Upcoming speaking dates

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Now hat the holidays are over (minus the SuperBowl of course), it's time to get back into the swing of things and line up those speaking dates.  I've snagged a spots in Little Rock, AR and Huntsville, AL and hope to announce Dayton/Cincinnati shortly.  I really enjoy these one-day style conferences; you get to meet other speakers who (obviously) aren't in it for the money and the audience is filled with real developers - not managers lucky enough to have the company pay for the trip.

Alabama Code Camp 6.0
Virginia College, Huntsville, Alabama
February 23, 2008

I'll be doing four (!) sessions in Huntsville:

What's new in ASP.NET?
.Net 3.5 is here, and we have a shiny new Visual Studio 2008 bicycle - so what gifts did Santa bring leave for ASP.NET developers?  We'll find out by taking a look at things like the ListView control, play with JavaScript debugging, and see what the ASP.Net Merge Tool does.  We also might sneak a peek in the old man's magic sack and see what gifts are on their way!

Welcome to the Church of Agile
Agile is a hot – there is no denying it.  Odds are your IT department has gone agile or seriously considering it.  New terminology, tools, and rules; it can be overwhelming.  Fortunately, the core idea of Agile is very simple.  This session will take you though the “why” that’s often over looked, and help you learn to “think Agile.”

SOA: Building the Arch
Anyone who has tried to build a Service Oriented Architecture can tell you the dangers are many.  Just defining the meaning of “SOA” can take weeks.  This session will offer guidelines and tips all based on real world developer experience in building and maintaining a Service Oriented Architecture.

DataSets: Code Less, Do More
DataSets are Evil.  They will hog your CPU, steal your RAM, and rob your home.  This is the story surrounding DataSets, but what is fact and what is myth?  In this session we will look at DataSets and the tools that go with them to see how they can save you development time while not crashing the server.

Little Rock Tech Expo 2008 (no website yet)
Little Rock, Arkansas
March 27, 2008

I'll be doing two sessions in Little Rock:

What's new in ASP.NET?
.Net 3.5 is here, and we have a shiny new Visual Studio 2008 bicycle - so what gifts did Santa bring leave for ASP.NET developers?  We'll find out by taking a look at things like the ListView control, play with JavaScript debugging, and see what the ASP.Net Merge Tool does.  We also might sneak a peek in the old man's magic sack and see what gifts are on their way!

WPF - From Zero to XAML
Windows Presentation Foundation is "the most significant technology to come out of Microsoft. Ever." according to Mark Miller.  We've all seen the demos of Visual Studio 2008 with Blend to create breathtaking UIs, but what is under the hood?  Is WPF useful to the average developer cranking out WinForms applications for internal corporate
use?  To answer this question we will take a close look at WPF code - without Design Mode or Blend.  Warning: This is a no Technotainment Zone!

Posted By Mike On Sunday, January 27, 2008
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Michael C. Neel, born 1976 in Houston, TX and now live in Knoxvile, TN. Software developer, currently .Net focused. Board member and President of ETNUG, and organizes CodeStock, East Tennessee's annual developers conference. .Net speaker, a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and ASPInsider. Founder of FuncWorks, LLC and Feel The Func podcast.

Proud father of two amazing girls, Rachel and Hannah.

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