Speakers

Name: Steven Lane Company: I.S. Consulting Senior developer with I.S. Consulting (http://www.goisc.com/). President Tallahassee .NET User Group (www.tlhdotnet.net). Founder Tallahassee Architectural SIG (http://tallyarch.com). More than 12 years continuous and progressive experience as a Development Team Leader, Object Oriented Software Architect, Business System and Data Analyst, Principal Consultant, Technical Instructor, Lead Programmer, and Environmental Quality Control Specialist. Multi-disciplined and cross-industry versatility, a balanced understanding of general systems analysis and design. An active leader in the local area’s .NET UG (www.tlhdotnet.net).   http://tlhdotnet.net/ Essential WCF Name: Jesse Taber Company: Sogeti USA Jesse is a graduate of Florida State University and has been working with Microsoft technologies in Tallahassee for the past three years. He is currently a Senior Consultant with Sogeti USA.   Synchronizing Identity Data between SQL Server and Active Directory using Identity Lifecycle Manager. ---------- Silverlight 2 Name: Dominic McAllister Company: Sogeti USA I am a consultant for Sogeti USA focused on .NET enterprise solutions. I attended Florida State University and currently reside in Tallahassee   Using Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) 2008 to automate Word 2007 and increase productivity. Name: Oleg Sych Company: Catapult Systems Oleg Sych is a Senior Lead Consultant at Catapult Systems. He has been working as a professional software engineer since 1993, building distributed enterprise applications since 2000 and working with .NET technologies since 2002. Oleg holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science, MCSD and MCPD Enterprise certifications. His professional interests include framework design and enterprise application architecture.   http://www.olegsych.com Code Generation with T4 Text Templates: Introduction ---------- Code Generation with T4 Text Templates: Advanced Topics Name: Scott Dorman Company: BST Global Scott is a C# MVP and has been involved with computers in one way or another for as long as he can remember, but started professionally in 1993. After spending 6 years as a systems administrator, Scott branched out and started developing eCommerce store fronts. From there, he has worked on many different projects and has been working with .NET and C# since 2001. He has worked at Fortune 500 companies and privately held start-ups focused on IT consulting where he gained experience in embedded systems design and software development to systems administration and database programming, and everything in between. Although his primary focus right now is commercial software applications using Microsoft .NET technologies, he prefers building infrastructure components, reusable shared libraries and helping companies define, develop and automate process standards and guidelines. Scott is currently working as a senior developer and architect on the Gulf coast of Florida.   Code Style And Standards ---------- Memory Management Fundamentals – Garbage Collection Deep Dive ---------- Memory Management Fundamentals – IDisposable and the Dispose Pattern ---------- Understanding Lamda Expressions Name: John McFetridge Company: Sandkey Many, many years of experience in software from mainframes to now at which point I am an architect , trainer and developer working with C#, WCF , Linq a, ASP.NET and Silverlight.   www.sandkeysoftware.com Linq Tutorial ---------- Linq To SQL ---------- Databinding Linq to SQL data sources to a Silverlight 2 DataGrid Name: Will Strohl Company: RezHub.com (representing the Orlando DotNetNuke® Users Group) Will Strohl is an ASP.Net architect and developer for RezHub.com, based in the Orlando Area. Having been in the web development field for over 10 years, he began professionally in 2000. Currently, Will is the Technology Director for an exciting new online travel company called RezHub.com. He is also an active member and President of the newly formed Orlando DotNetNuke® Users Group. He regularly speaks at local events about DotNetNuke® and the various ways it can be used and managed.   http://blog.strohlsitedesign.com Introduction to DotNetNuke® ---------- Introduction to Skinning DotNetNuke® Name: Saqib Rokadia Company: Infinity Software Development , Inc. Saqib Rokadia has been a developer for Infinity Software Development with the position of a Software Developer/Anaylst for the past two years and has acquired knowledge in a variety of Microsoft technologies.   Introduction to the MVC Framework Name: Bayer White Company: FlowFocus Solutions Bayer White has been developing enterprise solutions for the past 10 years using .Net Technologies. Since the first beta of the .Net Framework 3.0, his focus has been mastering Business Process Management (BPM) using Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). He is known within the Florida developer community by speaking at Florida Code Camps, blogging and writing articles focused on WF. He has also spoken at various conferences such as PASS, DevConnections and VSLive, and has been invited to Microsoft’s campus to attend Software Design Reviews (SDR) for future products of Microsoft’s “Connected Framework”. His blog is recognized as a contributor on the official Windows Workflow Foundation (http://wf.netfx3.com/roller/default.aspx). Bayer also organizes and runs a Jacksonville based Architecture SIG, Jax Architects (http://www.jaxdug.com/SIGS/Architecture/tabid/151/Default.aspx). “Currently” his blog can be found at http://whiteknighttechnology.com/cs/blogs/bayer_white/default.aspx   http://www.flowfocus.net Requirements To Architecture In 60 Minutes ---------- Why Windows Workflow Name: Christopher Bennage Company: Blue Spire Consulting, Inc. Christopher is a software developer and consultant at Blue Spire Consulting, a company he co-founded with Rob Eisenberg in 2006. His interests include programming, liberal education, truth, beauty, and number of deceased British authors (C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, and most recently Owen Barfield.) He lives in Tallahassee, FL with his wife and three children and still prefers to play as the Night Elves in WarCraft 3.   http://devlicious.com/blogs/christopher_bennage/ An Introduction to WPF Name: Rob Eisenberg Company: Blue Spire Consulting, Inc. Rob Eisenberg is a .NET architect and developer working out of Tallahassee, FL. He publishes technical articles regularly at devlicio.us and has spoken at regional events and to companies concerning .NET technologies and Agile software practices. He is a partner with Christopher Bennage at Blue Spire Consulting, Inc. and coauthor of Sam's Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours. Rob is happily married to Anna Eisenberg and in his spare time enjoys swing dancing, making artisan cheese and playing/teaching drum set.   http://devlicio.us/blogs/rob_eisenberg/ Elegant Code – Tearing Down ---------- Elegant Code – Building Up Name: Chris L. Holley Company: TEKsystems Born in Naples and raised in Ft. Walton Beach; I have always been a Florida native. I’ve loved Florida State University from birth, and upon graduation Tallahassee was a natural choice to begin my professional career. During roughly the past 2 years, I’ve helped grow the local TEKsystems office by networking and establishing relationships with local technical professionals, focusing on learning what matters most to them in order to present them with opportunities which match their personal and professional goals. Understanding what a company is looking for in a potential hire is challenging; but helping technical professionals find positions in which they excel is truly one personally rewarding accomplishment.   “The Beginning”: Things to remember when building your resume and interviewing. Name: Rodney Landrum Company: Rodney Landrum has been architecting solutions for SQL Server for over 10 years. He has worked with and written about many SQL Server technologies, including DTS, Integration Services, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services. He has authored two books on Reporting Services and is working on the third edition focusing on SQL Server 2008. He is a regular contributor to SQL Server magazine, sqlservercentral.com and Simple-talk.com. His three recent articles in SQL Server magazine on building a DBA repository with SSIS and SSRS have been well received and implemented widely by DBAs around the world. Rodney also speaks regularly on SQL topics at such events as SQL Saturday in Florida, his home state. His day job finds him overseeing the health and well being of over 100 SQL Servers as manager of database administration in Pensacola, Florida   http://www.pensacolasql.com SQL Server Integration Services and SQL Server Reporting Services Name: Jeff Barnes Company: Microsoft Jeff Barnes is the Microsoft Architect Evangelist for the Gulf States District where he engages with the local Architect community to help solve tough business problems with leading-edge technology. Jeff has a passion around the discipline and challenges of software engineering, recognizing that architecture has as much of a social context as a technical one.   http://www.DotNetTikiHut.com How to create an end-to-end Mobile GPS tracking application using the .NET Compact Framework, WCF, LINQ, Silverlight, Deep Zoom, and Virtual Earth Name: Kelvin J. McDaniel Company: Cornerstone Software Services, Inc. Kelvin is the Chief Applications Architect at Cornerstone Software Services, Inc. He loves exploring new technologies and finding ways of making them fit into his professional and personal life.   http://kelvinmcdaniel.spaces.live.com/ WCF 101 – What you need to know and it’s practical uses Name: Nikita Polyakov Company: www.Tribridge.com Nikita Polyakov from Tampa, FL: Conversation, Web, UX, mobility, ASP.NET MVP, Microsoft Student Partner, has spoken at numerous CodeCamps on Mobile development.   http://campusKoders.net WindowsMobile, SQL Compact on Mobile and beyond Name: Walter V. Williams, Jr. Company: CHB Consulting, Inc. Walt is the president of CHB Consulting, Inc. The company produces custom software for clients, as well as software packages which are on the market. Walt has been designing, building and testing software for over 20 years. He has worked with database information since dBase and Access 1. With the introduction of Visual Basic 3, that has been his language of choice for all database applications. Today he continues to work with database information using Visual Basic.NET 2008 and SQL Server. He enjoys giving technical presentations, and training and assisting others as they learn to use this technology.   www.chb-consulting.com DataSets - What are they and how do we use them? Name: Daniel Rowe Company: Northrop Grumman Daniel Rowe is a video game programmer for Northrop Grumman, one of the largest defense contractors in the nation. He specializes in 3D graphics programming and character animation. His work has been used to illustrate immersive combat scenarios to high-ranking military officials, as well as to train a new generation of young soldiers by leveraging the unique medium of the video game.   Real-time Video Game Lighting in XNA Name: Jacob J. Sanford Company: Captaré Consulting, LLC Jacob J. Sanford began his career in, of all things, Accounting and Auditing. He graduated from Florida State University in 1997 with BS degrees in Accounting and Finance, which made him eligible to sit for the CPA exam. Although he realized in college that his interests lie more in computers and technology, he decided he would give accounting a chance. It didn’t last. He had been dabbling in HTML and VBA when he took a job at a private software company and met co-author David Drinkwine, who introduced him to the wonders of classic ASP. From there, he began learning as much as he could about all kinds of Web application development. This took him down the paths of ColdFusion, PHP, PhotoShop, CSS, XML, and finally ASP.NET (starting with the 1.0 and 1.1 releases). He has been using ASP.NET (VB and C# — but mostly C#) for the last four or five years. He has worked at several State of Florida agencies and in that capacity found a fondness for pure CSS design and accessibility considerations. Most recently, he has started focusing on new technologies and tools such as Microsoft Silverlight and Visual Studio 2008. Jacob is currently a senior consultant with Captaré Consulting, LLC, and is the founding leader of the Tallahassee SharePoint Experts Exchange for Developers (SPEED). He is also a regular presenter at regional .NET Code Camps and at local .NET User Group meetings and is the author of Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Design (Wrox, 2007) and one of the co-authors for Professional SharePoint 2007 Design (Wrox 2008). Jacob has received his Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) certification as a Web Developer (Visual Studio 2005). He plans to upgrade his credentials to Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Framework as the certification exams become available. Jacob lives in Tallahassee, Florida with his beautiful wife, Shannan. He has two amazing sons, Matthew and Hayden, and an eternal puppy, Petey.   jacob-sanford.spaces.live.com SQL Reporting Services with SharePoint 2007 Name: Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi Company: Sedo Technologies Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi has a computer engineering degree from the University of Florida. He is the author of Inside the Microsoft Visual Studio Build Engine (Microsoft Press 01/09), co-author of Deploying .NET Application: Learning MSBuild and Click Once (Apress 05/2006), and has written several publications for magazines such as the MSDN Magazine. He is a developer and independent consultant in Jacksonville, Florida. He is an expert in the financial, education, and collection industries.   http://www.sedodream.com MSBuild: Inside the Visual Studio Build Engine Name: Keith Rowe Company: Cornerstone Software Services, Inc. Keith Rowe has been in IT since the late seventies and has owned and managed his company for fifteen years. His biggest aspiration for Code Camp this year is to attend his son’s talk on “Real-time Video Game Lighting in XNA”. Quoting Keith, “You know, sometimes intelligence just skips a generation. Daniel got my share so I must see what he has done with it.”   http://www.ConsultWithUs.com How to Elicit, Document and Validate User Requirements Name: William M. Rawls Company: FBMC Professional computer programmer with over 20 years of programming experience with a passion for coding patterns and code generation.   http://willrawls.blogspot.com The Code Generation Name: Bruce Gordon Company: Focus Learning Systems Bruce Gordon is a Microsoft Certified Instructor and co-owner of Focus Learning Systems. Bruce’s areas of expertise include .Net development and SharePoint. Besides trying to stay current on all the .Net technologies he spends far too much time playing online video games such as World of Warcraft.   http://www.focusls.com ASP.NET Basics ---------- Interface Basics Name: Russell Fustino Company: Microsoft Russ wisely shelved dreams of rock and roll stardom in order to share his vast knowledge with developers nationwide. Given that he can’t sing or play an instrument, other than in Guitar Hero, we’re all very grateful. Russ has more than 25 years of software development. He’s the creator of the Russ' Tool Shed developer seminar series and has donned his trademark suspenders, hardhat and tool belt in presentations for over 75,000 developers at 1,700 events. Russ also has expertise in developing Visual Basic and Web-based solutions using Microsoft tools. Before joining Microsoft eleven years ago, Russ worked as a VB instructor, headed up a development department, and created several client/server applications and system software products. His specialties include development with VB.NET, XML Web services, ASP.NET, XNA, Silverlight, Development Tools and debugging. But make no mistake – Russ is not all brains. His big heart led him to establish Take a Swing at Cancer, Inc., a non-profit organization that holds softball and golf-based fundraisers to battle cancer. You have to know the code to get in the shed. KNOW THE CODE!   http://www.russtoolshed.net What's New in SQL Server 2008 for Developers Name: Jose Fuentes Company: Microsoft Consultant for Microsoft working with State and Local government for the east coast. With 8 years experience with .NET and over 10 yrs with various Microsoft products.   http://blogs.aspadvice.com/jfuentes/ Moss and InfoPath, building your next Web Application