P&P Summit 2010 Israel - It's no longer just a teaser!
We've made considerable progress with this event in the past few weeks and now, we're proud to present to you the almost-almost-final agenda and speakers for the first ever patterns & practices summit in Israel!
The summit will take place on Feb. 10-11, 2010.
The change that might occur later on is the arrival of 1 additional p&p speaker from Redmond, WA.
Due to some delays in the publishing of this agenda, we're hereby announcing the extension of the early bird special promotion (2,995 NIS) by one additional week, ending on Thursday, Jan. 7th. If you're planning to attend this event, we urge you to hurry up and register before the rate will return to its normal state... (It took me some effort to extend this promotion beyond the current calendar year and I'm skeptic it'll be possible again...)
One last thing – we’ve been able allocate some time for an interview with one of our speakers – Eugenio Pace, a Senior Program Manager in p&p. We know what we want to ask him, do you want to add something of your own? Send us questions for Eugenio through comments on this post!
So, without any further a due… here’s our p&p summit 2010 agenda. We’ll be more than thrilled to get your feedback on the content and structure!
Session List:
Application Architecture Guide: The Map for Your Journey - Don Smith
Application architecture is all about making decisions. And the trick to being a good architect is knowing what the right questions are and how to go about answering them. The 2nd edition of the Application Architecture Guide from patterns & practices aims to help you do just that. In this session we’ll see how this guide can help ensure you identify the right questions and have a means to answer and communicate them on your journey to delighting customers with software.
Prepare for the next Application Platform: development & design considerations for the Microsoft cloud, Azure and AppFabric – Eugenio Pace
The recently released cloud platform presents new and exciting opportunities for developers. In this session we’ll provide an overview of all of Microsoft’s cloud components: Windows Azure, SQL Azure, Access Control Service and the Service Bus. We’ll explore current and future capabilities, pricing and SLAs. We’ll also cover common application scenarios, its unique challenges and special design considerations
Choose the right UI Technology for your app: A practical how-to – Memi Lavi
The UI Technology world is getting larger and larger, and new technologies are added constantly – WPF, Silverlight, AJAX and let's not forget the good-old WinForms. One of the critical issues when planning a new app is which type of UI technology should it utilize? In this session we will learn about the various UI candidates available today, and, more importantly, learn practical rules for how to choose the most suitable one for your new application.
Data Patterns - Michael Puleio
Separating data access code from business and other types of logic has been a well-known practice for quite a while. Although, there are still a number of ways to accomplish this. While there are proven patterns for how to build these data access layers, implementing them with modern technologies isn’t always intuitive. This session will cover how the Data Access Guidance project from patterns & practices aims to illustrate how to implement these patterns with modern technologies like the Entity Framework.
Delivering Capabilities vs. Applications – Lior Rozner
The race for more productive, more agile and shorter development cycle requires a paradigm shift in the way we think about application design and development. Composite solution are moving the application design decisions away from the Architects and Developers and putting them in the hands of the end users. Architects and Developers need to think in terms of designing and delivering Capabilities rather than purpose built applications. This presentation will explore the emerging patterns and practices that Architects and Developers can use to factor requirements into capabilities which in turn can be consumed by the user and create high value business solutions.
Ask the Experts: Fun, Interactive and Inspiring Q&A Session – Danny Cohen, Alik Levin, Don Smith, Eugenio Pace, Lior Rozner, Memi Lavi, Michael Puleio
Forget about politically correct Q&A, lose the public relations sound bites – come and ask the real, hard questions, answered and argued over by the real-world experts. These are the questions and these are the answers you will not hear anywhere else…
An Agile talk on Agile Software Development - Michael Puleio
What do you want to know about agile software development? This discussion will start with a brief overview of agile software development. Then, we will put into practice the principles behind agile development by running a short “project” during the rest of the session. This will include creating a product backlog (a list of questions you want answered), prioritizing the backlog, doing simple release planning, and executing several iterations. By the end of the session, you should have a basic understanding of agile development and have a few questions on the topic answered
What’s Coming in Enterprise Library 5.0 - Don Smith
Microsoft Enterprise Library is a collection of reusable application blocks that help address common problems that software engineers face when developing enterprise LOB applications. Over the years, EntLib grew larger, and arguably more complex than it really needs to be. In this session, we will share how we are making Enterprise Library 5.0 simpler and more usable. We?ll discuss the underlying design and the architectural refactorings we undertook and give examples of how common scenarios are addressed
Dissecting web app performance from browser through ASP.NET to IIS – Alik Levin
Getting bigger servers does not always help achieving better performance. In fact, in many cases it even won't help at all. This session is prescriptive. It dissects canonical web application with performance scalpel revealing performance killers and boosters in browser, IIS, and .net code. You take away from this session performance principles, guidelines, samples, and tools that will help you plan, build and test your next mission-critical application.
Head in the cloud? Factors to keep your feet on the ground – Eugenio Pace
In this session we will unveil emerging design patterns and successful business models for cloud applications. With so many innovations happening at such a fast pace, it is easy to believe that the available bandwidth is infinite and free. Or that latency is always negligible. But that's never the case. The laws of physics are unforgiving and they have an impact on an application's design. Then, the following questions must be asked: how do these factors affect the design and business feasibility of an application offered as a service? What happens if we ignore them?
Patterns & Practices Futures – Don Smith, Eugenio Pace, Michael Puleio
p&p’s goal is to help software development teams be more successful with the Microsoft application platform. This is our goal, this is our mission. In this session we will unveil before you all of our deepest secrets and aspirations for the coming future. You’ll have a remarkable opportunity to get a glimpse into the next-gen guidance that will assist you in planning and building your future apps.
Speakers:
Eugenio Pace
Eugenio is a Senior Program Manager in the patterns & practices group at Microsoft. His current focus in the team is on Identity and Access Control management, and general application development for the cloud. Before that he worked in the Architecture Strategy Team at Microsoft, focusing solely on Software as a Service (SaaS). You can find his blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/eugeniop
Don Smith
Don Smith is a Senior Program Manager on the patterns & practices team at Microsoft where he is responsible for developing guidance deliverables for .NET architects and developers who are involved in building connected solutions. In the 5 years prior to joining the patterns & practices team, Don helped Microsoft customers build connected systems by performing code and architecture reviews as well as educating them on XML and Web services. In the 5 years prior to joining Microsoft, Don developed Web and distributed solutions as a COM developer consultant. http://blogs.msdn.com/donsmith
Michael Puleio
Michael is a Senior Software Developer, pragmatic agilist, and coffee addict. He's been working for Microsoft for almost ten years, and is currently a member of the patterns & practices team. At p&p, he has worked on the Web Client and Smart Client Software Factories and contributed to guidance on Data Access, Acceptance Testing, and Web Client Developer Guidance. At Microsoft, he has also worked with MSNTV (formerly WebTV) and MSN Internet Access. Previous to Microsoft, Michael worked on a range of software challenges including computer reservation systems, web application development, and 3D modeling for geophysics. http://blogs.msdn.com/mpuleio
Alik Levin
Alik is a Principal Consultant with Microsoft Consulting Service [MCS]. Alik is passionate about how stuff works and how it breaks. His main focus is on Application Performance and Scalability. Alik happily shares his expertise with his customers and peers formally through MCS engagements and informally on MCS team blog here: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/mcs .
Lior Rozner
Lior is a Software Architect in the Microsoft Consulting Services group working with different customers across the enterprise for more than three years. His current focus is designing and building large scale composite solutions. Lior is also leading the areas of ALM and Smart Client development in the group. Prior of joining Microsoft Lior has been building large scale enterprise solutions on the MS platform.
Memi Lavi
Memi is a Senior Consultant and Software Architect in the Microsoft Consulting Services group. He works with many enterprise customers across many fields, and involved in planning, architecting and implementing some of the most complex and cutting-edge applications in Israel. Memi is focused on creating effective, lean-and-mean architecture design for his systems while utilizing the most relevant technologies. Memi posts in the MCS blog here: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/mcs