We’re thrilled to announce that iQmetrix will be sponsoring an attendee party the Tuesday night of the conference!
Once you’re done your sessions on the Tuesday, come down to the Novara ballroom from 4pm to 8pm for free drinks, appetizers, fun and games, and to hang out with the presenters and fellow attendees!
A huge thanks to iQmetrix for offering this event to the conference attendees!
A Code what?! A Code Retreat! Think of it as a free day of “Programmers gathering, practicing their craft, learning, discussing, rinse & repeating”.
Or look up the longer official description here.
Amir Barylko and David Alpert, two speakers at this year’s Prairie Developer Conference, will be hosting the event which will be held Sunday June 12th at the Delta Regina in the Campania A room.
You can get more information and register at
http://coderetreat.ning.com/events/regina-coderetreat
While the event is free, there is limited seating so reserve your spot today!
Thanks to conference speakers Amir Barylko and David Alpert, and Winnipeg developer George Chen, we’ve got a RESTful API set up to expose conference data!
Amir, myself, and George are intending to use the API to develop mobile applications for attendees to use, but if anyone is interested in writing their own applications feel free to access it!
For documentation on the API, see our developer page at:
http://prairiedevcon.com/developers
D’Arcy
The Prairie Developer Conference is thrilled to announce that Jeff Sandquist, Duncan Mackenzie, and Dan Fernandez from Microsoft’s Channel 9 team will be delivering a keynote at this year’s conference! What’s fantastic about having these gents come up is that in addition to their technical knowledge, they bring something unique with them: a Canadian prairie connection!
Jeff is the Senior Director of Developer Relations at Microsoft. He helped create the Channel 9 developer community, and still leads that team to drive Channel 9 and the Mix communities in addition to connecting top applications and their developers with Microsoft.
And…he’s from Estevan, SK!
Duncan Mackenzie is the lead developer for the Channel 9 team, and formerly worked on MSDN. He’s written numerous articles and books around programming and as developer lead oversaw the Channel 8, TechNet Edge, and VisitMix websites in addition to the Oxite website engine. And…he’s from Winnipeg, MB!
Dan Fernandez is a developer and platform evangelist working on the Channel 9 team. If you’ve seen any of the TWC9 videos (This Week on Channel 9) then you’ve seen Dan talk about everything and anything to do with Microsoft development. And…well, he’s from the US, but he’s a very nice guy!
Whether you develop in the Microsoft space or not, hearing about how two Canadian prairie boys found themselves leading Microsoft’s flagship online developer community is a great story that all prairie developers can appreciate.
Watch for more keynote details in the coming weeks!
D’Arcy
Thanks to our generous friends at TekPub, the first 100 registrants to the Prairie Developer Conference will receive a complimentary 1 month subscription to TekPub’s content! We’ll also be giving away 2 year long subscriptions at the conference as well!
TekPub is the creation of Rob Conery and James Avery. They offer web-based learning videos covering a wide variety of topics that span Microsoft, Ruby, Open Source, Linux, Best Practices, and more…there’s literally an embarrassment of technology learning riches available through their site at very affordable costs!
So check out TekPub today, and make sure to register for Prairie Developer Conference early to take advantage of the 1-month subscription offer!
I’m thrilled to announce a second post-conference workshop available at Prairie Developer Conference this year! We already have Steve Rogalsky doing Agile In a Day, and now we also have Amir Barylko and Dylan Smith doing a TDD/CQRS workshop!
In the morning, Amir will deliver Getting Started with TDD. If you’ve ever wondering what TDD is or how you implement it within your development environment, then this is definitely for you!
In the afternoon Dylan takes over with In-Depth Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS), which is a distributed architecture pattern that solves many common software development problems. If you’re in the Regina area tomorrow, Dylan will actually be presenting a basic intro to CQRS at the Regina Technical Community event Tuesday night!. Click here for more details!
For more information on all our post-conference workshops, visit our post-con area of our website here!
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
