Past Events

This is a presentation on Core Data. Core Data is a powerful object-graph management API, which is bundled for free with Xcode & iOS. Rather than working with a low level C / SQL API, Core Data provides an object oriented framework for handling data.
Presenter: Jason Shapiro

Learn how to keep your builds green and your project healthy using pre-commit compilation and analysis. During this presentation, I'll take you through a real-world example of using pre-commit compilation to virtually eliminate broken builds on a project with a very, very large codebase and hundreds of contributors. In addition, we'll discuss the virtues of pre-commit validations, and some techniques and tools used for implementing them.
Presenter: Alex Ward

Learn how to persist data on an iOS device, using the free graphical object-relational mapping (ORM) framework bundled with Xcode!
Presenter: Jason Shapiro

This presentation focuses on architecture patterns and coding techniques that help provide reliable cloud solutions. While the content for this presentation can be applied to many cloud platforms the examples will be given using Windows Azure.
Presenter: Michael Wood

Post-Poned. TBD.
Presenter: Brian Sletten

Postponed until 3/27/12! “Windows Azure Virtual Network is a very important feature in Windows Azure since it provides a way to extend the existing On-Premises environment into the Cloud, making Windows Azure look as an Extension of the already existing Data Center.
Presenter: Nuno Filipe Godinho

We’re expanding our view of ALM on purpose, because we’ve learned it takes a lot more than just developers to make a successful project. This is where we connect Operations and Development integrating tools to facilitate communication.
Presenter: Tom Helvick

Liferay Portal is more than a development platform, more than a content management system, more than a social network, and more than a set of collaboration tools. It’s an exceptional way to build an enterprise web experience. Register to learn more.
Presenters: Brett Shelton, Brian Imholte

In this talk, we will dive into the Windows Azure Blob Storage service. After we figure out what it is, we'll drill into some interesting features that most developers are not aware of. We'll wrap up by diving into the Valet Key Pattern, how it can be securely implemented, and why it can be so useful to help build distributed applications that are more robust, scalable, and secure.
Presenter: Bill Wilder

Learn about a leading rich internet app framework. Improved rich internet app architecture.
Presenter: Nate Schutta

This session will present how to create and deploy a High Performance Compute Cluster on Azure, and converting HPC applications in media rendering, engineering, finance, weather forecast to scalable compute services on Windows Azure.
Presenter: Wenming Ye

In this talk, we’ll go over how Thomson Reuters reduces boilerplate code and solves very complex problems that affect applications of all sizes.
Presenter: Matt Dimich