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June 7, 2012 conference telerik

June, 2012, Florida: Best TechEd Ever!

This month in Florida is going to be my 2nd TechEd ever and I’m sure the best by far. The number of things I get to do is staggering:

  • I get to work the Telerik booth for my first big show. We’ll be launching not one but two completely new Telerik products. Fun!
  • Since the Telerik Ultimate Collection has been nominated for the Best of TechEd, I get to give a dead-run 15-minute demo to the judges with fellow Teleriker Michael Crump.
  • Also with Michael, I’ll be giving the 30-minute Telerik + Blend: Better Together” talk in the Microsoft Visual Studio booth showing off how 3rd party controls work inside the newest Blend for building Metro style apps on Windows 8.
  • The first chapter of the Metro/JS book I’m writing with another fellow Teleriker Brandon Statrom is being printed and bound in a limited quantity for the show. Stop by and get your signed copy!
  • I get to be one of the Speaker Idol judges every day at lunch.
  • I’m sure there’s at least one podcast recording in there, too, somewhere…
October 25, 2010 conference

Data at PDC 2010

There are lots of great data talks at PDC 2010, all of which are available for online viewing:

  • Code First Development with Entity Framework
    Jeff Derstadt, Tim Laverty
    Thursday, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM (GMT-7)
  • Creating Custom OData Services: Inside Some of The Top OData Services
    Pablo Castro
    Thursday, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM (GMT-7)
  • Enabling New Scenarios and Applications with Data in the Cloud
    Dave Campbell
    Thursday, 4:30 PM-5:30 PM (GMT-7)
  • Building Scale-Out Database Solutions on SQL Azure
    Lev Novik
    Friday, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM (GMT-7)
  • Building Offline Applications using the Sync Framework and SQL Azure
    Nina Hu
    On Demand
April 18, 2009 conference

DSL Developer’s Conference

DSL Developer’s Conference

DSL Developers Conference
applied topics in domain specific languages

April 16-17, 2009, Microsoft Campus, Redmond, WA

March 30, 2009 conference

DSL DevCon: More Attendees Than Ever

This year’s DevCon for DSLs has 25% more attendees than any other previous DevCon. In this economy, I’m amazed by this.

And it’s not just people from the US or even the Pacific Northwest. Not only do we have people from all over the country, but folks are coming from Canada, the UK, Scotland, France, South America and one attendee, Tomas Petricek, a student at Charles University, is coming from the Czech Republic.

March 5, 2009 conference

Did you register for the DSL DevCon and not hear back?

Apparently even more people have registered for the DSL DevCon than I thought. If you’ve sent a registration notice and having heard back from me, then you aren’t registered. Please register again or email me directly: csells@microsoft.com.

March 2, 2009 conference

DSL DevCon: The 13th Talk

Magnus Christerson, the Vice President of Product Management from Intentional Software Corp, founded by Charles Simonyi, is giving the very last talk at the DSL DevCon, so make sure to stick around!

Also, seats are filling up FAST, faster than any of the other DevCons. Make sure to register now if you’re coming! And don’t forget, it’s free!

February 23, 2009 conference

DSL DevCon Speakers and Sessions Announced!

Apparently there is quite a bit of pent up demand for this conference, as there were more than 50 session proposals for only 12 slots and we’ve already filled half the seats with just pre-registrations.

Sessions include an M deep dive by Paul Vick, DSLs in Groovy by Guillaume Laforge, DSLs in Eclipse by Markus Voelter, a functional vs. dynamic DSLs smackdown by Ted Neward, a DSL for Pixel Effects from Adobe and last, but certainly not least, giving the keynote for the entire conference, the undisputed Duke of DSLs himself, Maaaaaartin Foooooowler-er-er-er!

January 15, 2009 conference

DSL DevCon Pre-registration

There’s been such a flood of DSL DevCon talk proposals that I’ve had a hard time keeping up (although feel free to let those nice folks in Eclipse, XML, Java and Unix land if you know who they are!).

Also, there’s been a huge amount of interest in attending the conference itself and some folks even worry that the conference will sell out before they can register (the first five DevCons have all sold out and those cost money!), so they’ve been asking me to put em on a list. I’m still working out the logistics with the nice Lang.NET folks, but if you’d like to pre-register for the DSL DevCon, drop me a line and I’ll put you on the list. It will be my job to make sure that anyone that pre-registers gets to go.

January 7, 2009 conference

Call For Speakers: DSL DevCon

Are you interested in presenting a 45-minute talk on some Domain Specific Language (DSL) related topic? It doesn’t matter which platform or OS you’re targeting. It also doesn’t matter whether you’re an author, a vendor, a professional speaker or a developer in the trenches (in fact, I tend to be biased toward the latter). We’re after interesting and unique applications of DSL technology and if you’re doing good work in that area, then I need you to send me a session topic and 2-4 sentence abstract along with a little bit about yourself.

I’ll be taking submissions til February 9th, 2009, but don’t delay. Passion and a burning story to tell count twice as much as anything else.

December 18, 2008 conference

Lang.NET + DSL DevCon = Joy

This year, we’re thinking very hard about putting the Lang.NET conference and the DSL DevCon at the same venue (the research center on the Microsoft Redmond campus) in the same week. The idea is that people interested in general-purpose language design and development can come to Lang.NET and the people interested in domain-specific languages can come to the DSL DevCon and for folks interested in both, the DSL DevCon will start right after Lang.NET, so folks can stay a little longer and come to both. Also, the conference chairs on both conferences will make sure to keep the content unique across the two conferences.

 

November 6, 2008 conference

The DSL DevCon

I’m thinking it’s time for another DevCon. I know it’s been a while since the last one (in fact, I hear there was some kind of petition to have another one? : ), so we’re long past due.

This one will be on all things data-driven, model-based and/or DSL enhanced. I’m thinking March or April of 2009.  Who’s interested?

June 13, 2006 conference

Would anyone be interested in another DevCon?

I’m thinking about doing a DevCon before the end of the year (likely October) in a pleasant environment (likely the Skamania Lodge) on a topic that’s *not* XML or Web Services based (we’ve done that topic to death). The soul of the DevCon will remain the same, i.e. to cut away all the unessential conference baggage and concentrate on why we’re spending time at a conference in the first place — the talks by industry experts and experienced practitioners.

If I organized such an event, would anyone come?

August 26, 2005 conference

No DevCon This Year

Please return to your regularly scheduled programming.

P.S. I imagine the DevCon come back in time, but it may well be a while…

October 23, 2004 conference

Sells on the SellsCon

125 attendees and speakers from 6 countries (US, Canada, England, Malaysia, Netherlands and Peru), 21 states and 60 companies, ranging from vendors to expert practitioners and even a few poor souls trying to learn XML. 24 hours of talks and events spread over two days. 44 bloggers and 247 blog entries about the event itself (not including warm-up to the event or my own blog entries), nearly all of which were over-whelmingly positive, including one eWeek piece and one entry from Tim Bray of Sun Microsystems that called me a charming, welcoming, amusing guy.” (I didn’t pay him a cent, I swear! : )

 

October 23, 2004 conference

DevCon == 44 bloggers and 247 posts (so far)!

Here. Holy cow! I knew people liked the DevCon, but I’ve never seen a blogging response like this
October 21, 2004 conference

Applied XML Dev.Conf. 5 Web Sightings

Here. I got so tons of positive feedback during the DevCon
October 19, 2004 conference

DevCon5 is Sold Out… Again

At 4:13:02pm, the Applied XML Developer’s Conference has sold out (again). Eric Hayes, the VP of Development from You Software, Inc. was the last lucky attendee. Welcome, Eric!

Wahoo!

October 18, 2004 conference

Coming into the final DevCon5 curve

As is always the case, tons of things are coming together at the last moment for the 5th DevCon:

  • Received Tim Ewald’s flight arrangements so that I can pick him up on the way to the conference
  • Don XML is going to make sure that Tim Bray gets to the Portland Nerd Dinner and to the conference in time for his keynote address
  • T-shirts on their way
  • Proceedings printed and in my garage
  • Maps printed so that I can find my way (haven’t been there in years and years)
  • Brothers Sells excited about the extra days off from school so that they can hang at the Skamania Lodge (although I’m pretty sure they’re expecting to be able to play their Gameboys the entire time : )
  • Microphones, podium, projector and project screens arranged for speakers
  • Wireless Internet access and power arranged for attendees (and speakers)
  • All but a handful of seats filled in our expanded space (8 seats left)
  • Rory giving away a free conference registration on his site
October 17, 2004 conference

Tim Bray Prepares For His DevCon Talk

Tim wonders whether he should let the softies attending and speaking at the Applied XML Developer’s Conference have it or not. I say, give us both barrels, Tim!

October 15, 2004 conference

Don at the DevCon on “WS-Why?”

Here.

Don sent his new talk abstract my way this morning:

October 14, 2004 conference

Rory Giving Away One Seat at the XML Dev.Conf.

Rory is giving away one seat to the Applied XML Developer’s Conference. He’s asking three questions before Friday and drawing from anyone that can answer all three. Question 1 and question 2 have already been posted.

There are still a hand full of seats left if you’re like to purchase one.

October 13, 2004 conference

DevCon5 Anticipation Reception for All

Here. If you’re going to be checking into the Skamania Lodge for the DevCon by 7pm on Tuesday, 10/19, please join us for the Anticipation Reception for all attendees and speakers. If you decide to hang with the Portland Nerd Dinner
October 12, 2004 conference

Don changes his talk at the DevCon

Here.

Don got a last minute bug to write on a completely different topic. I just got the slides this morning and they’re different than anything I’ve ever seen from Don (which is saying a lot). The new title of the talk is ws-islands” and while I have no abstract as yet, I’m still very much looking forward to the talk for the psychedelic effects of the slides alone (I asked him to be careful not to cause seizures in the audience).

October 5, 2004 conference

From Chris Sells to Sam Ruby

I can’t get Sam to reply to my emails, so I’m hoping he’ll see this post: Sam, can I get the status of your DevCon slides? They were due Monday. Thank you.
October 4, 2004 conference

XML Developer’s Conference Hotel Rooms Releasing

Here. If you haven’t made your hotel reservation for the Applied XML Developer’s Conference
September 20, 2004 conference

DevCon Sold Out; Added A Little Extra Space

Here.

After only 5 weeks of registrations, the Applied XML Developer’s Conference has sold out. With 4 weeks of registrations left to go, we’ve gone back to the venue for extra space. It’s not much extra space, though, so if you want a seat, you should register expeditiously.

September 7, 2004 conference

New XML Dev.Conf. Talk: XML in .NET 2.0

Here. Neetu Rajpal, a PM
August 20, 2004 conference

Wow. DevCon Already More Than Half Full

Here. This is the 5th DevCon that I’ve thrown and I’ve never
August 16, 2004 conference

After Weekend, XML Dev.Conf. 1/3rd Full

Here. Whoa. I guess there was some pent up demand for the Applied XML Dev.Conf.
August 13, 2004 conference

Register Now: Applied XML Dev.Conf. 10/20-21

Here.

Every year it gets harder to pick speakers for the DevCon. This year, I had 4x the number of submissions for which I had available slots. So, while it’s hard for me to pick, it makes for a fabulous line up for attendees:

June 22, 2004 conference

Time Running Out; Submit XML Dev.Conf. Abstracts!

If you haven’t yet submitted your abstract to the Applied XML Developer’s Conferences, don’t wait much longer; I’m only accepting submissions til the end of June, 2004.

I’ve already gotten a ton of abstracts, including submissions from folks like Sam Rub, Tim Bray, Tim Ewald and Don Box, but that doesn’t mean that your talk won’t bubble up to the top; as much as I like to have the polished speakers, I like even more to have the folks from the trenches.

June 7, 2004 conference

The Magic of the DevCon: The Attendees

Here.

I was recently asked to characterize the attendees of a typical DevCon and this is what I said:

June 5, 2004 conference

The Magic of the DevCon: Picking the Topic

Don suggested that I change the topic of DevCon5 to XAML or some other topic. So far, the DevCons have run the course of topics from ATL to Web Services and then to Applied XML/Web Services.

My primary concern when throwing a DevCon is that there is a sufficient user base of the technology that it’s more than a vendor show. Even the original ATL DevCon only had a few MS employees and one MS talk. The rest of it were practitioners and experts from outside the big house and that makes for a better conference, imo.

June 4, 2004 conference

Call For Speakers: Applied XML Dev.Conf. 5

Are you interested in presenting a 45-minute talk on some applied XML or Web Services topic? It doesn’t matter which platform or OS you’re targeting. It also doesn’t matter whether you’re an author or vendor or professional speaker or a developer in the trenches (in fact, I tend to be biased towards the latter). We’re after interesting and unique applications of XML and Web Services technology and if you’re doing good work in that area, then I need you to send me a session topic and 2-4 sentence abstract along with a little bit about yourself.

I’ll be taking submissions til the end of June, but don’t delay. Passion and a burning story to tell count twice as much as anything else.

October 17, 2003 conference

Aaron at the Applied XML Dev.Conf. part 2

Here.
October 15, 2003 conference

Part 1 of Aaron’s Applied XML Dev.Conf. talk

Here.
September 3, 2003 conference

Don on SOA from the Applied XML Dev.Conf., part 2

Here. Either I was way behind on part 1, or I’m way ahead on part 2, but here it is. Enjoy.
September 3, 2003 conference

Don on SOA from the Applied XML Dev.Conf., part 1

Here. Part 1 of Don’s day #2 keynote from the Applied XML
July 13, 2003 conference

Another Dev.Conf. Come and Gone

Here. If you didn’t get to come to the Applied XML
July 11, 2003 conference

Scott Hanselman + Applied XML Dev.Conf.

Here.
July 11, 2003 conference

Patrick Cauldwell, a speaker, blogs the Dev.Conf.

Here.
July 11, 2003 conference

Steve Maine blogs the Applied XML Dev.Conf.

Here.
July 11, 2003 conference

Applied XML DevCon Trip Report

Dave Winer’s Keynote:

  • Users care about you software working, not *how* it works
  • Users don’t want to be controlled
  • As developers, we’re very impressed with the complexity that we can understand”

Don Box:

  • No one that gets laid actually replaces the CPU in their computers anymore. And, since they don’t get laid, they can’t reproduce and natural selection will take it’s toll. Likewise, objects are not meant for field replacement.”
  • Building on abstractions means that the abstraction needs to be kept constant
  • the wire is god. schemas are relative to your needs. the same XML instance doc can be many different schemas in a pipeline
  • I missed why the abstractions in a service-oriented architecture are somehow better than those in an object-oriented architecture, except that maybe SOA abstractions are courser grained, but that can be true of OOA, too, can’t it?

Brian Jepson:

  • WAP is just another XML format to product that exposes your data to WAP-enabled devices, e.g. phones
  • Very cool to watch Brian control his presentation via his cell phone (nothing to do with XML, but very cool never the less). He was using a Mac and didn’t know if a niche OS like Windows had apps that did such things (although he did find this that might work)
July 10, 2003 conference

Steve Loughran blogs the Dev.Conf.

Here.
July 10, 2003 conference

Rory Blyth is blogging the Dev.Conf., too

Here. Rory Blyth seems to be keeping track of who he’s eating with and who he meets in the rest room, so clearly, a must read. : )
July 10, 2003 conference

Don “XML” Blogging Applied XML Dev.Conf.

Here. Don’s blogging the Applied XML
July 9, 2003 conference

Posting This from the Applied XML Dev.Conf.

Here. I’m posting this using the wireless access from the room where the Applied XML
July 3, 2003 conference

RSS vs. Echo at Applied XML Dev.Conf.

Here. With Dave Winer on the side of RSS
June 30, 2003 conference

Applied XML Dev.Conf. Talks Coming In

Here. Today is the deadline for the Applied XML
June 27, 2003 conference

Less Than 10 Seats Left @ Applied XML Dev.Conf.

Here. If you’re waiting
June 26, 2003 conference

Applied XML Dev.Conf. Message Board Heating Up

Here. The message board for the Applied XML
June 25, 2003 conference

Amazon.com on Web Services @ Applied XML Dev.Conf.

Here. Colin Bryar, Director of Amazon.com Web Services & Associates, will be giving an in depth talk at the Applied XML
June 23, 2003 conference

Whidbey XML Tools Preview @ Applied XML Dev.Conf.

Here. Microsoft’s suite of XML
May 6, 2003 conference

Non-Windows Applied XML DevCon Talks Needed

Here. I’ve been buried in Applied XML
April 30, 2003 conference

Buzz About The DevCon

Here. In addition to the *mountain* of abstracts I’ve gotten (more than any DevCon to date), several bloggers have had things to say about the upcoming DevCon: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/4/30/133950/971#xmlroadtrip (includes a poll for his abstracts) http://www.larkware.com/Articles/TheDailyGrind62.html http://aspnetweblog.com/posts/6141.aspx http://dotnetguy.techieswithcats.com/archives/003064.shtml http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/dbox/default.aspx#nn2003-04-28T06:42:55Z
April 28, 2003 conference

CALL FOR SPEAKERS: Applied XML DevCon 2003 West

Here. Tentatively schedule for July 10-11 in greater Portland, OR
October 11, 2002 conference

Brian Jepson Blogs the DevCon

Here. Can’t be at the DevCon? Check out Brian Jepson’s talk-by-talk coverage on his blog. I’m sorry if you can’t be there, though. We’re having a blast!
September 12, 2002 conference

Less Than 40 Seats Left at the Web Services DevCon

Here. Register now for the Web Services DevCon, October 10-11 in greater Boston, featuring Don Box, Tim Ewald and keynote speaker Sam Ruby. In addition to amazing talks by Microsoft’s Web Services Program Manager, Keith Ballinger, and IBM
September 11, 2002 conference

Dev. Tool Wins Free Pass to Web Services DevCon

Here. Stoyan Damov, the Grand Prize winner in the
August 6, 2002 conference

Win a Free Pass to the Web Services DevCon

Here. Spend a Day With .NET
July 3, 2002 conference

Final Web Services DevCon East Speakers

Here. The final line-up of Web Services DevCon East speakers for October 10-11 in Bedford, Mass has been posted. The quality of the talks was so high that we had to forgo one of Don’s proposals to get in all the good stuff. If you can only go to one web services conference this year, this is the one that’ll pack it in nice and tight!
May 10, 2002 conference

Web Services DevCon recordings

The video recordings of the Web Services DevCon are now available. Enjoy!