[Events] Developer Night in Canada (DNIC) User Group Tour: Kelowna (Follow-Up)
Last night, I delivered a presentation to the Thompson Okanagan .NET Users Group (TODNUG) on the topics of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) and ASP.NET "Atlas". Approximately twenty-two (22) people attended the event, which was great to see for a city the size of Kelowna. I think there's a lot of excitement around technologies like ASP.NET "Atlas" here.
Henri Fournier (Leader, Thompson Okanagan .NET Users Group (TODNUG)) informs his group of the prizes available for the night's presentation.
During the presentation, I got a ton of great questions. Many of them focused on the implementation details of the technology itself. For example:
- How does the UpdatePanel control issue requests back to the server?
- How does the ASP.NET "Atlas" runtime initialize itself?
- What is generated when requesting an endpoint using the '/js' notation?
I made sure to carefully explain these and other concepts before I moved on to the next topic. (If you'd like to find out more about ASP.NET "Atlas", make sure to check out the Website!)
A highlight of the night for me was catching-up with Miles Overn, a local Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for ASP/ASP.NET. Miles and I got chatting about technology and Microsoft conferences of the past (i.e. Microsoft Tech·Ed).
Henri and Miles chat during the break.
Overall, I think Kelowna is pretty jazzed about Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) and ASP.NET "Atlas". I think the next time you hear about a Web company from Kelowna making it big, it might be (in part) the result of these technologies being part of the solution!
Thank you very much, Kelowna. I had a wonderful time!
(Photos of this event can be viewed here.)
