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Agenda

 

Saturday, October 15, 2011
Time.Net1ShareP ITProShareP DevSQL ServerMobile CommCloud ComputingAgile.Net2Mobile Comm 2AdvancedSilverlightAdvanced 2IT ProMixedMixed2Rails
8:00 AM
to
8:50 AM
Registration
8:50 AM
to
9:00 AM
Welcome
Michael Steinberg
9:00 AM
to
10:30 AM
Keynote - .Net Nuggets
Jeffrey Richter
11:00 AM
to
12:00 PM
Extending Visual Studio 2010
Mike Huguet
SharePoint and Workflow - What's new in 2010
Steve Boldt
Understanding SharePoint Disaster Recovery
Michael Foertsch
SQL Server Tips and Tricks
John Paul Cook
Introduction to iPhone Game Programming Using Cocos2d Framework
Mohammad Azam
Benefits of MVVM in WPF and Silverlight
Ryan Andrus Vice
Remoteness vs. Agility
Allen Hurst
.NET Reflection: Taking a look at .NET from the inside out
Shawn Weisfeld
Augmented Reality for Consumer Devices (and shortcuts for Windows Phone)
Jared Bienz
Scalable Concurrent C++ Using Microsoft ConcRT and AMP
David Cravey
Using ASP.NET Forms Authentication in Silverlight Applications
Rich Dudley
Creating Powerful WEB.API’s with WCF WEB API (currently in Preview)
David Walker
Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Interoperability: Voice, Video, Conferencing, IM, and Presence
Byron Spuirlock
Building Natural User Interfaces (NUI) for Business/Pleasure with XAML, Kinect, WiiMote and OpenNI
Michael Heydt
Using SOA
Markus Egger
Adventures of a .NET developer in Rails land
Claudio Lassala
12:00 PM
to
1:00 PM
Wintellect Q & A/Meet and Greet
Jeffrey Richter
SharePoint Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather
Lunch
Leading-edge Rich Internet Application (RIA) for Over 50% of the World’s Drilling Rigs
Pason Systems
Lunch
Techfest Jeopardy
Whitaker IT
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
User Group Leader Summit
William Assaf
Lunch
Lunch
Connecting with the Kinect
Sungard
Lunch
Lunch
Virtual Brown Bag
Claudio Lassala
1:15 PM
to
2:15 PM
Introduction to Parallel development in .Net 4.0
Kerry Huguet
Customizing My Sites
Michael Doyle
SharePoint Workspace: Why you can't live without this tool!
Corey Roth
Java + SQL Server + Unicode = Big Headache
Peter Tran
Basic UI Design for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone
Jared Bienz
This thing called Cloud
Tex.M Anthony
Bursts of Joy : Introduction to Test Driven Development
Tim Rayburn
MVx: Making Sense Out of the Model View Patterns…
Rob Vettor
Coding for Fun - An Introduction to the Kinect SDK
Jason Awbrey
Data In the Stream: Introducing Microsoft StreamInsight
J. Sawyer
Using the MVVM pattern in Silverlight and WPF
Ryan Richard
All of jQuery
George Mauer
Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, What’s really the Truth?
John Weston
Windows 8 and the XAML Story
Tony Champion
Development of an entire system
Markus Egger
Rails Intrigue
Ben Scheirman
2:30 PM
to
3:30 PM
Back to Basics - Threading in .NET
Kyle Kellin
SharePoint object model
Constantin Dragomirov
Data Visualization made easier in SharePoint 2010
Steve Boldt
SQL Admin Best Practices with DMV's
William Assaf
Building a PhoneGap Application
Kevin Lee
This thing called “Office 365”
Tex.M Anthony
Self-Organizing Teams - Chaos or Triumph?
Robbie Mac Iver
A Tour of .NET Fundamentals
Mike Huguet
Implementing Nutty Squirrels iPhone Game Using Cocos2d, SpaceManager and LevelHelper
Mohammad Azam
Native XAML Users Interfaces For Windows 8 Using Modern C++
David Cravey
Silverlight Data Centric Business Applications
Robert Stewart
Assert.IsHappy (developer);
Jacob Foshee
Microsoft Lync Server 2010: Transforming the Way People Communicate
Byron Spuirlock
Adding Geocoded Information to Your Applications
Rich Dudley
Leveraging the Data Grid with Hazelcast
Stephen Nimmo
Introducing a new feature to a Rails App: from beginning to end
Claudio Lassala-Ben Scheirman
3:45 PM
to
4:45 PM
Ditch the Designer: Building a More Maintainable Model with the Entity Framework Code-First API
Brian Sullivan
Design patterns using XSL to generate web part user interfaces
Paul Galvin
Enabling custom web services for SharePoint in Silverlight and Windows Phone 7
Brian Bedard
SQL Server System View basics
Robert Stewart
Windows Phone 7 Design Techniques
Jared Bienz
SharePoint in the Cloud; Is it Time? Time to Find the ROI.
Mattew Lathrop
Introduction to Agile/Scrum
Mike Moles
Design Patterns by Example
Rob Vettor
Things I Wish I Knew A Year Ago Windows Phone Development
Scott J. Peterson
Secure Coding Practices in .NET 4.0
Ben Floyd
Silverlight 5 Pivot Viewer
Tony Champion
Team Foundation Build 2010
J. Sawyer
MEF IT UP! With the Managed Extensibility Framework!
David Walker
Gamification
Robert Brackenridge
Unit Testing in SharePoint 2010
Chris Weldon
Deploying Rails Applications: Lessons Learned
Michael Koby
5:00 PM
to
6:00 PM
VS 2010 tips and Tricks - Advanced
Zain Naboulsi
Visualizing Your Data with Mapping Services in SharePoint 2010
Mark Freeman
Getting the most out of SharePoint Enterprise Search
Corey Roth
SQL Server 2008 Indexing Strategy
Peter Tran
Code for the iPhone and iPad without learning Objective-C
Jason Awbrey
Extending Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Online via the Windows Azure Platform.
Apollo Gonzalez
Values of the Fittest
Chris Weldon
Cross Platform Development with Mono and C#
Michael Koby
Windows 8
Markus Egger
What's New in JDK 1.7
Weiping Wang
What’s New in Silverlight 5
Tony Champion
SharePoint 2010 and Exchange 2010. How to bring the two together, without breaking either.
Mark Watts
Hyper-V Windows Server It’s time to Virtualize. How to prepare for the Cloud.
John Weston
Clojue Collections and Functional Programming
Steven Reynolds
Wrangle Your Source Like a Boss with Git
Ben Scheirman
Rocking WebForms with jQuery
Rich Dudley
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