posted May 14, 2012 8:45 PM by Todd Miranda
Presenter: Chris Gardner
Xbox 360 Indie Game Development for Fun and Profit While many of us dream of jobs in game development, the methods for producing quality games that perform in real time are much different than the methods used to produce quality productivity software. XNA Game Studio and Microsoft's AppHub give you the tools necessary to make and publish your own games for the Xbox Live Indie Games Marketplace. The session will being with a brief overview of using XNA Game Studio to create software for the Xbox 360. The session will then present the nuances of proper game design by introducing topics such as the game components, sprite animation, background music, sound effects, and threading. By the end of this sessions, attendees should possess the tools and knowledge to create simple games for the Xbox 360.
Chris Gardner is the Senior Software Engineer and Architect for T & W Operations, Inc. Tortured by years of contracts that valued buzzwords over results, Chris has developed a true passion for finding solutions that fit the problem, not the status quo. Chris received his B.S. in Mathematics and B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and is currently a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer, Information Technology Professional and Trainer. |
posted May 7, 2012 7:24 PM by Todd Miranda
Presenter: Michael CrumpGet
Started Building Metro Applications for Windows 8 using XAML/C# Windows 8 Metro style apps provide a new opportunity for developers to interact with users and provide a more immersive experience on the desktop or on touch devices. This session covers fundamentals you need to know to get started building Metro apps quickly using Visual Studio 11. Topics covered include an overview of Windows 8 and Metro app features as well as key features that you need to know to build XAML/C# Metro apps. |
posted May 1, 2012 8:19 PM by Todd Miranda
Presenter: Billy HollisCreating User Experiences: Fundamental Concepts for Developer Tablets, touch, and cloud are turning the industry upside down today, and user expectations are rising rapidly. Modern UI technology stacks such as XAML and HTML5 can meet those expectations, but only if developers learn a lot more about what makes user experience work, including fundamental principles of design and new techniques for prototyping. Billy Hollis will get you started in this session, presenting basic design principles that are important to user experience: use of whitespace, Hick’s Law, Fitt’s Law, gestalt principles, and many more. He’ll also talk about specific design issues for touch user interfaces, and finally he’ll suggest some ways to do more effective prototyping. You can see the results of a project done in 2008 by Billy’s team at http://bit.ly/qCUwjD
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posted Aug 22, 2011 9:12 PM by Todd Miranda
Presenter: Robert Cain
Introduction to PowerShell
In
this beginner session you’ll learn about Microsoft’s powerful scripting
engine, PowerShell. You’ll learn everything from basic commands to
variables to writing your own functions.
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posted Aug 9, 2011 9:30 AM by Todd Miranda
Presenter: Adam Aldrich
Unit Testing the BDD Way
Come
learn how Behavior Driven Development (BDD) can help you write unit
tests that are easy to read and use. BDD can help if you are currently
writing unit tests using traditional methods but struggling with keeping
your tests clean and easy to understand. This demo will include a brief
overview of what Test Driven Development (TDD) is and how to write test
in a Context/Specification style via Machine.Specfications.
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posted Mar 2, 2011 12:15 AM by Todd Miranda
Presenter: Robert Cain
OpenRasta: Building RESTful Applications the Easy Way
OpenRasta is an open source framework for building RESTful applData Dude for Dev Guys - Making Database Development Painless and Productive
Whether you are a .Net Developer, accidental DBA, or full time database developer, Visual Studio Database Projects, aka "Data Dude" can be a boon to you. In this session we'll start by reverse engineering an existing database into complete scripts to create the tables, indexes, stored procedures, and more. Deployment strategies will be covered, as well as refactoring and unit testing. Finally we'll look at the powerful data generation capabilities built into "Data Dude".
Robert C. Cain is a Microsoft MVP in SQL Development, MCTS certified in BI, and works as a Senior Business Intelligence Architect for ComFrame. He is also a technical contributor to Plurasight Training, and co-author of the book "SQL Server MVP Deep Dives". Robert has over 20 years experience in the IT field, working in a variety of fields ranging from manufacturing to telecommunications to nuclear power. He maintains the popular blog http://arcanecode.com.ications on the .NET platform. Unlike some of the other alternatives, OpenRasta was specifically designed to be resource-oriented. It provides a clean separation of concerns by dividing the framework into three core concepts [resources, handlers, and codecs], which enables the handling and rendering of resources to be decoupled. By leveraging the Open Closed Principle and dependency injection, the framework is also very extensible and testable. This session will provide a thorough overview of the major features in OpenRasta. You don't have to be a REST expert to benefit from this presentation, but it would help to already be familiar with the basics. The focus will be on how to leverage OpenRasta rather than discussing what REST is all about, but there will be some review of the major RESTful principles along the way. If you are interested in writing RESTful applications on the .NET platform, this presentation is for you! Don't miss out on an opportunity to see how easy REST can really be! | |
posted Jan 10, 2011 9:01 PM by Todd Miranda
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Presenter: Jeff Barnes
OpenRasta: Building RESTful Applications the Easy Way
OpenRasta is an open source framework for building RESTful applications on the .NET platform. Unlike some of the other alternatives, OpenRasta was specifically designed to be resource-oriented. It provides a clean separation of concerns by dividing the framework into three core concepts [resources, handlers, and codecs], which enables the handling and rendering of resources to be decoupled. By leveraging the Open Closed Principle and dependency injection, the framework is also very extensible and testable. This session will provide a thorough overview of the major features in OpenRasta. You don't have to be a REST expert to benefit from this presentation, but it would help to already be familiar with the basics. The focus will be on how to leverage OpenRasta rather than discussing what REST is all about, but there will be some review of the major RESTful principles along the way. If you are interested in writing RESTful applications on the .NET platform, this presentation is for you! Don't miss out on an opportunity to see how easy REST can really be! |
posted Sep 12, 2010 10:05 PM by Todd Miranda
Presenter: Eric Ray
Programming with F#
As the .NET framework has matured we've seen traditionally imperative object-oriented languages such as C# and VB.Net receive enhancements straight out of the functional programming world. With the release of .Net 4.0 and VS 2010, this trend took a huge leap forward in the formal addition of F# 2.0, a functional object oriented language, to the .NET suite of languages.
Come see what this new language has to offer as we explore some of its basic and intermediate concepts.
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posted Jul 25, 2010 9:58 PM by Todd Miranda
Presenter: Glen Gorden Developing for Windows Phone 7 The Windows Phone 7 platform represents a revolutionary new opportunity for mobile application developers. This session provides an overview of Visual Studio(r) 2010 for Windows Phone. Learn about the powerful capabilities of this new application platform and the developer tools experience including basic IDE usage & debugging, the new Windows Phone design language (Metro) and how to incorporate cloud services into the Windows Phone experiences that you create. In addition, you’ll see a prototype device demonstrated live.
You don't want to miss this meeting! If you want to see what the near future holds for the Windows mobile platform, this is the place to see it and experience it. |
posted Jul 9, 2010 7:26 AM by Todd Miranda
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Presenter: Walt Ritscher Pixel Shaders in Silverlight and WPF Walt created the well known pixel shader application, Shazzam. He will be presenting on pixel shaders in Silverlight and WPF and how to use his Shazzam application to make their creation easier.
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