SELA Developer Practice: Post-BUILD Event

Oh, I was so happy when I discovered the ever so slight pun in “post-BUILD event”. Programmer humor, very sad. Moving on.

The November SDP is going to be the biggest one yet. We’ll kick off the conference on Sunday, November 18 with three tracks in parallel, for “Client and Web”, “Server and Cloud” and “ALM”. With keynotes from leading Microsoft speakers and an additional five sessions in each track, this day should bring you up to par with the technological novelties from Microsoft in your area of expertise. Some examples:

• Bnaya Eshet & Noam Sheffer – What’s New in TPL 4.5
• Manu Cohen-Yashar – Big Data: Hadoop on Windows Azure
• Dan Morgenstern – Agile Project Management with TFS 2012
• Elad Shaham – From a New Windows 8 Project to the Store

And then we have four days of full-day workshops – 16 workshops with our best speakers diving deep into the flurry of technologies delivered by Microsoft during the last year. Here are some of the sessions:

• Elad Katz – MVVM and UI Architecture (2 day workshop)
• Yaniv Rodenski & Ido Flatow – HTTP Fundamentals and ASP.NET Web API
• Alon Levi & Elad Shaham – Windows 8 with C# and XAML
• Noam Sheffer – .NET Debugging

Yours truly will have two sessions at the conference – a workshop titled Improving the Performance of .NET Applications, which I’m giving successfully for the fifth time in a row (I think :-)), and a brand new breakout session called JavaScript, Meet Cloud: Node.js on Azure, which really takes me out of my comfort zone. But from the experience of the last few months, I like Node.js quite a lot, and then the June 2012 refresh features of Windows Azure are incredible. This talk will combine these points of view to a coherent development experience, which I hope you’ll like.

See you at the SDP!