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Catching up on MIX09 Videos

MIX09 has been and gone, but videos of the sessions that took place have been published online (see MIX09 Videos) which is fantastic because for those of us who couldn’t make it, or for those who couldn’t attend some sessions, it means we can catch up online, for free, in our own time, whenever we like!

On the website, at the time of writing, there are 124 videos online(!), and I’m guessing most of them are approximately 1hr long, that’s ~124 hours of video, just over 5 days! Wow! Clearly, if like me you are in a full time job, you’ve got a social life and you’ve got other responsibilities, you’re unlikely to be able to catch up on all of this….
Baring that in mind, I’ve picked out the videos that I’m planning to catch up on, and even now, there’s still so much to go through – so much to learn so little time! Here’s my pick list, in absolutely no particular order:

1. Microsoft ASP.NET 4.0 Data Access: Patterns for Success with Web Forms
2. Developing and Deploying Applications on Internet Information Services (IIS)
3. Cloud Computing: What's in It for Me?
4. Caching REST with Windows Communication Foundation
5. Creating a "Next Generation" E-Commerce Experience
6. Building Data-Driven Scalable AJAX Web Pages
7. Designing the Windows 7 Desktop Experience
8. Web Form Design
9. Building High Performance Web Applications and Sites
10. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework
11. File|New -> Company: Creating NerdDinner.com with Microsoft ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC)
12. Microsoft ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC): Ninja on Fire Black Belt Tips
13. Using the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio to Build Cloud Services
14. A Lap around Microsoft .NET Services
15. What's New in Microsoft SQL Data Services
16. Choosing between ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC
17. Wireframes That Work: Designing (Rich Internet) Applications
18. Microsoft ASP.NET: Taking AJAX to the Next Level
19. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Web Developers
20. Five Killer Scenarios for the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit
21. Web Development Using Microsoft Visual Studio: Now and in the Future
22. Microsoft ASP.NET 4.0 : What's Next?
23. Building Web Applications with Windows Azure
24. Measuring Social Media Marketing

It’s worth mentioning that out of the 124 videos, there are 31 that are Silverlight related!!! If you paid close attention to my own picklist of videos to watch, you’ll probably of noticed that I haven’t chosen any Silverlight videos… This isn’t because I don’t like Silverlight, because I do, and I think it really will revolutionise the way we access media online, the thing is, for me, its a whole new ball game and I simply haven’t got the time to delve into it….!