PROGRESSIVE .NET TUTORIALS 2012 29-05-12
Skills Matter are delighted to announce the fifth annual Progressive .NET Tutorials, a 3-day conference packed with hands-on, interactive sessions!
The Progressive .NET Tutorials are a deep-dive, the antidote to the traditional conference format where speakers have too little time to explain complex ideas or provide any depth of understanding. Over the course of 3 days, the Progressive .NET Tutorials offer a dozen four-hour sessions, allowing the speaker time to explore a topic in depth.
The sessions are a mix of hands-on tutorials (bring a laptop!) and presentations. The topics favour the skills that will help you master the craft of software development, understand architectural approaches, understand OSS frameworks and technologies, and comprehend lean and agile approaches.
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Tuesday 29th May 2012
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Track 1
09.00 - 09.30 REGISTRATION & WELCOME
 After we've processed your registration and you've had your morning cuppa, Ian Cooper welcomes you to the Progressive .NET Tutorials at Skills Matter! more...
09.30 - 13.00 DELIBERATE DISCOVERY, CYNEFIN
 Elizabeth Keogh: Most software projects involve doing something new, which brings uncertainty. Our brains aren't comfortable with that, so we have to make conscious effort to stop pretending to be certain when we're not!
In this workshop-filled tutorial Liz Keogh looks at how common practices can
help us experiment, helping us learn safely and address risks early. more...
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
There's a stack of sandwiches waiting for you, dig in!
14.00 - 17.30 METRO-STYLE APPS FOR .NET DEVELOPERS
 Matthew Baxter-Reynolds: In this session, Matthew Baxter-Reynolds gets you up and running with building Metro-style apps for Windows 8 and Windows RT developers. You'll learn about the new .NET Framework profile for Metro-style and how it integrates with Windows Runtime (WinRT). You'll also build an app using the XAML UI track that's able to communicate with a remote server and persist data locally. more...
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Track 2
09.30 - 13.00 PRACTICAL FUNCTIONAL-FIRST PROGRAMMING
 Don Syme: Don Syme introduces the practical application of F#/.NET programming to solve real-world analytical programming problems. The tutorial will begin with a short lecture introducing the core value proposition of F# - robust, efficient, type-safe, succinct analytical programming which can be deployed in the enterprise context. more...
14.00 - 17.30 ASYNC AND C#5
 Liam Westley: In this session, Liam Westley provides an overview of how the previous parallel task options within the previous .Net Framework are being enhanced with the Asynchronous libraries which bring the new async and await keywords into C# 5.0 more...
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Wednesday 30th May 2012
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Track 1
09.00 - 09.30 WELCOME, REGISTRATION, COFFEE & TEA
Ian Cooper welcomes you back to the second day of the Progressive .NET Tutorials at Skills Matter! more...
09.30 - 13.00 INTRODUCTION TO SIMPLE.WEB
 Mark Rendle: Mark Rendle presents this tutorial on his new web application framework, Simple.Web. Founded on the principle that MVC is a "broken" pattern, Simple.Web applies the SOLID design principles to web application development, and makes building RESTful web sites and services... well, Simple. more...
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
Lunchtime!
14.00 - 17.30 END TO END JAVASCRIPT
 Gary Short: It is becoming more important to know Javascript. As a language it has infiltrated all three layers of application development , from JQuery in the front end, through NodeJS in the middle tier, to Map/Reduce functions on backend databases like CouchDB. In this session we’ll take a look at some of the gotcha’s within the language before going on to build an exemplar, 3-tier application in Javascript. By the end of this session you will have a much better appreciation for the language and the power it has on all application tiers. more...
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Track 2
09.30 - 13.00 MESSAGING 101
Ian Cooper: In this hands-on introduction, Ian Cooper looks at why asynchronous messaging is often the preferred solution to the problems of integrating and distributed solution, and look at the implementation of common messaging patterns. more...
14.00 - 17.30 ASP.NET AUTOMATED ACCEPTANCE TESTING
 Ben Hall: While Unit Testing and Test Driven Development (TDD) have become a
solid foundation for many development teams, automated acceptance
testing can still be painful and time-consuming. In this hands-on
introduction, Ben Hall will introduce how you can successfully
automate ASP.net websites and help you move around the pitfalls many
teams encounter. more...
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Thursday 31st May 2012
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Track 1
09.00 - 09.30 WELCOME, REGISTRATION, COFFEE & TEA
09.30 - 13.00 HTML5
 Dan Thomas: So HTML5... What is all the fuss about? It seems all the major vendors are actually in agreement on something.
In this tutorial we'll be powering through the murky waters of HTML5 taking a brief look at where all the hullabaloo has come from, why it matters and how it relates to the world of .Net. more...
14.00 - 17.30 INTRO TO RAVENDB
 Andrea Magnorsky: RavenDB is the poster child for document databases in the .NET world. As the NoSQL movement goes mainstream many .NET developers are curious to know more about this tool. more...
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Track 2
09.30 - 13.00 SECURITY AND IDENTITY IN THE .NET WORLD
 Dylan Beattie : As online services and mobile apps take over the world, one of the key challenges facing developers is that of security and identity. How can we trust our users? How can we persuade our users to trust us - and to trust each other? What does it actually mean when you "connect with Facebook" or "log in with Twitter"? How can we deliver great products with great user experience without risking our users' precious data in the process? more...
14.00 - 17.30 THOUGHTWORKS
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EVENT DETAILS
| GROUP: |
London .NET User Group |
| WHO: | Ian Cooper, Elizabeth Keogh, Matthew Baxter-Reynolds, Don Syme, Liam Westley, Mark Rendle, Gary Short, Ben Hall, Dan Thomas, Andrea Magnorsky, Dylan Beattie |
| WHAT: | Progressive .NET Tutorials 2012 |
| WHERE: | The Skills Matter eXchange, London |
| WHEN: | 29th-31st May 2012
, 9:00AM |
| COST: |
£325.00
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