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Mobile and Connected? Building Mobile Backends in the Cloud
Featuring Mandy Waite
Today, building the next generation of mobile apps and scaling them to manage success requires leading edge platforms and infrastructure. In this session we look at how you can use the Google Cloud Platform to build highly scalable mobile backends.
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Accessing the cloud through your Android App
Featuring Steve Plank
Often, when we think of compute (as distinct from mere storage) in the cloud we think of service creation, service management and operational gumph like patching, security updates, virus management and so on. In this session, you’ll see how all the non-sexy “plumbing” of running a cloud-based...
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Using Agile Methods to Become Awesome
Featuring David Laribee
This workshop is an experience share: techniques I've found useful in transitioning from "good team" to "great team." The workshop is divided into six pomodoros (25 minutes hard focus followed by a five minute break). Half our time will be spent doing hands on exercises:...
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Advanced Topics of Behavior Driven Development with SpecFlow examples
Featuring Gaspar Nagy and Jonas Bandi
Come learn about general practices and patterns of BDD and ATDD ‒ through concrete examples realised with SpecFlow. Come discuss opportunities and pitfalls of BDD and common antipatterns and pitfalls based on concrete experiences with BDD.
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Building Search Engines with Lucene.net, Solr and NHibernate Search
Featuring Scott Cowan
Do you really need a database for that project? Find out about the exciting world of Lucene the fast access datastore. Covering lucene.net and what you can do in the .net port. How Nhibernate Search can give you a quick way to map your model to an index.
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NoSQL on .NET
Featuring Oren Eini aka Ayende Rahien
The buzz is on, everyone is talking about those NoSQL databases, but what ARE they? Do I really need to SQL behind? In this session, we will explore key / value databases, document databases, graph databases and column family databases.
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Using Agile Methods to Become Competent
Featuring David Laribee
This workshop is for developers beginning with agile methods or coaches and consultants looking for new ways to introduce agility to their customers. We'll break up into teams of 5-6 people and play a modified version of "The XP Game." I'll share coaching tactics and practice...
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Packaging, with Openwrap
Featuring Sebastien Lambla
Finding great .net code is easy. Using it, managing all the dependencies that can exist between packages is not. In this session, we’ll have a look at an early version of OpenWrap, an package management system for .net, and the challenges that it tries to solve.
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NHibernate stump the expert
Featuring Oren Eini aka Ayende Rahien
In this interactive session, you'll have the chance to try to give Ayende all the unanswerable NHibernate questions that are burning within you. Along the way, we'll explore advanced NHibernate features, under utilized options and all the tips Ayende can share after working with...
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Driving an ASP.NET MVC application outside-in with SpecFlow
Featuring Jonas Bandi and Gaspar Nagy
In this tutorial, we'll create an ASP.NET MVC app from scratch with an outside-in approach. Come learn Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) and Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) to bridge the gap between requirements and implementation with SpecFlow.
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