On the 1st of June I had the pleasure of giving a talk at the Remix conference in Melbourne, Australia on the Microsoft/jQuery contribution story and the new Templating engine that were announced at Mix10 in Las Vegas earlier this year. This conference punctuated the Web Camps world tour that I’ve been on and was a welcome break to enjoy someone else running a big event :-)   I loved the widescreen, colorful slide template they gave me to use and the “love the web” theme for the conference was definitely running high through the attendees.  I overheard someone say that half the attendees were non-microsoft developers which was great to see as many of the talks were on open source, geo-location, HTML5 and other topics that were useful…(read more)