The next IASA Melbourne meeting is a combined event with the Victoria.NET Dev SIG (formerly VDNUG). We're taking the opportunity to get Ron down to Melbourne to redeliver one of his Tech.Ed sessions, which looks at architecture from the perspective of someone interested in taking the next steps in their IT career towards becoming an architect. Highly recommended, especially if you can't make it to Tech.Ed this year.
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To many people an architect is just a really advanced developer but is that what makes a good architect?
In this session we will consider the role of the architect in software development and the exact nature of the work that an architect does by answering three important questions:
Ron Jacobs is an Architect Evangelist in Microsoft's Architecture Strategy Team based in Redmond, Washington. After a long career as a developer, program manager for various Microsoft products and product manager for patterns & practices Ron became host of the Channel9 show ARCast. A popular conference speaker Ron brings together solid architectural content and a sense of humour together to help you succeed in building architecturally sound and secure applications.
Details:
Date: Thursday 31 August
Time: 5.30pm (pizza served); 6pm (presentation starts)
Venue: Microsoft Theatre, Level 9, Como Office Tower, 644 Chapel St, South Yarra
RSVP: By return e-mail to info@victoriadotnet.com.au by COB on Tuesday 29 August
There is no charge for Members to attend this event, but space is strictly limited and pre-registration is essential.
This is a great opportunity to learn from a recognised architecture “guru” – don’t miss it!!