I’ve been to Mashup Camp, ETech and MIX in the past month and a half. So has Kaliya, otherwise known as Identity Woman. She calls MS out for a lack of power bars @ MIX06 as well as the lack of an official wiki for the event. She’s right on both counts. I thought some of the logistics of ETech were suspect, but they sure did assume that every single attendee would need power and laid out power strips accordingly.

I kept seeing Kaliya at these events, but I didn’t get to meet her until she came to the SPARK @ MIX session Monday afternoon. She’s one of the organizers of the Internet Identity Workshop. Sounds like a cool event, but it’s right before my daughter Rileyanne’s first birthday and you know Jules would NEVER forgive me for missing that.

Big news from the Game Developers Conference this week is the XNA Framework. From the press release:

The XNA Framework contains a custom implementation of the Microsoft® .NET Framework and new game-development-specific libraries designed to help game developers more easily create cross-platform games on Windows® and Xbox 360 using the highly productive C# programming language. Using the XNA Framework, game developers will benefit from the ability to re-use code and game assets in developing multiplatform titles, without sacrificing performance or flexibility.

So now I can the Xbox to the list of personal technology I can program, joining my phone, my TV, my server and my laptop all with C# or VB (VB plug brought to you by Brian and Erik who think I should to switch). I wonder if XNA Framework will support WPF?

BTW, I still want an easy way to program my house and my car, but I’m sure those are coming.

Where else should the CLR live?

“We would be happy if Firefox included WPF/e in their distro” and “There will be a version of WPF/e for Linux”

• Michael Wallent, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF): The Opportunity for WPF Applications in the Browser and Beyond session

“Web 3.0 is Web 2.0 without the duct tape”

I am sick and tired of the warning dialog box for the C# 3.0 preview. Every time you launch VS it pops up a dialog reading “This is an unsupported version of Microsoft Visual C# 3.0. As such many features may not work as expected.” You know, this isn’t my first time working with alpha or beta quality software. I’m also running WinFX Feb CTP, VB 9.0 Jan CTP and the Expression Interactive Designer March CTP. None of them feel the need to constantly remind me that they’re unsupported.

Who suddenly thought C# developers need hand holding?