Jon Paul Davies

Mix 07 UK - All the free swag I mooched

I was going to write an insightful and perceptive review of the entire Mix 07 UK conference, but work commitments meant I was a bit late to the party, and loads of other people have done a more than decent job here, here and here.
So instead, I thought I’d take you on a pictorial journey through the free stuff I managed to blag! So here it is, listed in order of complete and utter awesomeness!!

1. A plastic bag with msdn written on the side.

Ok Ok calm down - nothing special I know, but look what’s next - it’s….

2. A paper bag with Mix Uk written on the side

W00t!! We are cooking now! Look at the graphics!! It’s like the total embodiment of Silverlight rendered in green ink!

3. A plastic pen with msdn written on the side

I haven’t tested it yet, but I’m confident that it will come up to the high standard of engineering we have come to expect from all Microsoft products!!

4. Random DVD

I don’t know what is on this DVD….I’d like to think that Halo 3 is on it, but it’s probably VB 6.

5. Sweets for Dummies

Try and imagine what corpse vomit tastes like and you are not far from the flavour that these jelly treats disperse.

6. Microsoft socks
 
For keeping your feet warm obviously

7. A stopwatch with msdn written on it

This is actually a decent bit of kit. Maybe I can use it to time how long it takes for Visual Studio to boot up or switch from design to HTML view! Arf!!

8. A small wooden box with some note paper in it.

Hey, I could use this in conjunction with the pen to write Scott Guthrie fan letters! There was a developer panel called ‘Client versus Cloud’ on day 1 of the conference. I imagine ‘Cloud’ refers to the gang of nerds that surrounds The Guth between each session.

9. A 1Gig USB keychain with Conchango written on the side.

I wonder what Conchango means? Is it spanish for ‘fill it full of data and then lose it down the back of the couch’?

10. A full version of Windows Vista Ultimate

Hoorah! Top of the range OS goodness!!

11. A full version of Expression Studio

I’m actually genuinely made up with this -  it looked absolutely awesome at the conference and I’d deffo recommend it as an essential purchase for all ASP.NET developers.