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Pre-Conference Workshops, Monday May 28th, 2012
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ALM: Bridging the gab between developper and the tester
Professionals of the industry are doing a full day of training on TFS 2010, Microsoft Test Manager and the new Lab Manager. A complete description of the event can be found at in the agenda below.
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Advanced T-SQL for SQL Server 2005, 2008 and 2012 by Itzik Ben-Gan
You’re a T-SQL developer or DBA and you learned most of what you know about T-SQL by the seat of your pants. You can handle day-to-day T-SQL querying and programming tasks in a reasonable manner, but you’re looking for better and more efficient solutions. See the complete description below.
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iPhone/iPad (iOS) Workshop – From Inception to the App Store
This workshop takes you from the initial inception of an idea for an App through the design, implementation, testing, and release of an iOS App. In this workshop you get a real taste for the entire App development process from beginning to end with emphasis on best practices throughout.
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Ruby for the Newbie: An Introduction to Ruby and Ruby on Rails
Ruby has risen to prominence as an innovative dynamic language. Ruby on Rails has gained a reputation for being an intensely productive web framework that allows you to build sites quickly and efficiently. In this action-packed 3-hour pre-con, come learn the fundamentals of the Ruby language and the basics of building a website using Ruby on Rails. This session is designed with the busy developer in mind and will not waste your time. Web programming experience is assumed.
Note: This workshop is presented at night from 6pm to 9pm.
Register for a combo or a trio (Pre-Conference with Main Conference) with this link.
Includes three days of training , Keynote, continental breakfasts, lunches, evening activities as well as the selected Pre-Con on Monday May 28th, 2012.
ALM: Bridging the gab between developper and the tester
Overview:
Professionals of the industry (Etienne Tremblay and Vincent Grondin) are doing a full day of training on TFS 2010, Microsoft Test Manager and the new Lab Manager. This presentation was presented like a technical play. See how you can use TFS to brig the gab between the Developper and the tester.
Target Audience:
- Software development directors, team leads, architects, lead developers, tester and the project manager.
- TFS 2010 Presentation: Briging the gap
- Migrating from VSS to TFS
- Automating the Build
- Where's our backlog?
- Adding a tester to the team
- Tester at work
- Bridging the gap
- Stop we have problem!
- Let's get back on track
- Multi-Environment testing
- Testing in the lab
- UI Automation
- Validating UI Automation
- Look boss, no hands!
Location: Vancouver Hilton Metrotown
Room: Tiffany A
Cost: $299.00 CDN
Register
for this one day Pre-conference on May 28th
Includes the Pre-conferences presented on Monday May 28th, 2012.
Note: Registration for the main conference is not required to attend the
sessions. You can register for the pre-conference and post-conference workshop
individually from the
registration page.
You’re a T-SQL developer or DBA and you learned most of what you know about T-SQL
by the seat of your pants. You can handle day-to-day T-SQL querying and programming tasks
in a reasonable manner, but you’re looking for better and more efficient solutions. This seminar
is for you. It covers common T-SQL querying and programming tasks and shows polished, optimal
techniques to handle those. Some of the techniques that you will learn in this seminar are very
recent developments. You will learn how to utilize T-SQL constructs introduced in SQL Server
2005 and 2008 in creative and efficient ways, as well as new features introduced in SQL Server 2012.
There are lots of exciting new T-SQL features planned in SQL Server 2012—some quite profound—and knowing
about them ahead can make you better prepared, affecting how you right code today.
Monday May 28th, 2012, 09:00 - 17:00
Register
for this one day Pre-conference on Monday May 28th
This workshop takes you from the initial inception of an idea for an App through the design, implementation,
testing, and release of an iOS App. In this workshop you get a real taste for the entire App development
process from beginning to end with emphasis on best practices throughout. This includes information on
laying out a solid architecture, coding techniques, testing tools, working with the simulator as well as the
process of deploying to actual devices, all the way through App Store submission. Attendees are encouraged to
bring their laptops and follow along through the development process. Topics in this workshop include:
What you will need if you want to follow along during the Boot Camp:
Monday May 28th, 2012, 09:00 - 17:00
Register
for the iOS one day Pre-conference on May 28th
Ruby has risen to prominence as an innovative dynamic language. Ruby on Rails has gained a reputation
for being an intensely productive web framework that allows you to build sites quickly and efficiently.
In this action-packed 3-hour pre-con, come learn the fundamentals of the Ruby language and the basics of
building a website using Ruby on Rails. This session is designed with the busy developer in mind and will
not waste your time. Web programming experience is assumed.
Monday May 28th, 2012, 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Register
for 3 hours workshop on Ruby
James Kovacs is a Technical Evangelist for JetBrains. He is passionate in sharing his knowledge about OO, SOLID, TDD/BDD, testing, object-relational mapping, dependency injection, refactoring, continuous integration, and related techniques. He blogs on CodeBetter.com as well as his own blog, is a technical contributor for Pluralsight, writes articles for MSDN Magazine and CoDe Magazine, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and user groups. He is the creator of psake, a PowerShell-based build automation tool, intended to save developers from XML Hell. James is the Ruby Track Chair for DevTeach, one of Canada’s largest independent developer conferences. He received his Bachelors degree from the University of Toronto and his Masters degree from Harvard University.
Note: Registration for the main conference is not required to attend the sessions. You can register for the pre-conference and post-conference workshop individually from the registration page.
Advanced T-SQL for SQL Server 2005, 2008 and 2012 by Itzik Ben-Gan
Location: Vancouver Hilton Metrotown
Room: Tiffany B
Cost: $299.00 CDN
Includes the Pre-conferences presented on Monday May 28th, 2012.
iPhone/iPad (iOS) Workshop – From Inception to the App Store
Location: Vancouver Hilton Metrotown
Room: Tiffany C
Cost: $299.00 CDN
Kevin McNeish is President and Chief Software Architect of Oak Leaf Enterprises, Inc, and an eight-time recipient of the Microsoft. .NET MVP Award. He is a well-know .NET and iOS speaker and trainer throughout North America and Europe including DevConnections, VSLive!, DevTeach, SDC Netherlands, Advisor DevCon, as well as numerous Code Camps and Boot Camps. He is author of the upcoming book iPhone and iPad App Development for Everyone, co-author of the book "Professional UML with Visual Studio .NET", author of the book ".NET for Visual FoxPro Developers", as well as many software development magazine articles. He has also been interviewed multiple times on the .NET Rocks! Internet Radio Show. He is the Chief Software Architect of the MM .NET Framework as well as the upcoming MMiOS Framework. e-mail: kevinm@oakleafsd.com, Web: www.oakleafsd.com. Phone: 434-979-2417
Ruby for the Newbie: An Introduction to Ruby and Ruby on Rails
Location: Vancouver Hilton Metrotown
Room: Tiffany A
Cost: $19.00 CDN
Includes 3 hours workshop on Ruby Monday May 28th, 2012.





