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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Gil Fink&amp;#39;s Blog : DevAcademy4, MIX10</title><link>http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/gilf/archive/tags/DevAcademy4/MIX10/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: DevAcademy4, MIX10</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20917.1142)</generator><item><title>MIX10 - Summary</title><link>http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/gilf/archive/2010/03/19/mix10-summary.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:17:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b5c4f5bc-c09b-4439-a595-91a98c1847df:551732</guid><dc:creator>Gil Fink</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:comment xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/gilf/commentapi.aspx?PostID=551732</wfw:comment><comments>http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/gilf/archive/2010/03/19/mix10-summary.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MIX10 – Summary&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Home sweet home!&lt;a href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/gilf/logo_footer_59E76343.png"&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:inline;margin-left:0px;border-top:0px;margin-right:0px;border-right:0px;" title="MIX10 – Summary" border="0" alt="MIX10 – Summary" align="right" src="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/gilf/logo_footer_thumb_114D7472.png" width="132" height="60" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;I arrived today back     &lt;br /&gt;to Israel after a trip     &lt;br /&gt;of six days to the     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="MIX10 Conference Site" href="http://live.visitmix.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MIX10 conference&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;(three days conference and almost three days “on the roads”).    &lt;br /&gt;To tell the truth, I was a little disappointed from the conference.    &lt;br /&gt;I’ve expected more relevant information and less recycling of things     &lt;br /&gt;that I already know. As you know (if you followed the &lt;a title="MIX10 Conference Site" href="http://live.visitmix.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MIX10&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;),    &lt;br /&gt;there were announcements about &lt;strong&gt;Windows Phone 7&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Silverlight 4&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;OData&lt;/strong&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;protocol, &lt;strong&gt;IE9&lt;/strong&gt; and more. After being at the conference and meeting attendees     &lt;br /&gt;from all over the world, I think that &lt;strong&gt;Microsoft&lt;/strong&gt; missed an opportunity to do     &lt;br /&gt;more buzz then I think they did. Every person that I talked to said the same     &lt;br /&gt;things so apparently it isn’t only my opinion. As I see it the world of the     &lt;br /&gt;web is going to shift to platforms like &lt;strong&gt;Silverlight&lt;/strong&gt; which I’m going to learn     &lt;br /&gt;in the future in order not to stay behind.    &lt;br /&gt;Moreover, I’ve be asked why did I went to the conference. The answer is really    &lt;br /&gt;simple – from the beginning of my professional life I’ve been more web oriented.    &lt;br /&gt;So I hope this is making more sense to the people who asked me that question.    &lt;br /&gt;The next thing in mind now is my session in the &lt;a title="DevAcademy4 Site" href="http://www.microsoft.com/israel/msdn/DevAcademy4/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DevAcademy4&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; conference which     &lt;br /&gt;is going to take place next Monday in Israel. If you want to hear my &lt;strong&gt;EF4&lt;/strong&gt; session     &lt;br /&gt;you are most welcome.     &lt;br /&gt;See you there!    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="text-align:left;margin:0px;padding:4px 4px 4px 4px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dotnetkicks.com/kick/?url=http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/gilf/archive/2010/03/19/mix10-summary.aspx"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.dotnetkicks.com/Services/Images/KickItImageGenerator.ashx?url=http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/gilf/archive/2010/03/19/mix10-summary.aspx&amp;amp;bgcolor=0080C0&amp;amp;fgcolor=FFFFFF&amp;amp;border=000000&amp;amp;cbgcolor=D4E1ED&amp;amp;cfgcolor=000000" border="0/" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/aggbug.aspx?PostID=551732" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/gilf/archive/tags/Miscellaneous/default.aspx">Miscellaneous</category><category domain="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/gilf/archive/tags/Microsoft/default.aspx">Microsoft</category><category domain="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/gilf/archive/tags/Personal/default.aspx">Personal</category><category domain="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/gilf/archive/tags/Opinion/default.aspx">Opinion</category><category domain="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/gilf/archive/tags/OFFTOPIC/default.aspx">OFFTOPIC</category><category domain="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/gilf/archive/tags/Visual+Studio+2010/default.aspx">Visual Studio 2010</category><category domain="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/gilf/archive/tags/DevAcademy4/default.aspx">DevAcademy4</category><category domain="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/gilf/archive/tags/MIX10/default.aspx">MIX10</category></item></channel></rss>