AZGroups, a professional association for computer programmers in the Southwest, has one big meeting annually that brings the very best talent in the industry to Arizona. This year it will be held on Wednesday, June 27th from 8am to 4:30pm at Symphony Hall in downtown Phoenix. It's a free event open to the public. You should register to reserve your spot.
The main speaker this year will be Scott Guthrie, the original creator of Microsoft's ASP.NET architecture. He is a general manager at Microsoft over many areas of developer technology including ASP.NET, IIS, ASP.NET Ajax, and Silverlight. His presentation will center on the newest video and web technology that has been announced at recent conferences including NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) and MIX.
Scott is not your average general manager, being incredibly proficient in these technologies, and will demonstrate a hands-on approach to using them effectively. It will be time well spent for any IT manager, web designer, or developer that has an interest in the latest technology from Microsoft.
If this is anything like his presentations at TechEd, this is a NOT TO BE MISSED event. Scott will show you in detail how we will be developing web apps for the next few years. I hope to see you there!
In addition, Stefan Schackow will be presenting.
Stefan Schackow is a manager on the web platform and tools team at Microsoft, and works with the new application services stack that shipped in ASP.NET 2.0. He owns the Membership, Role Manager, Profile, and Web Parts Personalization features and is currently working on extending these services to both smart clients and the ASP.NET AJAX platform. Prior to joining the ASP.NET team, Stefan worked as an application development consultant in MCS. There are presentations online where he shows how to build your own ASP.NET Provider-Based Feature and the new trust levels in ASP.NET 2.0.
Finally there will be a comparison of 7 Web development platforms, showing the strngths and weaknesses of each.
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