Check out the Secure Development Lifecycle Whitepaper
here . Written by the same guys who wrote the excellent "Writing Secure Code" book.
Ernst wanted to know who is presenting at Devdays. Essentially we are merging 3 events that are happening elsewhere around the world (different speakers for each of these events)
We are doing the ASP.NET tour - See http://www.microsoft.com/emea/msdn/aspontour/default.aspx. Dave Webster will be doing a few sessions. You can find his details on this same website in the speaker section. .You will see Scott Guthrie did other cities -- sorry but he is not coming -- but I am doing one session :-)
We are delivering a C#/Winforms tour. I cannot find a general URL for this but Keith Yedlin (Product Unit Manager from Windows Forms Team) and Raj Pai (Group Progran Manager - C#, http://blogs.msdn.com/rajpai) will be coming.
We are doing the VSTS Tour -- Some links from http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron/archive/2005/03/15/395688.aspx. Hans Verbeeck (Developer Specialist from EMEA) and Erik Gunvaldson (from Redmond) will be doing this. Not sure if Erik will do Durban
A comment was made that due to the pricing of Visual Studio Team System there might not be the need for the VSTS track? What is everyone else's view on this. Please do not point me to another person's blog. I have seen the majority of the popular one's. I am interested in your own calculations on the viability of VSTS and why it makes sense or not make sense.
You can certainly do the calculations on VSTS pricing in different ways that could make things look expensive or very viable. I will leave those calculations out and wait to hear from you guys!
There might be a couple of these and decided to blod rather than just make a comment. The first comment I wanted to address was the hope that Devdays does not become a glorified marketing exercise.
This is a really tough one as what counts as marketing and what does not. If I show some neat new feature that is surely marketing but it is also an educational exercise. So in cases like this where Devdays is clearly focussing on a new product just about everything had some hint of marketing - or does it?
What are your opinions for an event that focusses on new technology? What kind of sessions should we or should we not run? What are your expectations?
Devdays 2005 will be broken down into 3 tracks:
Web Development with ASP.NET. Sessions delivered by Developer Consultant from Europe and local speakers
Sessions include
Ø Introduction to ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 Part 1 (of 2)
Ø Introduction to ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 Part 2 (of 2)
Ø Visual Studio Team System 2005 for Web Development
Ø Moving from ASP.NET 1.1 to ASP.NET 2.0
Ø Securing your ASP.NET applications
Visual Studio Team System Track. Sessions delivered from a Product Member from the Visual Studio Team Group in Redmond and a European Technical Specialist
Sessions include
Ø Managing the Software Lifecycle
Ø Software Project Management
Ø Tools for Architecture: Designing for Deployment
Ø Visual Studio 2005: Enterprise Development and Testing Tools
Ø Visual Studio 2005: Enterprise Class Source Control and Work Item Tracking
C#/Windows Forms Track. Sessions delivered directly from the Microsoft Product Group Members from Redmond
Sessions include
Ø Visual C# 2005: Language Enhancements in C# 2.0
Ø Visual C# 2005: IDE Enhancements for the C# Developer
Ø Windows Forms in Visual Studio 2005: An Overview
Ø Windows Forms: An In-depth Look at Windows Forms in Visual Studio 2005
What do you think?
Currently scheduled for
- May 17 - Cape Town
- May 19 - Johannesburg
- May 24- Durban
We have 5 (yes 5) international speakers with 3 tracks (Visual Studio Team System, ASP.NET V2 and a C#/WinForms track). Registrations not yet open but mark those dates
Another SQL Server 2005 CTP. Check out
Tom Rizzo's blog. Of particular note is that the first build where you can preview the ad-hoc end user query reporting tool.
Feb and Mar have been crazy in terms of the number of events we have put on. Next week we have 3 Regional Directors (these guys do not work for Microsoft) coming out to deliver some VS05 training. This training is meant for early adopters especially in our ISV (Independant Software Vendor) market. I know Ruari, Rudolf and Stuart are attending so may they can blog a bit too on the event. It has been "interesting" organazing it and I hope all goes well.
One of the RDs Jorge will also be delivering a user group session on Wed. Check http://dotnet.org.za/kevint/archive/2005/03/02/14950.aspx for more info