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October 18, 2012 @ 6:30 PM – October 18, 2012 @ 8:30 PM America/New York Timezone
2012-10-18T18:30:00-04:00
2012-10-18T20:30:00-04:00
Where:
Planet Linux Caffe
1430 Ponce De Leon Blvd
Coral Gables, FL 33134
USA
Cost:
Free, Registration Required

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Have you ever wished that you had a persistent connection to a web client instead of using the refresh button or long polling? A new open-source project lets ASP.Net developers easily create real-time communication in web applications. Join us as Microsoft MVP Jonas Stawski gives us a facinating look into SignalR, a project that will allow you to create real-time web apps. Will Tartak will also be back to show us a fantastic UI framework called Bootstrap that will help you create user interfaces quickly and easily. You won’t want to miss this interactive discussion about these exciting new technology that will change the way you write web applications.

We will also be giving away more books, swag, and another one-month subscription to PluralSight.

Session and Speaker Details:

Getting Started With SignalR

SignalR is a groundbreaking open-source project in the .NET community. It offers real-time communication to a variety of platforms, is easy to use and to set up, and scales immensely. Join me as we demo how to use SignalR in different environments!

Jonas Stawski is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) with many years of experience building and architecting .NET applications. Jonas has worked in several markets such as Insurance, Real Estate, Leasing, Medical, Hospitality among others. He is passionate about software development and loves to write articles and speak at technical conferences. During his free time Jonas enjoys time with his family, play sports (specifically the real football), play games, and code.

Introduction to Bootstrap

If you could standardize your web layout, make it look professional and avoid a designer, would you do it? For free? Come learn how using Twitter’s Bootstrap. Bootstrap can be used to create a web site that looks like a professional designer laid it out. We’ll see Bootstrap at work in the midst of an MVC project. We’ll see how it uses standardized css and javascript create a consistent layout for your website that any pro would be jealous of. Oh, yeah, did I mention it comes with all kinds of goodies, like buttons, menus, pills, navigation, all kinds of stuff. As a bonus it even uses JQuery and provides integrated controls for tabs, dialogs, tooltips and more. Come see how Twitter’s Bootstrap can make the layout story of your web project go a lot smoother.

Will Tartak has been a professional software developer and consultantfor almost 18 years. He is the President of Visual Data Solutions, Inc. and aPrincipal of ALP1, Inc., the makers of the Team Pad line of mobile sports apps.He has end to end experience in developing applications with many technologies.He designs and programs databases, middle tiers and builds applications with various front ends including Desktop, Web & Mobile. He loves discussing softwarearchitecture. In the real world he is a husband, father and grandfather. Will loves zipping around in his MINI, rock climbing and torturing himself finishing triathlons, slowly, but finishing.