In October, the Great Lakes Area .NET User Group (GANG) celebrated 10 years this past October with an all-day event. Here is Godfrey Nolan’s presentation on Executable Requirements or BDD in .NET.
In October, the Great Lakes Area .NET User Group (GANG) celebrated 10 years this past October with an all-day event. Here is Godfrey Nolan’s presentation on Executable Requirements or BDD in .NET.
The SQL Server master database contains many dynamic views that contain information
about the current state of the SQL Server. One such view is dm_os_workers,
which lists all active threads run by SQL Server and information about each thread.
Of particular interest are the error columns:
One or more of the following bit columns will return 1 if there is anything is going
wrong with a thread:
One limitation of this view is that it does not retain any history. If you want to keep a history of threads, you can create a Database to hold that history and the following SQL to copy the results of dm_os_workers to a table in that database. The following SQL copies the dm_os_workers view results to the dbo.ThreadsHistory table in the Instrumentation database.
IF
NOT
EXISTS (SELECT * FROM Instrumentation.sys.objects WHERE object_id
= OBJECT_ID(N'[Instrumentation].[dbo].[ThreadsHistory]') AND type IN (N'U')) BEGINSELECT GETDATE() AS TimeLogged,
worker_address, status, is_preemptive, is_fiber, is_sick, is_in_cc_exception, is_fatal_exception,
is_inside_catch, is_in_polling_io_completion_routine, context_switch_count, pending_io_count,
pending_io_byte_count, pending_io_byte_average, wait_started_ms_ticks, wait_resumed_ms_ticks,
task_bound_ms_ticks, worker_created_ms_ticks, exception_num, exception_severity, exception_address,
locale, affinity, state, start_quantum, end_quantum, last_wait_type,
return_code, quantum_used, max_quantum, boost_count, tasks_processed_count, fiber_address,
task_address, memory_object_address, thread_address, signal_worker_address, scheduler_address,
processor_group INTO [Instrumentation].[dbo].[ThreadsHistory] FROM sys.dm_os_workers WHERE 1=0 ENDDECLARE @TimeNow AS DATETIME SELECT @TimeNow
= GETDATE() INSERT INTO Instrumentation.dbo.ThreadsHistory
( TimeLogged, worker_address, status, is_preemptive, is_fiber, is_sick, is_in_cc_exception,
is_fatal_exception, is_inside_catch, is_in_polling_io_completion_routine, context_switch_count,
pending_io_count, pending_io_byte_count, pending_io_byte_average, wait_started_ms_ticks,
wait_resumed_ms_ticks, task_bound_ms_ticks, worker_created_ms_ticks, exception_num,
exception_severity, exception_address, locale, affinity, state,
start_quantum, end_quantum, last_wait_type, return_code, quantum_used, max_quantum,
boost_count, tasks_processed_count, fiber_address, task_address, memory_object_address,
thread_address, signal_worker_address, scheduler_address, processor_group ) ( SELECT @TimeNow,
worker_address, status, is_preemptive, is_fiber, is_sick, is_in_cc_exception, is_fatal_exception,
is_inside_catch, is_in_polling_io_completion_routine, context_switch_count, pending_io_count,
pending_io_byte_count, pending_io_byte_average, wait_started_ms_ticks, wait_resumed_ms_ticks,
task_bound_ms_ticks, worker_created_ms_ticks, exception_num, exception_severity, exception_address,
locale, affinity, state, start_quantum, end_quantum, last_wait_type,
return_code, quantum_used, max_quantum, boost_count, tasks_processed_count, fiber_address,
task_address, memory_object_address, thread_address, signal_worker_address, scheduler_address,
processor_group FROM sys.dm_os_workers )
You can use SQL Agent to schedule a job that runs this every 60 seconds (or however
frequently you want) to keep a history of the threads being generated by SQL. This
history can tell you if threads are generating exception and if thread counts are
increasing.
In October, the Great Lakes Area .NET User Group (GANG) celebrated 10 years this past October with an all-day event. Here is Richard Hale Shaw’s presentation from that meeting, in which he helps developers better get into “the zone”, where they can write code more efficiently.
Here is Darrell Hawley's presentation at GANG10, the October 1 event celebrating 10 years of the Great Lakes Area .NET User Group. Darell tells a parable describing how projects can be run right or wrong.
Here is Bill Wagner's presentation at GANG10, the October 1 event celebrating 10 years of the Great Lakes Area .NET User Group. Bill talks about asynchronous programming, including the new features coming in C# 5.
The Great Lakes Area .NET User Group celebrated 10 years this past October with an all-day event, kicked off by a Leon Gersing Keynote. Here is a video of that keynote
At Codeslingers last night, someone pulled out some coding Katas. For those who don’t know, a Kata is a coding exercise that is designed to practice your programming skills, rather than to solve a particular business problem. I was handed the classic “FizzBuzz” problem. The assignment:
Create a function that will print the integers from 1 to 100 with the following exceptions:
The output should look something like the following:
1 2 Fizz 4 Buzz Fizz 7 8 Fizz Buzz 11 Fizz 13 14 FizzBuzz 16
I started with a C# console application because that is the language with which I am most familiar. It was able to finish the following in under 2 minutes. It took me 5 minutes to write the unit tests.
class Program { staticvoid Main(string[]
args) { for (int i = 1; i <
100; i++) { var p = FizzBuzz(i); Console.WriteLine(p); } Console.ReadLine(); } protectedstaticstring FizzBuzz(int i)
{ if (i % 15 == 0) return"FizzBuzz"; if (i
% 3 == 0) return"Fizz"; if (i
% 5 == 0) return"Buzz"; return i.ToString();
} }
I only occasionally code in JavaScript, so I tackled that language next. Someone recommended
using http://jsfiddle.net/
as an online IDE for writing and sharing JavaScript, so I tried it and liked it.
Of course, JavaScript is a dynamic language and one of my big challenges was spelling
things correctly without all the help Visual Studio provides when writing in a statically-typed
language. In my case, I misspelled the id of a div, which cost me at least 15 minutes.
I created the following boilerplate HTML:
<html>
<body>
<div id="fizzbuzz"></div>
</body> </html>
Then, I used the following JavaScript (plus a bit of jQuery) to output the FizzBuzz results:
for (i = 1; i <= 100; i++) {
$("#fizzbuzz").append(function()
{ var newLine = i; if (i % 3 ===
0) { newLine = "Fizz"; } if (i
% 5 === 0) { newLine = "Buzz"; } if (i
% 15 === 0) { newLine = "FizzBuzz"; } var newDiv
= $("<div>").text(newLine); return newDiv;
}); }
A simple program like this provides a fun way to practice an old language and to learn a new language. Next up, I’ll try this program with F# and Ruby, since I have very little experience with these languages.
Here is a video of Seth Juarez's Machine Learning presentation at the Great Lakes Area .NET User Group in January 2012.
Here is a video of Sarah Dutkiewicz’s Powershell presentation from the February 2012 Great Lakes Area .NET User Group (GANG) meeting.
Here is the video of Glenn Block’s presentation at the November 2011 Great Lakes Area .NET User Group (GANG) meeting. Glenn described his 2 latest projects: Web API and node.js.
Here is Richard Campbell’s September 2009 presentation at the Great Lakes Area .NET User Group (GANG). Richard described what developers can do to make their ASP.NET applications more scalable.
This year, Michael Eaton and his colleagues hosted the 4th annual Kalamazoo X conference. I have attended all 4 years and I have to say this was the best one. For those who haven’t yet heard of Kalamazoo X, it is a conference targeted at software developers, but the topics focus on the softer skills (i.e., the non-technical skills) required in your career. Each presentation is only 30 minutes long, which keeps things moving very rapidly. A single track provides a shared experience for all attendees. Every presentation was excellent and the room was packed. Speakers would often reference a presentation from earlier in the day.
Below are my notes from the sessions I attended.
Joe O'Brien
People Patterns
Packed a lot of great ideas
Never seen a project fail for technical reasons.
Corollary: Never seen a project SUCCEED for technical reasons.
Deliver bad news quickly
Laura Bergells
The People You Like the Least are the People You Need the Most
Teams require different personality types
Idea people (Putting the "Fun" in "DYSFUNCTIONAL") and rational
people (Putting the "No" in "INNOVATION")
Suzan Bond
Intuition: Your Very Own Super Power
Learn to understand intuition and trust yourself.
Takes guts
OK to find ways to back up intuition.
Leon Gersing
Going Gonzo – an exploration of cultures in software development
Allow yourself to separate from the dominant culture and its associated dogma.
Drew inspiration from Hunter Thompson, Frank Zappa, and Georges Seurat.
"Most people doing Agile today are actually doing Waterfall with Agile terms.
Agile is dead."
More important to be right than to be wise. Understand the problems you are solving.
Tim Wingfield
Your Career is Yours
Watch Sir Ken Robinson's TED talk
Ask Why? Does my customer really need this feature?
Coding Katas: Practice how to code.
Need to build trust. Be honest.
Work/Life balance: You need to enjoy your career; not endure your career.
Justin Searls
The Mythical Team-Month
If you are going to fail, fail quickly.
We are conditioned to avoid failure
Finding great developers:
Most traits are non-technical
Look for one who can succeed without you.
I published some of these links last month, but Microsoft has released links for even more free sletuff. Check out the cool stuff by clicking the links below.
SQL Injection is one of the most frequently-exploited vulnerabilities in the software world. It refers to user-entered data making its way into commands sent to back-end systems. It is common because so many developers are unaware of the risk and how to mitigate it.
Most of the applications I work with read from and write to a relational database, such as Microsoft SQL Server. I frequently run across ADO.NET code like the following:
string lastName = "'Adams'"; string sql
= "Select * from dbo.Customer where LastName = '" +
lastName + "'"; string connString
= ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["LocalConn"].ConnectionString; using (var
conn = new SqlConnection(connString)) { conn.Open(); var
cmd = conn.CreateCommand(); cmd.CommandText = sql; SqlDataReader reader = cmd.ExecuteReader(); while (reader.Read())
{ Console.WriteLine("Bad Name: {0} {1}", reader["FirstName"],
reader["LastName"]); } }
This code is designed to call a stored procedure like the following:
CREATE
PROCEDURE [dbo].[GetCustomersByFirstName]
@FirstName NVARCHAR(50) ASBEGIN--
SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets fromSET NOCOUNT ON; SELECT Id,
FirstName, LastName FROM dbo.Customer WHERE FirstName
= @FirstName ORDERBY Id END GO
This method of code has several disadvantages
A SQL Injection Attack is an attempt by an unscrupulous user to pass malicious commands to a database. In the above example, imagine that the variable x was provided by a user inputting text into a text box on a web age. An evil user might type something like
"Smith';DROP TABLE Customer;//"
Select * from dbo.Customer where LastName = 'Smith';DROPTableCustomer;//'
Clearly, dropping the customer table is not what your code is intended to do.
Many of you will read the above example and decide that you are safe because
There are problems with this reasoning.
The point is that you need to check security at every level of your application. And part of checking security is to not trust your inputs.
A far better approach than concatenating strings to form a SQL statement is to create parameter instances; set the value of each parameter; and add these parameters to a Parameters collection.
The code below shows how to do this.
string lastName = "Adams"; string sql = "Select * from dbo.Customer where LastName = @LastName"; string connString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["LocalConn"].ConnectionString; using (var conn = new SqlConnection(connString)) { conn.Open(); var cmd = conn.CreateCommand(); cmd.CommandText = sql; SqlParameter lnParam = cmd.CreateParameter(); lnParam.ParameterName = "@LastName"; lnParam.Value = lastName; cmd.Parameters.Add(lnParam); SqlDataReader reader = cmd.ExecuteReader(); while (reader.Read()) { Console.WriteLine("Good Name: {0} {1}", reader["FirstName"], reader["LastName"]); } Console.WriteLine();
Pass an unexpected parameter here and it will no t be executed on the end of the query because SQL Server is expecting a parameter for a specific use.
The same pattern works if I want to pass in a dynamic string of SQL. Passing Parameter instances is more secure than concatenating SQL and passing that string to SQL Server.
Below is a console application that uses the vulnerable string concatenation method to call SQL Server via ADO.NET
using System; using System.Configuration; using System.Data.SqlClient; namespace PassingSql_WrongWay { class Program { staticvoid Main(string[] args) { CallSqlQuery(); CallStoredProc(); Console.ReadLine(); } privatestaticvoid CallSqlQuery() { string lastName = "'Adams'"; //string lastName = "Adams';DROP TABLE dbo.ExtraTable;--";string sql = "Select * from dbo.Customer where LastName = '" + lastName + "'"; string connString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["LocalConn"].ConnectionString; using (var conn = new SqlConnection(connString)) { conn.Open(); var cmd = conn.CreateCommand(); cmd.CommandText = sql; SqlDataReader reader = cmd.ExecuteReader(); while (reader.Read()) { Console.WriteLine("Bad Name: {0} {1}", reader["FirstName"], reader["LastName"]); } } Console.WriteLine(); } privatestaticvoid CallStoredProc() { string firstName = "James"; string sql = "EXEC GetCustomersByFirstName '" + firstName + "'"; string connString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["LocalConn"].ConnectionString; using (var conn = new SqlConnection(connString)) { conn.Open(); var cmd = conn.CreateCommand(); cmd.CommandText = sql; SqlDataReader reader = cmd.ExecuteReader(); while (reader.Read()) { Console.WriteLine("Bad Name: {0} {1}", reader["FirstName"], reader["LastName"]); } Console.WriteLine(); } } } }
Below is a similar console app, using the more secure parameters pattern
using System; using System.Configuration; using System.Data.SqlClient; namespace PassingSql_RightWay { class Program { staticvoid Main(string[] args) { CallSqlQuery(); CallStoredProc(); Console.ReadLine(); } privatestaticvoid CallSqlQuery() { string lastName = "Adams"; //string lastName = "Adams;DROP TABLE dbo.ExtraTable;--";string sql = "Select * from dbo.Customer where LastName = @LastName"; string connString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["LocalConn"].ConnectionString; using (var conn = new SqlConnection(connString)) { conn.Open(); var cmd = conn.CreateCommand(); cmd.CommandText = sql; SqlParameter lnParam = cmd.CreateParameter(); lnParam.ParameterName = "@LastName"; lnParam.Value = lastName; cmd.Parameters.Add(lnParam); SqlDataReader reader = cmd.ExecuteReader(); while (reader.Read()) { Console.WriteLine("Good Name: {0} {1}", reader["FirstName"], reader["LastName"]); } Console.WriteLine(); } } privatestaticvoid CallStoredProc() { string firstName = "James"; string storedProcName = "GetCustomersByFirstName"; string connString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["LocalConn"].ConnectionString; using (var conn = new SqlConnection(connString)) { conn.Open(); var cmd = conn.CreateCommand(); cmd.CommandText = storedProcName; cmd.CommandType = System.Data.CommandType.StoredProcedure; SqlParameter lnParam = cmd.CreateParameter(); lnParam.ParameterName = "@FirstName"; lnParam.Value = firstName; cmd.Parameters.Add(lnParam); SqlDataReader reader = cmd.ExecuteReader(); while (reader.Read()) { Console.WriteLine("Good Name: {0} {1}", reader["FirstName"], reader["LastName"]); } Console.WriteLine(); } } } }
If you wish to use the above code, create a new database named TestData and run the following SQL DDL to create the database objects.
USE [TestData] GO /****** Object: Table [dbo].[ExtraTable] SET ANSI_NULLS ONGOSET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ONGOCREATETABLE [dbo].[ExtraTable]( [foo] [nchar](10) NULL, [bar] [nchar](10) NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GO /****** Object: Table [dbo].[Customer] SET ANSI_NULLS ONGOSET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ONGOCREATETABLE [dbo].[Customer]( [Id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOTNULL, [FirstName] [nvarchar](50) NULL, [LastName] [nvarchar](50) NOTNULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GO INSERT INTO dbo.Customer (FirstName, LastName) VALUES ('George', 'Washington') GO INSERT INTO dbo.Customer (FirstName, LastName) VALUES ('John', 'Adams') GO INSERT INTO dbo.Customer (FirstName, LastName) VALUES ('Thomas', 'Jefferson') GO INSERT INTO dbo.Customer (FirstName, LastName) VALUES ('James', 'Madison') GO INSERT INTO dbo.Customer (FirstName, LastName) VALUES ('James', 'Monroe') GO INSERT INTO dbo.Customer (FirstName, LastName) VALUES ('John Quincy', 'Adams') GO /****** Object: StoredProcedure [dbo].[GetCustomersByFirstName] SET ANSI_NULLS ONGOSET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ONGOCREATEPROCEDURE [dbo].[GetCustomersByFirstName] @FirstName NVARCHAR(50) ASBEGINSET NOCOUNT ON; SELECT Id, FirstName, LastName FROM dbo.Customer WHERE FirstName = @FirstName ORDERBY Id ENDGO
With a little bit of thought and a few lines of code, you can significantly reduce the risk of SQL injection in your ADO.NET code.
As always, there will be a lot of developer conferences and other events this summer in the my region. Here is a partial list of conferences that have been announced in or near the Heartland region in the coming months. Please let me know if I have missed any.
| What | Where | When |
| Kalamazoo X | Kalamazoo, MI | Apr 21 |
| Stir Trek | Columbus, OH | May 4 |
| Great Lakes Functional Programming Conference | Ann Arbor, MI | May 5 |
| Cincinnati Day of Agile | Westchester, OH | May 19 |
| Pittsburgh Tech Fest | North Hills, PA | Jun 9 |
| CodeStock | Knoxville, TN | Jun 15-16 |
| CloudDevelop | Columbus, OH | Aug 3 |
| That Conference | Wisconsin Dells, WI | Aug 15-16 |
| DevLink | Chattanooga, TN | Aug 29-31 |
| Windows Azure Kick-Start | Multiple cities | Multiple dates |
| Windows 8 Developer Camps | Multiple cities | Multiple dates |
Saturday, I spoke at the Orlando Code Camp at Seminole State College, just east of Orlando, FL. This was the seventh year of the Code Camp but my first time attending.
The first session I attended was Memory Management Fundamentals – Garbage Collection
Deep Dive by Scott Dorman.
Scott explained the way memory management works under the hood.
Key points:
The garbage collector takes care of cleaning up objects when they are no longer needed.
It's generally not advisable to implement a finalizer.
If your machine has plenty of memory, garbage collection might not occur until the
user exits the app.
Larger objects are cued up for cleanup.
Here is a list of resources
http://geekswithblogs.net/sdorman/archive/2008/09/14/.net-memory-management-ndash-resources.aspx
The next session I attended was Creating a HTML5 WinRT application by Brian
Kassay
You can build Windows 8 applications in either HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3 or in XAML.
This session focused on HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3. In order to work with this, one
needs to install Windows 8 and Visual Studio 11 (both are in beta).
I planned to see Richie Rump's Entity Framework - Code First and Magic Unicorns session,
but others had the same idea and the room was packed. Rather than stand for an hour,
I opted to hear Greg Leonardo's Line of Business development with MVC3.
This was a basic overview of how to use MVC. It consisted of more slides than demos.
He did explain how MVC's Anti-forgery library works (issues a token to the user with
a response and checks for that token in subsequent requests).
He also discussed the MVC Anti-XSS library, which is designed to protect your site
against cross-site scripting errors. By default, MVC disallows HTML input by. If you
decide to allow HTML input, it is important to scrub input with the Anti-XSS library.
The final session I attended was Elijah Manor on Exterminating Those Common Pesky
jQuery Bugs
Elijah went through a series of common JavaScript mistakes made by developers and
showed ways to correct them.
I delivered a session on Visual Studio 2010 Database Tools. It was very well received and the audience asked lots of questions.
The organizers did a very good job on this conference and everything ran smoothly.
The one drawback of this event was the lack of an obvious common area, where attendees
could talk and meet one another. When it was over, we regrouped at a local pub, which
gave me the opportunity to meet many of the local developer community. This was particularly
important to me at this conference because I only knew about 5 people among the speakers
and attendees. One of the reasons I came down to Orlando was for a chance to meet
people in the local Florida communities. It turns out that Orlando, Sarasota, and
South Florida have very vibrant communities based on the enthusiasm of those I spoke
with.
Of course I recorded a couple episodes of Technology and Friends. Elijah Manor and Max Trinidad agreed to go on camera to discuss JavaScript and Powershell respectively.
The Orlando Code Camp will take place again next year and I'm seriously considering making this an annual trip. I also heard of a few smaller events in the area which might bring me back here.
The Detroit Day of Azure is history and I had a blast. On March 24, a group of volunteers and I organized the first Detroit Day of Azure, with the idea of sharing knowledge about Microsoft’s cloud computing platform and related technologies.
Here are a few of the high points from the conference:
We sold out our 144 tickets and about 130 people showed up for the Saturday event in Southfield.
The speakers were amazing. They traveled from Texas, Minnesota, Indiana, Chicago, Ohio, and Kentucky to share their knowledge with us. The feedback I heard was all positive. I was fortunate to get such a talented group of presenters.
We ran 3 rooms simultaneously. The presentation in the large room was streamed live all day, so people who could not make the conference could enjoy the presentations.
We ran a Q&A Panel at lunch time titled "Ask the Experts". Nearly all the speakers participated and the audience got to ask them questions about Windows Azure. We cut this off after about 50 minutes, but could easily have gone twice as long.
Everyone loved the food. Lunch was from a local barbeque restaurant and featured some outstanding brisket, pulled pork, and chicken, along with some tasty side dishes. We also provided continental breakfast and an afternoon snack, both of which disappeared in a hurry.
Most of the sessions were recorded, thanks to volunteers Jim Priore, Falicia Starr, and Max Friend, who manned the cameras. I'll get these online in the next few weeks.
The volunteers were fantastic. People were proactive about seeing what needed to get done and jumping in and doing it. I had very little to manage on the day of the event.
Speakers and volunteers retreated to Copper Canyon Brew Pub for dinner afterwards. It was nice to wind down with friends after a busy day.
Here are a few things we could have done better:
I couldn't find the wireless microphone for the lunchtime panel, which meant only half the room could hear them well.
I ordered way too much barbeque and we ended up with more leftovers than I would have liked.
But those are small things and I was overall pleased with how everything turned out.
I need to catch my breath before thinking about the next event.
Below are some links to download or sign up for some of Microsoft’s hottest new technologies.
|
Category |
Link |
|
Azure SDK |
http://www.microsoft.com/click/services/Redirect2.ashx?CR_CC=200093530 |
|
Azure Trial |
http://www.microsoft.com/click/services/Redirect2.ashx?CR_CC=200093531 |
|
Windows Phone SDK |
http://www.microsoft.com/click/services/Redirect2.ashx?CR_CC=200093532 |
|
WebMatrix |
http://www.microsoft.com/click/services/Redirect2.ashx?CR_CC=200093529 |
|
Windows 8 Consumer Preview |
http://www.microsoft.com/click/services/Redirect2.ashx?CR_CC=200093529 |
|
Visual Studio 2011 Beta for Windows 8 |
http://www.microsoft.com/click/services/Redirect2.ashx?CR_CC=200093624 |
I have the following presentations scheduled
On March 20 (tonight), I will present Persistence In The Cloud: How to Use Azure Storage at the 24 Hours of Pass online conference. Here is a link.
On March 24, I will present Persistence In The Cloud: How to Use Azure Storage at the Detroit Day of Azure in Southfield, MI (http://DetroitDayOfAzure.com).
On March 31, I will present Using the Database Tools of Visual Studio 2010 at the Orlando Code Camp in Orlando, FL (http://orlandocodecamp.com/).
On May 4, I will present Data Visualization: The Ideas of Edward Tufte at Stir Trek in Columbus, OH. (http://stirtrek.com/).
Cloud computing has been a hot topic in the software industry for the past couple years. Many of us hear about cloud technologies such as Windows Azure, but don't know how to get started.
I wanted to make it easy to find that information, so I'm organizing a 1-day conference to teach people about Windows Azure.
The Detroit Day of Azure will take place Saturday March 24 from 8AM to 6PM at the Microsoft office in Southfield, MI.
14 speakers from 8 different states have agreed to deliver 19 presentations at this event. The speakers (listed below) are among the foremost Azure experts in the region. The list includes MVPs, Microsoft insiders, book authors, and people delivering real Azure solutions for their customers.
Dennis Burton
Michael Collier
Jason Follas
John Ferringer
David Giard
Joe Kunk
Jennifer Marsman
Jeff Nuckolls
Brian Prince
Mark Stanislav
Brent Stineman
Mike Wood
Chander Dhall
Eric Boyd
Azure MVP and Sogeti National Cloud Computing Lead Brent Stineman will deliver the keynote; then we will split into 3 rooms for the rest of the day, where you can choose from several great topics and speakers. Our plans are to record at least some of the conference on video. We may even live stream some of it, but that is still in the planning phase.
We will designate one room for programmers to build Azure applications. Attendees can bring a laptop and either work on their own project or work through the Azure labs, which we will provide for you. Many smart people will be around if you get stuck. Remember to download and install the Azure SDK and sign up for a free Azure Trial before you arrive!
Download
Azure SDK
Sign
Up for Free Azure Trial
As with any successful event, many people helped out. Onorio Catenacci, Jamie Altizer, Matt Ruma, Shelly Noll, Sukhdev Tur, Justin Baker, Akhil Mahajan, Brian Korzynski, Jelard Macalino, Jim Priore, and Falicia Starr have volunteered their time to help; while Microsoft, Sogeti, The Epitec Group, Telerik, and RIIS donated their money; while Pluralsight, Wrox, and O'Reilly donated products to give away.
If you have been attending the Great Lakes Area .NET User Group (where I was president the last two years), you won't be surprised to learn that we are serving some excellent food at this event. Included in the $20 admission cost is a continental breakfast and a buffet lunch from Lockhart’s barbeque in Royal Oak. We will also have some door prizes to give away at the end of the day.
More information on the Detroit Day of Azure is available at http://DetroitDayOfAzure.com. You can register at http://DayOfAzure.eventbrite.com/.
Space is limited and only a few tickets remain.
I'm very excited about this event and looking forward to it as an organizer, as a speaker, and as an attendee.