Building the application is only half the problem. Whether you're building a single-page app, an MVC website, a Windows service or a full-blown SOA platform, you'll end up facing the same challenges - how do I make my app available for QA and testing? How do I release it into production with minimal downtime and risk? How do I manage database schema changes? What if I need to roll back a release but my customers are already using the new feature to store their own data? We'll discuss hosting options - physical, virtual, cloud-based - and how these choices can affect your release process, maintenance and monitoring requirements, and we'll look at how you can create a pipeline that supports Flickr's famous "ten deployments per day" for your .NET applications.

SPA applications have become the next big thing, with MS even introducing template support for building them in Visual Studio. But for many people a SPA application still remains a mystery. Other tutorials will expand on the concepts here - so if you have never looked at a SPA app before, this will be a good place to start before attending those.

We will use OpenRasta, JQuery, KnockoutJS and SammyJS for the demo app and tutorial but discuss alternatives.

Prerequisites: You should have some experience with Javascript and jQuery, you'll also need Visual Studio, Git, Chrome, and Fiddler.

Backbone.js

Backbone Is a javascript framework for building a SPA site. It's a powerful, opinionated and easy to test way to build applications. We will cover the core components of Backbone including views, models, collections, routing and event messages. Aura widgetizes Backbone.js and lets you easily reuse components of your site. It also lets you communicate using a pub/sub pattern

RequireJS

Too many HTTP requests will slow down your site. Require is a file and module loader for javascript that lets you separate your code while you develop and deploy with a single optimised file without compromising on speed in production. You can also alias frameworks and easily upgrade or change your dependencies without changing your code (ie: changing from underscore to lodash).

Lo-Dash

Lo-Dash templating and utility framework that you can use with backbone, It is a fork of the underscore framework with speed improvements and lets you chain set operations together in a syntax that's similar to LINQ

Come geek out about some of the most interesting parts of javascript and see how cleverly they work together to make it possible to write object oriented code. Whether you are a javascript beginner or have used the language for years, are interested in writing plain javascript or just understanding what your favourite framework is doing, this session will give you a deeper understanding of how the language actually works.

Building a modern game is a complicated undertaking, requiring many different aspects of programming, from algorithm design to higher level architectures to directly driving the hardware. As software developers, we need to use the most efficient languages coupled with strong base frameworks to make the prospect of building a game financially viable.<

Software prerequisites: XNA or Monogame

ZeroMQ is a high-performance asynchronous messaging library aimed at use in scalable distributed or concurrent applications. It has a very low barrier to entry, can be used across a wide range of systems and programming languages, and opens up almost infinite possibilities in terms of network topology. Not only for distributed systems, it can make concurrency programming a breeze – and whether you’re working across threads in a process or across servers that are continents apart, the same concepts apply.

Along the way, we’ll use F# 3.0 type providers that integrate external data seamlessly directly into the programming language and we’ll use ASP.NET WebAPI to publish the results.

Please install a version of Visual Studio with F#

Learn TypeScript and AngularJS together, by example: creating client-side controllers, directives and service-wrappers, and using data-binding the way it was always meant to work, all with TypeScript's type-checking compilation, IntelliSense and other tooling improvements, and next-generation JavaScript syntax (modules! classes! properties!).Use Simple.Web to build, quickly and easily, a high-performance, full-hypermedia API, with no hard-coded service URLs in the client-side code.Put it all together and you'll never want to write an application the old way again.

Dependency Injection is a set of software design principles and practices that enable us to develop loosely coupled code. You will learn how to structure your code so that implementing an IOC Container becomes an implementation detail and not a source of obscure, hard to duplicate bugs!

Software prerequisites: Visual Studio 2010 or 2012.

What once took weeks, even with the best tools, now takes hours with Meteor. Meteor embraces web dev with seven basic principles:

• Data on the Wire. Don't send HTML over the network. Send data and let the client decide how to render it.

• One Language. Write both the client and the server parts of your interface in JavaScript.

  • Database Everywhere. Use the same transparent API to access your database from the client or the server.

• Latency Compensation. On the client, use prefetching and model simulation to make it look like you have a zero-latency connection to the database.

• Full Stack Reactivity. Make realtime the default. All layers, from database to template, should make an event-driven interface available.

• Embrace the Ecosystem. Meteor is open source and integrates, rather than replaces, existing open source tools and frameworks.

• Simplicity Equals Productivity. The best way to make something seem simple is to have it actually be simple. Accomplish this through clean, classically beautiful APIs.

The tutorial will cover the following topics:

• Search - basics and getting feet wet, the ElasticSearch REST and .NET APIs, mappings, field types, various query types and filters

• The analysis chain and how to take advantage of that

• Faceting - facet types, how to use and use-cases

• Multi-tenancy and scaling out, and consequences

• Monitoring and debugging

• Percolation - the neatest ES feature of all