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Sessions
During the Call for Speakers we had 100 submissions! From those submissions
we have selected the following sessions for the event.
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Session: 5 Classic Patterns in Everyday Code
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A 200 level presentation by
Michael Wood .
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Patterns are an important tool to use as architects and developers. They provide a common vocabulary for us to design with, as well as a common approach to a common problem. Come learn about the five most useful patterns, and how to use them in your everyday code.
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Session: 5 Easy Things to be Just a Bit More Agile
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A 100 level presentation by
Brian Prince .
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We all want to be more agile. We want a process that helps us deliver awesome code, but need to drag the rest of IT and the business along with us. How do you stop the nightmare of yesteryear, and sneak agile into your shop, right under the noses of the waterfall guardian trolls? We have five ways to be more agile without officially changing your process, or getting fired.
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Session: A little bit of Lean with Kanban
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A 200 level presentation by
Tim Wingfield .
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In our industry’s continual effort to find a better way to provide software solutions, Lean software development practices are gaining some momentum. Kanban is one part of Lean, and one I’ve used to provide value to my team and my clients in a very short time. I’ll share some of my experiences with Kanban, and help you generate some ideas on places you can use it.
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Session: Acceptance Testing With Selenium
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A 200 level presentation by
Jim Holmes .
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Unit testing is critically important, but feature or acceptance testing is every bit as important to a solid delivery of your software. Selenium is one of several open source web test tools which can help you nail down your system’s operation. In this session you’ll learn how to use Selenium to move from a user story through a specification to an acceptance test. You’ll learn how to use Selenium IDE to record tests and walk through using XPath to help make your tests a bit more flexible. You’ll also learn how to roll Selenium into automated builds and CI environments, and how extract useful reports from Selenium’s test themselves. Finally, you’ll see how you can use Selenium’s simplicity to get your feature owners, be they PMs or customers, to start helping you write your systems’ tests!
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Session: Anatomy of an IronPython Application
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A 200 level presentation by
Darrell Hawley .
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You've heard about IronPython and maybe have even taken the time to write the obligatory "Hello, World" application. Now what? The buzz around IronPython continues but there's still little guidance on tools and development processes. This presentation focuses on the basics of interacting with C# and VB.NET libraries using IronPython while introducing useful tools and techniques to get you started. Though experience with .NET is necessary, the samples and discussions are understandable to even beginning Python developers.
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Session: Automating SQL Server Administrative tasks with PowerShell
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A 300 level presentation by
Allen White .
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Most administrative functions consist of repetitive sequences of tasks which just take time. PowerShell is a powerful scripting environment which allows an administrator to automate those repetitive tasks, providing better results to the organization while saving the administrator time, and ensuring that the tasks get done properly every time. This session will give an introduction to PowerShell and demonstrate a number of scripts which help SQL Server administrators effectively manage their environments.
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Session: Creating Applications using the Model-View-ViewModel Pattern
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A 200 level presentation by
Matt Casto .
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Need a new acronym for your resume? The Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern is a variation of Model-View-Presenter (MVP) that is tailored for modern UI development platforms where the View is the responsibility of a designer rather than the developer. This has lead to the pattern becoming very popular with WPF and Silverlight application developers lately. This presentation will walk you through creating a business application from scratch in both WPF and Silverlight using the MVVM pattern.
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Session: CSS Layout Made Simple
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A 100 level presentation by
Jeff Blankenburg .
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Many of us dread the day we have to crack open a style sheet and start laying out a web page. This session will walk you through some of the simple things you can do to make this effort far less painful. We will be creating a 3-column layout, centered in the browser, that is both standards-compliant and cross-browser compatible. This will be a very code-centric presentation.
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Session: Developing Solid WPF Applications
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A 200 level presentation by
Michael Eaton .
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You've seen the intro sessions on WPF. You know how to write XAML and how to use databinding. Maybe you’ve even written an application or two in WPF. This code-focused session will help you take your WPF applications to the next level by discussing common patterns, tips, tricks and gotchas.
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Session: From Zero to XAML
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A 100 level presentation by
Michael Neel .
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Windows Presentation Foundation is "the most significant technology to come out of Microsoft. Ever." according to Mark Miller. We've all seen the demos of Visual Studio 2008 with Blend to create breathtaking UIs, but what is under the hood? Is WPF useful to the average developer cranking out WinForms applications for internal corporate use? To answer this question we will take a close look at WPF code - without Design Mode or Blend. Warning: This is a no Technotainment Zone!
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Session: Get Rid Of Visual SourceSafe??!
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A 200 level presentation by
Joe Kuemerle .
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Are you still using Visual Source Safe? Have you heard about all the other version control systems that are out there but have not had the time or patience to evaluate them? Come and learn about the ins and outs, ups and downs of Team Foundation System, Subversion, and Git : what they offer and how to integrate them into your current environment.
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Session: How I Learned to Love Dependecy Injection
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A 200 level presentation by
James Bender .
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Dependency Injection is one of those scary topics that most developers avoid. It sounds all ‘high-falootin’ and complex. It’s not. Really. We wouldn’t lie. It’s a great way to manage complexity in your system, and a great way to make your system so much more testable. And isn’t that what we all want?
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Session: Intro to the New Data Types in SQL 2008
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A 100 level presentation by
Sarah Dutkiewicz .
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From representing hierarchies to working with spatial data and FILESTREAMs, SQL Server 2008 introduces more ways of storing and querying data – relational and non-relational. This session will introduce some of the new data types in SQL 2008 and how to work with them from a developer’s perspective. We will cover sample applications that will show these new data types in action, with a look at how to work with these from both T-SQL and within code.
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Session: Introduction to Object Oriented Programming Using C#
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A 100 level presentation by
Aydin Akcasu .
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Don't quite understand Object Oriented Programming? See the evolution of a simple application from a non-OOP program to a simple, yet powerful, application using OOP. We will start with a 'Target' (bullseye) application using conventional programming, and then consider how to approach the problem using Object Oriented Programming concepts. Then, we will add even more flexibility, yet keep the code concepts simple. For a live example, see: Target Come find out what OOPS can do for you.
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Session: Introduction to Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)
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A 200 level presentation by
Jennifer Marsman .
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VSTO is a .NET Smart Client technology that allows you to build managed code applications with .NET languages like VB.NET and C#, and have the functionality of those applications manifest in the rich user interfaces of Microsoft Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook and others from the Office stack. We will walk through multiple demos to show just how easy it is to build powerful VSTO applications, demonstrating adding controls into Excel, adding functionality to the Office 2007 Ribbon UI, and adding custom task panes.
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Session: Javascript is awesome!
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A 200 level presentation by
Leon Gersing .
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Javascript has received a bad rap over the years but it's not javascript's fault! It's also not your
fault. Javascript is the first real casualty of the Browser Wars. With incompatible DOMs, event models
and runtimes developers have universally found it frustrating. What they may not have realized is
that the power to change their pain to joy was right at their fingertips the whole time... Javascript!
This session is a 100 level look at Javascript as a language and how 2 frameworks have build very different browser
abstractions with equal success and power: Prototype and JQuery. We'll examine testing Javascript, writing Javascript
and using high level abstractions through JQuery to make web based development simple and exciting.
That RIA experience is here, it's been here for years, it's time to join the revolution and learn Javascript.
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Session: Quack.NET : Ruby and Rails for the .NET Developer
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A 100 level presentation by
Matt Yoho .
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First we'll look at Ruby, an elegant, dynamic and object-oriented language that offers a greater expressiveness than many .NET developers are familiar with. We'll contrast its features and idioms with those of C#, the premiere statically-typed language on the CLR. We'll discuss the trade-offs of using the former and why C# (and similar languages) have been referred to by some not as object-oriented but as class-oriented instead. We'll then move on to Rails, and see how it frees developers to focus on the essence of web development, saving us time and effort. We'll see how Rails lets us reduce the cruft and hassle of implementing verbose patterns and "best practices" long used in the Java world and now gathering steam in the .NET community--approaches such as web MVC, Object Relational Mapping, Test/Behavior Driven Development, and Dependency Injection/IOC, among others--in a refreshingly pain-free way. We'll warm ourselves to the idea of convention over configuration, sharply contrasting with the maze of myriad XML config files, and the concept of essence versus ceremony.
Throughout, we'll explore "exotic" Ruby features such as metaprogramming and how they're used in the Rails framework to increase developer productivity and lower implementation friction, in ways that aren't yet widely available or adopted in the .NET community but should be. And we'll look at up and coming efforts, such as ASP.NET MVC and IronRuby, that are moving in the right direction and consider whether they're doing enough.
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Session: Query Tuning in SQL Server 2005 and 2008
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A 300 level presentation by
Chris Barth .
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The presentation will focus on the steps to tune queries in SQL Server 2005/2008. Some of the topics that will be covered are:
• Steps to determining when a query should be tuned.
• How to read query plans.
• System tables that will help you determine what sql is performing poorly.
• Overview of set statements that will help you troubleshoot queries.
• Effect of poor performing update or delete queries on overall system performance.
• Steps for writing better performing queries.
In addition the presentation will cover how to use query hints and when it is appropriate to use them.
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Session: Re-Thinking the UI Layer - WPF Data Templates
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A 300 level presentation by
Carey Payette .
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WPF provides developers and designers unheard of UX power with relative ease. It's time to wake up and start using WPF in the way that it was intended. DataTemplates can be used to define how data is to be represented in a UI, but did you know that they can be swapped out on the fly or have different templates applied to different items in a list depending on a condition? This session will review the concepts above and demonstrate more of the goodness that WPF DataTemplates has to offer.
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Session: SharePoint _IS_ for Developers
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A 100 level presentation by
Rick Kierner .
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SharePoint offers a developer the ability to provide very short turn around on production quality collaboration tools for their business. Often, though, SharePoint is considered a business user's tool. We'll talk about why developers love working in SharePoint.
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Session: SQL Server Service Broker
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A 100 level presentation by
Josef Finsel .
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This handy tool, introduced in SQL Server 2005, allows you to build quick and effective tools for queuing, both totally encapsulated within SQL Server and using a combination of SQL Server and external programs.
Learn not only the hows but some of the whys behind setting up Service Broker and leave ready to look at some of your current processes in a different light.
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Session: Using Microsoft Distributed Cache to speed your application
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A 200 level presentation by
David Giard .
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Retrieving data from a disc or a database can be a time-consuming operation. Data that is accessed frequently can be stored in an in-memory cache, which can speed up its retrieval considerably. Microsoft Distributed Cache (aka “Velocity”) provides a framework for storing and managing cached data.
In this session, we will discuss how to use this framework in your application and demonstrate some code that implements this framework.
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Session: Web Standards in an ASP.NET World
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A 200 level presentation by
Chris Poteet .
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For a while, ASP.NET has not been thought of as the platform to use for web standards compliant code. While out of the box ASP.NET does have some downsides on that end, with a few adjustments you can have markup that is cleaner, faster, and will help in areas such as accessibility, SEO, and much more.
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Speakers:
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Allen White
(Blog)
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Allen is a SQL Server Trainer for Scalability Experts, a leading provider of scalable solutions, training and services based on Microsoft SQL Server. He's spent over 35 years in IT, including operations, development, telecommunications, network admin and database design and administration. He's been using SQL Server since 1992 and is certified MCITP:Database Administrator, MCITP: Database Developer and MCT. Allen has been awarded Microsoft’s MVP Award the last two years for his work in the SQL Server community. He's active in the Ohio North SQL Server User's Group and contributes in the MSDN Forums, answering questions about SMO, and maintains a blog at http://sqlblog.com/blogs/allen_white/default.aspx.
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Aydin Akcasu
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He is also the founder of A Vision, Inc ( www.A-V-I.com<http://www.migang.org/www.A-V-I.com>). He has over 20 years of experience, and provides innovative solutions using technologies such as Java, JavaScript, ASP, Visual Basic, VB.Net, C#.Net, ASP.Net, Flash, XML, XSL.
He is a part time 'C#.Net' instructor at Washtenaw Community College (www.wccnet.edu<http://www.wccnet.edu>), teaching both "Introduction to C#.Net", as well as "Advanced C#.Net".
He has given many presentations and classes to local area groups (as well as a few in Bangalore, India) in topics such as:
'Help, I need to learn Javascript', 'Cover you ASP', 'VB- What is it good for?', 'FLASH-in-the-Pants?', 'C#, ASP.Net on a Budget', 'Introduction to 'C#.Net', 'AJAX - A What', 'Google Maps API-Wheres'Waldo?', 'Wii Will Wii Will Rock You! !! !!!'. He is a frequent speaker at Day Of Dot Net ( www.dayofdotnet.org<http://www.migang.org/www.dayofdotnet.org> ) ('Kids Programming Language', 'Introduction to Object Oriented Programming Using C#', ''Microsoft Virtual Earth, Now in 3D', 'Wii Will Wii Will Rock You! !! !!!').
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Brian Prince
(Blog)
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Brian H. Prince is an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft focused on building and educating the architect community in his district. Prior to joining Microsoft in March 2008, he was a Senior Director, Technology Strategy for a major mid-west partner.
Further, he is a co-founder of the non-profit organization CodeMash (www.codemash.org). He speaks at various regional and national technology events including TechEd.
Brian holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science and Physics from Capital University, Columbus, Ohio. He is also an avid gamer.
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Carey Payette
(Blog)
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Carey Payette is a Senior Software Developer at American Electric Power. She is a graduate of Laurentian University in Computer Science. She has been a developer on the Microsoft .NET Platform since 2002 and is president of the Central Ohio .Net Developers Group (CONDG.org). Her skillsets include the .NET framework (mainly C#), Java (JEE), PHP and more recently has been dabbling in Dynamic languages like (Iron)Ruby. Carey is also a 2009 Microsoft MVP in Client Application Development. While not reading twitter messages, Carey enjoys spending time with her husband and 3 young boys
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Chris Barth
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Mr. Barth possesses over fifteen years of professional experience in application architecture, design, development, and support. His specialties include designing, architecting and tuning DBMS environments, such as very large SQL Server solutions as well as Oracle and PostgreSQL solutions. He has also designed and developed business solutions for the retail, banking, health care and legal industries. Some of his recent experience involves developing a Bankruptcy detection system and a Balance Transfer Credit Card system for a large debt buyer. These projects involved the design and development of Federated databases utilizing T-SQL, XML and the CLR.
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Chris Poteet
(Blog)
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I currently work for Mixon Consulting crafting enterprise content management solutions for organizations on the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Platform. I have a particular interest in maintaing enterprise governance, information architecture, and end-user adoption.
I graduated in 2006 with a bachelors in Management Information Systems with an emphasis on Information Architecture. Here is a summary of my professional interests, and you can also download my current resume.
Areas of Specialty
Information ArchitectureUsabilityCollaborationKnowledge ManagementWeb StandardsContent Management
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Darrell Hawley
(Blog)
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Darrell Hawley, a Microsoft C# MVP, is a Senior Consultant with SRT Solutions where he develops engineering software while researching Python and agile development techniques. He has streamlined business processes as well as administered company networks and SQL Server installations. He also has proficiencies in code generation, web services, ASP.NET, Smart Clients, VB.NET, Visual Basic, VBA, VBScript and ASP. He is a member of the board and the Program Chair of the Ann Arbor .NET Developers Group and frequently speaks at user groups and conferences around Ohio and Michigan.
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David Giard
(Blog)
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David Giard has been developing solutions using Microsoft technologies since 1993. In the past, he has spoken at Day of .Net, Microsoft DevCares and many user groups around the Midwest. He is a recovering certification addict and holds an MCTS, MCSD, MCSE, MCDBA, a BS, an MBA, and numerous other letters of the alphabet. You can read his latest thoughts at www.DavidGiard.com. He lives in Michigan with his two teenage sons.
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James Bender
(Blog)
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James has been involved in software development and architecture for 13 years. He has worked as a developer and architect on everything from small, single-user applications to Enterprise-scale, multi-user systems. His specialties are .NET development and architecture, SOA, WCF, WF, cloud computing, and agile development methodologies. He is an experienced mentor and author. James is an active member of the development community. He started and continues to lead (organize??) the Columbus Architects Group (www.colarc.org) and is the senior editor of first-party content for nplus1.org, an educational website aimed toward architects and aspiring architects. When he’s not sitting in front of his laptop playing with the code, he can be found playing Xbox, or with one of his many guitars pretending to be a rock star. James maintains a blog at www.jamescbender.com and his Twitter ID is JamesBender
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Jeff Blankenburg
(Blog)
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Jeff Blankenburg is an ultra-passionate web developer who works for Microsoft. As a Developer Evangelist, he has the unique responsibility to consult and advise software developers about the new tools, technologies, and practices available to them. Jeff's previous roles as a software developer allowed him to build industry-changing websites and marketing efforts for Victoria's Secret, Abercrombie & Fitch, Ford Motor Company, Sony, and several major pharmaceutical companies. Through many major speaking engagements and an active, technically-focused blog, Jeff has established himself as a valuable resource to anyone writing software or looking for advice on their next software endeavor.
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Jennifer Marsman
(Blog)
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Jennifer Marsman is a Developer Evangelist in Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Evangelism group, where she educates developers on Microsoft’s new technologies. Prior to becoming a Developer Evangelist, Jennifer was a software developer in Microsoft’s Natural Interactive Services division. In this role, she filed two patents for her work in search and data mining algorithms. Jennifer has also held positions with Ford Motor Company, National Instruments, and Soar Technology.
Jennifer earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering and Master’s Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her graduate work specialized in artificial intelligence and computational theory.
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Jim Holmes
(Blog)
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Father. Husband. Geek. Veteran. Co-author of “Windows Developer Power Tools.” Coffee Roaster. MVP for C#. Chief Cat Herder of the CodeMash Conference. One-time setter, middle blocker, and weakside hitter. Blogger (http://FrazzledDad.com). Program Manager for Telligent Systems, makers of Community Server and other neat products. Big fan of naps.
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Joe Kuemerle
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Joe Kuemerle is a Lead Developer at PreEmptive Solutions, LLC ( www.preemptive.com ) and has over 14 years of development and database experience. Joe specializes in application and data security topics as well as application usage tracking. Joe has spoken at user groups, community events, CodeMash and the MSDN Developer Conference. Joe is a presenter on Microsoft's ISV Innovation training site.
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Josef Finsel
(Blog)
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Josef Finsel is a database administrator and .NET programmer with over twenty years experience in programming and in making complex programming concepts understandable to programmers. Author of both the Handbook for Reluctant Database Administrators (Apress) and Using memcached (Pragmatic Programmers), he has written numerous articles, often with a view at making a narrow topic more accessible to the wider developer audience.
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Len Smith
(Blog)
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Leonard Smith is a Senior Software Engineer for Mediacom Interaction. He has been developing software with Microsoft Products for the past ten years.
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Leon Gersing
(Blog)
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Leon Gersing aka fallenrogue is a Software Artisan with EdgeCase. He wears a plaid hat and sports a manly beard. Many attribute the invention of indoor laser gun sporting arenas to a dream that he had in a field during a 3 day open air music festival in Ithaca, NY. While he refuses to take credit for that he has confirmed that he is, indeed, funding an aggressive humanitarian aid program to feed the world's hungry called: "bytes of bacon... for the kids." He was rejected to work for the good people of Twitter in 2006 but holds no grudge and continues to support their product at Twitter.com/fallenrogue
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Matt Casto
(Blog)
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Matt Casto is a Developer for the Application Development consulting practice at Quick Solutions, Inc. He has been
designing and programming web and windows applications on the Microsoft platform for more than 10 years. Recently,
Matt has focused on learning all things Silverlight and WPF. You can read Matt's thoughts at http://programwith.net
and, much more often, http://twitter.com/mattcasto
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Matt Yoho
(Blog)
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Matt Yoho is a web-focused developer who has built applications for institutions such as universities and public utilities as well as small business e-commerce and start-ups (including his own) since 2005. He has worked on platforms such as PHP, ASP.NET 2.0/3.5, and Ruby on Rails, finding the last to yield the most enjoyable experience to date. He is an agile development enthusiast and is interested in increasing code coherence and maintainability through sound engineering process. Currently working for Toobla, Inc., an up and coming start-up company that, in partnership with central Ohio Ruby development house EdgeCase, LLC, aims to change the way you think about sharing embedded widgets on the web. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering and one in Psychology from the Ohio State University. He is also a recovering karaoke addict.
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Michael Eaton
(Blog)
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Michael Eaton is an independent consultant who lives in southern Michigan. Since 1994, Mike has been designing and implementing high quality, robust solutions using Microsoft technologies including .NET and SQL Server. When not working on projects or spending time with his family, he enjoys blogging, playing World of Warcraft and hanging out with friends.
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Michael Neel
(Blog)
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Michael C. Neel is a Digital Media Developer at Jewelry Television and
independent consultant at ViNull Software. He serves as board member
and Vice President for the East Tennessee .Net Users Group (ETNUG) in
Knoxville, TN and organizes Knoxville's developer conference
"CodeStock" (http://CodeStock.org). Michael has been published in
asp.netPro magazine and continues to publish .NET focused articles at
his website. An active Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, and speaker, Michael
regularly travels to all of the states surrounding Tennessee. You can
find out more about Michael at his website http://ViNull.com
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Michael Wood
(Blog)
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Michael Wood is a Microsoft Practice Director for Strategic Data Systems in Centerville, OH, but lives across the river in Kentucky. He has been working in .Net since pre-Beta 2 back in 2001. He has contributed to the 'Visual Studio Hacks' book from O'Reilly and publishes a series of blog posts called the .Net Nugget. Michael is a Founding Director and the current Lead Director for the Cincinnati .Net User Group as well as the founder of the Cincinnati Software Architecture Special Interest Group. He is also a founding member of the software architecture web resource nPlus1 (http://nplus1.org). You can follow Michael on Twitter under @mikewo as well as visit his blog at http://mvwood.com.
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Philip Japikse
(Blog)
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Phil has been working with .Net since the early days, and developing software for over 20 years. Specializing in application architect and agile methodologies, Phil helps clients with eCommerce sites, shrink-wrapped and/or internal Smart Client/WPF applications, coaching teams in their transition to agile, and also teaches classes on Test Driven Development, Patterns and Practices, and various additional topics. Phil is an active member of the .Net community, serving as a director for the Cincinnati .Net User’s Group and Software Architecture SIG, speaking throughout the Heartland for Code Camps and User Groups, and nationally at conferences such as VSLive. A Principal Consultant with Pinnacle Solutions Group, Inc. (www.pinnsg.com - a Senior level firm specializing in Custom Software, BI, and eCommerce solutions located in Cincinnati, OH), Phil is an avid .Net Application Architect, Developer, Speaker, and Trainer. Phil is also a contributing author for www.NPlus1.org, a site by architects, for architects. Phil currently holds MCSD.Net, MCDBA, and Certified Scrum Master certifications. Phil also serves as a Firefighter/Paramedic/Instructor for the local fire department and volunteers for the National Ski Patrol. You can follow Phil on twitter via www.twitter.com/skimedic and read his blog at www.japikse.blogspot.com.
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Rick Kierner
(Blog)
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Rick is a passionate technologist. He's interested in solving problems efficiently and doing things the right way. Sporting a cowboy hat and a relaxed personality, Rick is recognizable by far as the most interesting cowboy hat wearing Columbus-ite working in the IT Community...on Tuesdays between 3 and 5 in the morning...in the spring...when it's raining
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Sarah Dutkiewicz
(Blog)
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Sarah Dutkiewicz has worn many hats in the past decade - including technical support tech, technical support manager, database administrator, system administrator, programmer, report writer, editor, and now developer. She graduated in 2002 with her Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering Technology from the University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio. When she isn't working on database-driven websites, she's reading up on the latest technologies and networking with other developers.
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Tim Wingfield
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Tim has been involved in web design and development for over 10 years. For the last five years Tim has been a developer with the Business Solutions Group at Quick Solutions Inc. in Columbus, OH. Tim has a wide range of knowledge in .Net but focuses on the user interface and the user experience in ASP.Net applications. Recently he has put more time into studying development processes and how to more efficiently create quality software. In what time is left over, Tim enjoys coaching his sons’ hockey teams, playing a little hockey himself, and traveling with his family.
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