Get familiar with Mint

Learn some of its syntax

Understand how to get started with it

Explore some of the semantics

Get enough to explore more on your own

That Mint is an alternative approach to web UI

That Mint is pretty usable as-is, today

That Mint is... refreshing! (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Architect, Engineering Manager/Leader, "force multiplier"

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Sr Distinguished Engineer, Capital One

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Performance Management for Engineering Managers

Books

Developer Relations Activity Patterns (w/Woodruff, et al; APress, forthcoming)

Professional F# 2.0 (w/Erickson, et al; Wrox, 2010)

Effective Enterprise Java (Addison-Wesley, 2004)

SSCLI Essentials (w/Stutz, et al; OReilly, 2003)

Server-Based Java Programming (Manning, 2000)