A lot of speaking engagements these days. Which results in not a lot of blog reading, let alone blogging ...
Last Thursday evening I was asked to do a 2-hour talk on .NET Framework 3.0 for the students of the KH Leuven, department Rega. The talk went fairly well with a lot of demos. Especially the Windows Presentation Foundation demos were appreciated.
It's great to see that these students learn programming using the .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. Later on this year they will even be touching briefly on the .NET Framework 3.0 technologies. Besides the .NET Framework they've already started with 2007 Office system.
Given the adoption of the Microsoft .NET developer platform and the 2007 Office system in Belgium most of these students should not get any trouble in finding a job! I'm pretty sure they will be well prepared for there first job.
Next Tuesday, October 10, I'll be attending an I.T. Works seminar on "Interactiever web applicaties met AJAX". Speakers at this seminar will be Jan Vanhercke and Alain Ravet. As I've been doing very similar talks lately and have worked my way through the Microsoft AJAX sessions for TechEd: Developers, I'm curious how the different AJAX frameworks and solutions will be positioned. Microsoft AJAX will be covered too. But as none of the speakers have a background in Microsoft technologies (eg ASP.NET 2.0) ...
I planned to attend Alain's talk on Ruby On Rails early July but due to a conflict in my agenda I wasn't able to make it. Hopefully we can have a chat on Tuesday.
On Wednesday October 11th, I'll be the host for the Luxembourg MSDN event on "Managing the Software Development Lifecycle with Visual Studio 2005 Team System".
From the invite:
Visual Studio 2005 Team System is a productive, integrated, and extensible suite of lifecycle tools that expands the Visual Studio product line to enable greater communication and collaboration among software development teams. With Visual Studio 2005 Team System, organizations can ensure greater predictability and quality early and often throughout the development process. There are 2 sessions scheduled:
Visual Studio 2005 Team System is a productive, integrated, and extensible suite of lifecycle tools that expands the Visual Studio product line to enable greater communication and collaboration among software development teams. With Visual Studio 2005 Team System, organizations can ensure greater predictability and quality early and often throughout the development process.
There are 2 sessions scheduled:
Location:
Microsoft LuxembourgZoning industriel "Cloche d'Or"NCI Office - Laccolithrue Eugène Ruppert 20 Luxembourg
By attending this event, you’ll gain knowledge on the features and capabilities of Visual Studio Team System.
In this talk I'll be covering and demoing the project management, architecture, development and testing roles in the software development lifecycle. If time permits I'll briefly touch on Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals. If you'd like to attend please subscribe or leave a comment on my blog.
And finally, on Friday I'll be doing two introduction talks on the .NET Framework 3.0 for Microsoft's enterprise partners and customers.
As you can see a rather busy schedule this week especially with the preparation of the upcoming events. More on these events later this week.If you plan to attend some of these events, stop by and say hello. I'll be hanging around most of the time while not speaking. If possible I'll publish a link to the .ppt's used during these talks.