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...

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...

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...

Help us advertise by printing out these flyers and and passing them out at your user groups, development meetings, classes and other geek functions. Heck, pass them out to your family! You never know who...

If your company is interested in sponsoring the Central Ohio Day of .NET then this is the document for you! We can't put this event on without the help of great sponsors. Whether you want to provide...

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...

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...

Dependency injection and mock objects come together to let us write tests with the bare minimum of set-up code. We'll not be focusing on any particular frameworks but on the principles behind these...

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...

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...