TechEd North America 2012
- Orlando, Florida
- June 11 - 14, 2012
- Speakers at TechEd North America 2012
TechEd is Microsoft's premier technology conference for IT professionals and developers, offering the most comprehensive technical education across Microsoft's current and soon-to-be- released suite of products, solutions, tools, and services. This June we celebrate the 20th annual TechEd North America in Orlando. Experience four days of hands-on training from Microsoft experts.
Live streaming selected content across all 4 days at http://northamerica.msteched.com/
Featured
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AppFabric Caching: How It Works and When You Should Use It- Shy Cohen
- Architecture & Practices
- 300 - Advanced
- AAP314
- Day 4
- June 14, 2012 from 2:45PM to 4:00PM
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Caching is a key technology for improving application performance and scale. It does so by taking the load off your database, and moving frequently used data into a distributed memory storage that resides close to the application components accessing it. This session focuses on Windows Server AppFabric... -
Creating User Experiences: Unlocking the Invisible Cage- Billy Hollis
- Architecture & Practices
- 300 - Advanced
- AAP312
- Day 1
- June 11, 2012 from 1:15PM to 2:30PM
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Despite new and powerful UI technology stacks, most developers are creating applications that look and feel the same as ten years ago, except for pretty colors and gratuitous animations. Like zoo animals when their cage is removed, they pace inside bars that no longer exist. This session is a kick-in-the-pants... -
Scrum Under a Waterfall- Benjamin Day
- Architecture & Practices
- 300 - Advanced
- AAP313
- Day 2
- June 12, 2012 from 10:15AM to 11:30AM
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It would be so easy if everyone at our companies just used Scrum—or at least Agile. No one would lean on the team for dates and deadlines, and everyone would know that change is a good thing. It'd be one great big happy project management family. But let's face it—an all-Agile organization isn't always... -
Making Agile Estimation Work- Stephen Forte, Joel Semeniuk
- Architecture & Practices
- 300 - Advanced
- AAP309
- Day 1
- June 11, 2012 from 3:00PM to 4:15PM
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We’re agile, so we don’t have to estimate and have no deadlines, right? Wrong! This session reviews the problem with estimation in projects today and then provides an overview of the concept of agile estimation and the notion of re-estimation. Learn about user stories, story points, team velocity, how... -
Real World Developer Testing with Visual Studio 2012- Peter Provost, David Starr
- Architecture & Practices
- 400 - Expert
- AAP401
- Day 2
- June 12, 2012 from 1:30PM to 2:45PM
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Here’s a dirty little secret: Non-trivial unit testing is hard. Testing simple method calls and return values is straightforward, but rarely is interesting code so simple! Come get some tips and techniques for how to deal with more complex unit testing situations, like: asynchronous code, threads, abstract... -
Design for Non-Designers- Jennifer Smith
- Architecture & Practices
- 200 - Intermediate
- AAP202
- Day 4
- June 14, 2012 from 4:30PM to 5:45PM
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What makes a design good, and most importantly successful? There are many theories about design; in this session you discover theories that designers have been using over the years to build aesthetically pleasing designs. In this session you are provided a compressed view of the history of good design.... -
Compile and Execute Requirements in Microsoft .NET- David Starr
- Architecture & Practices
- 300 - Advanced
- AAP311
- Day 4
- June 14, 2012 from 2:45PM to 4:00PM
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Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) offer new ways to think about developer testing. These approaches evolve the conversation of Test-Driven Development and bridge the gap between those asking for the software and those delivering it. This session discusses... -
Optimize the Business with Microsoft Datacenter Services 2.0- John Morello
- Architecture & Practices
- 300 - Advanced
- AAP315
- Day 1
- June 11, 2012 from 4:45PM to 6:00PM
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Learn all you need to know about the Microsoft Datacenter Services Solution (DCS) IaaS scenario in a private cloud deployment mode. Find out the new scenarios delivered by the Data Center Services Reference Implementation v2.0, how MCS and Premier can deliver an end-to-end solution including Microsoft... -
Introduction to Kanban- Steven Borg
- Architecture & Practices
- 200 - Intermediate
- AAP204
- Day 4
- June 14, 2012 from 1:00PM to 2:15PM
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Kanban is the most talked about and implemented new approach to process improvement in software development, IT work, and DevOps. Taken from Lean Product Development, the Toyota Way and even some ideas from Lean Manufacturing, Kanban is helping companies make continuous, incremental improvements to their... -
Modern Application Design: Cloud Patterns for Application Architects- Ulrich Homann
- Architecture & Practices
- 300 - Advanced
- AAP305
- Day 3
- June 13, 2012 from 3:15PM to 4:30PM
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How does one build a “modern” application? In this session, learn about the key design patterns ranging from adaptive and insight-driven applications to 'Social'-enabled and aware application design, to Big Data: why HPC is coming to you…Architecture patterns and practices ranging from Enterprise Architecture...
