November 2009
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PDC09 BOFs a Great Success!-Feedback Wanted
Thanks to all the hosts and volunteers who collectively made the Birds-of-a-Feather sessions at PDC09 a huge success!
Also, thanks to those of you who provided feedback on how to make the sessions even better next time.We’ll work on reaching more people, maybe a somewhat larger room and getting the content out to the community at-large.
If you have another thought post-PDC please leave a...
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BOF Sessions: Wed 11/18/2009
We had some great sessions on Tuesday, opening day, many of which were SRO so arrive early today.
Wednesday 11/18
11:30 am-12:30 pm Developers on Better Design, User Experience and Why It Matters Co-Hosts: David Kelley and Jason Beres
1:00-1:45 pm BOF @Lunch ASP.NET MVC – Share Your Stories From The Trenches Fishbowl Panel
2:00-3:00 pm Shoud I Use Silverlight, MVC, or Web...
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Community Roundtable Adds Twitter I/O
We are excited to announce that the Community Roundtable on Tue 11/17 6:00-7:00 p.m. which has an outstanding group of expert panelists will be accepting questions via Twitter during the event.
In addition, several community volunteers will be tweeting live during the event so you can follow the discussion even if you are not able to attend PDC.
Follow the session at...
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BOF Sessions: Tue 11/17/2009
PDC is just getting started and we kick off w/ the following BOF sessions today.
Tuesday 11/17
11:00 am-12:00 pm How to Build and Enrich Your Technical and Local Communities Co-Hosts: Joseph Guadagno, Chris Woodruff
12:30-1:15 pm BOF @Lunch Will Cloud Computing Change Your Life? Co-Hosts: Simon Guest, David Pallman, Eugene Shustef, Aaron Skonnard, and Michael Stiefel
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[BOF Session] DSLs and Modeling Behaviors with...
Announcing another timely and relevant BOF topic, this one on Oslo (renamed SQL Server Modeling after this topic went to press).
DSLs and Modeling Behaviors with Oslo
Oslo provides capabilities for modeling data using “M”, but in addition using the DSL tools available to us with MGrammar should provide a good framework for modeling behaviors and business rules in our applications. Have you tried...
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Community Roundtable Panelist Spotlight: Fritz...
Bring your questions for Fritz to the INETA BOF Community Roundtable on Tuesday, 11/17 from 6:00-7:00 pm at PDC 2009. Get there early for a door prize drawing.
URL: http://www.pluralsight.com/community/blogs/fritz/default.aspx
Passion: Fritz is keenly interested in several aspects of development including MVC, Silverlight, AJAX, and Sharepoint. In his free time he is dabbling in Silverlight...
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Community Roundtable Panelist Spotlight: Patrick...
Bring your questions for Patrick to the INETA BOF Community Roundtable on Tuesday, 11/17 from 6:00-7:00 pm at PDC 2009. Get there early for a door prize drawing.
URL: http://www.patrickhynds.com
Passion: Patrick’s passion is taking nothing more then an idea and turning that in a solution that supports a business. Patrick observes that as the industry changes, the more it stays the...
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[BOF Session] Is Open Source Old News?
Microsoft’s stance on open source has shifted dramatically. Not only is Microsoft releasing an ever-growing stable of open source projects (including the DLR, MEF, and MVC), they’re even contributing back to the Linux kernel. Has the open source movement has moved beyond controversy? In this BOF, we’ll find out. What are the new battles? Who won the old ones?
We will discuss: ● How you...
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Community Roundtable Panelist Spotlight: Scott...
Bring your questions for Scott to the INETA BOF Community Roundtable on Tuesday, 11/17 from 6:00-7:00 pm at PDC 2009. Get there early for a door prize drawing.
URL: http://www.hanselman.com
Focus: .NET
Bio: My name is Scott Hanselman. I work out of my home office for Microsoft as a Principal Program Manager, aiming to spread good information about developing software, usually on the...
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Pluralsight Joins as a Community Roundtable...
We are pleased to announce Pluralsight as a sponsor for the INETA BOF Community Roundtable on Tuesday, 11/17 from 6:00-7:00 pm. Pluralsight will be donating a handful of Pluralsight On-Demand! training free week trials. Pluralsight is a Microsoft .NET training provider offering classroom and On-Demand! training. Pluralsight has some exciting new features and course roll-outs targeted for...
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Eugene Shustef Joins as Host for BOF @Lunch Cloud...
We are pleased to announce that Eugene Shustef will be one of the expert hosts for the BOF @Lunch: Will Cloud Computing Change Your Life? on Tue 11/17 12:30-1:15 pm.
Eugene Shustef is a Chief Engineer for Global Technology & Offering Development (GTOD) at Xerox Global Services, where he has worked in various roles since 2004. His current assignment is to lead the GTOD Advanced Technology...
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Community Roundtable Panelist Spotlight: Sara Ford
Bring your questions for Sara to the INETA BOF Community Roundtable on Tuesday, 11/17 from 6:00-7:00 pm at PDC 2009. Get there early for a door prize drawing.
URL: http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford
Focus: CodePlex, VS Tips
Bio: Sara Ford is the Program Manager for CodePlex, Microsoft’s open source project hosting site. Sara joined Microsoft in 2001 as a software tester on the Visual Studio...
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[BOF Session] How to Build and Enrich Your...
How to Build and Enrich Your Technical and Local Community
Whether you are involved in a strong vibrant community or want to start one we can all share our experiences. Here are some of the topics that we will cover.
How to Build a Technical Community
How to Enrich that new community
How to Enrich Society with the Technical Community
Open Discussion
Co-Hosts: Joseph Guadagno, Chris...
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Community Roundtable Panelist Spotlight: David...
Bring your questions for David to the INETA BOF Community Roundtable on Tuesday, 11/17 from 6:00-7:00 pm at PDC 2009. Get there early for a door prize drawing.
URL: http://www.davidchappell.com
Focus: Cloud Computing
Bio:
David Chappell is Principal of Chappell & Associates in San Francisco, California. Through his speaking, writing, and consulting, he helps people around the world...
[BOF Session] Tooling on Agile Teams
The PDC BOF team is happy to announce another compelling Birds-of-a-Feather session. Find an updated list of all BOF sessions here.
Tooling on Agile Teams
Agile practices focus on customer value and team interactions. There is a significantly growing and important set of tools that work to help Agile teams be more “agile”. In this session, we would like to hear what you have to say about tools...
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Community Roundtable Moderator Spotlight: Carl...
Bring your questions for the Panel to the INETA BOF Community Roundtable on Tuesday, 11/17 from 6:00-7:00 pm at PDC 2009. Get there early for a door prize drawing.
URL: http://www.dotnetrocks.com/
Focus: VB.NET
Bio: Carl Franklin has been a figurehead in the VB community since the very early days when he wrote for Visual Basic Programmers Journal. He authored the Q&A column of that...
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[BOF Session] Silverlight Development Tools -...
The PDC09 Birds-of-a-Feather team is pleased to announce another great BOF session. We’ve got an excellent collection of topics all around, so check out the updated list of all BOF sessions.
Silverlight Development Tools — Picking the Right Ones
The list of tools for Silverlight is bewildering: Prism, MVVM, RIA Services, ADO.NET Data Services, MEF, Reactive Framework and the list goes on....
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Community Roundtable Panelist Spotlight: Miguel de...
Bring your questions for the Miguel to the INETA BOF Community Roundtable on Tuesday, 11/17 from 6:00-7:00 pm at PDC 2009. Get there early for a door prize drawing. URL: http://tirania.org/blog/ Focus: .NET on everyting not Windows Bio: Miguel de Icaza, co-founder and CTO of Ximian, is one of the foremost luminaries in the Linux development community and one of the world’s most...
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TechSmith Joins as a Community Roundtable Sponsor
We are pleased to announce that TechSmith as a sponsor for the INETA BOF Community Roundtable on Tuesday, 11/17 from 6:00-7:00 pm. TechSmith will be software books for door prizes at the event.
Founded in 1987, TechSmith Corporation provides practical business and academic software tools and services. TechSmith’s solutions enable users to capture, record and enhance digital content...
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[BOF Session] Agile -- Tales of Triumph,...
More and more development teams are turning to agile methodologies like Scrum, Lean, XP, FDD and others to improve their effectiveness. This session encourages learning from each other by sharing experiences on issues like:
What methodologies teams are using and how they are working.
Shedding old habits and the redirecting organizational commitments for success.
Development techniques like...
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Wiley Joins as a Community Roundtable Sponsor
We are pleased to announce that Wiley as a sponsor for the INETA BOF Community Roundtable on Tuesday, 11/17 from 6:00-7:00 pm. Wiley will be donating books for door prizes at the event.
Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has been a valued source of information and understanding for more than 200 years, helping people around the world meet their needs and fulfill their aspirations. ...
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[BOF Session] Behavior-Driven Development vs....
Announcing another timely and exciting BOF discussion for PDC09. Make plans to join the conversation! And don’t forget to checkout the roll-up of all BOF sessions that we’ve announced to date.
Behavior-Driven Development vs. Test-Driven Development: What’s What?
Automated testing is a hot item these days and Microsoft is jumping on board with ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio 2010....
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[BOF Session] Fear and Loathing in IT Security
BOF @Lunch: Fear and Loathing in IT Security
We are pleased to announce the third in our series of special lunchtime BOF sessions.
Thursday, 11/19 Lunchtime
Wherever we look we find security threats that are made out to be the end of the world as we know it. The problem is that there is a lot of wolf-crying going on in this space.
Is this part of your job description or responsibilities?
...
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Syncfusion Joins as a Community Roundtable Sponsor
We are pleased to announce that Syncfusion as a sponsor for the INETA BOF Community Roundtable on Tuesday, 11/17 from 6:00-7:00 pm. Syncfusion will be donating software for door prizes at the event.
Essential Studio Enterprise Edition is a comprehensive suite of all Syncfusion’s Windows Forms, WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET, Business Intelligence, ASP.NET MVC, and BackOffice components. Add...
October 2009
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Pearson Education User Group Program Joins as a...
We are pleased to announce Pearson Education User Group Program as a sponsor for the INETA BOF Community Roundtable on Tuesday, 11/17 from 6:00-7:00 pm.
The User Group Program will be donating a 10-product library as a door prize at the event, including: Essential Silverlight 3, WPF Control Development Unleashed: Building Advanced User Experiences, Programming .NET Compact Framework 3.5,...
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Infragistics Joins as a Community Roundtable...
We are pleased to announce that Infragistics as a sponsor for the INETA BOF Community Roundtable on Tuesday, 11/17 from 6:00-7:00 pm. Infragistics will be donating software for door prizes at the event.
Also check out Jason Beres, Director of Product Management for Infragistics, BOF Session on Developers on Better Design, User Experience and Why It Matters
Four Platforms. One Package....
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O'Reilly Joins as a Community Roundtable Sponsor
We are pleased to announce that O’Reilly as a sponsor for the INETA BOF Community Roundtable on Tuesday, 11/17 from 6:00-7:00 pm. O’Reilly will be donating an assortment of .NET Books for door prizes at the event.
O’Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, research, and conferences. Since 1978, O’Reilly has been a chronicler and...
[BOF Session] Developers on Better Design, User...
The PDC BOF team is pleased to announce another Birds-of-a-Feather session.
Developers on Better Design, User Experience and Why It Matters
What is the return-on-investment of building better User Experiences (UX)? How does User Interface (UI) design affect your business?
Come join the discussion on why User Experience matters and how it applies to the real world.
In the current world of web...
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[BOF Session] Exception Management – Handling and...
The Birds-of-a-Feather team announces another great BOF session for PDC09. Here’s a topic that is relevant to just about every software developer and architect: strategies for errors and exceptions.
Exception Management – Handling and Reporting Exceptions Effectively
There are many ways to handle exceptions in .NET. What do you do to ensure that exception information is not lost? How do...
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GrapeCity Joins as a Community Roundtable Sponsor
We are pleased to announce GrapeCity as a sponsor for the INETA BOF Community Roundtable on Tuesday, 11/17 from 6:00-7:00 pm. GrapeCity will be donating a HDTV as the grand door prize at the event.
GrapeCity makers of FarPoint Spread and Data Dynamics ActiveReports is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, an international award-winning software firm and the world’s largest component vendor with...
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Miguel de Icaza Joins Community Roundtable Panel
We are pleased to announce that Miguel de Icaza will be joining our panel for the INETA BOF Community Roundtable on Tuesday, 11/17 from 6:00-7:00 pm. Miguel is co-founder and CTO of Ximian, and the father of the Mono Project.
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David Pallman Joins as Host for BOF @Lunch Cloud...
We are pleased to announce that David Pallman will be one of the expert hosts for the BOF @Lunch: Will Cloud Computing Change Your Life? on Tue 11/17 12:30-1:15 pm.
David Pallmann is Director of Custom Application Development for Neudesic, a Microsoft National System Integrator, where he is responsible for Azure technical readiness and delivery. He is a co-organizer of the national Azure...
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Telerik Joins as a Community Roundtable Sponsor
We are pleased to announce Telerik as a sponsor for the INETA BOF Community Roundtable on Tuesday, 11/17 from 6:00-7:00 pm. Telerik will be donating software for door prizes at the event.
Telerik is a leading vendor of ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, WinForms and WPF controls and components, as well as .NET Reporting, .NET ORM , .NET CMS and Web Testing tools. Building on its expertise in...
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Simon Guest Joins as Host for BOF @Lunch Cloud...
We are pleased to announce that Simon Guest will be one of the expert hosts for the BOF @Lunch: Will Cloud Computing Change Your Life? on
Tue 11/17 12:30-1:15 pm.
Simon Guest is the Senior Director of Technical Strategy in the Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) group at Microsoft, responsible for helping developers worldwide deliver practical and elegant solutions using...
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Michael Stiefel Joins as Host for BOF @Lunch Cloud...
We are pleased to announce that Michael Stiefel, principal of Reliable Software, Inc. will be one of the expert hosts for the BOF @Lunch: Will Cloud Computing Change Your Life? on Tue 11/17 12:30-1:15 pm.
As a member of an OASIS Technical Committee he helped develop a core SOA Reference Model and related Reference Architectures. He is also a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP. He was...
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Aaron Skonnard Joins as Host for BOF @Lunch Cloud...
We are pleased to announce that Aaron Skonnard will be one of the expert hosts for the BOF @Lunch: Will Cloud Computing Change Your Life? on Tue 11/17 12:30-1:15 pm.
Aaron is co-founder of Pluralsight where he focuses on cloud computing, service-oriented architecture (SOA), XML and Web services technologies. He focuses primarily on the Microsoft platform and is considered an expert in...
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Sara Ford Joins Community Roundtable Panel
We are pleased to announce that Sara Ford will be joining our panel for the INETA BOF Community Roundtable on Tuesday, 11/17 from 6:00-7:00 pm. Sara is currently Program Manager for CodePlex and the author of Visual Studio Tips.
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PDC09 BOF Session List and Schedule
Updated November 17, 2009
Tuesday 11/17
11:00 am-12:00 pm How to Build and Enrich Your Technical and Local Communities Co-Hosts: Joseph Guadagno, Chris Woodruff
12:30-1:15 pm BOF @Lunch Will Cloud Computing Change Your Life? Co-Hosts: Simon Guest, David Pallman, Eugene Shustef, Aaron Skonnard, and Michael Stiefel
1:30-2:20 pm Agile — Tales of Triumph, Tribulation, and...
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[BOF Session] Claims-Based Identity
The PDC BOF team is excited to announce we’ve selected another Birds-of-a-Feather session. We will continue selecting sessions as the PDC09 approaches, so propose a session today!
Claims-Based Identity
Are you interested in or currently building out applications that use claims-based identity? Come join others who are also working on similar systems and discuss your successes and pain...
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[BOF Session] Should I Use Silverlight, MVC, or...
The BOF Team is please to announce the addition of the following session:
Should I Use Silverlight, MVC, or Web Forms for Web User Interface Development?
When ASP.NET was released Web Forms was the only choice for web user interface development. As .NET has evolved there are now several powerful technologies including Web Forms, Silverlight, and ASP.NET MVC which overlap making it challenging to...
INETA Community Roundtable
Have you ever wished you could peek behind the curtain and get a glimpse into the future? Ever wanted to know why something is the way it is in the .NET universe? The INETA BOF Community Roundtable is your chance to ask those questions. Better yet, like all BOF sessions, you also get to hear what is on the minds of your peers in the community.
Tuesday, 11/17/2009, 6:00-7:00 pm, Room 309, Los...
September 2009
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Request for comments on Agile topic areas
We’ve had a number of Agile related BOF proposals submitted. They range from a discussion of techniques for supporting Agile with Team System, and a general Agile tools discussion, to Test Driven Development, and using Scrum to help deliver successful projects.
Given the limited number of slots for all the BOF sessions, we’d like to get some feedback about what areas of Agile topics are of...
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BOF @Lunch: Will Cloud Computing Change Your Life?
We are excited to announce the second in our series of special lunchtime BOF sessions. Don’t forget there is still time to submit your own BOF session proposal.
For the BOF Team Chris
Tuesday, 11/17 12:30-1:15 p.m.
“Cloud Computing” is a reality and is changing the technology industry. Your professional life will be impacted whether you choose a solution from Amazon,...
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BOF @Lunch: ASP.NET MVC – Share Your Stories From...
We’re pleased to announce the first of three special lunchtime Birds-of-a-Feather sessions we’re calling the BOF @Lunch Sessions. In addition to getting you excited to attend the BOFs, we hope you’ll be inspired to propose a BOF session of your own. More session announcements shortly.
For the BOF Team, Stuart
BOF @Lunch: ASP.NET MVC – Share Your Stories From The Trenches
Wed...
Spread the word...
If you blog, we’d like to ask you to spread the word about the PDC09 BOF sessions. Please send folks to www.pdcbof.com.
And if it’s appropriate, please include one of the logo images below in your post.
What Do INETA BOF Sessions Mean to Me?
INETA’s (http://www.ineta.org) mission “is to offer assistance and resources to community groups that promote and educate their membership in Microsoft’s .NET technologies.” You can read the “official” about us page on the INETA site (http://ineta.org/About.aspx). However let me take a minute to set aside the “official” reply and tell you a little...
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PDC Site BOF Info: closing the loop
In case you haven’t found your way here from there, the official PDC09 BOF page, live on the Microsoft site, is: http://microsoftpdc.com/WhatsHappening/Announcing-Birds-of-a-Feather-Sessions-at-PDC09
You’ll find this blog to be the main source of information about BOF sessions at PDC09 in LA, but it’s useful to close the loop.
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Proposal Form and Instructions
PDC09 Birds-of-a-Feather Session Proposal Form and Instructions Preparing to Submit a Proposal A Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) session is intended to be an open discussion on a technology topic of interest NOT a presentation or a product pitch. Any technology related topic will be considered.
It is strongly suggested that you review the What is a Birds-of-a-Feather Session? and Elements of a...
August 2009
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Elements of a Good Sesson Proposal
In a nutshell, a good Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) session proposal clearly communicates the session topic to the reader.
What is challenging for many people writing a proposal is being able to view it from the viewpoint of attendees who need to be “sold” on the topic. In addition, attendees may not be as familiar with the topic as the person writing the proposal.
The Title
The proposal...
What is a Birds-of-a-Feather Session?
A Birds-of-a-Feather Session (BOF) session is a conversation among a community of peers around a topic about which the participants are passionate. There may be some participants who are more knowledgeable than others, or have more experience; some who have less. Some folks will be well known, some will not. Some folks may want to just listen.
The point of a BOF session is to bring together...