Pete Brown
Pete Brown is a Microsoft MVP for Client Application Development (Silverlight and WPF), an INETA speaker, and an Architect/Project Manager for Applied Information Sciences in the Washington, DC area.

From his first sprite graphics and custom character sets on the Commodore 64 to 3d modeling and design through to Silverlight, Surface, Xna, and WPF, Pete has always had a deep interest in programming, design, and user experience. His involvement in Silverlight goes back to the Silverlight 1.1 alpha application that he co-wrote and put into production in July 2007. Pete has been programming for fun since 1984, and professionally since 1992.

In his spare time, Pete enjoys programming, blogging, designing and building his own woodworking projects and raising his two children with his wife in the suburbs of Maryland. Pete’s blog is at http://www.irritatedVowel.com/Blog , and you can follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/pete_brown.

My Talks:
A Lap Around Silverlight 3
Length: 90 minutes
Tags: Developer | Silverlight | RIA | Media

Join us for a lap around the new features in Silverlight 3 ranging from business application development to rich media, validation, navigation and out of browser support. If you’re new to Silverlight 3, or new to Silverlight itself, you’ll want to join us for this end-to-end look at Microsoft’s premier RIA platform. We’ll cover the basics from Silverlight 2, but focus primarily on the new announcements from mix09 and new features in Silverlight 3.