Phil Gilmore will talk to us about MonoDroid and how to get going using the MonoDroid framework.

In this discussion I plan to cover a brief history of the .NET Micro Framework, the developer tools and the hardware options. We can also take a look at some projects that I have done in the past and create a new project from scratch all the way to running in on a developer hardware kit. We can also debug the application and talk about the device emulator. The format will be very informal so come preprared with your thoughts and questions and lets see where the discussion takes us.

HTML 5 is a big and important update to the HTML specification. The new standard incorporates features like video playback and drag-and-drop that have been previously dependent on third-party browser plug-ins such as Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight. If you are familiar with HTML and want to be HTML 5 savvy then this is the session for you.

Outsystems has developed an innovative web development platform that redefines what an agile development tool is supposed to do.

Benefits:

• Tight integration of data modeling allows you to streamline changes to the data model while also maintaining a consistent UI.
• Visual nature of platform allows for anyone to see what the action does. Code is self-documenting.
• Platform allows you to "think out loud" making any kind of changes painless.
• The platform is completely scalable in all aspects (logging, database maintenance, extensibility)
• Platform features allows any developer to be truly agile (versioning, logging, reporting, continuous integration)
  

Brad will discuss the state of practical parallel programming today, and what the future will bring. He'll show demonstrations and explain the pros and cons of various types of parallelism, what kinds of problems work in parallel, and future trends, such as:

• Why adding additional CPU cores now will add little value.
• Where GPUs are going, and how each updated architecture helps less and less.
• Hybrid chips that contain GPUs and CPUs merged into one (AMD calls them APUs).
• Also various other approaches such as cores of differing "sizes". (For example, Microsoft is working on a chip design that adapts itself into doing all sorts of various parallelism, depending on the need).
• Who will be programming in parallel, and who won't be.
• When the day soon comes when chipmakers just can't make our programs any faster.
  

Brad is a former .NET developer and now teaches at Web State University.

FubuMVC is a Front Controller-style MVC framework for .Net written in the C# language. FubuMVC was started by a team of developers who wanted to stay on the .Net platform but were unhappy with the shape and direction of ASP.Net MVC

Knockout is a javascript framework that can help you simply building dynamic UIs by applying the Model-View-View-Model (MVVM) pattern. In this presentation we’ll go over the basics of Knockout to bind data to html elements, including how to use jQuery templates. We’ll then quickly build out a small application using the new WCF Web Apis to provide our application a JSON service to work with. You can find out more about Knockout at http://knockoutjs.com/.

Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS) are all the rage today, with Git and Mercurial being the clear leaders. We'll be taking a deep dive into how to use this type of version control system and how it might make us more productive. We'll also cover options for users that are "stuck" with their current version control whether it be TFS, or SVN.

Now that you know the why and when of HTML5, we'll start working on the how and where! Get answers to the questions that everyone has when getting started with this new technology. We'll tackle the questions about browser compatibility, mobile support, CSS3, Canvas, Video, and much more.

You have just inherited legacy code with no unit or integration tests. Your reputation as a developer is now staked on someone else's (probably shaky) code, with little time to refactor the architecture to make it more testable. Microsoft's Research in Software Engineering (RiSE) team developed the Moles and PEX tools for this very purpose. Use Moles to isolate dependencies by detouring calls to managed assemblies, third party APIs, otherwise sealed or static types, and even avoid building mocks through use of lambda expressions. Follow up by running PEX, to generate parameterized unit tests, providing up to 100% code coverage. With Moles and PEX on your utility belt, your reputation may be more secure than you think.

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