Rachel Hawley's DevExpress Community Blog

April 2011 - Posts

• Talk to us at the Great Indian Developer Summit 2011

  Julian, Mark, Mehul, Gary and I will all board planes tomorrow, from completely different starting points, and converge on Bangalore for the 4th annual Great Indian Developer Summit. “The Biggest, Independent, Polyglot Conference” GIDS is a huge independent software developer conference, designed to satisfy the extensive workforce of professional IT workers in India. Attracting an audience of over 3000 professionals over the 4-day event, these knowledge-hungry software developers can devour content from a vast span of themes – Microsoft Computing Technologies, Rich Web Technologies, Enterprise Java, Agile and Dynamic Languages – as well take deep dives into specific topics through extended workshops. GIDS will showcase over 100 focussed sessions and keynote presentations from a wide range of international speakers, including our very own Mark Miller and Gary Short. Even DevExpress CTO, Julian Bucknall, will be “treading the boards” to deliver a technical session. DevExpress staff speaking at GIDS If you are attending sessions about the ever-expanding Microsoft stack on the .NET day (Tuesday April 19th), you’ll find the DevExpress staff delivering the following sessions: Mark Miller, Keynote “Stepping into the Near Future of the IDE” (Main Hall, 10:30am) Gary Short “.Net Collections Deep Dive” (Main Hall, 2:00pm) Julian Bucknall “JavaScript for the C# Developer” (Main Hall, 3:00pm) Mark Miller “The Science of Great UI” (Main Hall, 4:10pm) Gary Short “Is NoSQL the Future of Data Storage?” (Hall A, 4:10pm) For those of you interested in detecting and destroying Technical Debt using S.O.L.I.D. principles, you should consider checking out the 120 minute workshop on Friday April 22nd, with Gary and Mark: “Eliminating Technical Debt with a S.O.L.I.D. Payment Plan” (Hall C, 11:20am). Daily demos and prize draws We’ll have a whole stack of t-shirts to give away on our booth (Expo 5 & 6) and we’ll be running some daily prize draws to give you the chance to win some great software prizes. Come and join us, we’ll be waiting for you! Posted Apr 15 2011, 03:19 PM by Rachel Hawley (DevExpress) with no comments Filed under: Community, Conferences, GIDS, India, events, GIDS 2011

• DDD South West Registration is Open

  Time: 10:30am Tuesday April 12th 2011. Listen up folks of the South West of the United Kingdom, this is important. DDD South West registration is open – reserve your space now! In just 27 minutes already 120 seats have GONE! Sold Out Community Events The past few DDD events in the UK have 'sold' out faster than you can say "Gary Short has no hair". According to DDD alumni, Guy Smith-Ferrier, DDD 7 in November 2009 "sold" out in 4 hours. DDD 8 "sold" out in 12 minutes and 47 seconds. DDD 9 in January 2011 "sold" out in a total of 12 minutes. DDD Scotland has already filled up its allocation and is maintaining a waitlist. You can still add yourself if you have not already done so. Craig Murphy, one of the DDD Scotland co-ordinators tells me that they are dealing with their waitlist very efficiently so it is worth adding your name if you want to attend.   Don’t Delay – Register Today! DDD South West is now in its third year and, like a fine wine, is getting better and better with age. Don’t miss out on your chance to attend this great event. Seats will go quickly, so register now. Follow these simple instructions and get yourself a seat! Let me see those fingers!  Posted Apr 12 2011, 10:29 AM by Rachel Hawley (DevExpress) with no comments

• CodeStock 2011–Registration and Session Voting Now Open!

  You may remember a couple of weeks back, I announced that the fantastic community event, CodeStock, had once again opened registration. This year CodeStock is returning to the brilliant downtown Knoxville, TN location with the keynote, prize draw and social event being held at the historic Bijou Theatre. Awesome. Where can I register? You can register via the CodeStock website. Unfortunately, if you have not already registered, you’ve just missed the early-bird pricing. But good news – it still only costs $85.00 for this great event. $85.00!! That would barely get you a seat in one session at one of the major national events! Remember, your company may have a training budget, so don’t forget to approach them about the possibility of them covering your costs. Many companies have no idea that events like this exist. You could send a team of 10 to CodeStock and put them up a hotel for less than it would cost one team member to go to a national event. This is a great opportunity for team-building and team-education. The event runs Friday and Saturday, June 3rd and 4th, so there is minimal impact to your work schedule. Ask your boss today. What’s the worst that can happen? Can I vote for the sessions I want to see? Registered attendees for CodeStock have the ability to influence the final agenda for the event. Placing your votes for the sessions you want to see is a great way for you to customize the event and make it your dream conference. If you have already registered why not take the opportunity to place your votes for the sessions you want to see? Head over to the Registration Form with your registration code and select “Plan Schedule”. Posted Apr 11 2011, 05:20 PM by Rachel Hawley (DevExpress) with no comments

• AZGroups Annual Scott Gu Day of .NET

  On Friday April 22nd AZGroups are holding their 8th Annual Scott Guthrie Day of .NET. The Microsoft VP for the .NET Division will be joined by Mark Russinovich from the Platform and Services Division of Microsoft. The event is brought to the Arizona developer community through the support of a number of sponsors, including DevExpress, and we are very excited to be a part of this event for another year. And you know what sponsors means … A FREE EVENT! Will I get to meet Scott Gu? The great thing about community events is that they provide you with fantastic networking opportunities. Not only can you meet and hang out with you peers, but you can also mix and mingle with speakers, sponsors and supporters of these great events. Now, while I am not saying the The Gu will help you to solve the funky formatting issue you have with your website, what you may get the opportunity to do is spend a little time hanging out with incredibly intelligent folk from Microsoft and the wider developer community to talk about interesting topics and share opinions on the latest and greatest additions to the Microsoft stack. Where is the event? This fantastic event is being hosted by the Chandler Center of the Arts in Chandler, AZ and will take place from 8am to 5pm on Friday April 22nd. Where can I sign up? Registration opened very recently, so you can sign up for your place right now on the Scott Guthrie Day of .NET page. This will be a fantastic and free opportunity to spend an entire day listening to two great speakers. Posted Apr 08 2011, 12:54 PM by Rachel Hawley (DevExpress) with no comments

• DevExpress at Philly Code Camp 2011.1

  This week you will find DevExpress team members Azret and Jeff flying the flag for us at Philly Code Camp. Jeff is our resident professional videographer and will be looking out for opportunities to capture you guys on camera. If you want to send us a message head to the DevExpress sponsor table and ask for Jeff What is Philly Code Camp? Philly Code Camp is a long-standing event on the community calendar. Organised by Andy Schwam and his team, this is a non-stop day packed with over 60 sessions planned over 13 tracks. You can expect a huge variety of topics to cover all levels of experience – from ALT.NET topics right through to Miguel Castro’s session on XAML. Beginners and experienced software professionals can get a great return from this line up.    The event has capacity for 600 passionate attendees looking to learn and share their experiences and at the end of the event you can join the after party to carry on the great conversations. Where is it? This year Philly Code Camp returns to its faithful haunt, DeVry University in Fort Washington, PA. View Larger Map Get Directions View Bird's Eye How can I register? Well, now this is the tricky party … Philly Code Camp is such a huge success that all 600 spaces have already been snapped up. However, the team are operating a waitlist that is dealt with in a timely and efficient manner. So if you want to take the chance and see if a spot might become available you can register on the Philly Code Camp Eventbrite page. Say “Hi!” to Jeff and Azret for me! Posted Apr 07 2011, 12:07 PM by Rachel Hawley (DevExpress) with no comments

• DEVLINK 2011 Presented in Partnership with DevExpress

  2011 is an exciting year for DevExpress. We are partnering with one of the most successful community-driven conferences in the USA. Proud to be a Partner Sponsor DevExpress is both proud and appreciative of the opportunity to work with John Kellar and the committee behind this conference, in order to bring DEVLINK 2011 to the community. DEVLINK 2011 will be the sixth occurrence of this great event and we are thrilled to be playing a part in making it happen. DEVLINK is heralded as a top quality conference without the top quality conference price tag. This event brings together top industry experts and leading community experts to deliver a conference that really is extraordinarily great value-for-money. As SharePoint enthusiast Rob Wilson says: It must be the most cost-effective technical conference available. The agenda is chock full of dynamic topics and presenters. In addition to what have always been exceptional technical sessions, DEVLINK also hosts a number of networking and social events to help developers from different backgrounds and persuasions come together to make the most of their time at this conference. You really do get a great bang for your buck with this event and if you have not had the pleasure of being able to attend in the past, make 2011 the year that you get on over. Registration is Open! Registrations for DEVLINK 2011 opened TODAY! Judging by the trend of this years’ fantastic community events filling up their capacity in record time (CodeMash sold out in 3 days if you remember – and that was over a weekend!) I don’t think that DEVLINK 2011 will be any different. Book DEVLINK into your diaries now, it’s the BIG conference with the tiny price tag: August 17th – 19th at the Chattanooga Convention Centre in Chattanooga, TN. Be there, or be … there is no other option, just be there! Posted Apr 06 2011, 10:31 AM by Rachel Hawley (DevExpress) with no comments