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Agenda sessions and times are subject to change. A final agenda will be available  before the Houston TechFest 2009  event which will be held on Sept. 26 2009.

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Houston TechFest Agenda

 

Saturday, September 26, 2009
Time.NET 1Java 1Method.AgileAlt.NetSpecialSlight/WPF.NET 2Java 2SharepointIT-PROSpecial 2ScriptingSpecial 3
8:00 AM
to
9:00 AM
Registration
9:00 AM
to
9:40 AM
Keynote: The Shortest Path From Ideas to Software
Sam Gazitt
9:50 AM
to
11:05 AM
Building your DAL (Data Access Layer) with the ADO.NET Entity Framework
Rob Vettor
More than an IDE: Developing with the NetBeans Platform
Bob Colburn
A Software CEO's view of ALM
Mike Moles
What’s This Thing Called Agility
Robbie Mac Iver
Introduction to Test Driven Development
Ben Rady
Smart Environments
Philip Wheat
What's new in Silverlight 3.0?
Todd Anglin
ASP.NET MVC in Action - Testing the Last Mile with UI Testing
Jimmy Bogard
Groovy in Web Servers including GWT
Walker Hale
Preparing for Your Organization’s SharePoint Future: Factoring in SharePoint 2010
Errin OConnor
Winning Strategies for Successful SharePoint Backup and Recovery
Arnoldo Ruiz
Microsoft Azure: Computing in the Cloud with .NET
John Ebeling
I Love IronRuby!
Mohammad Azam
Simplifying Web Part Development.
Damon Armstrong
11:15 AM
to
12:30 PM
ASP.NET MVC in Action- Level 300
Jeffrey Palermo
From 0 to Grails in 60 Seconds
Dan Sline
Going From Good to Great in the IT Project World
Dave Guerra
Stuck in Agility?
Ben Rady
Practical Inversion of Control
Matt Hinze
iphone Development
Ben Scheirman
Building a Composite WPF Application
Claudio Lassala
Microsoft Client and UX Continuum
Jared Bienz
JavaFX Technology Part II
Sang Shin
Understanding the WSS/SharePoint Object Model
Michael Foertsch
Introducing Exchange 2010
Keith Combs
Windows Workflow Foundation 3.5
Ryan Andrus
Intro to Ruby on Rails
Chris Lee
Microsoft Dynamics xRM
Daniel Hunter
12:30 PM
to
1:30 PM
Lunch / Birds Of a Feather
1:30 PM
to
2:45 PM
The Shortest Path From Ideas to Software: Demo Session
Sam Gazitt
Data Mining in Java
Will Ferris
Evolve your code with Extension Methods, Fluent Interfaces, and Expressions
Jonathan Birkholz
Maturing Your Organization’s Agile Adoption
Bryan Campbell/Robbie Mac Iver
Automated builds & continuous integration
Ben Scheirman
HTTP: The other ESB
Ryan Riley
Rich Islands of Functionality: Silverlight in ASP.NET
Todd Anglin
What’s New in C# 4.0
Joe Mayo
Mixing Requirements, Modeling, and Java - Finally software requirements that aren't lip service!
Daniel Brookshier
Building Successful Solutions on SharePoint
Chris Kaveney
Windows 7 Technical Overview
Keith Combs
Building the Business Case for IT Projects
Barbara Brown
Advanced Rails Topics
Chris Lee
Making Productivity a Priority from President to Peon
Allen Hurst
2:55 PM
to
4:10 PM
Practical F#
Ryan Riley
Cost Effective Technical Solutions
Minoy Mathew
Increasing Your Productivity with LINQ
Rob Vettor
Agile Project Management: Oxymoron or Optimization?
Caroline Gormley
Isolating Dependencies in Unit Tests Using Mocks and Stubs (Level-200)
Claudio Lassala
Solving the Bill of Materials Problem in SQL Server
John Paul Cook
Cloud-based computing
Raj Shan
VSTS/TFS 2010
Michael Azocar
Emerging Java technologies
Sang Shin
Overcoming the obstacles of branding a portal
Dave Frette
Surface, Windows 7, and the untold stories of touch computing
Joe Fletcher
The Power of Sketching Ideas Workshop
Sara Summers
Python as a "Trade Language"
Walker Hale
DotNetNuke for the Developer
Jason Kergosien
4:20 PM
to
5:35 PM
UI techniques with ASP.NET MVC, Ajax and jQuery (lev 200)
Eric Sowell
Steamlined Object Modeling: Rules for Managing Object Relationships
Mike Abney
Utilizing .NET Generics to write better code
Shawn Weisfeld
Beyond the Core Concepts of OOP
Claudio Lassala
Intro to Nhibernate
Scott White
What is new in Expression Web 3
Cheryl Wise
Input Validation with WPF
Jonathan Birkholz
Windows 7 for Developers
Zain Naboulsi
New Java Portal Spec aka JSR-286
Prabhat Jha
Best Practices on Developing and Customizing Web Parts.
Rafael Perez
Windows Server 2008 R2 Technical Overview
Keith Combs
Cranking ASP.NET Performance to 11…the Easy Way!
Todd Anglin
A Brief Introduction to Scala
Steven Reynolds
Leveraging Faceted Search in Your SharePoint Deployment.
Mike Frizzell
5:35 PM
to
6:00 PM
Closing/Raffle
.NET 1Java 1Method.AgileAlt.NetSpecialSlight/WPF.NET 2Java 2SharepointIT-PROSpecial 2ScriptingSpecial 3

 

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