PDC Birds-of-a-Feather

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 launch at PDC09 – be sure to check out their website for more information at http://www.pluralsight.com

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.

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.  Wiley and its acquired companies have published the works of more than 400 Nobel laureates in all categories: Literature, Economics, Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, and Peace.

There core businesses publish scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals, encyclopedias, books, and online products and services; professional/trade books, subscription products, training materials, and online applications and Web sites; and educational materials for undergraduate and graduate students and lifelong learners.  Wiley’s global headquarters are located in Hoboken, New Jersey, with operations in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Canada, and Australia.  The Company’s Web site can be accessed at http://www.wiley.com.  The Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols JWa and JWb.

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 sophisticated grid, grouping, charting, diagramming, Excel reporting, enhanced editing, and many more user-interface capabilities to your .NET applications. Essential Studio Enterprise includes Syncfusion Essential Tools, Essential Grid, Essential XlsIO, Essential PDF, Essential Schedule and much more. Dynamic and feature-rich, Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise has everything developers need to create enterprise-class applications.

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, ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed, Professional Excel Development, The Nomadic Developer, Effective REST Services via .NET: For .NET Framework 3.5, Essential LINQ, Visual Studio Tools for Office 2007, and C# 2008 Fundamentals I and II.

Pearson Education is home to such renowned technology publishing and information portal brands as Informit.com, Addison-Wesley Professional, Cisco Press, Exam Cram, IBM Press, Prentice Hall Professional, Que Publishing, and Sams Publishing. Visit Booth #1016 to see the latest releases for Developers and pick-up a free Silverlight 4 poster (while supplies last).

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. Infragistics NetAdvantage for .NET controls empower Visual Studio 2005/2008 developers to build and style richly compelling user experiences, data visualizations and line of business application user interfaces on every platform WPF, Windows Forms, ASP.NET and Silverlight.

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 catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and galvanizing their adoption by amplifying “faint signals” from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.

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 headquarters in Japan and U.S. headquarters in Kirkland, WA, employing more than 850 worldwide. GrapeCity’s mission is to turn new ideas for software into marketable products and business solutions. For over 25 years, the company has provided enterprises around the world with state-of-the-art software tools, solutions, and services to help accomplish this goal.

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 interface development and Microsoft technologies, Telerik helps customers build applications with unparalleled richness, responsiveness and interactivity. Created with passion, Telerik products help thousands of developers every day to be more productive and deliver reliable applications under budget and on time.