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January 2011 – Building RESTful Applications with the Open Data Protocol

Please join us for an interesting session presented by Stephen Forte

Overview:

Applications today are expected to expose their data and consume data-centric services via REST. In this session we discuss what REST is and have an overview of WCF Data Services and see how we can REST enable your data using the Open Data Protocol (OData). Then you will learn how to leverage existing skills in Visual Studio, LINQ and data access to customize the behavior, control-flow, security model and experience of your data service. We will then see how to enable data-binding to traditional ASP.NET controls as well as Silverlight. We’ll look at other consumers of oData including SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel, wrapping up the session by talking about consuming other OData based applications in .NET as well talk about a non-Microsoft client. This is a very demo intensive session..

Speaker Bio – Stephen Forte:

Stephen is the Chief Strategy Officer of Telerik, a leading vendor in .NET components. He sits on the board of several start-ups including Triton Works and is also a certified scrum master. Prior to this he was CTO and co-founder of Corzen, Inc, a New York based provider of online market research data for Wall Street Firms and before that CTO of Zagat Survey in New York City as well as co-founder of the New York based software consulting firm The Aurora Development Group. Stephen is the Microsoft Regional Director for the NY Metro region, an MVP, INETA speaker and co-moderator and founder of the NYC .NET Developer User Group. He speaks regularly at industry conferences around the world and has written several books on application and database development. He currently Stephen has an MBA from the City University of New York.

Date: 27^th January, 2011
Time: 18:15 for 18:30
Venue: Microsoft Cape Town (Please note the address below)
Golf Park 3, Engen House, Raapenberg Road, Mowbray
Please RSVP (!) at http://sadevct201101.eventbrite.com/

This weekend I’ll be speaking at the Bangalore Community TechEd 2011 on both Agile (Scrum) and OData. See you this weekend!

Bangalore Community Tech-Ed 2011

Day 1 – 22^nd Jan 2011 Saturday

Day 2 – 23^rd Jan 2011 - Sunday

VENUE: PES Institute Of Technology
100 Feet Ring Road,
Banashankari 3rd Stage
Bangalore, Karnataka 560085
http://bitpro.in

Windows 7 and Silverlight make for a fantastic platform to build and deploy applications.  Together, you have the power to build smart, visually stunning applications that truly light up.  Want to learn how to take advantage of your desktop OS using Silverlight?  Want to learn some Silverlight programming techniques?  Want to dialog about some Silverlight Futures?  Join us for a full day of Silverlight with a special emphasis on out-of-the-browser applications.

Session One – Silverlight on Windows Fundamentals - Get an introduction to the basics of working with Silverlight. We’ll cover how to create and lay out a user interface using XAML, and examine the rich control set for building applications. Then we’ll look at coding with C# and Visual Basic, as well as the cool things you can do without writing code using features like behaviors and data binding.  Finally we’ll look at how to continue your learning with an orientation to the numerous resources available today for learning more Silverlight.

Session Two – Empowering Line of Business (LOB) Applications on Windows - Line of Business Applications (LOB) are all about adding value to the business and helping it run at full capacity. In this session you will learn how to take LOBs to the next level. We will discuss full trust, out of browser scenarios, SharePoint integration, RIA Services and more. We will also discuss the basics of the MVVM pattern that will simplify the way you develop applications today. After this session you will have all the tools you need to make your Line of business applications stand out on Windows.

Session Three – Creating Interactive Windows applications using Media and Touch - You’re a developer, not a designer, but in recent years the media side of development is getting more intense.  How can you keep up?  A basic understanding of Expression Blend, Silverlight 4 and Microsoft Pivot, which you’ll have by the end of this session, will get you farther along this path than you thought possible.  Start leveraging the power of Multi-Touch, Video and Data Visualization to create engaging experiences that will light up on Windows.

Session Four - Building RAD Silverlight Applications using LightSwitch - Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new development tool (currently in beta) for building business applications. LightSwitch simplifies the development process, letting you concentrate on the business logic and doing much of the remaining work for you. By using LightSwitch, an application can be designed, built, tested, and in your user’s hands quickly. Come explore LightSwitch for forms-over-data applications in a rapid application development fashion.

Session Five - Light up your Silverlight Apps for Win7 using Native Extensions - Learn about a new toolkit called Native Extensions for Silverlight (NESL) , which provides Silverlight friendly hooks to a number of native Windows 7 features you can use in your Silverlight applications. The libraries make it significantly easier to leverage Windows 7 from Silverlight. The libs also help with lighting up a Silverlight application with a minimum of effort for Windows 7 with items like jumplists and icon overlays. Learn “how-to” with special rigging-it-up sessions on video capture, speech, and Win7 features  like jump lists, icon overlays, taskbar progress and more!

Session Six – Silverlight Futures - This session will highlight the compelling features coming in Silverlight 5. With tighter integration with Windows APIs, full trust operations, XAML debugging, and support for a 64 bit browsers, you’ll see how Silverlight continues to be the dominating platform for building rich Internet and Windows applications.

All events are from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Doors Open at 8:30 am

01/18/11

Microsoft New York Office

1290 Ave Of The Americas
6th Floor New York New York 10104

REGISTER NEW YORK CITY!

01/19/11

Microsoft Iselin Office

Beach Haven & Sea Isle
101 Wood Ave S
Suite 900 Iselin New Jersey 08830

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02/02/11

Microsoft Malvern Office

MPR I & II
45 Liberty Blvd
Suite 210 Malvern Pennsylvania 19355

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02/03/11

Microsoft Washington Office

5182A, 5184B, 5186C
5404 Wisconsin Ave
Suite 700 Chevy Chase Maryland 20815

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02/22/11

Microsoft Waltham Office

MPR ABC
201 Jones Road
6th Floor Waltham Massachusetts 02451

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02/24/11

RIT Inn & Conference Center

5257 West Henrietta Road
Henrietta, NY 14467

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02/10/11

Microsoft Atlanta Office

Centennial Park; Piedmont Park; Grant
1126 Sanctuary Pkwy
Suite 301 Alpharetta Georgia 30010

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02/22/11

Microsoft Tampa Office

Siesta Key & Treasure Island
5426 Bay Center Dr
Suite 700 Tampa Florida 33609

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02/24/11

University Of Miami - Newman Alumni Center

6200 San Amaro Dr
Coral Gables Florida 33146

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Back at TechEd in Berlin last year,  I was interviewed by the Microsoft NL Students community. I spoke about my experiences as an entrepreneur at both Corzen and Triton Works as well as how entrepreneurship still thrives at Telerik. You can watch the interview here.

Pay attention at the end, I bang my head against the wall at the request of the interviewer.

Making Agile Development work in your organization

Telerik & e-Zest Solutions Ltd. invites you for Two Free Seminars:

INTRODUCTION

The Agile methodology has been adopted by many organizations around the globe. Unfortunately, many still struggle with the various methodologies (XP, Scrum, Kanban etc), and can’t settle on just one. While some organizations are successful in implementing Agile with the development teams, they tend to forget other vital parts of the process, mainly testing.

A session on how to choose which Agile methodology (or how to mix and match several pieces) to implement in your organization and how to do it.

Are you new to Agile? Have challenges implementing an Agile process in your organization? Have you been using Scrum, but need to bend the rules to make it work in your organization? Are you interested in using Kanban? What about XP? Can’t get the business “buy-in”? Come and learn about implementing an Agile process that suits all your organisational needs.

The “buffet table” of Agile processes & procedures session is aimed at learning how to properly mix & match each process, will cover:

• Defining XP, Scrum, Kanban and some other popular methodologies.
• How to implement a custom process for the enterprise, ISVs, consulting and remote teams?
• How Agile tools aids in implementing your unique process?
• How to “sell” Agile to your business partners and customers?

Seminar Coverage
Time Slot

Free Registration
9:00 am-9:55 am

Speaker Introduction
9:55 am-10:00 am

Session on “The Agile Buffet Table”
10:00 am-1:00 pm

This session dives into the value of Agile testing, how to use automated Agile testing tools and how your organization will benefit from Agile testing.

As more product teams move to Agile methodologies, the need for automated testing becomes essential to generate the velocity needed to ship fully tested features in short iterations.

The Session will cover:

• The differences between traditional testing and Agile testing.
• Exploring tools and strategies, that can help make your automation more productive as well as how to get the automation effort started for both new and existing Agile projects?

Seminar Coverage
Time Slot

Free Registration
2:30 pm-2.50 pm

Speaker Introduction
2.50 pm-3.00 pm

Session on “Agile Testing”
3:00 pm–5:00 pm

Conclusion of Program
5:00 pm

SPEAKERS

Stephen Forte

Stephen Forte is the Chief Strategy Officer of Telerik (A leading vendor of developer and team productivity tools, automated testing and UI components) also a certified scrum master. Involved in several startups, was the Co-founder of Triton Works (acquired by UBM in 2010), CTO and Co-founder of Corzen, Inc. (acquired by Wanted Technologies (TXV: WAN) in 2007). He also speaks regularly at Industry conferences around the world. He has written several books on application and database development including Programming SQL Server 2008 (MS Press). Prior to Corzen, Stephen served as the CTO ofZagat Survey in New York City and also was co-founder of the New York based software consulting firm The Aurora Development Group. He currently is a Microsoft MVP award recipient, INETA speaker and is the Co-moderator & founder of the NYC .NET Developer User Group.

Christopher Eyhorn

Christopher Eyhorn is the Executive VP of Telerik’s automated testing tools division, where they build the next generation of automated testing tools. Formally Co-founder and CEO of ArtOfTest. He has written automation frameworks and functional testing tools and has worked in a variety roles ranging from developer to CEO within the company. Christopher has worked with a variety of companies ranging in size and Industry. He is a licensed pilot that loves to fly every chance he gets and truly appreciates the importance of hardware and software testing every time he takes off.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Agile Buffet Table:
The discussion is advantageous for professionals, using the Microsoft .NET platform as well as Product Managers, Technical Directors, Project Managers, Architects and Sr. Developers.

Agile Testing:
Professionals interested in learning how to make their testing efforts more efficient as well as produce more automated tests at the end of each sprint as well as Project Managers, Software Quality Managers, Test/ QA Leads and Sr. Test Engineers.

Date & Time:

Tuesday, January 18th 2011
Agile Buffet Table, from 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Agile Testing, from 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Venue:

Sumant Moolgaokar Auditorium, Ground floor,
MCCIA Trade Tower, ICC Complex, 403,
Near Senapati Bapat Road, Pune

Pre-registration: Mandatory

Kindly confirm your participation immediately by sending us your contact
details on seminar@e-zest.net

e-Zest Help line number: 020–25459802/03/04

e-Zest Solutions Ltd. (www.e-zest.net) is a CMMI Level 3 & ISO 9001:2008 certified, Product Engineering and Enterprise Solutions provider, focused on solutions and services based on Microsoft .NET (3.0/3.5/4.0), Sun Java EE (5.0) & LAMP. e-Zest is also Telerik Sales & Training India partner, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and Sun Associate Partner.

Telerik (www.telerik.com), is a leading vendor of ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight, WinForms & WPF controls & components, as well as .NET Reporting, .NET ORM , .NET CMS, TFS, Code Analysis & Web Application Testing Tools. Building on its expertise in interface development & Microsoft technologies.

Last night I spoke at the SofiaDev .NET User Group in Sofia, Bulgaria on Agile Estimation. We covered how my Bulgarian is horrible, all I know is “pull” and “push” (as in doors). After an introduction to the estimation problem, we talked about User Stories, Story Points, Planning Poker, a Product Backlog, Team Velocity, and re-estimation.

Slides are here:

Call for Speakers Now Open!

The call for speakers is open until January 28th, and we’d love for you to submit your sessions, whether you’re looking to speak for the first time, or you’re an old pro.  Remember – this is an event by the community, for the community!

To apply for a speaking slot, first please register as a speaker here: http://bit.ly/ccnycspeaker

Then with the email address you registered with on our speaker page, please add as many abstracts as you’d like here: http://bit.ly/ccnycsession

Submit on anything you like in the development space. There is no central “theme” to our Code Camp except to focus on topics related to development.

Speakers – although we can’t afford to pay any T & E, we’ll have plenty of pizza and soda, and other fun stuff just for you!