"Simplicity is a lost art in the application development space. The Wikipedia definition of Simplicity is “Simplicity is the property, condition, or quality of being simple or un-combined. It often denotes beauty, purity or clarity. Simple things are usually easier to explain and understand than...

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. Presented by Rick Kierner Rick...

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...

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...

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 techniques and how they help us write better quality software, faster. Presented by Len Smith Leonard...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...