PDC Birds-of-a-Feather

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 Team responsible for:

• ·         Incorporation of emerging technologies into current platforms
• ·         Delivering preview version of the future technology platforms
• ·         Development of advanced software services and components

Eugene is a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology with a BS degree in Computer Science and an MBA in Finance.

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 Core team. After 3 versions of Visual Studio, she left software testing to work on the Visual Studio Power Toys. The power toys were among the first projects on CodePlex when the site launched in 2006. Sara joined the CodePlex team shortly afterwards. Sara’s life-long goal is to become a 97-year-old weightlifter, so she can be featured on the local news.

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 Woodruff

For more sessions, go to the latest list of BOF sessions for PDC09.

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 understand, use, and make better decisions about new technology.

David has been the keynote speaker for conferences and events on five continents, and his seminars have been attended by tens of thousands of developers, architects, and decision makers in forty countries. He has also spoken at many universities, including the National University of Singapore, Moscow State University, and Sweden’s Uppsala University, and taught in the executive program of Duke Corporate Education.

David’s books have been published in a dozen languages and used in courses at MIT, ETH Zurich, and other educational institutions. He is Series Editor for Addison-Wesley’s award-winning Independent Technology Guides, and he’s been a regular columnist for several publications. In his consulting practice, David has helped clients such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Stanford University, and Target Corporation adopt new technologies, market new products, train their sales staffs, and create business plans.

David’s comments have appeared in The New York Times, CNN.com, and many other publications. Earlier in his career, he wrote networking software, chaired a U.S. national standardization working group, and played keyboards with the Peabody-award-winning Children’s Radio Theater. David holds a B.S. in Economics and an M.S. in Computer Science, both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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 for Agile teams? What tools work? What tools don’t work? What tools are missing in the industry? What tools can you not live without? Come join the discussion or simply listen to what your peers have to say.

Host: Joel Semeniuk 

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 magazine as well as many feature articles for VBPJ and other magazines. He has authored two books for John Wiley & Sons on sockets programming in VB, and in 1994 he helped create the very first web site for VB developers, Carl & Gary’s VB Home Page. He now teaches hands-on VB .NET classes for his company, Franklins.Net. He has taught developers from Citigroup, Aetna, Fidelity Investments, Fleet Bank, Foxwoods Casino, UTC, Hubbell, Microsoft, Mohegan Sun Casino, Northeast Utilities, to name a few. Carl is co-host of a weekly talk show on his website for .NET programmers called .NET Rocks! Carl is MSDN Regional Director for Connecticut.

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. What are the core tools for being successful? Let’s get together and talk about how to select the right tools for the right job. Perhaps more importantly, let’s also talk about how to avoid picking the wrong tools for a project.

Host: Eric Mork

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 prominent advocates for Free Software. Before co-founding Ximian, Miguel was instrumental in the development of Linux for SPARC systems and the Midnight Commander file manager. Miguel is the founder and President of the GNOME Foundation. He was also the first recipient of the prestigious MIT Innovator of the Year award in 1999. Miguel has galvanized Ximian’s efforts to make Linux accessible and available to the average computer user, and continues to reach out globally by working with international organizations such as eMexico to introduce affordable technology alternatives, like Linux, to other nations.

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 from their computer screens so they can share information and knowledge in compelling multimedia formats, and allow others to observe, analyze and learn from their experiences. TechSmith products are used by 99 percent of the Fortune 500. Visit http://www.TechSmith.com for more information.

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 TDD, mocking, BDD, Continuous Integration, TFD, and automation
• Experiences that have proven useful in your practice.

Co-Hosts: Mike Vincent http://www.mvasoftware.net and David Starr http://pluralsight.com

For more sessions, go to the latest list of BOF sessions for PDC09.