Intergen were there in force this year and here’s the proof…
Windows Azure for High Availability [TTK155] (Chris Auld)
Windows Azure, the Microsoft Cloud Computing Platform with particular reference to high scalability and availability the platform offers and how this can benefit NZ businesses.
Sponsors Spotlight - Intergen [TTK136] (Tony Stewart)
Meet Tech.Ed NZ's sponsor for 2009 and find out their latest offerings.
Silverlight Adoption [TTK147] (Me)
For anyone who has worked with Silverlight, it opens up a whole new set of possibilities for building feature rich applications delivered across the internet. So why would you bother trying to build these types of applications using HTML/CSS/JavaScript - technologies that were never designed to be taken as far as they have? Andrew Tokeley has been pondering this for a while now and will be talking with Nigel to share some of his thoughts.
Panel Discussion - Designers & Developers How We Do It In the Real World. [WUX212] (Me in Panel)
Join Nigel Parker (Microsoft NZ Web Development Advisor) as he moderates a discussion with a panel of industry leaders about how Developers & Designers work together on real world projects. This panel is intended to be engaging, provocative and insightful. Come along with your questions and ideas and be prepared to contribute to the last session of Tech.Ed NZ.
Building Great Standards Based Websites with ASP.NET 4.0 and Silverlight 3 [WUX304] (Me with Damian Edwards)
In this session, Damian Edwards will share his experiences from building Australia's largest e-commerce site with ASP.NET Web Forms. They'll show you how to be a good web citizen by covering standards compliance (properly!), cross browser and accessibility considerations, non-JavaScript support, as well as coding techniques like the Model-View-Presenter pattern to improve maintainability and testing. Along the way, there'll be plenty of discussion of the differences between Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC in each area, as well as an early peek at some of the new features coming in ASP.NET 4.0 and VS 2010. Following this Andrew Tokeley will show you how it is possible to build highly accessible web applications by leveraging the accessibility features of Silverlight and discusses using Silverlight under the New Zealand e-Government Web Guidelines.
An Overview of the Azure Services Platform [ARC201] (Chris)
Cloud computing looks like the biggest change to hit our industry in many years. One important aspect of this change is the rise of platforms that let developers create applications for the cloud. This session takes a broad look at the Azure Services Platform, Microsoft's entry in this area. The topics discussed include Windows Azure, .NET services, Microsoft SQL Services, and Live Services. The goal is to make clear what these technologies can do, then offer some guidance on how to make good decisions for using them.
Community Spotlight - Mark Orange [TTK129] (OJ)
The New Zealand .NET Community meets regularly and showcases innovative NZ technology best practices. See the people behind the .NET community and connect with them at your local user group. Meet Mark Orange, the lead for the Wellington SharePoint User Group.
Business Productivity Online Suite (OJ)
High functionality, low complexity and cost: Microsoft made BPOS available in New Zealand in March 2009, so what is it and what's it good for? With its mix of Microsoft services hosted in the cloud it is the emergence of something that will become not only common place but critical to industry. Companies had the infrastructure to generate all their own electricity once, we are still in that era with computing power.