Events on New Orleans and Baton Rouge ...

JSawyer — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:20:00 GMT

At the end of this month, I will be spending some time in South Louisiana and, in conjunction with Momentum, will be presenting as some free, open-to-all-who-come events in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. What will I be doing? A full day of cool techie stuff ... here's the agenda ...

Guidelines for Writing Secure Code

How does a buffer overrun work? What can I do to protect myself from SQL Injection? How do hackers exploit vulnerabilities? This session seeks to provide answers to these questions, providing guidance on how to identify common secure coding issues … and how to mitigate the risk from these issues. Additionally, there is discussion of overall best practices for writing secure code, identifying and ranking threats and including security into the software development lifecycle. While vulnerabilities discussed in this session are not platform-specific, the mitigation techniques discussed and demonstrated will be specific to the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET tools.

Personal Note: This is one of my favorite presentations to deliver. SQL Injection is particularly interesting and, I think, the most common vulnerability in corporate line-of-business development.

Time: 9 AM - 12 AM
Date (click to register!):
Baton Rouge - August 30, 2005
New Orleans - August 31, 2005

Overview of Visual Studio Team System

What is Visual Studio Team System and why should you care about it? This session will take a grand tour through Visual Studio Team System, both the client tools and Team Foundation Server, showing how the VSTS tools will enable better process management for the software development lifecycle as well as better software engineering. We’ll take a look at the process guidance and process customization provide by Team System, the new change management and source control functionality and reporting and management features. Additionally, we’ll look at the tools provided in the client for designing distributed systems, validating deployment, unit testing, web testing, load testing and more. We’ll also explain what you get with each Visual Studio Team Edition and explain how your MSDN Subscription will migrate to Team System.

Personal Note: I have to say, I had my doubts when we first announced Team System. I was pretty unsure about the value of the whole thing, me being Mr. Code Monkey and somewhat leery of process tools. But after working with it and playing with it, I'm totally sold. Not only are the client tools cool, the SDLC tools and project management tools are very well done and non-intrusive to the actual act of development.

Time: 1 PM - 4 PM
Date (click to register!):
Baton Rouge - August 30, 2005
New Orleans - August 31, 2005

Free Training Event in Austin!

JSawyer — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 02:21:00 GMT

Integrating Office Applications with Enterprise Systems

All enterprises today have a common set of frequently used business entities. These could be customers or orders, parts or products, programs or events. Regardless of what it is, in the process of people communicating and collaborating with others within the enterprise, these entities frequently surface in communications such as documents or emails. But to fully understand this information, users must switch to other applications that provide this additional information, whether that information comes from an inventory system or a CRM database. This “context switch” is inefficient, subject to errors and results in lost productivity.

It doesn’t have to be that way.

The Microsoft Office System with the Information Bridge Framework allows developers to integrate enterprise information systems with rich Office based documents. By leveraging Web Services, the Information Bridge Framework brings these systems and their information to the document and to the information worker, providing the necessary context without leaving the Office application that they are in. The result? Greater efficiency and productivity from richer integration of the data that runs the business with the ways that people actually use the information.

This full day lecture-based workshop will introduce developers to the Information Bridge Framework and show them how to integrate the enterprise with Office applications while utilizing their existing .NET development skills. Attendees will learn the core architecture of IBF and how to leverage existing Web Services with IBF to enable rich scenarios that were difficult or impossible before. This session will be led by Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Christoph Schittko, a noted expert in XML and Web Services, from Momentum Software.

Want to get a look at what the Information Bridge Framework is all about? Check it out on MSDN at http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/ibframework/default.aspx and then come to this free day focusing on IBF.

When:

January 27, 2005

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Where:

Microsoft Austin – Microsoft Technology Center

Stonebridge Plaza, Building One
9606 N. Mopac Expressway, Suite 200
Austin, TX 78759

Space is limited for this training, so sign up now to reserve your seat! You can sign up by visiting the Microsoft Training Web Site and enter event code 303157.

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Events on New Orleans and Baton Rouge ...

Free Training Event in Austin!