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Joshua Lynn started programming databases when he was 14 years old.  Professionally, Joshua has 17 years of IT consulting experience specializing in database design, development and performance enhancement.  Though his career he has lead IT and development teams in projects ranging from COLO fit-outs to full n-tier application development on the various incarnations of the Microsoft Platform.  His experience with SQL server goes back to version 6.5 where he thought triggers were real neat. Currently he is working on SQL server 2K5 projects and believes CTEs have enhanced the quality of his professional life.  Surprisingly Joshua's educational background is in Mechanical engineering and has no formal training in what he does for a living but does maintain an unusual passion for SQL and high performance database query algorithms. In his spare time he mentors high school students in building and programming robots for the FIRST Robotics Challenge an international completion with over 1500 teams and 35K students. Additionally Mr. Lynn is an advocate for Deadlock victims’ rights.

What can we do as T-SQL developers to increase our value to the application development team?  What can we learn and adapt from the design principles other software development disciplines to make us more effective?  The goal of the Advanced Workflow Processes in T-SQL presentation is an attempt to illustrate how to implement sophisticated, reusable, and easily adaptable workflows using just T-SQL.  The aim is not to show how to replicate the same functionality other environments can provide, but rather expand the usefulness of T-SQL and the database platform through the application of good design principles enabling the db to excel at what it does best, efficiently storing and manipulating large sets of data.
The presentation contains sections on theory, technique, and real case studies gleaned from over a decade of experience.  There is a lot of code to review as we learn the rules of creating rules and goes way beyond the IF statement.  Hopefully something will provide a spark of new ideas to inspire your own success.

Judy has been a developer since 1989, starting with Basic and COBOL, and then moving to client/server and Web development.  She currently works for Penn National Insurance as a technical team leader in a production support and enhancement development group.  She is the president of Central Penn .NET Users Group in Harrisburg.  Judy specializes in beginner presentations for user group meetings and Code Camps.

This session explores some of the prerequisites of Visual Studio development:

HTML and XML

Object-oriented architecture and how it is implemented in Visual Studio

Design patterns and practices

The Microsoft Framework 

Max Zilberman is an Architect Evangelist in the NYC and Mid-Atlantic States district. Max's goal to "Inspire to Innovate"
attempts to show his true nature, thinking outside the boundaries created by others. Max is no stranger with advocating best practices on Microsoft development platform, with over 10 years of professional experience spanning various technical roles, disciplines and concentrations, from Program Management, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems to SDLC. Prior to joining Microsoft, Max has held various senior technical positions at top tier Health Insurer where he established and led the .NET Center Of Excellence creating a vibrant and self sustaining ecosystem for hundreds of developers. Max has also acted in a various consulting capacities for State Government and Fortune 500 companies.

 

Alvin Ashcraft is a Staff Software Development Engineer with Eclipsys. Alvin has been working with the .NET Framework and C# since 2002 and is a Microsoft MVP in Solution Architecture. Before working at Eclipsys, he had a long career building software for consulting firms. He is involved in the Philly ALT.NET User Group which takes ideas and principles of the ALT.NET community to the Philadelphia area with monthly meetings. He is also a contributing editor for DZone Inc.'s .NET Zone where he compiles new and shared content from popular bloggers in the .NET community. His blog can be found at http://www.alvinashcraft.com/

Andrea first attained his MCSD in 1998. He was a consultant with a few companies and then started his own business with his wife in 2002. WebSquared LLC provides custom software development and training for companies in many industries and sizes. Andrea has developed a few DotNetNuke sites. The first was a large DNN extranet that handled contracts, maintenance, and invoicing for more than one hundred (100) after-school programs. He also created a public website for a large publishing company and another site for a travel startup. He is currently helping a non-profit arts organization with their DotNetNuke system.

This talk will cover changes from 4.x to 5.x of DotNetNuke (DNN). This will include administration changes and coding. DNN is the most widely used Content Management System (CMS) in the Microsoft .Net environment.

Andy Schwam is an Independent Software Consultant. Working with a variety of Microsoft Technologies focused on web based, data driven applications. He has experience with a variety of web platforms including ASP.Net MVC, Silverlight as well as traditional ASP.Net Web Forms.  Andy is also an experienced speaker and trainer and has spoken at a number of user groups and events, presenting a variety of topics. Andy is a Board Member and Presenter at Philly.Net. He has been creating software applications since 1999.

Miguel Castro is a principal consultant and trainer with SteelBlue Solutions and specializes in building and teaching how to build, .NET solutions. He is a Microsoft MVP, INETA Speaker, Conference Speaker, contributor to CoDe Magazine and DevSource.com, as well as an active blogger, and has been a software developer for over 20 years. With a Microsoft background that goes all the way back to VB 1.0 (and QuickBasic in fact).  Miguel has spoken at numerous user groups, code camps, and conferences around the country.  He has also been featured on the Internet Radio Talk Show, .NET Rocks, .NET Rocks-TV, Microsoft’s ARCast (Architecture Podcast), and The Polymorphic Podcast on numerous occasions.  His blog and other things of potential interest can be found at http://www.steelbluesolutions.com, where you can obtain his new CodeBreeze code-generator.  He currently resides in Lincoln Park, NJ with his wife Elena and his daughter Victoria.

In my humble opinion, nothing makes you a better developer than truly understanding how something works beyond the superficial.  We all know ASP.NET as the great framework and development environment for delivering web applications; but do you truly know what happens, in detail, from the moment you request an ASPX page to the moment the HTML is served?  A lot of this is the web control architecture that resides at the very heart of ASP.NET, and a lot of is based on the fact that ASP.NET is designed for so much more than just serving pages.  In fact, learning how controls work is learning how ASP.NET works.  In this session, I’ll step through the process from the moment you type your URL to the point where you see the page on your browser and every step in between.  While you learn and understand this roadway that is the ASP.NET architecture, you’ll see how it is capable of handling many other things besides web pages.  This session is for the beginner who is new to ASP.NET as well as for the advanced developer who simply wants to get more intimate with how it truly does what it does.  Learn about controls, handlers, modules, page parsing, request, response, etc.  This is not new MVC, or bleeding edge Silverlight.  No egos here, just a terrific appreciation for understanding the ins and outs of something that has successfully let you deliver great web applications for 8 years now; in my opinion, a prerequisite for anything else we do with Microsoft tools on the web today.

Nick Berardi is the owner of Managed Fusion (www.managedfusion.com), a U.S.-based company that specializes in the fields of software architecture / development, usability engineering, and cloud-based computing initiatives with a strong focus on .NET, the Web, SEO, SEM, and Microsoft technologies.  He maintains an active blog, Coder Journal (www.coderjournal.com), and does a lot of public speaking on and evangelizing of Microsoft software, particularly ASP.NET and other .NET based web technologies.  He is the sole developer of the Managed Fusion Rewriter and Reverse Proxy (http://urlrewriter.codeplex.com), a .NET based URL rewriter and reverse proxy for IIS 6 and IIS 7.  He is co-author of ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution from Wrox.  To contact Nick, use the contact form on his site (www.managedfusion.com) or his blog (www.coderjournal.com).

What’s new in Windows 7?  Join us for a firsthand look at the latest Windows client operating system.  Scott will discuss and demo new accessibility, security, and management capabilities including Direct Access, Branch Cache, BitLocker To Go, PowerShell 2.0, and much more.

After migrating to .NET shortly after the 1.0 release in 2002, Evan Hoff has spent the past few years working as a consultant and architect in .NET projects both large and small. Having spent time in a number of industries including marketing, financial services, and outsourcing, his experience has given him a diverse perspective on software architecture and development. As an architect for a big 4 accounting firm and in his current role as Software Architect at the Sommet Group in Nashville, TN, Evan loves tearing into complex theory and then breaking it down into usable practices to help the business.

In this session, we will look at Master Data Management (MDM) and it's sweet spot within Enterprise Architecture. We will then examine Microsoft's current implementation and feature set. Specifically, we will be covering the master data hub, the metamodel, human workflow, versioning, and security. At the end of this session, you will have a high level understanding of both MDM and it's implementation within the SQL Server 2008 R2 featureset.

John Angelini is a Lead Technical Consultant with Perficient, and specializes in SharePoint architecture, development and customization. Mr. Angelini has a lengthy background in commercial graphic design and 3D animation. Additionally Mr. Angelini is the founder of the Philadelphia XAML Developers Group, Philly XAML.org and has done a lot of work with WPF, Silverlight, WCF, WF and other .NET 3.X technologies.

This session will cover animation basics, including storyboarding, a discussion on Dependency Properties, and some other animation-related topics including Animation Easing. The topics covered will apply to WPF and Silverlight, demonstrating the commonality between the two platforms.

Lisa is a graduate of West Chester University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Elementary Education.  Post graduation, Lisa pursued an affinity for data and technology in the private sector.  Lisa has extensive experience in customer support, internal customer sales, development of standard and custom reports from data warehouses and has developed dashboards, portal and web pages and end user distributed reporting tools.  Lisa has over eight years of experience at Independence Blue Cross and AmeriHealth Administrators with extensive health plan informatics experience.

Reporting Services 2008 has ushered in enhanced Group functionality.  Learn to maximize the use of groups in your Reporting Services reports.