To celebrate the launch of our favourite developer tools Visual Studio 2012, we are dedicating a full track of sessions on just that – Visual Studio 2012 ☺
Code! Code! Code! This track enlists sessions that cover a breath of topics and technologies, from developer tools to languages & frameworks, to development best practices, to open source projects! Track owner: Rob@robmaherconsulting.co.nz
If you have an keen interest in technologies on cloud computing, virtualization, Database and Business Intelligence etc with an IT Infrastructure focus, then this is YOUR track! Track owner: steve@canterburybusinesssolutions.co.nz
For the less exciting part of the “code camp” ;), this track targets business decision makers, IT managers, business analysts and end users and it presents you with showcases of various Line of Business applications in the real cruel world… Track owner: Debbieireland@envisionit.co.nz
A great developer values a great IDE, come and learn about the latest and greatest on Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 from the best of the best!
We have the following prizes to give away throughout the day.
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Speaker: Paul Proctor
Business users of Microsoft solutions such as SharePoint, CRM, NAV, etc, are always looking to leverage their investment and make better use of the technology. During this session we’ll look at how traditional, paper based business processes can be re-engineered and streamlined using image capture and processing software to deliver increased efficiency, reduced cost and improved accuracy whilst integrating seamlessly with existing Microsoft technologies. The session will cover technologies including OCR, OMR, ICR, PDF Forms and will include the ‘live’ development of a solution to integrate PDF forms with Office 365 SharePoint.
Speaker: Debbie Ireland
ShareThePoint is a community portal for the Asia Pacific region (and everywhere!). It brings together people and knowledge all with the new features of SharePoint 2013. Come and see how all the Out of the Box functionality is used to full advantage to allow people to CONNECT, LEARN and EXPERIENCE. See first-hand the value of social features, team collaboration, and SharePoint in real life.
Speaker: Brendon Ford
A new Office has arrived. It’s a powerful service that helps employees unleash their best ideas, get things done and stay connected on the go. Simply sign in for a personalised experience and all the most up-to-date Office applications, with new and enhanced features continually being added. Come see a demonstration of the Office 365 Preview and learn how the service is evolving to meet customer needs. This session will be a high level overview of all of the new features in the Office 365 for our enterprise customers.
Speaker: Hendrik Venter
Striking an optimal balance between the levels of investment in tools (“Price” of the tools decision) and the level of investment in skill, effort and time (“Cost” of the initiative), is one of the most important decisions to be made in the early stages of any process automation initiative.
Organizations where significant Microsoft technology investments have been made, often have the following objectives in mind when selecting tools and platform technologies for the creation and maintenance of workflow driven applications:
• Empower a broader audience to participate
• Maximize the leverage on investments in Microsoft technologies and skills
• Minimize the time, effort and skill required to meet business requirements
We are all faced with a variety of technology options that will assist in achieving the three objectives listed above. The “million-dollar” question is: To what extent does each technology choice achieve these objectives and where is the optimal balance between “Price” and “Cost”? Attendees of this presentation will learn more about the key factors that organizations should consider when selecting workflow tools and technologies to complement their investments in Microsoft technology and skills.
Speaker: Reza Rad
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a leading tool in the data warehouse industry - used for performing extraction, transformation, and load (ETL) operations. SSIS 2012 comes with great new features which helps ETL Developers and Architects to create more robust and reliable packages to transfer data.
This session is about:
• Understanding new deployment model in SSIS 2012
• Deep dive into SSIS catalog database
• Features of SSIS catalog; versioning, permission, parameters and environment variables
• How to use Catalog reports and views in action
• Execution of SSIS packages and Logging in SSIS Catalog
• Data taps
Speaker: Farhan Sattar
Want to have a worldwind tour of what's new in WIndows Server 2012 then this is the session for you. A surface scratch into some of the best new features in Windows Server 2012 as decided by your presenter!
Speaker: Stu Fox
Isn’t System Center just about boring infrastructure stuff? In this session we’ll look at how System Center can provide useful & relevant feedback about your applications, and open up some new scenarios for your dev/test environments.
Speaker: Dave Dustin
This session for those people who have no formal database administration training, but now have to look after a SQL Server environment. Be it development, Performance or general Monitoring, Management and Maintenance, this session will cover the important topics you'll need to know.
Speaker: Steve Knutson
SharePoint 2013 has many enhancements and improved functionality. This presentation will provide an overview of new features, functionality and system requirements for SharePoint 2013. This session will help you understand what's new in preparation for release of SharePoint 2013 early next year. The content of this presentation is drawn from the recently released technical preview.
Speaker: Ian Randall
With the advent of nuget and social coding sites like github, it is ever easier to consume and create open source code. Join Ian for an open discussion about why, when and how to join in this exciting new world for all developers (even Microsoft ones!)
Speaker: Nikolai Blackie
Do you suffer from elevated stress and high blood pressure from your current software release cycles? Lost count of the 2am troubleshooting sessions trying to working out why production didn’t deploy like test? In this session you will see real life continuous delivery strategies from the field, learn some implementation techniques and demonstrations of a few tools that will assist in reducing the headache of manual software delivery.
Speaker: Daniel Larsen
In this action packed session we will answer the question “how quickly can I code a (realistic) mobile web app?” Leveraging some great technologies and frameworks including jQuery Mobile, ASP.NET MVC and SQL Server Compact. In the process we will deep dive Razor, dynamic types, custom MVC views and more. We will also consider Lean methodology and Domain Driven Design, and do some maths with the Elo Rating System algorithm.
Speaker: Daniel Larsen
Domain Driven Design puts the business domain at the heart of the software and can revolutionise your software design process. This session takes a walk through some key Domain Driven Design concepts that are especially relevant to .NET developers. We will start from a theoretical standpoint and then move into practical examples, concluding with an Aggregate object design session using DDD methodology. If you have been or are considering using DDD concepts anywhere in your stack, this session will help you to consider aspects of software design from a DDD standpoint.
Speaker: Colin Bowern
Hang on a second - don't you dare drop in another TABLE tag to create a column on the page! There's a good thing brewing in Cascading Style Sheets yet many good developers have been put off by years of fighting with cross-browser issues. This cornerstone technology is key to not just the web but also Windows 8 apps.
In this session we will make the case for why CSS is important to your code not just from a layout perspective but also an architectural perspective. We'll take you through the mental models you need to keep in mind like the box model and how CSS can do more than just font colors and height/width. You will walk away with a whole new respect for this powerful layout engine (and if time permits how you could even solve the Fizz Buzz problem with it!).
Speaker: Danijel Malik
In this session I’ll show how we managed to create two manufacturing applications with around 50% of the code reused. Although it’s the same business line, the products are entirely different. You’ll see how we designed the database, middle tier, services and UI in the way that it’s possible to reuse it again and again.
Speaker: Adam Cogan
iPhones give an awesome User Experience but interface design is not something that belongs solely in the world of Apple. Your website and applications can all benefit greatly from an understanding of how your users might navigate your product. Unfortunately for developers, interface usability is something of an afterthought, making your otherwise perfect application suck.
In this session, get real world examples of good and bad usability from Adam. Bring along your websites and applications and undergo the Adam Cogan crash test!
The session will commence with a detailed discussion of good interface design and usability, and then move onto an analysis of good and bad site examples.
The presentation will finish with an open floor workshop to discuss user submitted sites and applications, and workshop improvements for attendees as well as a vote on applying the correct architecture in certain situations (JQuery+HTML5 vs Silverlight or WPF or Windows 8 Metro).
Speaker: Josh Robb
Wish you were doing ASP.NET MVC but stuck with a brownfield WebForms app. We'll walk through integrating MVC into an existing WebForms app. Whats possible, where the challenges are and what you need to think about to overcome them.
Speaker: Scott Wylie
Visual Studio 2012 Launch Keynote.
Speaker: Thiago Almeida
Developing ASP.NET MVC4 web-sites, working with data using Entity-Framework 5, and building modern apps with Web-API Services consumed by HTML5 clients (JQuery & JavaScript).
Then, showing the application deployment possibilities offered by Windows Azure.
Speaker: Ian Randall
Developing immersive Windows 8 Windows-Store Apps (with HTML5/WinJS or XAML/C#) & traditional Windows Desktop apps (with WPF)
Speaker: Rob Maher
This session focuses on ALM areas but from a practical and developer point of view, presenting topics like Product Backlog / Task Board, My Work, Local workspaces, Code Review, Code Comparison, Rollback, etc., all of them supported by Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio 2012.
Last Modified: 21/8/2012.