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Talks at aspconf 2012

  • 4.6

    Chander Dhall 28 Recommendations

    July 17, 2012 5:00 AM

    In this talk Chander Dhall will go over his consulting experiences on search. Code examples will be on asp.net Mvc4, Lucene and Visual Studio 11. Yes, search is important and a big part of user experience. Given the informational diversity and the particular situational context, we as devel…

  • 4.8

    Robert Boedigheimer 30 Recommendations

    July 17, 2012 5:00 AM

    Learn the "black art" of cryptography, including public/private and symmetric encryption, hashing, digital signatures, and a dash of salt. Review the basics of cryptography and what techniques are appropriate for various situations. Discover practical techniques for securing content receiv…

  • 4.9

    Eric Sowell 114 Recommendations

    July 17, 2012 5:00 AM

    Are you new to ASP.NET MVC? This session is for you. We will go over the core concepts of the framework so you will have a good foundation, whether you want to start making websites with ASP.NET MVC, want to better understand the other sessions of aspconf that use the framework, or both. I w…

  • 4.9

    July 17, 2012 5:00 AM

    Inspired by one of the Windows Azure gods (Wade Wegner), Maarten decided to order a homebrewing starter kit. Being a total cloud fanboy, he decided to hook those delicious creations to the cloud. Join Maarten and discover how you can connect a USB temperature sensors to Windows Azure to moni…

  • 5.0

    Igor Moochnick 6 Recommendations

    July 17, 2012 5:00 AM

    Cloud platforms are becoming widely available and it's important to understand why, when and how to use them. Especially the services and components they provide. Different clouds from different cloud providers differ by components, services and APIs but, nevertheless, they use exactly the s…

  • 5.0

    panesofglass 5 Recommendations

    July 17, 2012 6:30 AM

    Web API offers a highly testable, highly functional approach to building composable web applications. This talk will look at how you can build up web APIs without worrying about hosting concerns by using in-memory models. We'll also look at how to create truly re-usable components in a funct…

  • 4.5

    chris love 18 Recommendations

    July 17, 2012 6:30 AM

    As web technologies rapidly evolve and the mobile touch first world becomes the predomninant way we interact with applications the way we architect web applications is changing. Competition from the native application world combined with HTML5 and maturing AJAX functionality is paving the wa…

  • 4.7

    Shawn Wildermuth 23 Recommendations

    July 17, 2012 6:30 AM

    Instead of creating separate sites for the different sized mobile experiences, you should be creating sites that adapt to the screen they're shown on. In this talk, Shawn Wildermuth will show you the basics of making CSS work for you with responsive design techniques.

  • 4.1

    Chander Dhall 28 Recommendations

    July 17, 2012 6:30 AM

    People have mixed views about javascript but it is one language that cannot be ignored. Come and see Chander Dhall in action. In this code-intensive talk you will learn how to use javascript to make your applications better. This talk takes you from beginner to advanced level in javascript. …

  • 5.0

    Brad Wilson 34 Recommendations Damian Edwards 13 Recommendations Levi Broderick 11 Recommendations

    July 17, 2012 6:30 AM

    Async is here and it’s awesome, but how do you leverage for maximum affect in a server environment? When should you use async and what shouldn’t you do to avoid headaches? Hear from the ASP.NET team about async support in ASP.NET, the features, the pitfalls and most importantly the use cases…

  • 4.6

    July 17, 2012 8:00 AM

    The MVC pattern is inherently testable and, in turn, ASP.NET MVC is a very testable framework but you still have to conform to specific patterns and best practices to successfully create a truly “testable” ASP.NET MVC application. In this talk Keith will discuss how the ASP.NET MVC lends it…

  • 5.0

    David Giard 12 Recommendations

    July 17, 2012 8:00 AM

    The next version of tools for the web will include more semantic markup, powerful APIs for JavaScript , and better native styling. In this presentation, I will show the important features of HTML5 and CSS3 and how you can use them today in your web applications. I will demonstrate code that …

  • 5.0

    Scott Hunter 2 Recommendations

    July 17, 2012 8:00 AM

    Scott Hunter and team talk about where ASP.NET and Visual Studio are going next.

  • 4.5

    Mohit Srivastava 2 Recommendations

    July 17, 2012 10:30 AM

    Learn how to solve some tricky problems with the Azure SDK, including shared caches, config patterns, Lifecycle management with (e.g. managing multiple environments, using command line, etc.) for both Azure Web Sites and Azure Cloud Services, and troubleshooting.

  • 4.8

    Shawn Wildermuth 23 Recommendations

    July 17, 2012 11:00 AM

    In this talk, Shawn will walk the attendees through the new way that web applications are being built today using the latest in client-side development the best practices of how to carry that out with ASP.NET MVC.

  • 4.8

    DavidVujic 5 Recommendations

    July 17, 2012 11:00 AM

    What is a Unit Test and how do I write one? What does Test Driven actually mean? And what about when developing in a code base with endless lines of untested code, where do I start the test driving? This session will be focused on keeping it simple and that you will be ready to start Unit Te…

  • 5.0

    Matt Honeycutt 6 Recommendations

    July 17, 2012 11:00 AM

    Everyone knows that one of the major benefits of ASP.NET MVC over WebForms is improved testability, namely easier unit testing. But did you know that the MVC framework also makes it far easier to create strongly-typed, refactor-friendly integration tests for your application? It’s true! A…

  • 4.7

    July 17, 2012 11:00 AM

    Now day’s people expect a rich interactive experience when interacting with your website. In order to deliver this experience a developer needs to arm themselves with the correct tools and in the past this meant picking and choosing from available tooling that may not have been designed to …

  • David Giard 12 Recommendations

    July 17, 2012 11:00 AM

    Azure Storage allows you to store data in the cloud in a way that is durable, scalable, and highly-available. Azure Storage provides queues, blobs, and tables in which to store data. In this session, you will learn about each of these storage mechanisms and how to access them from your .NET …

  • 4.0

    David Giard 12 Recommendations

    July 17, 2012 11:00 AM

    Azure Storage allows you to store data in the cloud in a way that is durable, scalable, and highly-available. Azure Storage provides queues, blobs, and tables in which to store data. In this session, you will learn about each of these storage mechanisms and how to access them from your .NET …

  • 5.0

    Howard Dierking 3 Recommendations

    July 17, 2012 12:30 PM

    Visual Studio 2012 will introduce optimization features for all ASP.NET project types. Howard Dierking shows you how to drastically shrink your response size as well as increase page download speed and site performance.

  • 5.0

    Elijah Manor 68 Recommendations

    July 17, 2012 12:30 PM

    jQuery is so easy to use and thankfully abstracts many of the cross-browser concerns we used to labor over years ago. However, as with any library there are a common set of bugs that tend to crop up the more you use it. This session aims to help equip developers with the appropriate knowledg…

  • 4.4

    John Petersen 29 Recommendations

    July 17, 2012 12:30 PM

    What is REST? and a RESTful API? How does the ASP.NET Web API fit in? How does the ASP.NET Web API work? How can it be consumed by clients such as ASP.NET MVC, Win8/Metro, etc.? In this session, John discusses how to get up and running with the ASP.NEt Web API thorugh practical examples. The…

  • Phil Haack 32 Recommendations

    July 17, 2012 12:30 PM

    This is an overview of the tools and techniques used by the NuGet team to build the NuGet Gallery, a real-world web application that hosts over 6000 packages with 15 million package downloads. Learn about how the team leveraged the built in features as well as when they decided to build their own.

  • 4.7

    David Neal 6 Recommendations

    July 17, 2012 12:30 PM

    The use of non-relational databases has been gaining momentum, and can be a great solution in some scenarios. RavenDB is the foremost document database for .NET, and offers support for JSON, LINQ, a REST-ful API, automatic indexing, transactions, horizontal scalability, and many more feature…