Nick Hodge is a professional geek at Microsoft Australia who has been actively involved in the open source community in Australia over the last 12 months, speaking at and sponsoring various conferences focused on Python, PHP, Drupal, and WordPress. He works on contributions to open source codebases and tools to support HTML5, Internet Explorer 10, and Windows Azure. Hodge advocates for cross-platform communication tools like Skype.

1. Nick Hodge
nhodge@microsoft.com @NickHodgeMSFT
Professional Geek
Microsoft Australia

8. (me) Last 12 months in Australia
 PyCon-AU (sponsor, keynote)
 Hosted Open source developers at TechEd 2010
 PHP Pre-day at Open Source Developers Conference (OSDC)
 PyCon-NZ
 DrupalConfs, Wordpress Camps …
 Spoken at LCA
 School of PHP
 Contributions to Open Source codebases

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15. HTML5 at the center enables developers to build sites that work across browsers;
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light-weight Web Matrix provides free open source tools

16. Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview
• 12th April 2011, ~12 week cadence
• ECMAScript 5 Strict conformance
• More CSS3 (Gradients, Transitions, Multi-columns, Grid)
HTML5Labs : rapid releases
• IndexedDB
• FileAPI
• WebSockets
• Media Capture API

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ActiveSync
Exchange
Web Services
Webmail

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20. * Analysis conducted by Geeknet in 2010 on Open Source projects worldwide

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35. http:// REST Web ServicesXMLoData AtomPub RSS
Tools for Windows Azure

37. “We know that people want more connection and richer communication,
across many devices and around the world … We’ll continue to invest
in and support Skype clients on non-Microsoft platforms.“
- Steve Ballmer

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