SQL Server 2008 R2
with Damir Bersinic

SQL Server 2008 R2 is coming soon featuring several breakthrough capabilities that will enable your organization to scale database operations with confidence, help improve IT and developer efficiency, and enable highly scalable and well managed Business Intelligence on a self-service basis for your users.  Come and find out how these changes will impact your role as database administrator and see first-hand some of the new capabilities demonstrated in this session being delivered by Damir Bersinic of Microsoft Canada.

Software Craftsmanship
with Donald Belcham

Developers are in a special place. We're not a formally recognized profession like lawyers, opticians, dentists or your proctologist. We do, however, have an enormous amount of business trust placed in us by our employers. Business regularly asks us to build critical applications which, when they fail, can have enormous financial impact. With that amount of trust being placed in us why are we commonly seen as a bunch of dark room residing, un-kempt, anti-social freaks? Is it justified? Should it be this way?  The development community has for far too long, taken this image and their subsequent failures and worn them with a badge of pride.  It is time for this to change, and change starts with you.  How you approach yourself, your daily tasks, your peers, your employers and your career reflect on the overall state of the IT (and software development specifically) industry.  How are you going to change from being a burger flipper with a computer and desk to being a highly touted craftsman with finely honed tools and earned respect in your repertoire?

 Donald Belcham is an independent contractor in Edmonton. He has worked with .NET for the last 5 years and currently works with both web and smart client applications. Donald is an avid practitioner of agile development methodologies, pragmatic coding practices and delivering quality and value to the business. A Microsoft MVP in C#, Donald is active in the community as the President of the Edmonton .NET User Group, an organizer of the Edmonton Code Camp and a speaker at User Groups and Code Camps across Canada and in the United States. His thoughts on software development, .NET and C# can be found at www.igloocoder.com

Date: Thursday, March 4, 2010

Time: Presentation to begin at 5:45-6:00 PM, arrival recommended between 5:30 and 5:45 PM

Location: One Lombard Place (Richardson Building), 17th Floor

http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=145863

Building Modular User Experiences Using Composite Client Application Guidance

With Uwe Schmitz

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