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TulsaTechFest 2009

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TulsaTechFest 2009

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Tulsa TechFest 2009 - Agenda

* WARNING: THIS IS STILL HEAVILY UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND WILL DEFINITELY CHANGE! *

8:00 am - Check-In begins

8:45 am - Welcome/Announcements

9:00 am - Break-out Sessions (See details below)

10:30 am - Break-out Sessions (See details below)

12:00 pm - Lunch - Sponsored by ... TBA

1:00 pm - Break-out Sessions (See details below)

2:30 am - Break-out Sessions (See details below)

4:00 pm - Break-out Sessions (See details below)

5:30 pm - Closing Keynote(s) (See details below)

6:15 pm(ish) - Grand Prizes (As many as possible will be given throughout the day.)

Welcome and Keynote Sessions

Closing Keynote

Closing Keynote: Surface, Windows 7, and untold stories of touch computing

Speaker(s): Joe Fletcher

Windows 7 will help introduce touch computing on a massive scale to millions of people over the next several years. The Microsoft Surface group was asked by Windows to assist in showing off what touch computing could do, and to present new ways to think about designing applications for those unique interactions. Come hear the story and process of how a few members of the Microsoft Surface team developed three simple and fun, but not easy, applications for the Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7. The story will also offer and discuss numerous pain points and road blocks encountered along the way, and the learning developed as a result to take advantage of these new technologies and experiences.

Nov 6th
Nov 6th - 5:30 PM

Nov 6th - 5:30 PM

Break-Out Sessions

	Nov 6th	Nov 6th	Nov 6th	Nov 6th	Nov 6th
	Developing Your First Azure Service Jennifer Marsman	Developer's Overview of SQL Azure Chris Koenig	Salesforce.com / Force.com Cloud Platform Fadi Shami	Azure storage for the relational database minded developer Dennis Palmer	Business Value from the Cloud David Walker
	What's new in Silverlight 3.0? Todd Anglin	XAML Data Bound for Greatness! Michael Benkovich	Rich Islands of Functionality: Silverlight in ASP.NET Todd Anglin	Expression Blend 3.0 and Sketchflow Michael Benkovich	Building LOB Applications in Silverlight Chris Koenig
	Constructing your Data Access Layer around the ADO.NET Entity Framework Rob Vettor	Developer<T>: Utilizing .NET Generics to write better code. Shawn Weisfeld	C# 4.0 Chris Koenig	Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0 Jennifer Marsman	VSTS 2010: What’s in it For Me? Jeff Bramwell
	Windows 7 John Weston	Microsoft Virtualization Roundtable Jason Cornellier	Windows HPC Server 2008 Steve Chilcoat	Exchange 2010 John Weston	Windows Server 2008 R2 John Weston
	Introduction to SQL Server Analysis Services 2008 OLAP Kristin Ferrier	How to Design a Data-Driven Application that will Scale Boyd Evert	Real-Time Business Intelligence Using SQL Server StreamInsight Evan Hoff	How to Write T-SQL Code that will Scale Boyd Evert	Open Forum Boyd Evert
	Wrapping Your Head around the SharePoint Beast – What every beginning developer needs to know Mark Rackley	Customizing the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Deployment Process Eric Shupps	Introduction to Enterprise Search Corey Roth	Integrating Customer Data in SharePoint with BCS, WCF and Silverlight Eric Shupps	Open Forum Eric Shupps
	Meeting the Client's Design Expectations And Keeping Your Sanity JP Jones	Cross Media Design Carlos Moreno	Saving time in Photoshop Saif Khan	Wordpress Saif Khan	Logos That Really Work JP Jones
	PMP Prep Course In A Nutshell Jo Lea Anderson	Manage the Unique Challenges of Mobile Development Regan Unruh	Why Projects Fail Boyd Evert	MORE BRICKS, LESS STRAW - Improving Productivity of Knowledge Workers on Single-Time Efforts Chuck Tryon	CHASING THE RIGHT RABBITS - Creating Userful Project Goals and Objectives Chuck Tryon
	Architecting a Robust Global SharePoint Infrastructure Arnoldo Ruiz, Mary Leigh Mackie	Knowledge and Requirements Management Bob Dudley	Loosen Your Domain with Message-Driven Architecture Chris Patterson	Benefits Management: Business Alignment at the Pointy End of the Spear Kevin Walsh	Effective Information Architecture for the Web JP Dubois
	Introduction to Agile Software Development Jay Smith	Be Productive with MVC: Open Source Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC Todd Anglin	Leveraging Client Capabilities with jQuery in Visual Studio and ASP.NET Robert Boedigheimer	MVC Chris Patterson	Test Driven Development(Tdd): A C# Demo Brett Schuchert
	Team Foundation Build 2008 – Automating the Build Process Jeff Bramwell	Exposing Yourself with RSS and ATOM Syndication Jay Smith	Building Next Generation User-Interface with Multitouch and Ribbon on Windows 7 Jennifer Marsman	Using Team Foundation Build in the "Real" World Jeff Bramwell	Visual Studio 2010: Web config transformations Jay Smith
	ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 Robert Boedigheimer	DotNetNuke JumpStart Shawn Mehaffie	Networking or Not Working - Utilizing LinkedIn to Prepare, Connect, and Strengthen your professional network Kari Mirabal	iPhone Development with MonoTouch Todd Stone	ASP.NET Request Processing Robert Boedigheimer
	Strategic MySQL Planning for Complexity & Growth (i.e. MySQL Scaling for Dummies) Tommy Falgout	Moving beyond the Side Project: 9 PHP Best Practices Neil Little	Quickly Building Internet and Desktop Apps with Flex & PHP Jason Ragsdale, Tommy Falgout	Building a RESTful MVC app with Zend Framework Luke Crouch	Test Driven Development/Design with PHP Jason Ragsdale

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