Sadly, duty called and I didn't get to make it to Mix '08 this year. To make up for it, I think I'll take a couple days this week to watch some recorded sessions via teh intarweb and then drive to the Indian casino in Everett.

Here's what's in my queue:

http://sessions.visitmix.com/?selectedSearch=T26 -- Justin Smith on the NetFx 3.5 WCF Web Programming Model
http://sessions.visitmix.com/?selectedSearch=T19 – Pablo on talking to Windows Live Services via AtomPub
http://sessions.visitmix.com/?selectedSearch=BT02 – Mike Flasko’s Astoria overview
http://sessions.visitmix.com/?selectedSearch=T22 – Scott Hanselman’s MVC overview
http://sessions.visitmix.com/?selectedSearch=T28 – John Lam on the DLR
http://sessions.visitmix.com/?selectedSearch=T07 – another Astoria talk, this one from Pablo
http://sessions.visitmix.com/?selectedSearch=T13 – our very own EugeneOs on web services and Silverlight

But of course the big one for me is Creating a RESTful API with Windows Communication Foundation, presented by Haider Sabri and some friends from the MySpace developer API team. These guys have been building the public-facing MySpace REST API as a set of WCF services and were kind enough to do a talk at Mix about their experience. They even built a cool demo app -- http://www.restchess.com using WCF and shared the source for everyone to play with. There's a sweet (and highly reusable) OAuth channel in there along with lots of other goodies...thanks guys!