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WHEN: Dec 6, 2010
WHERE: MICROSOFT
8300 Norman Center Dr Ste 950
Bloomington, MN

The Speakers:


Jason Bock Jason Bock is a Principal Consultant for Magenic (http://www.magenic.com), a Microsoft MVP (C#), and an INETA (http://www.ineta.org) speaker. He has worked on a number of business applications using a diverse set of substrates and languages such as C#, .NET, and Java. He is the author of "Applied .NET Attributes", "CIL Programming: Under the Hood of .NET", ".NET Security", and "Visual Basic 6 Win32 API Tutorial". He has written numerous articles on software development issues and has presented at a number of conferences and user groups. He is a leader of the Twin Cities Code Camp (http://www.twincitiescodecamp.com) and runs the Twin Cities Languages User Group (http://www.twincitieslanguagesusergroup.com). Jason holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Marquette University. Visit his web site at http://www.jasonbock.net.

Brent Edwards Brent Edwards is a Senior Consultant for Magenic, a Microsoft Gold Partner consulting company. Brent has been knocking around the .NET world for over six years, working on projects ranging from ASP.NET MVC with C# and jQuery to WPF with VB.NET. In his spare time, Brent develops applications for the Android platform. His apps have over one million downloads and he was selected by Google as a Top Android Developer for their Device Seeding Program. When not cranking out code, you can find him hanging out with his wife and three kids or riding his wakeboard, snowboard or mountain bike. Check out his blog at http://brentedwards.net.

Rockford Lhotka Rockford Lhotka is the creator of the popular CSLA .NET development framework, and is the author of numerous books. He is a Microsoft Regional Director, MVP and INETA speaker. He contributes to several major magazines and regularly presents at major conferences around the world. For more information go to http://www.lhotka.net.

Scott Koland Scott is a Senior Consultant at Magenic. He primarily works as an Application Developer on WPF and Silverlight .NET Applications in C#. Scott has a passion for empowering individuals and self-directing software development teams, for which the Agile and Scrum methods are a natural fit. Scott has a Master’s of Software Systems degree from the University of St. Thomas, and his certifications include MCP, Certified ScrumMaster, Professional ScrumMaster, Professional Scrum Developer and Professional Scrum Developer Trainer. For more information visit http://www.scottkoland.com.

Jon Stonecash Jon Stonecash is a senior consultant at Magenic, a Microsoft Gold Partner consulting company. Jon Stonecash has worked in software development for much longer than he would like to admit. In that time Jon has had the opportunity to make most of the serious software development mistakes at least once. He has programmed in over a dozen languages including several different assembly languages, Fortran, COBOL, SNOBOL, classic Visual Basic, HTML, CSS, SQL, VB.NET, and C#. He has survived the structured programming revolution and the object-oriented revolutions. Jon’s software development activities have included the development of operating systems, scientific and engineering applications, and enterprise systems. He has worked in every phase of software development from the initial specification of requirements through to customer support. Along the way, he picked up a BS in Mathematics and an MBA. He still has hopes of finding something that he can be reasonably good at. His long term interests center about databases and the aspects of the application that handle data access and business logic. He is also interested in the tools and processes that assist the development process. Jon can be reached at jons@magenic.com. Jon also has an active blog on “Designing Out Loud in the .NET Space” at http://blog.magenic.com/blogs/jons/default.aspx.

Steve Hughes Steve Hughes is Principal Consultant at Magenic Technologies. His area of expertise is in data and business intelligence architecture on the Microsoft SQL Server platform. He was also the data architect for a SaaS company which delivered a transportation management solution for fleets across the United States. Steve has co-authored two books and regularly presents on SQL Server and data architecture.

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