Prairie Dev Con 2011 Registration is OPEN!

It’s with great pleasure that I can announce registration for Prairie Developer Conference 2011 is now open!

This year we’ve expanded the conference to include more sessions, more speakers, and more technologies! Presenters are coming from across Canada and the US, and we have an amazing group of sponsors supporting the conference!

One of those sponsors is Urban Turtle, a company that makes a Scrum add on for TFS. Each attendee will receive 5 FREE licenses for the product (a $450 value)!

We also have some great surprises in store for the conference, so follow us on Twitter and keep an eye on our blog for more details!

Prairie Developer Conference strives to be a quality professional development opportunity at a reasonable cost. We’re starting off with an early bird price for February that is 50% off the full conference price (that’s $300 in savings)! As with last year, you can add the post-conference event at almost 50% off (a $149.99 value!) to any registration. We also still have our additional $50 off per registration for groups of 3 or more. Register today to maximize your savings!

This year’s Prairie Developer Conference will be *the* technology event on the Canadian Prairies! Don’t miss it!

D’Arcy

Did I say “5” Rooms? I meant 6!

Yesterday we blogged about the conference session list, and touted how we’d have 5 rooms going this year! Some of you that were there last year might be scratching your head going “But didn’t we have 5 rooms last year?”

Yes, yes we did.

What I meant to say was that we’ll have 6 rooms going this year, and instead of 55 sessions we’ll have an additional 6 to bring it up to 61!

Tom Opgenorth will be presenting two talks on Android development, Steve Syfuhs will be doing two security-related talks, and James Kovacs will be presenting two dev foundation sessions!

Keep an eye on the site this weekend for all the official session announcements and registration details!

Prairie Dev Con 2011 – Session List Sneak Peak

Hi all, D’Arcy here…

I’ll have the sessions and speaker information up by this weekend including the registration page and details on pricing!

For those that are wondering what the session and speaker list looks like, I wanted to give a sneak peak. We have a fantastic set of sessions by world class technologists! We’re covering .NET, Java, Ruby, SQL Server, Agile, User Experience, Mobile, Security, Azure, Office, SharePoint, and others. In fact, this year I’ve added an extra room so we’ll have 5 rooms going and a total of 55 sessions! have 6 rooms and 61 sessions! (Note: I just added three more speakers, check out the conference blog post detailing the additions here).

Also, Steve Rogalsky will be doing a full day Agile post-conference workshop that shouldn’t be missed!

So for now, here’s the session/speaker list. Watch www.prairiedevcon.com this weekend for session abstracts and detailed speaker info!

Aaronn Kowall	Managing Agile Projects with TFS
Aaronn Kowall	What's New in Entity Framework 4
Amir Barylko	Common TDD mistakes & pitfalls
Amir Barylko	Jruby and IronRuby: Using ruby with native Java and .NET code
Brent Watson	“What’s Really Going On?” – Using javap to disassemble Java class files.
Brent Watson	“Choices, choices, choices” – comparing Java Web Frameworks
Charles & Andrew Nurse	The Nurse2 Razor Show Part 1
Charles & Andrew Nurse	The Nurse2 Razor Show Part 2
Chris Dagenais	By the Powershell of Grayskull, I have the Power to Automate Everything!
Chris Dagenais	Self Organizing teams
D'Arcy Lussier	WP7 Development Foundation
David Alpert	Designing for Success 101: Why UX Matters For Your App
David Alpert	Designing for Success 102: 7 Ways to Make your App Learnable, Usable, & Enjoyable
David Wesst	HTML 5: Using the Web of the Future with the Browsers of the Past
David Wesst	HTML 5 for .NET Pros
David Woods	Intro to Cryptography and Best Practices
David Woods	WCF Security
Donald Belcham	Mocking (Session TBA)
Donald Belcham	System Health Monitoring
Dylan Smith	Evolve Your Code: Fundamental Design Principles
Dylan Smith	Database Change Management
Edwin Sarmiento	Developers, Know Thy SQL Server Indexes
Edwin Sarmiento	SQL Server Execution Plans for Developers
Eric Legault	The Microsoft Office Landscape: Developing Solutions for the Desktop and the Cloud
Gus Emery	What’s new in MVC v3.0!
Gus Emery	ASP.Net MVC PowerUP!
James Townley	Using Scala to be a better lazy developer
James Townley	Scala – The time saver (Dojo)
Joel Semeniuk	A Dash of Kanban Anyone?
Joel Semeniuk	Want Better Estimates? Stop Estimating
John Bristowe	Web Standards: A Panel Discussion
John Bristowe	An Overview of Internet Explorer 9 for Web Developers
Kelly Cassidy	Android Development with MonoDroid and VS2010
Kelly Cassidy	Web Development for Mobile
Mike DeFehr	Deadlocks: What to do about the dreaded 1205
Mike DeFehr	Backups and Recoverability
Mike Deihl	Designing a Star Schema Database to Simplify Read Views
Mike Deihl	P&P for Developing SQL Server 2008 Integration Packages to Populate Data Warehouses
Philippe Beaudoin	GWT and the Model-View-Presenter architecture (Dojo)
Philippe Beaudoin	Google AppEngine PaaS
Rob Windsor	SharePoint for ASP.NET Developers
Rob Windsor	What's New in SharePoint 2010 for Developers
Robert Reppel	Limits of TDD: How to Test Code Never Meant To Be
Robert Reppel	NserviceBus: From Batch Processing to Asynchronous Messaging, by Example
Rod Paddock	Intro to Ruby on Rails
Rod Paddock	jQuery 101
Scott J Peterson	Bringing Down Goliath: A Windows Phone Paradigm Shift
Scott J Peterson	Light Up Your Internet: Silverlight and SharePoint, Arm in Arm
Simon Timms	Custom Validation in ASP.net MVC
Simon Timms	Templates, templates, templates (VS, T4, Javascript)
Steve Rogalsky	User Story Mapping - Rounding Out Your Backlog
Steve Rogalsky	Moving Towards Zero Defects with Specification by Example
Tyler Doerkson	Building a basic Active Record application in the cloud with Azure web roles and SQL-Azure
Tyler Doerkson	Taking your WP7 application to the next level with Tombstoning
Various	Agile Fishbowl Panel Discussion