SELA Developer Practice: December 2011

I’m interrupting our scheduled programming for an important announcement: we will be hosting the SELA Developer Practice at the Crown Plaza hotel (Tel Aviv) and the SELA headquarters on December 4-8, 2011!

The format is (again) slightly different—we will be having a day full of keynote sessions on Windows 8 and other //build announcements, including Visual Studio 11 and .NET Framework 4.5. Then, we will host 22 full-day tutorials on a wide variety of topics—old and new—parallel programming, Windows 8 development, TFS, Windows Phone Mango, HTML 5, .NET debugging, and many others.

The speakers are what makes or breaks a conference, and this time we have a lineup of six Microsoft MVPs, twelve SELA architects and senior consultants, and two special guests: Guy Burstein and Maor David-Pur from Microsoft Israel.

I will speak at the first keynote of the day, introducing Windows 8, the frameworks, and the development experience. Additionally, I will deliver three tutorial days: the several-times-successful .NET Performance, .NET Debugging, and a unique new tutorial with Noam Sheffer titled Everything New in C++, covering C++11, C++/CX, and the C++ AMP extensions.

This is the third time this year we are delivering a conference of this scale, and I’m sure it’s going to be a blast. Thanks for your continued support, and I hope you learn from this conference and enjoy its unique atmosphere!

One small tip to conclude this announcement: if you’re considering attending, I should advise you to register as quickly as possible. Last time around (in June) we had most tutorial days sell out several weeks before the conference.

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