The Portland White's

Browse by Tags

• CSS
• Family
• IE7
• IE8
• PDXUX.Net
• Rockband
• Seattle Code Camp
• Silverlight
• thecodetrip
• Web Development
• Xbox 360

• Finally recovered from MIX08

  Wow. It's been three weeks since I left the MIX08 conference at Las Vegas. I think I'm finally recovered and can start blogging again. I have a lot I want to say, so instead of writing one really long post I think I'm going to break it up Read More... Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:12 PM by kelly | 0 Comments Filed under: MIX08

• Spring 2008 - The Code Trip

  I'm not sure how many of you have heard of The Code Trip . It's a bunch of geeks hoping on a bus and driving to visit you. Why, you may ask? What are they possibly going to want to do in Missoula, Montana? Tim Heuer will be one of the guys on Read More... Posted Sunday, February 24, 2008 3:55 PM by kelly | 0 Comments Filed under: Silverlight, MIX08, thecodetrip

• IE8 preview at MIX

  In case you didn't hear, Dean Hachomovitch will be showing off IE8 during one of the keynotes at MIX. I remember just 2 years ago when Dean stood up during his keynote at the first MIX. He was wearing a sweet IE7 t-shirt. He started off by apologizing Read More... Posted Saturday, February 23, 2008 3:14 PM by kelly | 0 Comments Filed under: Web Development, Family, IE7, MIX08, IE8

• Rockband for the family and at MIX

  A couple weeks ago I purchased a copy of Rockband for the Xbox 360. After we got it I stayed up that first night and sung the song Creep by Radiohead like 8-10 times until my throat hurt and my voice was hoarse. I don't do good at the part where he Read More... Posted Monday, February 18, 2008 8:12 AM by kelly | 1 Comments Filed under: Family, MIX08, Rockband, Xbox 360

• MIX08 Restyle

  Well, I finally did it, I got my entry submitted for the MIX Restyle Contest , and it only took me 2 years. (Also viewable here .) Ever year when this contest comes around I try to get my coworkers at whatever company I'm working at to go in and help Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 10:15 AM by kelly | 0 Comments Filed under: Web Development, CSS, MIX08

• Rumors: Silverlight 2.0 Release date in August

  So I'm currently attending the Seattle Code Camp held at DigiPen in Redmond. I've sat in on a couple sessions where the topic was Silverlight 1.0/2.0 and the presenters are Microsoft employees. Just now, during the current session I'm attending, Read More... Posted Saturday, January 26, 2008 3:57 PM by kelly | 0 Comments Filed under: Silverlight, Seattle Code Camp, MIX08

• Behind the story - Office 2007 Ribbon

  I just found this while browsing the sessions page for MIX08. Yeah, I'll definitely be attending this presentation. This is information I'd love to see presented to the PDXUX.Net group. Read more about it on the MIX blog. The Story of the Ribbon Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 11:28 PM by kelly | 0 Comments Filed under: PDXUX.Net, MIX08

• Register for MIX08

  Only 53 days are left until MIX, and the early bird registration has been extended until 1/31/2008. It's time to get that PR request in and approved. If you're going to be there and would like to meet-up, feel free to drop me a line. Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 15, 2008 10:00 PM by kelly | 0 Comments Filed under: MIX08