October 2009
17 posts
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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,...
Oct 29th
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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....
Oct 28th
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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...
Oct 23rd
[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...
Oct 22nd
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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...
Oct 22nd
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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...
Oct 22nd
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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.
Oct 22nd
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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...
Oct 20th
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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...
Oct 19th
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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...
Oct 17th
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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...
Oct 16th
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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...
Oct 14th
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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.
Oct 13th
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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...
Oct 6th
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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...
Oct 3rd
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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...
Oct 3rd
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...
Oct 3rd