From the Editor - Southern California

September 22, 2008
 

Well, I suppose the big event for developers and the Los Angeles area would still be the upcoming Professional Developers Conference, coming up Oct 27 to 30th. You can count on Microsoft usually make some pretty big announcement this event, and it sets the tone for the rest the last fiscal year in terms of which technologies we think are the most important for our users.

Below I have included a session list. You can just tell by looking at the session counts, in square brackets, the amount of material that will be presented. For example Cloud Services, Silverlight, SQL Server, and Visual Studio have the highest amount of sessions.

The Future at PDC

One of these is Live Mesh, a software development kit (SDK) for which is expected to be one of the major deliverables that developers will get to start dabbling with around the time of the PDC. The other is Oslo, Microsoft’s modeling platform, pieces of which will be available to testers in Community Technology Preview (CTP) form around the same time.

Attractive Sessions

Here is the session breakdown I just downloaed. More may be on the way.

Total Sessions [138] - Ad Platform [2] - ADO.NET [3] - ASP.NET [10] - Cloud Services [26] - Dynamics CRM [3] - Entity Framework [3] - Expression [2] - HPC [1] - Hyper-V [2] - Identity [8] - IIS [2] - Internet Explorer [2] - Languages [8] - LINQ [4] - Live Mesh [5] - Live Platform [11] - Office [4] - Oslo [5] - Parallelism [7] - SharePoint [3] - Silverlight [11] - SQL Server [14] - SQL Server Data Services [6] - Sync Framework [2] - TFS [3] - Unified Communications [3] - Velocity [1] - Virtual Earth [1] - Visual Studio [13] - VSTS [6] - WCF [6] - WF [8] - Windows 7 [5] - Windows Home Server [2] - Windows Mobile [2] - Windows Server [1] - WMI [1] - WPF [5] - XNA [1]

Register here.

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User Groups

Many people approach me and ask me about good places or ways to learn. In my humble opinion, we learn best from others so I recommend going to a user’s group meeting. Every time I go to a user group meeting I’ve learned something important, even if I’m the one presenting, ironically enough.

The Los Angeles .NET Developers Group is the premier forum for Los Angeles Area .NET Developers. It’s also a great way to tap into which technologies are the most significant, which is an important place to start when learning something new.

Are you a speaker?

Maybe you are already up to speed on these topics? Maybe you’d like to speak about these exciting new technologies? Are you town for the Microsoft PDC this October? Why not arrive the weekend before and be a part of what should be one of the best-attended code camps ever!

When & Where

October 25, 26, 2008
USC Campus, Los Angeles, CA

The Audience

2000+ are registered users to the SoCal Code Camp site. The event takes place only 1 mile from the LA Convention center.

Fun for All

As usual, there will be 2 days of fantastic sessions and a special Geek Dinner that will prove to be a lot of fun.

Your Topic

Sessions are 60 minute in length including Q&A. You can offer talks on anything you like and think the community would be interested in. We will have subjects ranging from .NET, Java, PHP, Games development, general business… anything that draws interest! We will have room for over 120 sessions.

How to Register

You can register (or log in) to the site here.
Then submit sessions here.

Final Thoughts

Please submit your sessions early so that attendees can see what kind of topics will be presented!!!! The final day to submit your session is Monday October 13th but you will want to get your sessions up ASAP so attendees will sign in and show interest.

If you know other speakers that might be interested in participating in this event, please forward this email on. Also, please let us know if you know any companies that might be interested in becoming a sponsor for this event. Sponsorship could be anything from donating books, software, giveaways and of course money. Please email Art Villa or Janet Chung. Thanks and hope to see you at the LA Code Camp.

Thanks for reading,
Bruno

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