PITDC–Session Resources

Hi folks! This is the place to find links to session resources from Prairie IT Pro & Dev Con 2012!

We’ll update this post with new links as we get them from the speakers. If there’s session content you’d like that isn’t listed, let me know and I can request it directly from the speaker.

(Almost) 8 Web Services in 75 Minutes (Chad McCallum and James Chambers)
http://jameschambers.com/blog/almost-8-web-services-in-75-minutes---with-chad-mccallum
(slides/code links are at the end of the blog post)

Open Data – A Paradigm Shift
https://docs.google.com/presentation/pub?id=1bfMpTub6wGrz4172ZaRGAiQfVlby_wKjOzSq00WfZ0o&start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000#slide=id.g2e5bf61a_1_46

Sencha Touch Dojo
https://github.com/jboesch/PrairieDevCon-Mobile-App

Managing Virtual Machines with PowerShell
http://t.co/5j9yTXwn

The Dark Side of Code Metrics
http://www.slideshare.net/igloocoder/the-dark-side-of-code-metrics

Advanced Patterns and Anti-Patterns
http://orthocoders.com/presentations.html

Beautiful Javascript with Coffeescript
http://orthocoders.com/presentations.html

DevOps
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12aCIMbYaZUOQzEfqRgt0RHu0AoF0KomfUyqto9QSZLc/edit

Continuous Integration Evolved
http://www.slideshare.net/igloocoder/continuous-deployment-14559737

Do This; No Do That – Building the Bridge Between Creative and Code
http://edenrohatensky.com/do-this-no-do-that-buidling-the-bridge-between-creative-and-code/

Multitaskers Anonymous
http://www.slideshare.net/SteveRogalsky/multitasking-12010372

http://winnipegagilist.blogspot.ca/2012/01/multitasking-game-handsnumberssong.html

Using Live Graphs and Logs in your Production Environment
https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=0AXCltXdgulpCZGdiNTQ5NWRfODRnNmJnOTk4cA

HTML5 The Parts You Care About
https://github.com/davidwesst/html5-thepartsyoucareabout

The Silence of Agile
http://www.slideshare.net/SteveRogalsky/the-silence-of-agile

Attendee Survey Now Available!

Prairie Dev Con is built around the concept of a four-legged stool, with each leg representing attendees, speakers, sponsors, and organizers. It’s important to get feedback from all four to ensure that we’re continually improving the event and making it better every year!

We’ve posted a survey for attendees to provide feedback to us about the overall conference. If you attended the conference, please take some time to fill it out (its short, only a few questions).

If you have nice things to say about the conference, fantastic! We like to know what worked well so we keep doing them. If you have negative feedback, we welcome that too. The one ask is that if you do identify an aspect of the conference as less than satisfactory, please put comments in detailing what specifically it was.

You can access the survey by clicking here:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PITDC_EventSurvey

Thanks again to all the attendees for coming out to the conference. Without you, there would be no Prairie Dev Con!

Thanks,

D’Arcy

Prairie IT Pro Day–Attendee Update!

For those attending the Prairie IT Pro Day tomorrow, I wanted to touch base on a few things.

Registration

Registration opens at 7 AM on Wednesday. We're located on the 2nd floor of the Delta Regina - enter through the main doors and take the escalators to the 2nd floor. Registration is outside the Umbria room. Here's a link to a map: http://www.prairiedevcon.com/Content/regina/images/ITProDayMap.jpg

Breakfast

Breakfast will be served from 7AM - 8AM in the Umbria room.

Internet

The Delta Regina does offer free wi-fi internet.

Schedule

There's one small change to the schedule: Brad Bird's "Modernizing the DataCenter talk will be moved to the 2:30 timeslot, and "How to Make Microsoft System Center 2012 Operations Manager Work for You" will move to the 9:45 timeslot. Also sessions listed in the Campania room will now be held in the Umbria room.
We'll have paper copies of the schedule available with all the updates.

I'm looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow, and as always please let me know if you have any other questions!

Thanks,

D'Arcy

Donald Belcham Workshop Info

If you’re registered to attend the Donald Belcham post-con workshop, here’s the details for you!

The workshop will start at 8:00 AM and go until 5:00 PM. Feel free to bring your laptops if you'd like, but they aren't required (this is a lecture-based workshop).

The workshop will be in the Campania A room.

Also, I'm happy to announce that breakfast and lunch will be provided! Breakfast will be from 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM in the Umbria room on the 2nd floor of the Delta. Lunch will be from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in the same room.

If you have any questions please let me or Donald know (he's cc'd on this email).

Thanks, see you tomorrow!

D'Arcy

Prairie IT Pro & Dev Con - Final Update!

Below is a recap of the final update email that went out to attendees today! See you on Monday!

Registration
Registration opens at 7 AM on Monday. We're located on the 2nd floor of the Delta Regina - enter through the main doors and take the escalators to the 2nd floor. There's a link to the floor plan on our Schedule page:
http://www.prairiedevcon.com/Schedule
Breakfast will be served from 7AM - 8AM in the Trentino room.

Internet
The Delta Regina does offer free wi-fi internet. However, one request - please try to restrain connections to one device while at the conference (i.e. phone, laptop, etc.). We've found in the past that we can overload the internet rather quickly, and reducing the number of devices connecting can definitely help.

Schedule
There have been a few last minute changes to the schedule, so please review the schedule again before Monday. We will have paper copies of the schedule available and you can also check the schedule on our Mobile website:
http://www.prairiedevcon.com/mobile
*Note - the mobile site will be udpated over the weekend to reflect the schedule changes on our website.

Dojos
Some of our sessions are labelled as "Dojos". These are hands-on sessions where the expectation is that you bring a laptop and code along with the presenter. Each dojo has pre-requisites that must be installed or downloaded prior to the session! We've put up a blog post that details where you can get the materials for each one:
http://prairiedevcon.blogspot.ca/2012/09/pitdcdojo-pre-requisites.html
We'll also have some hard drives at the registration table with any session materials/pre-requisites so you can copy them over at the conference.

I'm looking forward to seeing you all next week, and as always please let me know if you have any other questions!

Thanks,

D'Arcy

Windows 8 Workshop

There's still time to register for Sunday's free Windows 8 Workshop! Visit the registration page for all the information!
http://pitdcwin8workshop.eventbrite.ca/

 

Windows Server 2012 Hands-On IT Camp

There's still time to register for Wednesday night's free Windows Server 2012 Hands-On IT Camp! Visit the registration page for more info!
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032528022&Culture=en-CA&community=0%22

PITDC–Dojo Pre-Requisites

Below is the pre-requisite information for the various dojo sessions at the conference.

Using Node.JS to Manage Client-Side Development (Dave Mosher)
Please install the latest Node.JS version - http://nodejs.org/

Please download this package, which contains the project, node_module dependencies, and the latest node installers for Windows, Linux, and Mac

Android – Come Build an App!
Please install the latest version of Virtual Box - https://www.virtualbox.org/

Please visit the registration booth at the conference to copy over the VM for this session.

Source Control Crusaders
Please install the latest version of Virtual Box - https://www.virtualbox.org/

Please visit the registration booth at the conference to copy over the VM for this session.

Build an HTML5 Mobile App with Sencha Touch
Please ensure you have a development web server installed (i.e. IIS Express although having Python or Ruby installed will be fine also).

Please ensure you have a webkit-based browser installed (i.e. Safari or Chrome)

Please download the files for this session here.

ASP.NET MVC 4 100mph Dojo
Please ensure you have VS.NET 2010 SP1 or VS.NET 2012 installed.

Please ensure you have a current version of NuGet (2.0.306 or higher) (available here)

Please ensure you have ASP.NET MVC4 release version installed. (available here)

NuGet and MVC4 bits will be available at the registration booth for copy.

Summer Discount One More Week!

It’s two weeks until Prairie IT Pro & Dev Con, and we want to ensure those coming back from summer vacation have enough time to take advantage of our summer discount. So we’re extending it one more week!

Register before September 24th to take advantage of our discount pricing:

2 Day Software Dev Days $499.99
2 Day IT Pro Day $249.99
All 3 Days $699.99

Groups of 3 or more for the Dev Days or full 3 Day conference registrations get an additional $50 off each registration!

Breakfast, lunch, and coffee breaks are included in your registration.

Don’t miss out on the best way to learn about new and emerging technologies for web, mobile, cloud, .NET, Java, and more!

www.prairiedevcon.com