SoCal Code Camp

In this talk of International acclaim, Chander Dhall talks...

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Tags: webdev | Developers | C#
Interested: 10

Great tips on reporting, performance tuning, architecture, and design.

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Tags: SSRS | SSIS | SQL | Excel
Interested: 8

Lets look at some best practices for building real world Windows 8 apps. That includes using MVVM light to provide dependency injection & messaging. I’ll go over tips for using the app bar, toast notifications, the share & settings charm. We'll also look at responsive design, file picker, credential locker & facebook authentication.

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Tag: windows 8
Interested: 11

Play is a powerful method to learn! Come and play some simple agile games to explore the different values that are at the foundation of Agile and Lean development practices.

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Tags: Software Craftsmanship | Lean | Agile Games | Agile
Interested: 4

How should non-technical manages gauge agile team success?

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Tags: Success | metrics | Agile
Interested: 1

This presentation lays the foundation for Agile Success. We'll take a look at why Agile was "invented", the problems it solves, the values and principles that define Agile it, and a few ideas on how to make it work for you.

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Tags: Scrum | Lean | Kanban | Agile
Interested: 10

This presentation builds on the first session and covers advanced ideas about  Agile Success. Anything is possible. Unlikely, but possible.

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Tags: Scrum | Lean | Kanban | Agile
Interested: 6

What’s this?  Another acronym?  Well if you haven’t yet seen MVVM in action this will be a good class for you. 

In this class we will discuss what MVVM is, what it isn’t, and see it in action using Knockout JS.

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Tags: Web API | MVVM | Knockout JS
Interested: 8

How to use the open source library ksoap2 to talk get android to talk to a .net webservice.

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Tags: Webservice | Android | .NET
Interested: 2

In this talk we will look at Angular JS, a front end javascript framework and see how we can integrate angular into an ASP.NET MVC app. We’ll look at the various features of angular including support for data binding, client side routing, services, filters, dependency injection and testing. We will use WebAPI to persist data back to the server.

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Tags: WebAPI | JavaScript | ASP.NET MVC
Interested: 14

In this session you will learn to create one set of data classes, business logic and view models to be used across WPF, ASP.NET, Silverlight and Windows Phone.

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Tag: Architecture
Interested: 8

Lets take a detailed look at ASP.NET MVC View Engines.We will examine the 2 built in View Engines, WebForms View Engine and Razor. We will look at open source view engines such as Spark, NHaml & Parrot.Lastly, we will show you how to build your own ViewEngine & Parrot creator Ben will give you a detailed look at the source code. 

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Tag: ASP.NET MVC
Interested: 10

When you want your site to perform under load, you should know how when and why async can help you. Doing it wrong can actually hurt your performance. We'll cover the simple facts and methods you must know in order to solve scalability problems in your application.

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Tags: MVC | Async | ASP.NET
Interested: 8

Are you afraid of making estimates? You are not alone! Do you know why making quality estimates AND tracking actuals is so important? Can you really estimate how long a football game will be?...

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Tag: Project Management Estimation
Interested: 6

Have you wondered…why your applications just don’t seem to match your customer’s expectations? How do you manage the ‘moving target’ of requirements? Learn key, common sense...

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Tag: Project Management Requirements
Interested: 5

In this session, you will learn the alternatives available for building a line of business web application using ASP.NET MVC and see a working sample of a time tracking business application built on the ASP.NET MVC platform.

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Tag: ASP.NET MVC
Interested: 13

Andrioid provides a bunch of mechanisms that allows apps to communicate with each other.  Let's go hands on and explore the various ways to integrate with other apps, and open up our apps for integration as well.

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Tags: Integration | Communication | Android
Interested: 5

All 3 Clean Code presentations provide great value by themselves, but taken together are designed to offer a holistic approach to successful software creation. This first session creates the foundation for the 2nd Clean Code presentation on Dependency Injection, as it explains expected base knowledge.

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Tags: Design Pattern | Clean Code | Best Practises
Interested: 5

This presentation requires you to know and understand basics like DRY, SoC, SRP, SOLID etc. which will be explained in the 1st Clean Code session. However, it will start at the basics of DI and will work towards intermediate and advanced scenarios depending on the participating group.

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Tags: Maintainability | ioc | Dependency Injection | Decoupling | Clean Code
Interested: 4

 You will learn why naming is really difficult if done right, why coding and style guidelines are crucial, code structuring, exception handling and why other elements of coding often define the tipping point between success and failure of projects. 

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Tags: Software Craftsmanship | Clean Code
Interested: 3

There's no such thing as a write-once application. The world is constantly changing, and our code needs to change with it. We'll think in small pieces and take a look at some techniques to keep our code manageable and understandable. Think about the developer who will come after you. Now, imagine he's a homicidal maniac who knows where you live.

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Tags: Clean Code | Agile
Interested: 16

Much of our data now has built-in interrelationships that we must handle. We may need to build clusters from network-structured data, or just navigate efficiently from one item to another--but can we even get there? We will introduce using this graph data in computing, and we will even build a simple, practical, Shortest Path algorithm to take advantage of the relationships.

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Tags: Shortest Path | Networks | Graphs | Graph Computing | C# | algorithms
Interested: 1

We will discuss how to automate the integration, testing, and deployment process so that it can happen at the push of a button.

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Tags: SQL | Software Leadership | continuous integration
Interested: 3

Create collections instead of using DataSet and DataReaders to have highly efficient an re-useable application components.

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Tags: Entity | Collections
Interested: 6

Visual Studio LightSwitch allows you to create professional business applications that would take a developer days to create.

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Tags: LightSwitch | HTML5 | ASP.NET
Interested: 10

In the past, applications where created as monolithic entities running on a single server. If this is the past for you, too, you will have experienced the downside of modern distributed and cloud applications, as debugging, troubleshooting, and monitoring is not easily accomplished with traditional approaches.

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Tags: Troubleshooting | SOA | Monitoring | Distributed | devops | Debugging | Could
Interested: 1

What is Dependency Injection? The answers to the question seem to cause more confusion than help. We'll take a look at what Dependency Injection (DI) is, when we should use it, and what design patterns we can use to help us implement it. Benefits range from extensibility to late binding to testability.

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Tags: Inversion of Control | Dependency Injection
Interested: 9

Solutions to real world challenges using CLR functions and procedures utilizing the free SQL# CLR library. 

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Tags: SQL | CLR
Interested: 5

Back in 2010, Visual Studio came with a new language on board: F#. I started playing with it, and got hooked. F# mixes functional and OO approaches, encourages bug-free code, has great features, and is incredibly productive. In this talk, I'll explain F# with code samples, and discuss where it fits and how you can get started with it.

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Tags: Functional | F# | C#
Interested: 3

Mocking is an indispensable technique to unit test real software. The goal of this presentation is to demystify the topic and give you a clear understanding of what Stubs and Mocks are so that you can productively use them in your own code.

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Tags: Testing | TDD | Clean Code
Interested: 10

Time to make a career move? 

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Tags: job search | counseling | career
Interested: 3

TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. With TypeScript, you can use existing any JavaScript library, & be called from other JavaScript code. In this talk, we will look at TypeScript and many of its features including support for classes, inheritance, types and more. We will also look at installing and using TypeScript in Visual Studio.

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Tags: TypeScript | JavaScript
Interested: 12

HTML5 gives front end developers many cool tools. We have native access to the camera, video and audio. I will show you how to play media files and how to capture input from a webcam. We will also look at the Canvas tag and learn to draw simple shapes and even video. We will host our camera app in an asp.net mvc application and allow users to save photos.

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Tags: HTML5 | ASP.NET MVC
Interested: 9

There are a lot of Do's & Don'ts to making presentations. If you're interested in presenting at your work, at a conference, etc., (and you should be) this talk should help you start to not suck at it.

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Tags: presenting | presentations | not sucking
Interested: 9

In this session, we will discuss the setup of Amazon Web Services: Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Relational Database Service (RDS). We will setup a simple ASPX web application on Windows Server 2012 in EC2 with SQL Server 2012 in RDS.

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Tags: SQL | Cloud | AWS | ASPX | Amazon
Interested: 5

This class will serve as an introduction to how to design your applications so that they are loosely coupled, and how once you design things properly you will be able to properly unit test your code without relying on your external dependencies.

We will be using Microsoft’s Unity, Moq.

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Tags: Unit Testing | Mocking | ioc
Interested: 8

You already use Design Patterns but probably don't know it. Observer, Adapter, Iterator, Proxy -- Learning the lingo allows you to better communicate your ideas with other developers. We'll take a look at several GoF patterns that we regularly use without realizing it. Don't know who the GoF is? Join us to find out.

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Tag: Design Patterns
Interested: 15

The game has changed. So, how do you manage self-organizing teams? And, what do we do with traditional managers? That’s what this session is all about.  We’ll cover a little management theory on motivation and maintaining a positive, healthy work environment and I’ll show you how to put it to work.

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Tags: team | self-organization | Scrum Master | motivation | Management | leadership | coaching
Interested: 3

Let's write some CODE. Often at conferences all we do is talk about code, or listen to other people talk about code - A coding dojo skips the talk (mostly) and we all join together to WRITE CODE. This is a hands on experience and everyone who wants to participate will be able to join in.

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Tags: Scrum | Lean | Kanban | Agile
Interested: 9

Let's write some CODE. Often at conferences all we do is talk about code, or listen to other people talk about code - A coding dojo skips the talk (mostly) and we all join together to WRITE CODE. This is a hands on experience and everyone who wants to participate will be able to join in.

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Tags: Scrum | Lean | Kanban | Agile
Interested: 7

Mob Programming is a development practice where the whole team works on the same thing, at the same time, in the same space, and at the same computer.  Sure. Why Not. We've tried everything else.

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Tags: Scrum | Mob Programming | Lean | Kanban | Agile
Interested: 4

Heard about MongoDB but didn't take the plunge? Wonder how to get started but don't want to read mind numming mounds of text? This session is for you! We'll show how to get started, what to watch for and demo all you need to get started with this popular NoSQL database.

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Tags: NoSQL | Database
Interested: 14

Your customers are your lifeblood; it’s not enough just to satisfy them. You need them sharing their delight with others, sharing opportunities with you, and coming back again and again. This session focuses on leadership techniques for delighting your customers that you can take back and put to use.

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Tags: Scrum | organization change | motivation | managing people | leadership | delighting customers | culture change
Interested: 3

This session discusses embracing the concepts of Scrum at the organizational level to build toward the realization of a truly agile enterprise. An enterprise characterized by new levels of productivity, continuous innovation, a work force with elevated levels of sustained motivation and job satisfaction, and delighted customers on a continuous long term basis.

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Tags: Scrum | organization change | motivation | managing people | leadership | delighting customers | culture change
Interested: 2

With SQL 2012 comes a slew of enhancements on the Programmability side. This session will explore some of those new features such as Analytic Functions, Over Clause (Window Functions), and Date Functions to name just a few. If you want to get a jump on those features you will be seeing in SQL 2012 this is the session for you.

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Tags: SQL Server | SQL 2012 | SQL
Interested: 1

Do we really need estimates? Can we live without them? Will things be better without them? I don't have answers for you, but I'd like to explore the idea of "No Estimates"

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Tags: Scrum | Lean | Kanban | Agile
Interested: 9

In this session we will explore how to use HTML 5 and JavaScript to create applications that can run on and off line allowing your users to have incredible flexibility in how they consume your application.

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Tags: JavaScript | HTML5
Interested: 18

Common design patterns, why they are powerful, different composite refactorings that will move you to (and sometimes away) from patterns and the smells that help you know when to apply them.

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Tags: Software Craftsmanship | Refactoring | Design Patterns
Interested: 5

Our Goal: Clean Code That Works (Ron Jefferies) - and getting there is half the fun. Working with a legacy mess can be frustrating, boring, dangerous, and time-consuming. Let's learn how to make things better.

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Tags: Refactoring | Clean Code
Interested: 16

Our Goal: Clean Code That Works (Ron Jefferies) - and getting there is half the fun. Working with a legacy mess can be frustrating, boring, dangerous, and time-consuming. Let's learn how to make things better.

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Tags: Refactoring | Clean Code
Interested: 15

Are you having difficulty managing your projects? Are you about to enter the uncharted territory of project management? Do you know how to communicate effectively to your customer, teammates, and your management? Come early, sit close....

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Tag: Project Management
Interested: 4

Come learn about Windows Azure Web Sites for all platforms

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Tag: Azure
Interested: 5

Designing a web application that works on all devices can be a dunting task if you don't use the right approach.  Responsive Web Design is the approach that most designers use nowadays to deliver a website that not only looks great but also works great on all devices including mobile devices.

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Tags: RWD | responsive web design | Mobile | media queries | grids | Design | CSS3
Interested: 6

Conitnuing where we left off in part one of this session, we will create a simple one page website.  See the example below for a sneak peak of what we will be builing.

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Tags: RWD | responsive web design | responsive | Mobile | media queries | CSS3
Interested: 8

In this session, you will learn the options available for serialization, formatting and deserialization of objects in .NET, using in order to create SOAP, binary, JSON and XML representations of object state, and how you can customize objects to control what information is serialized and how it is restored.

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Tag: .NET Framework
Interested: 11

You've officially leveled-up in the world of software development with Visual Studio, and you now find yourself working on projects that are infinitely larger and far more complex than anything you've worked on before. Time to beef up your debugging skills!

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Tag: Debugging
Interested: 1

Let the compiler work for you. Generics shift the burden of type-safety from the developer to the compiler. To understand Generics, we'll take a look at some .NET classes from the BCL (such as List), comparing the generic and non-generic versions. Then we'll add Generics to our own methods to add flexibility and type-safety.

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Tag: Generics
Interested: 11

JavaScript, like it or not, has become the most important language on the web. Here are ten tips to help you get groovy with JavaScript.

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Tags: JavaScript | HTML
Interested: 2

When coding using TDD, do you often run into a point when you have to “implement the whole thing”?

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Tags: TDD | Software Craftsmanship
Interested: 4

Come get an overview of the Windows Azure features and hear about my company's migration to Azure and some cool ways we're using it.

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Tags: Cloud | Azure
Interested: 6

This WordPress Workshop level 101 provides How to get started withHosting, Dashboard and Plug-in walk-thru's. Bring your laptop to follow along. A sample website will be built live.

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Tags: workshop | WordPress.org | hands-on
Interested: 5

Learn how to write JavaScript you and your coworkers will be happy to work in later. This is a topic for those who have done a little bit with JavaScript already. We’ll cover things such as null vs undefined, feature testing, design patterns, tricky gotchas of JavaScript and more.

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Tags: JavaScript | HTML5
Interested: 18