This page lists the presenters who have submitted sessions for the next Rock & Roll Code Camp. Would you like to be a presenter? We hope you will offer sessions on topics that you are passionate about!
Presenters
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Abhijit Gadkari
Using LinqDataSource with ASP.NET data controls
Enterprise Architect
MS in Information Systems
MS in Computer Science
Research and Publication
SaaS , Network Security , IT Outsourcing, Software Design and Strategy
Presentation Link :
http://soaas.blogspot.com
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Adam Calderon
Building Control Extenders using the Ajax Control Toolkit Overview of the Composite Application Guidance for WPF
Adam Calderon is a C# MVP and the Application Development Practice Lead at Interknowlogy. He is an accomplished software developer, author, teacher and speaker with over fourteen years of experience designing and developing solutions on the Microsoft platform. In his long career, Adam has worked with numerous Fortune 1000 companies in such diverse industries as automotive, telecommunications, publishing, medical and insurance assisting them in designing and developing solutions using current and emerging Microsoft technologies.
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Andrew Karcher
SQL Server 2008: New Data Types SQL Server 2008: Policy Based Management (PBM) Intro to the Entity Framework
As a consultant with Clarity Consulting (http://www.claritycon.com), for over 8 years, Andrew's duties include architecting and developing solutions, both client\server and web applications, for a variety of clients in diverse fields such as transportation, financial services, and hospitality.
Andrew is a Microsoft MVP for SQL Server and serves as a Board Member of the San Diego .Net User Group and San Diego SQL Server Users Group. He has presented to multiple user groups and Code Camps across the U.S. on topics such as SQL Server 2005, .Net Development, and SharePoint Server 2007. You can catch up with Andrew on his Blog (http://blogs.claritycon.com/blogs/andrew_karcher/default.aspx) or by emailing him at akarcher@claritycon.com.
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Aurelio Agundez
Dependency Injection with Enterprise Library 4.0
Aurelio Agundez is a Principal Consultant with Neudesic, LLC. He specializes in custom application development, enterprise application integration, and database development and design.
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Brian Loesgen
A Technical Drilldown into Microsoft's ESB Guidance BizTalk Development Best Practices that experts use
Based in San Diego, Brian Loesgen is a Principal Consultant with Neudesic, a firm that specializes in .NET development and Microsoft server integration. Brian is a Microsoft MVP for BizTalk Server. Brian has extensive experience in building advanced enterprise and mobile solutions. In addition, Brian has been involved with advanced Enterprise Service Bus solutions, and was a key architect/developer of the “Microsoft ESB Guidance” released by Microsoft in Oct 2006. He is a co-author of 6 books, including the recent “BizTalk Server 2004 Unleashed”, and has written technical white papers for Intel, Microsoft and others. Brian has spoken at numerous major technical conferences worldwide. Brian is a co-founder and past-President of the International .NET Association (ineta.org). He is the President of the San Diego .NET user group, leads the San Diego Software Industry Council Web Services SIG, and is a member of the Editorial Board for the .NET Developer’s Journal. Brian is also a member of the Microsoft CSD Virtual Technical Specialist Team. Brian’s blog is http://geekswithblogs.com/bloesgen.
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Carl Manaster
Agile Programming A TDD Demonstration
I'm with ActivX Biosciences (no relation to Microsoft), writing and maintaining web software in support of our drug discovery platform, mostly in Java.
I've been programming for over 20 years, and I hope to someday get the hang of it.
http://www.xpsd.org/cgi-bin/wiki?CarlManaster
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Carlton Nettleton
ScrumMaster Tools for Change What I Learned About Scrum By Doing It Top Ten Refactorings
Carlton Nettleton is a Principal Software Engineer and Agile Process Mentor for Cardinal Health. His work involves developing applications using C# \ASP.Net and coaches teams in agile software development practices and techniques. In 2002, he founded XP San Diego, a professional usergroup to discuss agile software development. He has over five years of experience with Extreme Programming and is a Certified ScrumMaster. You can read more about his thoughts at his blog "Crouch, Touch, Pause...Engage (www.carltonnettleton.com/blog).
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David McCarter
dotNetDave's .NET Utility Assembly (My First CodePlex Project) Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX Part 1 Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX Part 2 Why You Need .NET Coding Standards (2008)
David McCarter is a Microsoft MVP and a lead developer/analyst in San Diego. He is the editor-in-chief of dotNetTips.com... a web site dedicated to helping programmers in all aspects of programming. David has written for magazines like the Visual Basic Programmers Journal and has published three books (the latest is David McCarter's .NET Coding Standards available at: www.cafepress.com/geekmusicart.165478704). He is one of the founders and directors of the 14 year old San Diego .NET Developers Group (www.sddotnetdg.org, formerly the San Diego Visual Basic User Group). David gives talks on programming at colleges, high schools, conferences such as CodeCamp, VSLive, Microsoft DevDays and he teaches at the University of California San Diego. He also runs his own software/consulting company called NicheWare.
David will have a limited number of his latest book to sell at the end of each session for only $11 (cheaper than buying them from the web).
To download slide handouts before or after the conference, please go to http://dotnettips.com/CategoryView,category,Code%2BCamp.aspx
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Eric Kaufman
.Net Widgets 1: Relational Data & ORM
I've been working in software development for about ten years now, and have presented at several code camps in the past. This time around I convinced some other members of my development team (who are much smarter than myself, I might add) to do some joint presentations. Software is tough stuff, and I aim to make fairly complex topics approachable, fun, and rewarding. San Diego is our home turf, so you know our sessions will shock and awe you!
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Jane Prusakova
Agile Adoption
Jane Prusakova is currently a software developer at Intuit.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/prusakov
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Jim White
Literate Scripting with IFCX Wings
Jim White is a software developer and consultant with decades of experience focused on GUI libraries & tools, build & deployment automation, networking, and embedded & portable devices. A long time LISP (formerly FORTH) hacker and Smalltalk admirer, he's been a Java fanatic since the JDK 1.0 beta release in 1995. More recently he's become an Open Source Software Business Evangelist, and is founder of the award-winning Darwine Project (http://darwine.sf.net). His pet project is PUP (the Program Understanding Program) and is realizing that vision through Semantic Web development in Internet Foundation Classes eXtreme! (http://www.ifcx.org).
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Jon Galloway
Deep Dive into Silverlight Deep Zoom
Jon's an ASP.NET MVP who gets to play with cool web tools for a living, working at Vertigo Software. His weblog is at http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway and he's got a new podcast at http://herdingCode.com
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Jeff Rucker
Embedded Systems 101 Learn to not be afraid of hardware engineers!
Software Engineer specializing in microcomputer programming services in the southern California area for over 15 years. My projects have covered a wide range of functionality, from specialized automated testing equipment, to Windows software for the retail market, to embedded systems controlling a variety of hardware.
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Raman Koovelimadom
Harnessing Business Rule Engines for Enterprise Agility
Raman is an entrepreneurial technologist with over 12 years of hands-on experience in building pragmatic solutions that solve complex real world business problems. Raman has consulted at several Fortune 500 corporations including Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and Fidelity National Financial and is currently engaged as an architect with the nation's largest title insurance company.
Raman is extremely passionate about distributed computing and architecture including SOA, SaaS, ESB, grid computing and messaging technologies. He has presented at various user groups and code camps in California.
Raman holds the MCAD.NET and MCTS BizTalk Server certifications.
View his blog at http://koovelimadom.blogspot.com/
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Lynn Langit
What's new in BI for SQL Server 2008
blog http://blogs.msdn.com/SoCalDevGal
What inspires someone from Fargo, North Dakota to dream of becoming a United Nations translator? Love of words, of course. A self-described language geek, Lynn is fascinated by languages and semantics. She understands that life rarely travels in a straight line, and her own career reflects this winding path. Lynn moved from a degree in linguistics to become a business executive, and then launched her own software development, training and consulting company. She’s done production work with all versions of .NET, BizTalk, K2.Net, SharePoint, SQL Server, Analysis Services, InfoPath, MOM, and Active Directory, and holds an array of certifications, including MCT, MCSD, MCITP, MCSE, MCDBA and MSF. Lynn is also the author of Foundations of SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence from Apress. She gets her biggest on-the-job buzz from developing architecture – translating business needs into technical solutions that provide real value and opportunities. In her spare time, Lynn gives back to the community by supporting children’s education. Her current projects include work with the Mona Foundation (Redmond, Washington) and SmartCare (Lusaka, Zambia).
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Mike Vincent
Dynamic Languages and the DLR
Mike Vincent is a solutions architect based in Orange County, California providing clients with software architecture, application lifecycle management and development services, primarily focusing on Microsoft .NET technology. He has been in the software business for over 20 years in addition to engineering and marketing management positions. He founded both the IASA SoCal Chapter and the Orange County C# Developers group and is Treasurer of INETA NorAm.
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Paul Sheriff
Build Unit Tests the Easy Way with VS.NET 2008 From Zero to N-Tier in 75 Minutes OOP 101 Professional Exception Management
Paul D. Sheriff is the President of PDSA, Inc. (www.pdsa.com), a Microsoft Partner in Southern California. Paul acts as the Microsoft Regional Director for Southern California assisting the local Microsoft offices with Developer Days and several of their large events each year. Paul has authored several books, webcasts, and articles on .NET, SQL Server and SharePoint. Paul can be reached via email at PSheriff@pdsa.com or at Paul Sheriff's Inner Circle (www.PaulSheriffInnerCircle.com).
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Rafael Nenninger
Creating Custom Controls with Silverlight SubSonic
Rafael Nenninger is based in San Diego, California and currently working as a Web Developer at
Grand Pacific Resorts with 8 years of hands-on experience in web development.
Current technologies Rafael is working with are C#, .NET, T-SQL, AJAX,
JavaScript, CSS, Enterprise Library.
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Reza Madani
Reporting Services 2008 Sql Server Report Builder
Reza is a principal architect with HarborObjects, a Microsoft partner in Newport Beach, CA. He is also the current president of the .NET User Group in Orange County. Over the past 18 years Reza has worked with numerous platforms and technologies including VB, C#, C, C++, Delphi and J2EE just to name a few. For the last 5 years, Reza has been using .NET based enterprise frameworks for web applications and most recently been focused on business intelligence solutions using SQL Server 2005. Reza is a frequent speaker on .NET WPF technology as well.
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Rory Hallman
.Net Widgets 2: .Net Threading 101
I'm a principal Consultant, specializing in .Net Enterprise development. Throughout the course of my development career it has become pretty obvious that the tools and techniques we use to develop software products are constantly changing. After talking to some of my colleagues about teaching at code camp I have decided to share some of the techniques I have learned that help smooth out the development process.
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rob bagby
Intro to ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) REST in WCF 3.5
Rob Bagby is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft. He has consulted on Microsoft technologies for over 10 years and began developing on the .NET framework when the pre-beta bits were first released to the public. Rob has developed various applications for customers ranging from local companies to Fortune 500 firms. Rob was developing AJAX applications before AJAX was AJAX. In 1998, he co-architected and developed a browser-based front-end for OLAP using XML/HTTP when both IE5.0 and SQL Server 7.0 were still in Beta. Rob has a Masters degree in International Finance from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management.
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Robert Altland
Working with data in Silverlight 2.0 Integrating Silverlight 2.0 into an Existing Web Application
Based in Irvine, California, Robert Altland is a senior consultant with Neudesic, one of Microsoft’s leading .NET professional service firms and Gold Certified Partners.
Robert’s career has spanned the spectrum from design to development. He has contributed his knowledge and experience with Microsoft technologies to several industries including the education, entertainment, manufacturing, retail, insurance and financial industries.
With over ten years experience, he attributes his successes to a user-centric approach to developing solutions, and has a strong understanding of user interface design, modern software design patterns, service-oriented architectures and object-oriented design.
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Scott Reed
WCF Extensibility
Scott's career in software begain in 1993. He currently is an independant consultant, as well as a DevelopMentor instructor.
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Stephen Rose
Virtualization For Developers
Stephen Rose spent 12 years teaching technical tracks for private companies, technical training companies and even colleges like California State University and Columbia College as well as speaking at technical conferences all over the world including TechEd, SDWest, CIO World, and TechExpo.
In addition to his training career he has spent over 15 years consulting with many Fortune 1000 companies like Ford Motor Company, IBM, 5th 3rd Bank Corp, McDonald's, Pacific Western, OSI Systems, Rapiscan Systems, ADP, PGA, St John's Medical Center, Apple Computers, UCLA Medical Center, The MS Society of Canada, Illumicell, DMB&B, Pacific Western, and Miller Brewing company.
His technical certifications include, MCSE, MCT, MCSA, MCP+I, iNet+ , Net+ , A+ , CTT+ , Linux+ , Security+ , IT Project Pro+ as well as being a Master CIW
In 2007 Stephen was named Microsoft Connect Systems Developer MVP as well as being ask to write a technical blog for Fast Company magazine.
In 2008, Stephen was asked to sit on the University of California – San Diego Advisory board.
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Steve Evans
Creating Cmdlets for PowerShell Everything Developers need to know about Active Directory
Steve is the technical lead for the Windows Server Support Group at CSU CalPoly. His team is responsible for Active Directory, SharePoint, SQL, and File Services for 30,000+ users. Steve straddles the world of IT and Development. As the owner of Scevans Consulting Group (http://scevanscg.com) he helps a range of businesses with IT and Software Development needs.
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Steve Andrews
Visual Studio 2008 Tips and Tricks Writing Awesome Code with Visual Studio 2008 Developer Edition Automation with MSBuild 3.5 and Team Build 2008 Introduction to Visual Studio 2008 Team System
Steve Andrews has been working as a developer for more than 9 years. During this time, he has designed and developed applications in such widely varying areas as trust accounting, medical information management, supply chain management, and retail systems. He has firsthand developer experience with a variety of languages, including Java, ColdFusion, VB.OLD, and .NET in both C# and VB. Most recently, he has been immersed in Visual Studio Team System. He is currently employed at RDA Corporation in Philadelphia, PA, as a Software Engineer and a team member in their Architectural Guidance evangelism team. Steve is also an MCTS, ICSOO, Speaker Liaison for the Philly .NET User Group, and all around .NET fanatic.
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Richard Campbell
The Developers/Network Administrator IQ Test The Scaling Habits of ASP.NET Applications From One Server to Two: Making the Leap
Richard Campbell is one of the co-founders of Strangeloop Networks and today serves as product evangelist, introducing the company's unique story to advisors, investors, patent attorneys, beta-customer candidates, potential employees, etc. Richard has more than 30 years of high-tech experience and is both a Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). He has consulted with a number of leading North American organizations; Barnes&Noble.com, Dow Chemical, Johnson & Johnson Health Care Services, Reuters, Subaru/Isuzu and the U.S. Air Force. In addition to speaking at conferences around the world, Richard is co-host of the ".NET Rocks!, the Internet Audio Talk Show for .NET Developers" (www.dotnetrocks.com) podcast and the host of "RunAs Radio, the Internet Audio Talk Show for IT Professionals" (www.runasradio.com) podcast.
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Wolf Paulus
Turning the Web on its head
Wolf Paulus is an internationally experienced software developer and innovator, focusing on Java, Mac OS X, embedded-systems, and Open Source technologies. In his daytime job, he works as a Software Architect on the LiquidOffice platform, a document routing and workflow solution.
He developed TiffanyScreens (http://tiffanyscreens.com), an innovative presentation sharing tool for peer groups, created the Thinlet rapid application development tool Theodore (http://www.carlsbadcubes.com/software/) and is the founder and principal developer of the open source XUL Engine SwiXml (http://swixml.org), which is used in projects like GlassFish, the open source community based implementation of Java EE 5.
Wolf was awarded "XUL Champion of the Year 2003" by the XUL developer community. He presents frequently at conferences and user groups on topics ranging from Embedded Technology to Declarative Programming, emphasizing UI Generation at Runtime.
Wolf worked in St.Peterburg, Russia, leading a team of Russian engineers creating smart bots, in Frankfurt Germany, helping Deutsche Bank develop client-server electronic banking applications, and led software component development contracted from Aten Development, Lyon, France. He received a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Paderborn, a Specialized Certificate in Embedded Computer Software from the University of California, San Diego, and is a Sun Certified Java Programmer SCJP and Web Component Developer SCWCD. Wolf and his family currently reside in San Diego, California and can be found on the Net at http://wolfpaulus.com.
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Woody Zuill
Agile Development Basics A Quick Introduction to Scrum Agile Coding Techniques for Legacy Apps
Woody Zuill is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer and team lead, as well as a ScrumMaster, doing ongoing development for a large application that is used all over the world to provide highly customizable customer care and billing to pay media operators. Woody has been programming computers for about 25 years, but has only taken it seriously for the last month or so although he holds an MCSD and is a Certified ScrumMaster (whatever that is). He has years of experience in the custom manufacturing of graphics and signage for televised sporting events where deadlines actually have meaning, and spends his spare time writing about himself in the third person. His blog address: http://zuill.us/WoodyZuill/
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German Eichberger
Introduction to Hibernate with Java Struts 2.0
German Eichberger is a Software Engineer with Sony Online Entertainment, an instructor with UCSD Extension and Mesa College. In previous roles he was a Senior Software Engineer for the Digital Fish Library, the head of UCSD Extension's IT programs, and a project manager/software architect for PwC Consulting. He earned a Master in Computer Science doing computer vision research. His interests are Java, Web Frameworks, and SOA.
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Zoiner Tejada
Workflow Services
Zoiner Tejada, B.S., is an independent consultant specializing in the Microsoft suite of tools. He graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Computer Science. In his nine years of software consulting he has consulted on various enterprise projects including workflow projects using WF, WCF, .Net, VSX and SQL Server.
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