Bonus Sessions / User group night
Tuesday Night
What's New in Visual Studio 11 with Dylan Smith of Imaginet
Microsoft Visual Studio 11 enable developers to take full advantage of the capability of Windows using the skills and technologies developers already know and love to deliver exceptional and compelling apps. Whether working individually or in a small, medium or large development team the Visual Studio 11 sets a new standard for development tools, helping teams deliver superior results for their customers that help set them apart from their competitors. In this session Dylan will walk through highlights of new features in Visual Studio 11 and provide an understanding of the breadth of capabilities available in this release.
Date: Tuesday May 29th
Location:Hilton Metrotown
6083 McKay Avenue
Burnaby, Canada
V5H 2W7
Room: Tiffany C
Time: 6:00pm
Note: All bonus sessions are free for everyone.
.NET Rocks Panel Discussion: “Development Methodology – Where Are We At?”
Join Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell with panelists James Kovacs, Mario Cardinal, Charles Max Wood and
Rob Daigneau for a special .NET Rocks panel discussion exploring the state of development methodology today.
Expect discussions on Waterfall, Agile, XP, Lean, Scrum, Scrum But, Scrum And… nothing is off limits! Bring your questions and be part of this .NET Rocks show!
Note: All bonus sessions are free for everyone.
Date: Wednesday May 30th
6083 McKay Avenue
Room: Tiffany C
Host
Panelists
James Kovacs is a Technical Evangelist for JetBrains. He is passionate in sharing his knowledge about OO, SOLID, TDD/BDD, testing, object-relational mapping, dependency injection, refactoring, continuous integration, and related techniques. He blogs on CodeBetter.com as well as his own blog, is a technical contributor for Pluralsight, writes articles for MSDN Magazine and CoDe Magazine, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and user groups. He is the creator of psake, a PowerShell-based build automation tool, intended to save developers from XML Hell. James is the Ruby Track Chair for DevTeach, one of Canada’s largest independent developer conferences. He received his Bachelors degree from the University of Toronto and his Masters degree from Harvard University.
Dylan Smith is a Microsoft MVP (ALM), and an ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) consultant for Imaginet where he spends his time helping teams become more successful at delivering software. In addition to over 15 years experience designing and architecting mission critical applications, Dylan helps run the .Net User Group and Agile User Group in his hometown of Winnipeg. In the past 7 years Dylan has focused on agile development techniques and practices. He has led the shift to agile and lean development practices across multiple teams, projects and companies.
Wednesday Night
Location:Hilton Metrotown
Burnaby, Canada
V5H 2W7
Time: 6:30pm
Carl Franklin has been a figurehead in the VB community since the very early days when he wrote for Visual Basic Programmers Journal. He authored the Q&A column of that magazine as well as many feature articles for VBPJ and other magazines. He has authored two books for John Wiley & Sons on sockets programming in VB, and in 1994 he helped create the very first web site for VB developers, Carl & Gary's Visual Basic Home Page.
Carl is also the Microsoft Regional Director for Connecticut, an MVP for Kinect, co-host of .NET Rocks! and The Tablet Show, a .NET Rocks! spin-off dedicated to developing for tablets, phones and other mobile devices, as well as mobile web.
Carl is the creator of GesturePak ($99), the first gesture recognition library for Microsoft Kinect for Windows. GesturePak records your motion as .you create gestures, then notifies your app when your user has performed one or more of your gestures.
Richard Campbell has been involved with microcomputers and software since 1977. His career has spanned the industry both on the hardware and software sides, from manufacturing to sales, service, game development, line-of-business software and large scale systems. Today Richard is on the board of directors for Telerik (www.telerik.com), a leading vendor of development, team productivity, automated testing tools, UI components and content management solutions in the Microsoft space. He's a partner in PWOP Productions, creating a variety of multimedia programs including '.NET Rocks!, the Internet Audio Talk Show for .NET Developers' (www.dotnetrocks.com) a podcast produced twice a week for more than 250,000 listeners in 150 countries. In addition he's the host of 'RunAs Radio' (www.runasradio.com), a podcast for the IT Professional using Microsoft technologies. In the fall of 2011, he helped launch a third podcast called 'The Tablet Show' (www.thetabletshow.com), focused on the emerging tablet and mobile market. Richard is also a Microsoft Regional Director, MVP and speaks at conferences around the world.
Known for many years as an agile coach specialized in software architecture, Mario Cardinal is the co-founder of Slingboards Lab, a young start-up that that brings sticky notes on smartphones, tablets and the web to empower teams to better collaborate. Visionary and entrepreneur, he likes to seize the opportunities that emerge from the unexpected. He is the author of the book Executable Specifications with Scrum. His friends like to describe him as someone who can extract the essence of a complicated situation, sort out the core ideas from the incidental distractions, and provide a summary easy to understand. For the ninth consecutive year, he has received from Microsoft the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. MVP status is awarded to credible technology experts who are among the very best community members willing to share their experience to helping others realize their potential.
Charles Max Wood is the host of several podcasts including Ruby Rogues, Rails Coach, Teach Me To Code, and Teach Me To Code Screencasts. He transitioned from IT to Computer Programming in 2006. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering from Brigham Young University. He lives in Lehi, Utah with his lovely wife, Heather, and 4 children.
Rob Daigneau has more than 20 years’ experience designing and implementing applications and products for a broad array of industries from financial services, to manufacturing, to retail and travel. Rob has served in such prominent positions as Director of Architecture for Monster.com and Manager of Application Development at Fidelity Investments. He is currently a Practice Lead for Application Development at Slalom Consulting. Rob has been known to speak at a conference or two.
Rob’s book on Service Design Patterns was recently released in the prestigious Martin Fowler Signature Series.
In his free time, Rob plays guitar with his daughter, hits the slopes when there's snow, and enjoys long walks in his woodsy corner of the world.