DevAcademy4 Has Left the Building

DevAcademy4 Has Left the Building

Today I attended
the DevAcademy4
conference. The
day started for me
at 0700 when all the
lecturers for the
conference got together for a morning briefing.
After that I went to a nice breakfast which was served in
the Avenue hall for all the attendees.

After the keynotes session which was great and included a
laptop giveaway for one of the attendees, I went to prepare for my
session about Entity Framework Evolution in .Net Framework 4. 
In that point I want to thank all of the attendees in my session.
I had a great session and I hope you had fun too. As promised, you can
download the session slide deck and demos from here.

The next session I went for was Parallel Programming in .Net 4 and VS2010
with Sasha Goldshtein. As always Sasha was great.
I always admire his typing skills. In the lecture Sasha talked about PLINQ and
its new abilities in VS2010 including the ability to get a visual stack trace for
tasks and more.

After Sasha I went to Maor David’s session – Introduction to Cloud Computing &
Windows Azure Platform. The session was about Windows Azure and included
the reason to use the platform and of course a demo of how to deploy an
application to the cloud and many more details.

The last breakout session I took was Shai Raiten’s session Introduction to
CodedUI Testing and Microsoft Test Manager. The main reason was because
Pavel’s session was full and I didn’t want to stand for one hour. Even so the
subject isn’t my favorite, Shai delivered the session so funny and cool so I
found myself interested.

In the last time slot I went to the demo session of Vlad Azarkhin – 
The Five Coolest IIS 7 Features for Developers. I knew all the features 
Vlad talked about so I didn’t get any added value from the session.
Even so, the session was good.

This is it for DevAcademy4, see you next time in other conferences or in
DevAcademy5.