Fall 2008

WCF or WPF - Bryan has turned .NET development into his passion. Being introduced into the .NET world in the .net 1.0 generation he quickly got his start designing and implementing web applications for 3rd party integrations. Working today with Visual Studio 2008, LINQ, AJAX, WPF and Silverlight and the full power of .NET 3.5 he couldn’t be more excited about where the technology is headed. By day he works at ASI Computer Systems located in Cedar Falls Iowa as a Software Architect and by night he authors for Wiley Publishing on his upcoming book, ASP.NET 3.5 – A programmers reference.

"Writing Extensible Software" An introduction for beginner and intermediate object-oriented programmers to Inversion of Control and related design patterns. This is a common and powerful strategy that can help you write software which is more extensible, robust and testable. Among the patterns covered will be Dependency Injection, Strategy, Registry and Service Locator. I will provide examples using the Ruby Needle and Java Spring frameworks.

AJAX-style SharePoint Web Parts - This session will delve deep into the AJAX-style SharePoint Web Part development demonstrating several different approaches to achieving REST partial page updates. Discover what ASP.NET AJAX brings to the table over ASP.NET alone. Explore the client side of Web Parts and how they can be used to improve a user's overall Windows SharePoint Services experience. Leave with ideas that will make your Web Parts sing. - Todd Bleeker, Ph.D. and MVP, is an industry leader in Microsoft-centric software development, specializing in SharePoint products and technologies. Todd is an innovative, resourceful, and competitive technologist with an intense desire to excel. Todd and Bill founded Mindsharp in 2004 and Barracuda in 2005. As the CSA, Todd has established the strategic technical plan for Mindsharp’s educational and commercial software assets. In addition to writing and teaching cutting-edge SharePoint training courses for Mindsharp, Todd also architects innovative software solutions like DeliverPoint that help our clients improve their enterprise management capabilities.

Sharepoint features and usages for applications.

ASP.Net Performance and Optimization - So, you’ve created a slick ASP.NET web application, but the performance isn’t what you were expecting. In this session I will demonstrate tools to help find the bottlenecks and offer advice on resolving them. - Jeff McWherter is the Director of Software Development at A.J. Boggs and Company in Okemos, MI. He graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in Telecommunications and Computer Science, and has twelve years of professional experience in software development. He is a founding member and current Program Director for the Greater Lansing Users for .NET (GLUG.net). He enjoys profiling code, applying design patterns, finding obscure namespaces, and long walks in the park. His lifelong interest in programming began with a Home Computing Magazine in 1983, which included an article about writing a game called Boa Alley in BASIC.

Writing better code

So you’ve worked with the basics of ASP.Net MVC and you are ready to delve into more advanced topics. Chris will give quick overview of the ASP.Net MVC framework and why it is important. Then we will jump right in to integrating the jQuery javascript library with ASP.Net MVC. We’ll show how to do partial postbacks and how to make use of other advanced jQuery capabilities and effects. One of the benefits of ASP.Net MVC is that unit testing your page actions becomes much easier than in the current ASP.Net model. So we’ll look a look at the basics of unit testing your MVC sites. Last, we’ll talk about MVC deployment issues you may run into with IIS and how you can work around them.

Chris Sutton is a consultant and technical trainer in Eastern Iowa and has been working with ASP.Net since the November beta in 2002. He helped start SouthColorado.net, the Ineta group in Colorado Springs, CO, and has been involved running CRineta.org, the Ineta group in Cedar Rapids, IA, over the last three years. Chris has the MCPD:Enterprise certification and is working toward his MCITP: Business Intelligence certification. Getting to spend time with his wife and kids makes his tech work worthwhile. He also enjoys hiking and biking in the summer and snowshoeing in the winter.

Monorail/ActiveRecord

Project Maui/Rails

Silverlight 2.0

Becoming "The SQL guy" in your organization

Linq

Overview of HPC and Windows Computer Cluster Server, multi-core programming with VC++ and OpenMP, multi-core programming with C# and PFx (TPL), cluster-wide programming with unmanaged VC++ and MPI - will be bringing a small demonstration cluster

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