Meeting announcement! Please attend an exciting special edition user group meeting - combined meeting for the GTA. NOTE LOCATION will be DOWNTOWN at the Manulife Financial, 200 Bloor Street East, Toronto thanks to our host Metro Toronto .NET User Group. Our Agenda for the meeting is finalized - please join us!
INETA (The International .NET User Group Association), DevTeach Toronto, and the .NET User Groups in the Greater Toronto Area are pleased to sponsor and present a joint meeting. Three contestents will share their knowledge with you and one of them will WIN a free conference registration to DevTeach (http://www.DevTeach.com). Our keynote will feature a Service Oriented Archtecture and demonstration by recent Toronto Code Camp speaker Anthony Bonaventure D’Costa from OnCorp Direct INC.
Register for the meeting at Microsoft Events: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=126785
The agenda for the evening is:
When? MONDAY, April 14, 2008, 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Where? Manulife Financial, 200 Bloor Street East, Toronto
(Near Bloor/Church streets. Entrance is off St. Paul Square on the west side of the building)
Is this meeting CATERED? YES.
6:00 p.m. - Meet and greet! Arrive early! Pizza and Pop!!
6:30 p.m. - Opening Remarks
6:45 p.m. - TOPIC: User Community Speakers Share Their Knowledge!
We have three user community speakers that have volunteered to share an area of knowledge with you. These speakers are participating in an INETA sponsored contest that will them compete and one of them will win a free DevTeach conference pass! Please come out and support them:
- Rick P. - Using Profiles in ASP.NET Applications
- Pyasetsky R. - Some Caveats of using LINQ
- Katerina k. - AJAX architecture and using XmlHttpRequest
7:30 p.m. - TOPIC: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise as business enablers – The Microsoft way
These days whenever a developer writes a single line of code, it is very critical that he understands the dependencies between business and the underlying technologies. Neglecting the business context can result in a project in which SOA infrastructure is pursued for its own sake, or where investments are made that do not line up well with the needs and priorities of the business. Todays enterprise developers should be thinking "SOA". Everything should be services.
For developers working with the Microsoft technology stack, using .NET, BizTalk, IIS etc. we have everything we need to create sophisticated distributed applications. However, there are a lot of moving parts. Most of us now work in heterogenous environments, where distributed applications span a variety of technologies, and possibly business partners and customers.
It takes a lot of skill to blend all the pieces into a cohesive whole and it takes time. SOA is not a product, it is a way of thinking about software development. When faced with a functional requirement, think how that can be decomposed into a set of services. When done properly these services will not only solve the current requirements, but will
also be the building blocks that can be aggregrated to meet future needs.
Microsoft's stack of technologies ( WS*- specs, BizTalk Server R2, WCF,
WF, WPF ... have the potential to improve our productivity and agility.
8:30 p.m. - Wrap up and Prizes! Contest winner announced!
Speaker Bio: Anthony Bonaventure D'Costa
Anthony Bonaventure D’Costa is involved in the application of advanced computing technologies that enable IT – to business alignment and support strategic business goals. He has implemented a diverse portfolio of high – performance, scalable, highly available and secure IT solutions based on Service Oriented Architecture, including Web Services, Enterprise Application Integration, middleware and transaction processing.
P.S. Have you SEEN the 60 speaker line up for DevTeach?!? With about 300 attendees expected, you have UNPRECENTED access to just "hang around" with some true experts and legends in the industry, making this a learning event unparalleled with any possible conference you could attend. Want to go to TechEd? Forget it! The value and expertise at DevTeach is second to none. Scott Hanselman, Senior Program Manager in the Developer Division at Microsoft corporate, will be the featured and very high profile keynote speaker! Save NOW. Register NOW! Contact your user group leader for a discount code for an additional $50 off the current registration. http://www.DevTeach.com.