There will be a track dedicated to user experience at MIX this year.  That is very cool.  (For those who don’t have the pleasure of knowing everything about me, I spent some time in the human-computer interaction field as a student, so user experience is close to my heart.) MIX UX, a three-day user experience [...]

And so the consolidation continues: Sun to Acquire MySQL Surprise! Oracle Buys BEA

Well, I’m all registered for MIX08.  Flights are booked.  Hotel is booked. I vote that Treasure Island be the unofficial offsite Canadian MIX hotel.  :)  It’s a 4-star hotel.  I got a room for around $120/night.  Maybe it’s the Scottish in me, but I couldn’t bring myself to pay for a room at the Venetian [...]

The VB team has released some compelling performance numbers for Visual Basic 2008.  A few dramatic ones:   VB 2005 (ms) VB 2008 (ms) Build a large multi-project solution (explicit build operation) 1,618,605 57,543 Responsiveness after opening a project 255,551 38,769 Responsiveness after adding a member to a class 327 36 Invoke Intellisense to see [...]