Building RESTful services with WebApi

With the popularization of the cloud and smart devices, software applications are becoming much more distributed. Relying on web services to provide access to your company information allows both internal and external applications to be built for a variety of platforms in a standardized fashion.

.NET Fringe Division: Using Redis with Booksleeve

StackExchange has done a great deal for the .NET community in the area of performance. In this session, we will be looking at their high performance client access library for Redis called Booksleeve using async/await.

Creating iOS applications with C#

So you want to develop iOS applications but how do you leverage your existing C# skills and not bother with Objective C? In this session Venkat will teach you the fundamental concepts of iOS development and show you how to leverage your existing skills with Xamarin Studio to build iPhone apps.

Introduction to Event Sourcing and Read-Model Projections

In this session, I will introduce the concept of an event as a data storage structure. We will construct an event store for an application and demonstrate how to load, analyze, and project different data structures from the event store.

Bacon and the HTTP Request

250 Billion. That's roughly the average minimum number of HTTP requests sent through the internet each day. We're going to completely dissect every tiny event that happens when you navigate to a web site.

Mobile ASP.NET MVC

Mobile web development is becoming more important and even though most of what works in "normal" web development works on mobile, there are unique challenges and constraints to it that we need to be aware of.

Scaling Scrum to the Enterprise

Scrum is the most popular Agile framework in the world for effective team collaboration on complex projects. Scrum provides a small set of rules that create just enough structure for teams to be able to focus their innovation. Scrum is optimized for teams for teams of 5 to 9 people.

Introduction to ASP.NET SignalR

As the internet involves, the speed of delivering content from servers to clients finds more importance day after day.

How can so many have been so wrong about so much for so long?

In this half-technical, half-philosophical talk, Udi will debunk many of the best practices in software, explain why Agile methodologies are failing in so many organizations, and describe some pretty important problems that many developers are totally oblivious of.

Html5 Canvas: Drawing Cool Stuff With JavaScript

The Html5 canvas element used to be something that sounded cool but we couldn't reliably use because of browser capabilities. Now it is available in Chrome, Firefox and the two latest versions of Internet Explorer. It also has fantastic support on mobile.

The .NET Ninja's Toolbelt

As developers, we all have our favorite utilities, some used occasionally and then there are others that we refuse to work without. We might not use all of them everyday, but a good developer should know his options when the need arises.

Portable Library: Write Once, Utilize Everywhere - Its closer that you think.

Yes, it is possible to develop, using C# or VB, a core set of libraries that can be leveraged across WinRT, WinForms, WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET, Windows Phone, Mono (Linux, Mac, Android, iOS). This can be done using Visual Studio 2010 (an extension) and Visual Studio 2012 (built in).

Connect with your Kinect

The Microsoft Kinect peripheral is the fastest selling gadget of all time, selling more than 9,000,000 units in its first 60 days.

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