We just ramped up our final MSDN Unleashed events for the Summer ‘08 season, and we’re moving right into our Fall ‘08 tour. I will post dates and topics here shortly. For now, here are the slides from the Summer ‘08 season that everyone has been asking me for. Don’t forget to check out the resource roundup from these events as well.

Thanks to everyone who came this go round. Please, if you have any comments or suggestions on how we can make these events better, please leave a comment.

Have you seen A Website Named Desire? This is a poster that depicts complex team structures found in many web development projects. From the management team to the creative team to the technical team to the client. There are many moving parts and many different taxonomies when it comes to pulling your web sites together. Now mind you, this isn’t the makeup of *ALL* web project teams. This is just trying to show the chaotic nature of the business and the people involved. It hopefully strikes up a conversation and an understanding around these taxonomies.

Bonus points to those of you who can find the Zen garden or count all of the bugs.

I would like to commend the organizers of the Indy TechFest ‘08 for putting on one of the best community run conferences I’ve ever been a part of. With over 450 in attendance and a day full of great technical content and great speakers. Very impressive all around. Stand up job, gentlemen! I’d also like to thank the attendees who came up to introduce themselves and those of you who attended my sessions.

My first session on A Tour and Discussion of CodePlex came awfully early in the  morning when Dan Rigsby dragged myself, Brian Gorbett and our new friends from Findlay, Ohio out for a night of pre-techfest festivities. As a side note, if you feel your ego is getting to bloated, just go to a bar where you are the oldest one there! Ugh. Here are a few links from the session…

Resource Links:

http://codeplex.com

Wikipedia definition for Open Source

CodePlex Team Blog

Article on CodePlex support for TortoiseSVN

Facebook Developer Toolkit Project Page

Sara Ford’s Blog

In my WPF session, WPF, WTF? No…WPF! It’s all about XAML these days, we had an amazing turnout – standing room only! There can only be a few explanations as to why… A.) the room only had 10 chairs available, B.) all of the other sessions at the time were canceled, or C.) there is a LOT of interest in building WPF applications. I hope it’s the latter! As with all my WPF sessions I’ve presented in the past, there was just WAY to much content to fit in a short amount of time. I need to either take this session and ask for two time slots to cover it, or just pair down the session to fit it into the standard 60-75 minute time slots. There is just SO much to talk about, it would be hard to pair it down. Here are the resources from the session…

Resource Links:

MSDN Virtual Lab on Building WPF applications

http://windowsclient.net learning resources

Expression Learning Resources