Thanks for everyone's support and votes. I have been selected to present two sessions at CodeStock 2012.
Per the CodeStock website:
CodeStock is a two day event for technology and information exchange. Created by the community, for the community — this is not an industry trade show pushing the latest in marketing as technology, but a gathering of working professionals sharing knowledge and experience.
This is always a great conference. I have the added bonus of getting close to the corporate headquarters for Wintellect and visiting company co-founder Jeff Prosise. This year there were quite a few Wintellect employees selected to speak. I'll be there with Mitch Harpur (Come Get a Message at the SPA), Rik Robinson (CSS3: How to Fake It While They Bake It and Touring the jQuery UI Widget Factory), John Garland (Putting the Cloud in Your Pocket: A Guide to Using Windows Azure to Build Cloud-Enabled Windows Phone Apps), and our Technical Director Steve Porter.
I'll be doing two sessions:
MVVM for Modern Application Development
The Model-View-ViewModel pattern was introduced for Windows Presentation Foundation applications (WPF) and later exploded in popularity with the introduction of various frameworks to support development on additional platforms including Silverlight and Windows Phone. The release of KnockoutJS the pattern has extended MVVM to the web and exposed it to the JavaScript stack, while the new Windows 8 Metro platform embraces the same XAML and C#-based technologies that WPF and Silverlight pioneered. In this talk, Jeremy Likness takes a deep dive into the history of the pattern, describes its benefits, and discusses how it relates to modern application development. Is it a bad fit for web applications? Does it belong in the Metro space? Learn the benefits and trade-offs to help decide if this pattern makes sense in your projects moving forward.
Top 10 Developer Features in Windows 8 Metro
Windows 8 presents a new platform for application development called Metro. This platform is specifically focused on the tablet and slate market and provides many advanced features including touch-friendly interfaces and advanced power management features. Metro also introduces a new runtime known as WinRT that exposes some incredible contracts and interfaces that make it easier than ever before to build connected, collaborative, touch-friendly applications. Jeremy Likness shares the top 10 features developers will love about this platform. This is based on my recent article here with live code samples and demos.
It should be a very good conference and I hope you are able to make it. I'm always happy to connect with blog readers and Twitter followers so please don't hesitate to pop over and say "Hello" even if you can't make my sessions. It's tough putting together a schedule for this event because there are so many good talks. If you think you may be going, why not drop a line in the comments or ping me on Twitter? I look forward to seeing some of you there.
