We have some great meetings lined up for the next few months. Please take a look at the upcoming schedule on the web site.
Dani will present new Visual Studio 2008 features and show language enhancements for C# and VB.
Danilo Diaz, aka Dani, is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft's Mid-Atlantic State district. In this role, he helps developers understand Microsoft's product offerings and strategy. Prior to joining Microsoft, he worked at Perficient Philadelphia where he helped establish their Mobility Practice. Dani has over 8 years of experience in the IT industry. His ability to identify and utilize the right blend of technologies to solve business needs has been an asset on all projects he has worked on. Dani's first .NET project was a Web-based eLearning application which was built on ASP.NET 1.0 Beta 2. As a consultant he has served the roles of system architect, technical lead, developer and mentor on various large and small projects. He has worked on SOA-based applications, Web applications, Windows applications and mobile systems.
Arthur C. Clarke’s famous quotation “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” has been getting a lot of play lately, and for good reason. While the capabilities in VS/TFS 2008 are probably not going to seem like “real” magic to you, they will make some of the manual burdens associated with ALM disappear. We will have a discussion of the architectural goals of the product team in creating the new version of the tool with regard to testing, deployment and collaboration. We will also see some of the new capabilities being delivered to developers, testers and operational staff. And we may even see some things that look like real magic.
David Solivan's love affair with technology began with his first programming project in the 7th grade when 64K of memory was overkill. Since that time, David has developed solutions for Fortune 100 companies on the Microsoft platform as well as in Java on midrange systems. David served as a solution and strategy architect at Aetna and as a consultant in the Philadelphia area for 12 years. He has been an Architect Evangelist at Microsoft for 4 years now and works with Health Plan, Pharmaceutical and Financial Services customers to build enterprise solutions. When it comes to solution architecture, David believes that requirements are king and that an architect's first and best skill should be listening. David is also a sleight of hand artist who will gladly show you how SaaS is best illustrated through rope tricks. If you find him in the right place at the right time, you will hear stories from him as his alter ego "Mr. Beaudreaux".