MIX11 week is here!

Vegas, we have arrived! After a great pre-day with two Boot Camp sessions spanning topics like HTML5, CSS3, Canvas, and jQuery, the Internet Explorer team is ready to kick MIX11 off with a bang tomorrow morning.

Stephanie Sullivan Rewis presents the HTML5/CSS3 Boot Camp to a packed house

At 9:00 a.m. Pacific, Corporate Vice President of Internet Explorer Dean Hachamovitch will take the stage for the opening keynote. Last year he demonstrated the power of fully hardware accelerated HTML5 for the first time and launched the first platform preview of IE9. What?s he have in store this year?

You can find out even if you?re not attending MIX11. The keynote will be live streamed across the web: Just go here to find the stream tomorrow http://live.visitmix.com/news/live-keynote.

If you can?t watch live, the keynote will be available on demand later in the day through the same link.

MIXtery MEGA box giveaway

Last week when we previewed some of the things we?re going to be doing while in Vegas, I mentioned we had one more surprise in store. If you?re attending MIX, we want to put your web dev brains to the test.

We?ll be giving away two MIXtery MEGA boxes on the last day of MIX11. Our regular MIXtery boxes will have a limited edition T-shirt inside, with randomly inserted books and more. So what?s in the MEGA boxes?

� A sweet new laptop! The HP Pavilion dm1z is a LAPTOP Editor?s Choice Award winner, and features AMD?s new Fusion APU ? providing a great web browsing experience on Internet Explorer 9 on a small form factor laptop. Take advantage of hardware acceleration through AMD?s powerful new APU chip!

� A full set of all 5 giveaway books, covering topics like web standards, HTML5, CSS3, and more!

� One of each of the 5 limited edition shirts we?re giving away at MIX11 ? in your size!

� And an Internet Explorer 9 laptop bag to haul everything back home.

So, the big question, how can you win? We?re not going to tell you everything yet, but we?ll give you two tips: follow us on Twitter @IE, and attend some of the sessions we?ve been highlighting on Exploring IE.

We?ll give some tips on Twitter regarding the sessions to attend to find the clues you?ll need to solve each day to win. When the last clue drops on Thursday, be quick on the draw and the MEGA box will be yours!

If you have more questions, or want to see the rules and regulations for the contest, just drop by our booth in The Commons area in the convention center, and we?ll post them there.

Now I know, if you?re not at MIX11 this year, you?re probably wishing you could give it a shot to crack the clues. You?ll get a chance though ? we?ll post them out on Exploring IE after MIX11 wraps up.

Good luck to all MIX11 attendees ? we?ll be back with more recaps and updates throughout the week!

Gina Philips Jamie Gunns Ananda Lewis Kate Bosworth Tamala Jones