MIX, Microsoft’s conference for developers with designer blood running through their veins, is going to kick off in a few hours at the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino. Will and our new rockstar writer Marin will be there, but will the allure of all those gambling machines, street hookers and cheap drugs keep their coverage from flowing? The world will soon find out, but for those of you who want to be the first to know, if you’re the type of person who lives to break news, then you’ll want to go here: live.visitmix.com
You have to install Silverlight, which I know sounds like a pain in the ass, but it shouldn’t be that much of a hassle, and after that you’ll be able to watch these Windows Phone Series 7 related talks:
Title: The Windows Phone Developer Story
Who: Windows Phone 7 Series Developer Mini-Panel
Time: 11:30AM
Ask questions about: Developing on the Windows Phone 7 Series, End-to-End App Development
Title: Designing the Windows Phone 7 Series
Who: Albert Shum
Time: 12:30PM
Ask questions about: Designing the Windows Phone 7 Series, Designing for Mobile Experiences, The right and left brain of Design
Title: Developing Games with XNA on Windows Phone 7 Series
Who: Michael Klucher and Shawn Hargreaves
Time: 1:00PM
Ask questions about: XNA, Game Development for Windows Phone
Title: Welcome to Windows Phone 7 Series
Who: Joe Belfiore
Time: 3:00PM
Ask questions about: Hardware, UI, Marketplace, Apps, Ecosystem
Title: UI Design with Expression Blend for the Windows Phone 7 Series
Who: Christian Schormann
Time: 4:00PM
Ask questions about: Expression Blend, Mobile UI Design
That should give you quite a lot of content to digest, enjoy!