Australian representative of the SilverlightShow.net website, and is currently the Developer UX Architect at Expanz. Currently specializing in Silverlight, Chris has spoken on this topic at conferences such as Code Camp Australia, TechEd Australia, Silverlight Code Camp Australia, REMIX Australia, and numerous Sydney Silverlight Designer and Developer Network (SDDN) meetings (for which he is the organiser). He is also the author of Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 4 (and the upcoming Silverlight 5 edition, for Apress), and co-author of Professional Visual Studio 2010 (for Wrox). Chris maintains a blog at http://chrisa.wordpress.com, and can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/christhecoder.

   
3. 09

   Alex Mackey

   Dev's deep dive into Internet
   Explorer 9: 100% marketing free

   Dev's deep dive into Internet Explorer 9: 100% marketing free

   With the recent release of Internet Explorer 9 come to this session to learn what's awesome for the most important person - you the developer! In this session we will look at the new IE9/Windows 7 integration optimizations, the importance of IE rendering modes, delve into GPU acceleration and spend some time getting to know the much improved developer tooling that could mean you can fire firebug!

   Alex Mackey

   Alex is author of the Apress book Introducing .net 4.0 with Visual Studio 2010 and is a Microsoft MVP (Internet Explorer: Development). He is very involved in the programming community, a regular speaker at technical and community events, organised the .net community conference dddmelbourne.com and runs a .net user group in Melbourne (www.deveve.net). Alex works for Readify as a Senior Consultant and recently spent a few days with the Internet Explorer team in Seattle managing to not to mention IE6 even once.

   
4. 10

   Dan Beaty

   SVG and Canvas, the new way to paint

   SVG and Canvas, the
   new way to paint

   Taking a look at IE9 and other modern browsers with their powerful support for Canvas and SVG and with real world examples of how these two emerging technologies are changing the web. No longer restricted to simple graphics, both Canvas and SVG in their own way expand the possibilities to the point where native is not always required. Don't miss the opportunity to learn how to take the next step in your HTML5 journey as we use real code and real scenarios to lay the foundation for your next big Native like app.

   Dan Beaty

   Dan has 15 years in the software industry including the pleasure of having to develop for Netscape Navigator. Hoody and Jeans type of guy. Mainly provide architectural consultancy now to some of the largest corps in Australia including banks, utilities and local, state, federal government. Have recently partnered with Microsoft to showcase IE9 and how awesome experiences can be developed using its hardware acceleration. Apart from organisation architecture he also does embedded device development, and like many others is currently hacking the Kinect with glee. HTML5 on tablet and mobile devices and touch/surface apps round out his current development portfolio.

   
5. 11

   Jordan Knight

   It's a Smashup!

   It's a Smashup

   Users are demanding and the entry level for user experience is forever rising. The products and services users expect from the web means that keeping up with the Jones’s can be a never ending cycle…. But it doesn’t have to be difficult or cost a lot of time and money. In this session Jordan explores a range easy ways to implement the features your users demand in to your site with minimal code – you won’t believe your eyes when you see just how easy it can be to integrate a range of fantastic features in to your site with minimal experience and code!

   Jordan Knight

   Jordan’s passion is the web – in particular the rich web (Silverlight and HTML5 in particular). Jordan has been heavily involved in the technical community in Australia and founded the SDDN, a user group focussing on Silverlight and Windows Phone development. He is a seasoned presenter with many appearances at TechEd in Australia and New Zealand amongst others. Jordan is a Microsoft MVP and runs his own company called Xamling.

   
6. 12

   Soap Creative

   Building the World’s Biggest PAC-MAN

   Building the World's Biggest PAC-MAN

   In conjunction with Micosoft the rock stars over at Soap Creative have built the viral hit http://worldsbiggestpacman.com. It's chock full of modern web goodness like Canvas, Audio, WOFF GPU accleration. Hear from the masters what lessons they learned in building this internet sensation

Before we get into the guts of REMIX11 on June 2, come along to PREMIX, a special complimentary pre-event keynote on the evening of June 1.

Our stellar speakers will get you up to speed on the stuff that'll make you go "wow".

Hear Hungry Beast host, writer, performer and all-round funny fella Dan Ilic, give us his spin on the future of TV and the web.

Tune into Mr Percival, singer and musician, for a special once-only performance. He rocks. We promise.

Microsoft Principal Researcher Gordon Bell will take us an Extreme Lifelogging Challenge journey.

Meet the creators of the mega-hit The World's Biggest PAC-MAN, some never-before-seen Kinect goodness and a whole lot more.

This night will be epic!

Your thirst for the latest cool stuff will well and truly be quenched. And if you're still thirsty, you can sink a few drinks at the PREMIX party that'll carry on 'til late.

Want more? Don't forget PREMIX is the complimentary keynote, be sure to check out REMIX for the full shebang. We’re offering tickets to REMIX for $310 (including GST).

Seymour Centre

Corner of City Rd and Cleveland St

CHIPPENDALE NSW 2006

REMIX11 will be held at The Seymour Centre, located corner of City Road and Cleveland Street, Chippendale.

Staying there:

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