Register for DevTeach Montreal

Register for DevTeach Montreal at the early early bird special price before it goes up.

This year, the popular architecture and agile tracks are back plus we have brand new Silverlight and Team System tracks.

Here are a couple of reasons to attend:

Real World Best Practices for Source Control
Barry Gervin - VST348
Developer hygene isn't just about showering and keeping your desk clean. A clean development environment starts with good source control practices. We'll cover structuring solutions & projects to minimize dependencies and maximize developer productivity and effective build practices including branching models. We'll walk through a day in the life of the VSTS. On the other hand, we'll use a typical day in the life to compare the practices of a dirty developer vs. a clean one. These practices are very helpful for any developer working in a team of 2 or more developers, and absolutely critical for larger teams. We'll run into common problems such as "My Get Latest Didn't, WTF?", "Who wrote that code?", "It wasn't me that broke the build!" and it's close friend "It worked on my machine!". You'll come away from this session understanding The Art of the Merge: A primer in conflict resolution, and Shelvesets: What are they good for? 

Barry Gervin is a Principal Consultant with ObjectSharp Consulting. Barry, a technical leader with over 15 years experience, has helped many development teams architect and build large-scale mission critical applications.
Barry is skilled in the Architecture and Development of Distributed Applications and Databases. Some of his notable recent work is aimed at establishing best practices for .NET development. He has been deeply involved with Microsoft's .NET platform and is a convert from the PowerBuilder development community.

In addition to consulting, Barry has been a Software Development Instructor for over 10 years and currently holds a MS Certified Trainer designation in addition to .NET MS Certified Solution Developer and MS Solution Framework Practitioner designations.

Data Visualization with WPF and Silverlight 2.0
Tim Huckaby - SLV302
Building Data Visualization Applications with the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) & Silverlight 2.0
This session will be heavily demo focused to accentuate how the power of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight 2.0 can be used to visualize data. WPF is the next-generation presentation sub-system for Windows. It provides developers and designers with a unified programming model for building rich Windows smart client user experiences that incorporate UI, media, and documents. WPF uses vector based graphics rendering, which results in better graphics and presentation for an application. WPF also has other features such as layout, styling, and data binding, which, when you mix with interactivity, enables scenarios such as interactive data visualization. When you put all this together, you have a unified API for various presentation components, such as 2D and 3D documents and declarative programming through XAML, which is a powerful platform for data visualization that can be used to really “light-up” you enterprise applications.

Tim Huckaby is currently focused on RIA & Smart Client Technologies like WPF, VSTO, Surface, and Silverlight. He has been called a “Pioneer of the Smart Client Revolution” by the press.
Tim has been awarded multiple times for the highest rated Keynote and technical presentations for Microsoft and numerous other technology conferences around the world by Microsoft Corporation. Tim has done presentations on Microsoft Technologies at technology events like Microsoft Tech Ed, Product Launches events, Dev Days, MEC, World Wide Partner Conference, MGB, MGX, and the PDC, along with 3rd party technology conferences all over the world is consistently rated in the top 10% of all speakers at the events. Tim was selected by Microsoft as a ''Rock-Star'' speaker for the International .NET Association and speaks world-wide on their behalf.

Tim founded InterKnowlogy, experts in Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Platforms, in 1999 and has 25+ years experience including serving on a Microsoft product team as a development lead on an architecture team. Tim is a Microsoft Regional Director, an MVP and serves on multiple Microsoft councils and boards.

But, there's more to life than software. A lot more. my current passions outside of the technology world are fly fishing, snow boarding, mountain biking, 2 man beach volleyball, and sports & the outdoors in general. i have been happily married for almost 20 years to Kelly and i'm immensely proud of my two teenagers, Camille (16) and Mark (13).