A FIRST LOOK AT BOO

Ian Cooper: Boo is a 'wrist-friendly language' for the CLR that reduces the 'noise' of other CLR languages. It's also a favorite for writing Internal DSLs In this session Ian Cooper will talk about the Boo language from his recent 'first look' at the language. As well as covering the basics of why Boo is different Ian will look at the best way for you to get started learning Boo. more...

   MANAGING WEBSITES WITH WEB PLATFORM INSTALLER AND MSDEPLOY

Dylan Beattie : In this talk, Dylan Beattie will show you how to kickstart your web projects using Microsoft's new Web Platform Installer, and how you can deploy your websites and manage your servers using msdeploy.exe. more...

   SPARK VIEW ENGINE

Scott Cowan: Scott Cowen will talk about Spark. Spark is a view engine for the ASP.Net Mvc and MonoRail frameworks. It allows the html to dominate the view in a way your front end developer will love. more...

   INTRODUCTION TO MPI.NET

David Ross: MPI.NET is a .NET wrapper around the Message Passing Interface which is a used by the majority of super computers and compute clusters for supporting sharing data between compute nodes. more...

   ACCEPTANCE TESTING IN ENGLISH WITH CONCORDION .NET

Gojko Adzic: Concordion is an acceptance testing tool that enables developers, testers and business analysts to build executable specifications in free-form HTML. In this talk, Gojko Adzic introduces Concordion.NET, the .NET port of Concordion, and demonstrates it with examples. more...

   WHAT OPENRASTA DOES OTHER FRAMEWORKS CAN’T

Sebastien Lambla: Sebastien Lambla will showcase a few strange usages of OpenRasta. more...

   F# UNITS OF MEASURE

Phil Trelford: The F# programming language has full support for static checking and inference of units-of-measure. In the process Phil show its use with a sample of retro game Lunar Lander. more...