Dx3 is a new conference that is being put on by the fine folks from Lynda.com. Lynda already produces theFlash Forward conference and film festival which has become the place to be in the Flash world. This new conference will not be limited to a single technology and will instead deliver sessions on a broad array of technologies and tools as they relate to interactive designers. The conference is being sponsored by both Microsoft and Adobe and both companies will be their trying to persuade us to use their technologies. It will be put up or shut up time as they both lay their technologies out on the table and let us make our own judgments. This conference should provide answers to the questions that everyone has been wondering about when it comes to Flash, Apollo, WPF, WPF/E, etc.
More important than the Microsoft-Adobe showdown is the impressive array of speakers and sessions. This list is continuing to grow but it includes speakers that I consider to be top of the food chain in the interactive design space. The list of speakers includes Brendan Dawes, Erik Natzke, Mario Klingemman, Beau Amber, Aral Balkan, Brad Becker, Darren David, Mike Downey, Grant Hinkson, Robby Ingebretsen, Joey Lott, Chris Orwig, Danny Patterson, Josh Ulm, and Eric Zocher. If you are familiar with the Flash and WPF communities then you will understand it when I say that this is the A-list! If you don’t know these names then you need to come and rub elbows with the best in the business.
Another reason that I think you should come to Dx3 is because I too will be presenting. Myself, Mark Ligameri, and Joshua Jacobson will be deconstructing the WPF Yahoo Messenger project and we will have lots of good information about real-world WPF development. You can find out more about our session here.
Stay tuned because there are more exciting announcements to come about Dx3!
See you in Boston!
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