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...