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title: Contemplating ReMIX 07 in Boston
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- mono
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- software development
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While catching up on about 2 weeks of Mono Subversion commit emails (about 1000), building Mono, and writing a new Facebook REST client library, I came across <a href="http://www.remix07boston.com/" target="_blank">ReMIX 07 in Boston</a>, which certainly looks interesting. I haven't been to Boston yet, and it'd be nice to at the very least, to try to buy Miguel and some of the Boston-based Mono team a beer, maybe to make up for some of my anger that sometimes blurts out into the IRC channel:
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<pre>05:48 <rtyler> god <strong>[expletive-deleted]</strong> damnit, I'm going to beat somebody up</pre><center>(<small>Which, in all fairness, usually stems from some idiot mistake on my part</small>)</center>
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<br/>The sessions on Silverlight by <a href="http://adamkinney.com/" target="_blank">Adam Kinney</a>, who I did <a href="http://unethicalblogger.com/posts/r_tyler_ballance/channel9_silverlight_interview" target="_blank">this interview</a> with, are definitely looking enticing, as I'm still trying to figure out if it's worth my time and effort, or if Microsoft is going to screw developers <strong>again</strong> (<A href="http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.13/13.06/ActiveXControlsforMac/index.html" target="_blank">ActiveX for Mac OS anybody?</a>).
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Most of the sessions seem to be targeting web developers, which is a role I find myself increasingly definable by, despite my role being clearly stated on my business card:
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/agentdero/491860249/" title="Grrrrrrrrrr" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/206/491860249_9479617d6b_o.jpg" width="250" alt="New Biz Card" /></a></center>
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Regardless, seeing what developers are doing off in la-la-Microsoft land should be interesting as most of my <a href="http://apps.facebook.com/topeight/" target="_blank">web</a> <a href="http://apps.facebook.com/fortunate" target="_blank">development</a> <a href="http://apps.facebook.com/bugtracker" target="_blank">work</a> is either in Python or ASP.NET(Mono).
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I am a little disappointed in the lack of sessions on IronPython and where that project is heading; it probably lost out to mega-mind-boggling sessions like "<em>Stop Building PowerPoint Backgrounds & Start Selling High-end Presentations</em>", which means I would have to settle on "<em>Just Glue It! Ruby and the DLR in Silverlight</em>" for my DLR fix.
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That said, will it be worth a trip across country and a couple of hundred dollars out of pocket? Any couches available in the Boston are? And of course, are Microsoft conferences <strong>that</strong> awesome?
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