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I just watched some of the coolest demos I've seen in a while.  Ray Ozzie gave the opening keynote address for Mix 07. I hate to say it but he stated nothing more than the obvious direction of technology, IMHO. Ray's address was quickly followed by Scott Guthrie who received a very warm greeting -- and rightly so! Scott was there to deliver the goodies which were also received very warmly.  There were plenty of announcements about Silverlight and the driection we are headed there. The big impressive thing we announced was our cross-platform CLR support and the integration of .NET into Silverlight as a programming model.  I loved watching the demo's of using Expression to create the user experience and Visual Studio to provide the remote debugging support -- on a Mac none-the-less!

In just a few short hours, I'll be heading to Las Vegas to attend Mix 07.  I'm not sure what to expect but I'm very excited to see our customers in person. I'm probably one of the few who doesn't really enjoy Vegas.  However, this time will be different because I'll have the conference to go to. (I'm just wondering if my 18-year-old version of myself is shaking his head at that last statement).  In any case, if you are heading to Mix and want to get together to talk about IIS 7, ping me and I'll do my best to find you.

As many know, the Microsoft MVP Global Summit is happening this week. As if the affair wasn't a big enough deal, Jeffrey Palermo threw a big party at Jillians in Seattle.  I went last night just to talk to some of this industry's most well known bloggers and influencers who were in attendance.  Rory even decided to show up -- albeit fashionably late.  I was shocked to see so many people show up.  With the sponsors taking care of cool books, free software, t-shirts, grab bags, a buffet of free food and an open bar tab I guess I shouldn't be surprised at all! 

As you may know, we have already announced that the IIS team was working with Zend to improve PHP performance on the Windows platform. While that fact might stand alone as pretty cool, I also found this link on Brad Abrams blog about an Microsoft Ajax library for PHP.  I find both of these initiatives to be extremely cool.  Look for more information coming soon

Being a member of the IIS team, I often find myself checking blog posts to see what the members of the product team are blogging about.  However, since Powershell came out, I find myself doing more and more work on my scripts. It's a bit annoying to have to jump out of Powershell to go read blog posts.  As such, I've written a few quick scripts to help me read IIS.NET from my pretty blue shell. For those of you who are already familiar with powershell and don't want to read the long blog post, you can download my blog script from the DownloadCENTER: http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1387

For those of you looking for IIS information, this blog post is not for you. For those of you that just like general computer information, read on and enjoy.

I have completed the final pieces of the Logging UI for Vista and posted them on the DownloadCENTER.  I've completed functionality to allow you to configure central binary logging, central W3C logging, and site defaults.  I've modified the look and feel of some of the pages and I've even added tool tips that show what configuration is being changed with each control.