I recently had the privilege of speaking at Visual Studio Live! in New York. If you attended my sessions and would like an updated copy of the material used, you can find the presentations below.
Category: Speaking
Speaking at Visual Studio Live! New York
I’ll be speaking at Visual Studio Live!, September 28-October 1 in New York. Surrounded by your fellow industry professionals, Visual Studio Live! provides you with immediately usable training and education that will keep you relevant in the workforce.
I’ll be presenting the following sessions:
· Automating Your Azure Environment
· Inside the Azure Resource Manager
SPECIAL OFFER: As a speaker, I can extend $400 savings on the 4-day package. Register here: http://bit.ly/NYSPK07Reg
Amplify your knowledge at Visual Studio Live! New York — bring the issues that keep you up at night and prepare to leave this event with the answers, guidance and training you need. Register now: http://bit.ly/NYSPK07Reg
Speaking at VS Live! Las Vegas
I’ll be speaking at Visual Studio Live!, March 16-20 in Las Vegas. Surrounded by your fellow industry professionals, Visual Studio Live! provides you with immediately usable training and education that will keep you relevant in the workforce.
I’ll be presenting the following sessions:
SPECIAL OFFER: As a speaker, I can extend $500 savings on the 5-day package. Register here: http://bit.ly/LVSPK09_Reg
Make sure to sure to use the code ‘LVSPK09’ to get the discount!
Amplify your knowledge at Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas — bring the issues that keep you up at night and prepare to leave this event with the answers, guidance and training you need. Register now: http://bit.ly/LVSPK09_Reg
DevLink 2014 Presentations
Last week I had the privilege to speak at DevLink in Chattanooga, TN. I had a great time! It was fun to present. I was also was able to attend some great sessions. DevLink is always a top notch event to attend.
I had a full load of presentations – four in three days! Overall I think the sessions came together very well. If you attended any of my sessions, I would greatly appreciate any feedback. You can find a copy of all my presentations below and on SlideShare.net
- Programming Azure Active Directory
- Inside Azure Diagnostics
- Automating Your Azure Environment
- More Cache for Less Cash
CloudDevelop Call for Speakers
I’m one of the founders/organizers for a cloud computing conference called CloudDevelop. This year (on October 17th) will mark the third year for CloudDevelop. The goal for CloudDevelop is to bring together the best cloud computing minds in the Midwest to share experiences and learn from each other.
CloudDevelop is not about Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Heroku, Salesforce, AppHarbor, VMWare or any other cloud platform/provider. It is about all of them! CloudDevelop is about bringing together experts from all the cloud platforms. Innovation in the cloud happens at a rapid pace. There’s so much to share and learn from each other!
If sharing your experiences with others is something that excites you, then I would encourage you to submit a session (or a few) to be a speaker at CloudDevelop. We’re looking for topics in the following areas:
- Architecture
- Business
- DevOps
- General Development
- Infrastructure
- Legal
- Strategy
- Testing
- Have another idea . . . that’s cool too
The call for speakers closes on Friday, June 27th. To submit, go to www.CloudDevelop.org and click on the “Submit Your Talks” button (or go to the submission form directly).
Oh, and be sure to follow CloudDevelop on Twitter, Facebook, or subscribe to the CloudDevelop newsletter to keep current on the latest CloudDevelop news.
Inside Azure Diagnostics – Pittsburgh Tech Fest (June 2014)
Today I had the pleasure to present at Pittsburgh Tech Fest. I presented a new session on how to best utilize Azure diagnostics with Cloud Services (web/worker roles). This was my second time presenting at Pittsburgh Tech Fest, and again it was a great time!
I had several people ask for my presentation. Cool – no problem. You can get my slides from my SlideShare.net account.
BONUS: If you want to know more about Azure diagnostics, please be sure to check out my new series at JustAzure.com.
CodeMash 2014
Last Friday wrapped up the 8th CodeMash conference. CodeMash is probably . . . no, it is . . . my favorite conference to attend each year. CodeMash is packed with the most passionate technologists I know. Many attendees are from the MidWest, but an increasing amount are from all over the U.S. and even the world! CodeMash is a great way to re-energize and kick off a new year.
I was fortunate this year to again be a speaker at CodeMash. I gave two presentations – “More Cache with Less Cash” and “Windows Azure Mobile Services – The Perfect Partner”. I would like to thank everyone that attended the sessions. I know I had a good time, and I hope you did as well – and hopefully learned a few things along the way. A few people have asked for my slides. You can find slides for both sessions below.
What’s New with Windows Azure? Lots!! (July 2013)
Earlier this month I had the pleasure to present for the first time at the Pittsburgh .NET User Group. The timing worked out great as Microsoft’s spring/summer conferences were wrapping up – TechEd North America, TechEd Europe, BUILD, and Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC). There were a lot of exciting new Windows Azure features announced during this conferences.
My presentation was titled “What’s New with Windows Azure? Lots!!”. This was mostly a recap presentation – covering as many of the new Windows Azure updates as I could cram into about 90 minutes.
Speaking at the Pittsburgh .NET User Group was a lot of fun! They have an excellent group and I hope to come back again.
Windows AzureConf – Spring 2013
The first Windows AzureConf was held on November 14th, 2012 and was streamed LIVE from Microsoft’s Channel 9 studios in Redmond, WA. I was honored to be a speaker for this amazing event. If you missed anything, you can catch all the sessions on-demand at http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/WindowsAzure/AzureConf2012.
Windows AzureConf returned bigger and better than ever on Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013 The event was again streamed LIVE from Channel9, and complemented by several recorded full-length and “bonus” sessions. I was honored to be selected again as a speaker for AzureConf. My presentation was entitled “Taking Control of Your Windows Azure Services” and focused on how to use the Windows Azure Service Management API to have more control and options when working with nearly all aspects of Windows Azure.
During this session I demonstrated several pretty cool features of Windows Azure:
- Windows Azure Service Management API – authentication, sync and async requests, GET and POST operations, etc.
- Azure Fluent Management – a really cool library by Windows Azure MVPs Richard Conway and Andy Cross to make working with the Service Management API a lot easier.
- WASABi – the Windows Azure Autoscaling Application Block (“WASABi”) to allow us to automatically scale Cloud Services using a variety of flexible and configurable rules.
As part of my demo showing how to use the Windows Azure Service Management API, I put together a quick Windows Store application. For me this served two purposes – get more experience with Windows Store apps (if you’ve seen the app you know I need as much as I can get . . . yikes) and to have useful way to show some of what you can do with the Windows Azure Service Management API. I’d like to extend a big thanks to Samidip Basu for his help in putting the Windows Store app together – he helped make some pretty gnarly code I had work a lot better.
Windows Azure evangelists Brady Gaster, Cory Fowler, and Chris Risner deserve a huge “THANK YOU” for helping to organize AzureConf again. Amazing job, guys!!
If you missed any of the Windows AzureConf sessions, be sure to check out http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/windowsazure/Windows-AzureConf-2013 to watch, or download, them all.
Global Windows Azure Boot Camp
The global Windows Azure community is coming together on Saturday, April 27th for what I think will be a truly unique and exciting event. Windows Azure MVPs and community leaders worldwide are hosting a one day Windows Azure boot camp all on the same day! There are nearly 100 boot camps being held on this day. Check out the map below to view where all the boot camps are being held. Very impressive!!
I’m very happy to be helping lead the Global Windows Azure Boot Camp event in Columbus, OH. I’ll be joined by Brian Prince and Brian Sherwin. This one day deep dive class will get you up to speed on developing solutions using the Windows Azure platform. This is free to attend, and we’ll have plenty of food and drink to keep you powered throughout the day.
Awesome! How do I learn more and register?
- When: Saturday, April 27th from 8am – 5pm
- Where: Microsoft’s Columbus office (8800 Lyra Dr., Suite 400, Columbus, OH 43240)
- RSVP: Please visit https://wabc-columbus.eventday.com/ to learn more, see the schedule, understand the prerequisites and register for this unique and fun event!
This is so cool! How can I get a boot camp near me?
To learn more about the Global Windows Azure Boot Camp, and to find a location near you, please visit http://globalwindowsazure.azurewebsites.net/.
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