Session Followups,Slides and Demos from the INDC (Part 1 of x)

Here are some of the links to some of the followups that the speakers have posted on the Web, to the sessions they delivered at the first and hugely successful Irish National Developers Conference (INDC).

Martin Woodward – INDC Talk: Top Ten Tips for Team Foundation Server

Rob Burke – Windows Presentation Foundation at the INDC

Nick Grattan – INDC Conference – Session slides and code

More to follow soon!

INDC

FW:INDC… directions from Morrison Hotel to the Hands-On Labs

Over to Kieran for the details on directions from Morrison Hotel to the Hands-On Labs for the INDC.

Hope to see you there,

INDC

INDC Session – Tips and Tricks for SQL Server 2005 Developers – Nick Grattan

Session: Tips and Tricks for SQL Server 2005 Developers
Target Audience:  Developers and IT Pros
Session Level: 300

Session Description:
This presentation will show developers and IT Pros how to make good use
of new features in SQL Server 2005 in their solutions. Tips include how
to use auto-named databases with SQL Server 2005 Express edition; use
encrypted connections; monitoring and preventing schema changes with DDL
triggers; using SQLDependency to detect when data changes occur; using
impersonation for testing permissions and security; using completely
covered indexes; using pivot and common table expression with an example
showing how to find duplicated indexes; using the broker to log trace
and other events.

Useful Links and Resources:
(coming soon)

Bio:
Nick is a consultant, application architect and designer with many years
experience in working with medium and large sized applications written
in Microsoft .NET and Microsoft SQL Server. He specializes in designing
application optimized for throughput and scalability. He is a well known
presenter and Microsoft and community events, is the Microsoft MSDN
Regional Director for Ireland (www.microsoft.com/rd) and technical
director of Software Paths Limited (www.softwarepaths.com ). In the past
he has three books on developing applications for Microsoft Windows CE
and Pocket PC.

Blog: www.nickgrattan.net
Web: www.softwarepaths.com

INDC Session – Atlas by Scott Guthrie

Session: ASP.Net Atlas
Target Audience:  Developers
Session Level: 300
Session Description:
Scott Guthrie will provide an overview of the new ASP.NET Atlas framework that enables developers to easily build powerful Ajax applications.  You’ll leave this presentation knowing how to immediately begin adding Ajax support to your web applications, and how you can provide richer and smoother customer experiences.

Useful Links and Resources:
 - Official Microsoft Site:  http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/
Links to all the official product information direct from Microsoft.

- Atlas Home Page:  http://atlas.asp.net
The official Atlas homepage.

Bio:
Scott Guthrie co-founded the ASP.NET Team, and leads the design team responsible for architecting the product.

His individual technical contributions include: ASP.NET Web Forms Page Architecture, ASP.NET Web Services Infrastructure, ASP.NET Compilation System, ASP.NET Distributed Session State Infrastructure, ASP+ Deployment Architecture, ASP.NET Reliability System, and the ASP.NET HTTP Runtime Architecture. Prior to ASP.NET, Scott was a member of the IIS and Windows NT development teams.

Blog:  http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu
Company:  http://www.microsoft.com

INDC Session – Keynote by Scott Guthrie

Session: Take Web Development to the Next Level with ASP.Net 2.0, VS 2005 and Atlas
Target Audience:  Developers
Session Level: 200
Session Description:
Scott Guthrie will kick off the conference with a keynote that provides an overview of some of the great new things in ASP.NET 2.0, VS 2005 and Atlas, and build a comprehensive app from scratch using them during the talk.  He’ll also provide a “behind the scenes” look into how the products were built.

Useful Links and Resources:
 - Official Microsoft Site:  http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/
Links to all the official product information direct from Microsoft.

- Atlas Home Page:  http://atlas.asp.net
The official Atlas homepage.

Bio:
Scott Guthrie co-founded the ASP.NET Team, and leads the design team responsible for architecting the product.

His individual technical contributions include: ASP.NET Web Forms Page Architecture, ASP.NET Web Services Infrastructure, ASP.NET Compilation System, ASP.NET Distributed Session State Infrastructure, ASP+ Deployment Architecture, ASP.NET Reliability System, and the ASP.NET HTTP Runtime Architecture. Prior to ASP.NET, Scott was a member of the IIS and Windows NT development teams.

Blog:  http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu
Company:  http://www.microsoft.com

INDC Session – SQL Server 2005 – by Nick Grattan

For details on this session, please visit http://indc.wordpress.com/2006/05/02/indc-session-tips-and-tricks-for-sql-server-2005-developers-nick-grattan/

 

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INDC Session – Building real-time event driven Web2.0 applications with AJAX and WCF – by Paul Fallon

Details about the INDC Atlas session with Scott Guthrie to follow.  To receive updates on this session, please subscribe to http://feeds.feedburner.com/IrishNationalDevelopersConference 

Also Paul has blogged a little about the details of the talk, which you can find at this link.

INDC Session – LINQ the future of handling database queries and XML in .NET – by Mark Lawrence

Session: LINQ the future of handling database queries and XML in .NET
Target Audience:  Anyone developing applications querying RDBMS’s or XML documents in the near future
Session Level: 200+ with specific roduct/technology technical drill-down

Session Description:
“In looking at the current and next generation of technologies, it has become apparent that the next big challenge in programming technology is to reduce the complexity of accessing and integrating information that is not natively defined using OO technology. The two most common sources of non-OO information are relational databases and XML.” 

Don Box, Architect, Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft has risen to this challenge by developing LINQ, Language Integrated Query which they intend to release in C# 3.0 & VB 9.0.  Understanding LINQ will be an essential skill for anyone using relational databases or XML in their software development.  In this talk Mark discusses

• LINQ Language Features – the new toys, Standard Query Operators and Lambda Expressions.
• Using LINQ for database queries, bridging the impedance mismatch?
• LINQ and XML
• How LINQ should change the way you program.

Useful Links and Resources:
The LINQ Project – .Net Developers Centre

Bio:
Mark Lawrence has a breadth of experience developed by working across frontiers, both geographical – the UK, Sweden, the USA and Ireland – and intellectual.  Although his skills are diverse (at various points he has been a programmer, architect, consultant, project manager and even a small time CEO) his real loves are software modelling and algorithm design.  He is currently engaged in a new start up, ‘the Query Tree’ that will provide an interesting new take on overcoming the impedance mismatch between object oriented applications and relational databases.

 

INDC Session – Raising the Stakes with Avalon (Windows Presentation Foundation) by Robert Burke

Session: Raising the Stakes with Avalon (Windows Presentation Foundation)
Target Audience:  Developers
Session Level: 300
Session Description:
Why should you care about adding a groundbreaking User Experience to your applications?  Answering that question (in style!) is where we’ll begin, and this developer-oriented presentation will proceed on a whistlestop tour of the Windows Presentation Foundation, formerly codenamed Avalon.  WPF allows you to leverage the power of your local PC and provide a unified framework for next-generation user interface, media, documents, and even 3D graphics.  Until WPF, incorporating those concepts has effectively been the dark art of the game development shop.  No more!

We’ll look at the WPF unified architecture, and then dive into several specific developer concepts you’ll need to know to get started building applications.  We’ll explore the declarative markup language XAML and how it maps to your .NET code, and show how it is being used to facilitate tools that will bring designers into the development picture.  We’ll look at the concepts of Styles and data binding for your controls.  We’ll look at animation, talk about interop with classic WinForms, and if time permits, we’ll even get a glimpse at adding video and 3D.

Finally, the presentation will conclude with links to useful resources for getting started with WPF, hooking into the community, and learning more.

Useful Links and Resources:
(coming soon)

Bio:
Robert Burke is a member of the Developer and Platform Group at Microsoft Ireland.  In his previous life, he was a Research Associate in the MindGames group at Dublin’s Media Lab Europe, where he was developer and lead architect of Symphony, a framework built with .NET which was used for everything from a brain-computer interface to performance art pieces. 

Blog:  http://blogs.msdn.com/robburke/
Company:  http://www.microsoft.com/ireland/msdn/default.mspx

INDC Session – Agile Development – by Sean Hanly

Session: Agile Programming Demonstration (Black Jack)
Target Audience:  Developers
Session Level: 200+
Session Description:
During this session Seán will introduce some of the key technical practices that are applied when implementing Agile Development Methodologies. The session will involve starting the development of a black jack game by defining the features using “User Stories”, translating these stories into “Automated Acceptance Tests” and passing the acceptance tests by implemented “Test Driven Development” & Refactoring.

Useful Links and Resources:
(coming soon)

Bio:
Sean Hanly is a co-founder and director of Exoftware, an Agile mentoring and development company. Sean currently heads Exoftware’s delivery services overseeing Agile transitions, as well as working hands on as a mentor and trainer for clients throughout Europe. As well as client-based work, Sean has lectured on Agile methods at University College Dublin and worked closely with the DSDM Consortium on the release of XP and DSDM. Sean also spends time speaking at industry events, and writing on Agile topics for various industry publications such as Computer Weekly, IT Week and Application Development Trends. He has been instrumental in kick starting Exactor, an OpenSource acceptance testing framework, currently being used by several Agile teams. Prior to founding Exoftware, Sean held programming, technical architect and team lead positions with companies such as Allied Irish Bank, Jeffries and Company and American Management Systems, where he was awarded a Principal position ­ one the youngest people ever to achieve the position at AMS. Sean received his honours Bachelor of Commerce and honours Masters in Information Technology degrees from University College Galway. Sean is also currently the CTO and board member of 3Q Solutions Limited

Company:  www.exoftware.com