rest/speakers/Andrew-Glover Andrew Glover Andrew is the CTO of App47, where he gets to play with iOS, Android, Ruby, Rails, Heroku, AWS, MongoDB and everything else that is cool these days. He carries around an iPhone, iPad, and HTC Droid phone and in his free time hacks on Node.js. /rest/sessions/Ubiquitous-App-development-with-PhoneGap /rest/sessions/Rapid-Android-development-with-JRuby @aglover http://www.thediscoblog.com rest/speakers/Joshua-Smith Joshua Smith Josh is a developer for American Greetings Interactive. He has 15 years of professional IT experience and has been a sysadmin (and still kinda is), programmer in various languages, consultant, employee and guy who makes sure the pop machine is full. He lives and works in Ohio with his wife and two children and tries to use his powers for good. /rest/sessions/-should_learnProlog-You @kognate rest/speakers/Gary-Short Gary Short Gary Short has 20+ years experience as a software developer and architect, working in sectors as diverse as banking, pharmaceuticals and utilities. Currently he is a Developer Evangelist for DevExpress. His interests lie in architecture, especially Technical Debt and Refactoring, as well as data mining and business intelligence. /rest/sessions/NET-Collections-Deep-Dive /rest/sessions/Applied-F @garyshort http://www.garyshort.org rest/speakers/Rob-Reynolds Rob Reynolds Rob Reynolds has been programming in .NET since the early days of 1.0. In his day job he gets his hands dirty as a technical lead in the world of crop insurance. Who would have thought his prior experiences with calculus and FFA would have ever come in handy?! Rob is a C# MVP, an MCSD for .NET, holds a bachelor's degree in MIS from Kansas State University, is active in the Topeka .Net User Group, a regional INETA speaker, an eagle scout, and a veteran officer of the US Army Reserve. Rob is very active in OSS and manages several OSS projects. Some of those projects include UppercuT, RoundhousE, Chocolatey and NuGet. Rob is the FerventCoder because he is very passionate about his craft. /rest/sessions/A-better-way-to-get-to-done-NuGet-Package-Management @ferventcoder http://devlicio.us/blogs/rob_reynolds rest/speakers/Mike-Pirnat Mike Pirnat A Python nerd of 11 years and active in web development for over 15, Mike works at online greeting leader AG Interactive, where he serves as a wandering samurai, doer of deeds, righter of wrongs, integrator of systems, wrangler of code, bearer of standards, seeker of truth, advocate of excellence, educator, mentor, craftsman, and catalyst. He likes a nice glass of wine and long walks on the beach--unless there are lots of rocks, which hurt to step on. /rest/sessions/A-Few-of-My-Favorite-Python-Things @mpirnat http://mike.pirnat.com rest/speakers/Clint-Edmonson Clint Edmonson Clint Edmonson is an Architect Evangelist in Microsoft’s North Central District, working with aspiring and seasoned architects to understand Microsoft’s latest developer and platform offerings and develop strategic roadmaps for their adoption. He lives in St. Louis, Missouri and is the host of www.notsotrivial.net. /rest/sessions/A-Force-of-One-Agile-and-the-Solo-Developer @clinted http://www.notsotrivial.net rest/speakers/Scott-Hanselman Scott Hanselman My name is Scott Hanselman. I work out of my home office for Microsoft as a Principal Program Manager, aiming to spread good information about developing software, usually on the Microsoft stack. Before this I was the Chief Architect at Corillian Corporation, now a part of Checkfree, for 6+ years. I was also involved in a few Microsoft Developer things for many years like the MVP and RD programs and I'll speak about computers (and other passions) whenever someone will listen. /rest/sessions/NEW--Dealing-with-Information-Overload /rest/sessions/What-the-heck-are-they-doing-over-there-Inside-the-Microsoft-Web-Stack-of-Love @shanselman http://hanselman.com rest/speakers/Steven-Smith Steven Smith Steve is a Senior Architect with The Code Project, a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP, and founder of NimblePros. He has been a regular conference speaker since 2001 and has written or contributed to several books on software development, including 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know. Steve founded and helps coordinate Northeast Ohio's Software Craftsmanship User Group located in Hudson, OH (HudsonSC.com). Steve is passionate about software craftsmanship and architecture and design best practices. He enjoys helping fellow programmers achieve their own "ah-ha" moments through speaking, his blog (http://SteveSmithBlog.com), videos, and other opportunities. Before joining The Code Project, Steve founded NimblePros, an agile software studio focused on software craftsmanship through their work, training, and tools designed to help developers deliver better software. Steve lives in Kent, Ohio with his wife Michelle, daughter Ilyana, and son Nikita. He enjoys biking, swimming, karate, and all manner of games when he is not immersed in the latest developments in software. /rest/sessions/A-Lap-Around-ASPNET-MVC-4 @ardalis http://SteveSmithBlog.com rest/speakers/Chris-Patterson Chris Patterson Chris is an architect for RelayHealth, the connectivity business of the leading healthcare services company in the US. There he is responsible for the architecture and development of applications and services that accelerate care delivery by connecting patients, providers, pharmacies, and financial institutions. Previously, he led the development of a new media delivery platform for TV Guide, enabling the launch of a new entertainment network seen on thousands of cable television systems. As an open-source contributor, Chris is an author of MassTransit, a .NET service bus framework, and Topshelf, a Windows service framework. /rest/sessions/Actor-Model-Programming-in-C @PhatBoyG http://phatboyg.lostechies.com/ rest/speakers/Amir-Barylko Amir Barylko Amir Barylko started his career in 1994 working for IBM as a senior developer while he was finishing his Masters degree in computer science. Since then he worked as team leader and architect for the past 15 years. Having started with languages like C++ and Java he spent many years coding in C# and training other developers in topics such domain modeling, abstractions, patterns, automation, dependency injection, testing, etc. Being an incurable geek, always thirsty for knowledge, his passion for technology moved him towards Ruby on Rails a few years ago, becoming an advocate of RoR web development. Also following he's teaching passion he did his first RoR training a year ago, and recently a TDD training with great reviews. Amir is a rare combination of high technical skills, lots of experience in a wide range of platforms, exceptional presentation skills and great sense of humor. His presentations are always rich in content and fun to attend. /rest/sessions/Advanced-IoC-with-Castle-Windsor @abarylko http://orthocoders.com rest/speakers/Jon-Stahl Jon Stahl Jon co-founded LeanDog Software Studio in 2008 after 18 years of experience providing IT leadership in both Fortune 500 and start up organizations. His passion is eliminating waste, optimizing the performance of IT teams and helping organizations become lean and agile. Jon provides extensive hands on experience in organizational transformations to Agile and Lean software methods. He is an active thought leader in the Agile, Tech and Entrepreneurial Community. He openly shares his studies & learnings at conferences and meet ups. His company office is on a boat floating next to a WW2 Submarine in downtown Cleveland. In addition to providing a home for over a dozen monthly user group meetings at the LeanDog Studio in Cleveland, he has co-organized events such as Ignite Cleveland, Cleveland Startup Weekend and Code Retreat. He received his degrees from Ohio State University. He is married with two lovely children and two ugly bull dogs.    Michael Norton (Doc) is an Agile Coach and a partner with LeanDog living in Wadsworth, OH. Doc's experience covers a wide range of development topics. Doc declares expertise in no single language or methodology and is immediately suspicious of anyone who declares such expertise. A frequent speaker, Doc is passionate about helping others become better developers, working with teams to improve delivery, and Software Craftsmanship. As a member of LeanDog, Doc provides coaching, mentoring, training, and delivery in Agile/XP/Lean software development techniques. He has more than 20 years of experience in software development and has been a promoter and practitioner of Agile since 1999. Past roles include Senior Consultant at ThoughtWorks, VP of Technology at the Samara Technology Group and Software Architect at Ohio Savings Bank. /rest/sessions/Agile--UX-What-changes--other-CRAP @jonrstahl http://www.jonstahl.com/ rest/speakers/Philip-Japikse Philip Japikse An international speaker, Microsoft MVP, MCSD, CSM, and CSP, and a passionate member of the developer community, Phil Japikse has been working with .Net since the first betas, developing software for over 20 years, and heavily involved in the agile community since 2005. Phil works as the Patterns and Practices Evangelist for Telerik (www.telerik.com), and serves as the Lead Director for the Cincinnati .Net User’s Group and the Cincinnati Software Architect Group Phil is also the founder and president of Agile Conferences, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to advancing agile in all aspects of software development. In his spare time, Phil works part-time as a Firefighter/Paramedic, serves as Cub Master for his sons’ Cub Scout Pack, and volunteers for the National Ski Patrol. You can follow Phil on twitter via www.twitter.com/skimedic and read his blog at www.skimedic.com/blog. /rest/sessions/An-Intro-to-Test-Driven-Development /rest/sessions/Making-a-Mockery-of-Hard-to-Test-Code @skimedic http://www.skimedic.com/blog rest/speakers/Joel-Cochran Joel Cochran Joel Cochran is an Expression Blend MVP, an INETA Community Champion, and a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in Windows Forms and WPF. He is the founder of BlendSIG, a virtual Special Interest Group focused on Expression Blend and author of "Expression Blend in Action" by Manning Publications. He is also the author of "The Practical MVVM Manifesto" (http://practicalmvvm.com). He has been developing for Windows since 2003 and is a self-proclaimed "Blend Evangelist". A frequent speaker at User Groups and Code Camps, he enjoys teaching and writing about .NET and other topics. You can find him online at http://www.developingfor.net or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/joelcochran. Joel has served as the Director of Operations for Stonewall Technologies, Inc., an ISV, in Staunton, VA, since 2000. /rest/sessions/An-Introduction-to-Expression-Blend @joelcochran http://www.developingfor.net rest/speakers/Brady-Gaster Brady Gaster Brady Gaster is a Windows Azure Technical Evangelist who works for Microsoft. Brady has been working with .NET for over a decade in numerous settings - government, education, consulting, gaming, and mobile, hosting, and most recently, the cloud. Brady's core competencies include web API development and integration, middleware development, TDD, service orientation, and continuous integration. His most recent endeavors include Windows Azure, playing around with the Kinect, SignalR, AOP, Netduino, Orchard CMS, Behavior Driven Development. /rest/sessions/An-Introduction-to-SignalR @bradygaster http://bradygaster.com rest/speakers/Michael-Pardo Michael Pardo Michael Pardo is a software engineer working on Android apps at Mobiata, now a subsidiary of Expedia. He has been working as a developer for over eight years. Most of that time was spent writing web apps using C#. Now he spends most of his time writing Android apps. He also writes an active record style ORM for Android called ActiveAndroid. ActiveAndroid allows you to easily persist objects to SQLite databases in Android. Prior to Mobiata, Michael has worked for Web Ascender, WhitePages, Artemis Solutions, and MC Squared. /rest/sessions/Android-Pro-Tips @pardom http://blog.michaelpardo.com rest/speakers/Ted-Neward--Jessica-Kerr Ted Neward & Jessica Kerr Ted Neward is an Architectural Consultant with Neduesic, LLC, specializing in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 10-person shops. He is an authority in Java and .NET technologies, particularly in the areas of Java/.NET integration (both in-process and via integration tools like Web services), back-end enterprise software systems, and virtual machine/execution engine plumbing.    Jessica Kerr has programmed for twelve years at companies large and small. An expert in Java and back-end services, she is branching out into F# and Android development, writing articles for developerFusion.net and presenting to other consultants. Jessica is a resident of St. Louis, a consultant at Daugherty Business Systems, and a mother of two crazy nuts. /rest/sessions/Android-Where-You-Can-Stick-Your-Data @jessitron http://jessitron.blogspot.com rest/speakers/Shay-Friedman Shay Friedman Shay Friedman is a Visual C#/IronRuby MVP and the author of IronRuby Unleashed. With more than 10 years of experience in the software industry, Friedman now works in CodeValue, a company he has co-founded, where he creates products for developers, consults and conducts courses around the world about dynamic languages and web development. You can visit his blog at http://IronShay.com. /rest/sessions/ASPNET-MVC-vs-Ruby-on-Rails @ironshay http://IronShay.com rest/speakers/Jon-Skeet Jon Skeet Jon Skeet is a software engineer at Google London by day, and a C# "enthusiast" (to put it mildly) in his spare time. He is passionate about the intricacies of C# as a language, and keen to share his experiences whether through his blog or on Stack Overflow. Jon's book on C#, "C# in Depth" is published by Manning and now in its second edition. (Although Jon works for Google, he does not speak on behalf of Google.) /rest/sessions/Async-From-the-Inside /rest/sessions/Cs-Greatest-Mistakes @jonskeet http://msmvps.com/jon.skeet rest/speakers/Bill-Wagner Bill Wagner Bill Wagner, SRT Solutions co-founder, is 25-year veteran of the software industry. He’s a recognized expert in software design and engineering, specializing in C#, .NET and the Azure platform. He serves as Michigan’s Regional Director for Microsoft and is a multi-year winner of Microsoft’s MVP award. An internationally recognized author, Bill authored the bestselling Effective C#, now in its 2nd edition, and its follow-up, More Effective C#. He also currently writes a column on the Microsoft C# Developer Center. Recently, Bill was awarded the Emerging Technology Leader Award by Automation Alley, Michigan’s largest technology consortium. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. /rest/sessions/Async-From-the-Outside /rest/sessions/C-Stunt-Coding-I-Dare-You-to-Try-This-at-Home @billwagner http://www.srtsolutions.com/author/billwagner rest/speakers/Barbara-Jones Barbara Jones Barbara Jones is a software engineer in the test & measurement industry, developing instrument drivers, tests, and data acquisition software in C++ and Python. She has been committed to promoting diversity in technical communities since she joined the CWRU section of the Society of Women Engineers. If she claims to be the inspiration for Mattel’s Computer Engineer Barbie, she’s lying... her degree is in Computer Science. /rest/sessions/Automated-Python-Test-Frameworks-for-Hardware-Validation-and-Verification @velociraptors rest/speakers/William-Wallace William Wallace William Wallace has been an IT professional since 1981, when he got paid to write software on his Apple II+ with a whopping 16K of memory. He has seen a lot of changes in the past three decades while working in both the private and public sector, writing software in BASIC, Assembly, C/C++, COBOL, Java, JavaScript, Pascal, and C#. In addition to his current day job at the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services, he has a thriving freelance consulting business that fills most of his free time. Because of all his time spent standing under the Waterfall, he is a committed Agile evangelist, earning both an Executive Certificate in Agile from the John Cook School of Business and a Scrum Master certification from the Scrum Alliance. He loves to learn and teach technology, and is currently working his way through the maze of Microsoft certifications. /rest/sessions/BDD-the-NET-Way /rest/sessions/Gadgeteering-with-the-NET-Micro-Framework-and-Visual-C @LibRT4All rest/speakers/Ben-Barefield Ben Barefield During the day, Ben Barefield works as a software consultant for SRT Solutions where he works with clients to transform their needs into excellent software. At SRT he has spent learning time exploring many languages and technologies and continually expands his .Net knowledge for client work. His not-so-secret evening identity as a game developer has created games that have been popular with his friends and family. /rest/sessions/Be-the-Input-Kinect-With-Your-Computer @benbarefield http://www.benbarefield.com/blog rest/speakers/Chris-Nelson Chris Nelson Chris Nelson is a software developer who hails from the fair city of Cincinnati, Ohio. He has been developing web applications for about 15 years and is passionate about finding better ways to do it. He's spoken at most of the major and ruby and java conferences and is an advocate for ways to develop software that actually work (sometimes referred to as Agile). /rest/sessions/Beautiful-Front-End-Code-with-Backbonejs-and-CoffeeScript @superchris http://mysterycoder.blogspot.com rest/speakers/Nick-Quaranto Nick Quaranto Nick is a firm believer in open source software, a proud member of Ruby community, and has been doing web development for as long as he can remember. He cut his teeth on classic ASP and ASP.NET at first, but discovered Ruby on Rails through his university and dove in head first. Nick pretends he's a bassist with famous prog rock bands when not coding. /rest/sessions/Becoming-a-Ruby-Gemcutter @qrush http://quaran.to rest/speakers/Mark-Gustetic Mark Gustetic Mark Gustetic is a software engineer and has been working in the tech industry for the last seven years. He currently working as a Ruby developer with Cleveland startup Within3. He has worked with companies of many different sizes, from startup to large corporations like Progressive. He has worked with multiple different programming languages including: Ruby, C#, Node.js, and more. /rest/sessions/Blazing-Fast-Backend-Services-using-Nodejs-and-MongoDB @markgustetic rest/speakers/Sam-Corder Sam Corder Sam Corder is a developer in a Fortune 500 company working with identity technologies day in and day out. Night in and night out he exercises the technologies that keep his creative juices flowing including authoring the original .NET driver for MongoDB, and doing mobile development. He can be found on github at http://github.com/samus. /rest/sessions/Bootstrapping-Scala-Development-for-Android @samcorder rest/speakers/Glenn-Block Glenn Block Glenn is a PM at Microsoft working on support for node.js in Windows and Azure. Glenn has a breadth of experience both inside and outside Microsoft developing software solutions for ISVs and the enterprise. Glenn has also been very active in involving folks from the community in the development of software at Microsoft. This has included shipping several products under open source licenses, as well as assisting other teams looking to do so. Glenn is also a frequent speaker at local and international events and user groups. When he's not working and playing with technology, he spends his time with his wife and daughter staying caffeinated in Seattle or exploring the world. /rest/sessions/Breaking-the-Barrier-with-Nodejs-on-Windows-and-Azure @gblock http://blogs.msdn.com/b/gblock/ rest/speakers/Carol-Smith Carol Smith Carol Smith has worked as both an employee and consultant in a wide variety of industries. She has helped businesses through their first usability study, and worked with organizations as they grew their UX practice. Through her business, Midwest Research, LLC, she researches and communicates user needs to clients to help them improve products and also conducts usability tests on websites, software, and consumer products. Carol has a Master's degree in Human-Computer Interaction and is the Treasurer and Director of Education and Training for UPA International, an organization that promotes usability concepts and techniques worldwide. Carol enjoys spending time with her husband and two young children and runs when she can. /rest/sessions/Bring-the-Users-Integrating-UX-into-Your-Organization /rest/sessions/Easy--Effective-Usability-Testing @carologic http://www.mw-research.com/blog/ rest/speakers/Carl-Quinn Carl Quinn Carl Quinn has been developing software professionally for 30 years, starting with BASIC on an Apple II, slogging through C/C++ on DOS, Windows and embedded, and finally landing in the Java on Linux world. The one thread through his career has been an inexplicable attraction to developer tools, spending time building them at Borland (C++ & Java IDEs), Sun (Java RAD), Google (Java & C++ build system) and most recently at Netflix (Java build and deployment automation). Carl also co-hosts the Java Posse podcast, the #1 ranked Java technology podcast. /rest/sessions/Building-for-the-Cloud @cquinn rest/speakers/James-Bender James Bender James is the Vice President of Technology at Improving Enterprises in Columbus, OH. James has been involved in software development and architecture for 16 years. He has worked as a developer and architect on everything from small, single-user applications to Enterprise-scale, multi-user systems. His specialties are .NET development and architecture, TDD, SOA, WCF, WF, cloud computing, and agile development methodologies. He is an experienced mentor and author. James is a Microsoft MVP. James book "Professional Test Driven Development with C#: Developing Real World Applications with TDD" was release in May of 2011 /rest/sessions/Building-Metro-Style-Applications-in-Windows-8 @jamesbender http://www.jamescbender.com rest/speakers/Chris-Hartjes Chris Hartjes Chris Hartjes has been building web applications of all shapes and sizes since 1998, ranging from catalogs for CD compilations for professional DJ’s to large-scale dating web sites. Currently working for Moontoast helping them build out their social commerce platform. He lives in Milton, Ontario, Canada with his long-suffering wife, two daughters, a furry pig masquerading as a cat, and the reincarnation of the Roman god of the underworld in feline form. /rest/sessions/Building-Testable-Applications-in-PHP @chartjes http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard rest/speakers/Rich-Dudley Rich Dudley For an entire decade, Rich inhabited cubicles at several companies in the same office park, eventually leading a team of developers building data warehouses, web-based BI applications and integrating mission critical systems. Today, as a Technical Evangelist for ComponentOne, Rich travels the country sharing new technologies with an eye toward the usefulness of these technologies to the poor souls still in their cubicles. Rich has been working with Azure since the early beta days, with Windows Phone 7 since before you could leave one in a bar, and is co-author of "Microsoft Azure: Enterprise Application Development" from Packt Publishing (http://bit.ly/msazurebook). Follow Rich's blog at http://c1.ms/c1_richd, or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/rj_dudley. /rest/sessions/Building-Windows-8-Applications-with-HTML-5-and-jQuery @rj_dudley http://our.componentone.com/author/c1_richd/ rest/speakers/Alex-Papadimoulis Alex Papadimoulis Alex Papadimoulis is the founder and editor of The Daily WTF, a leading how-not to guide for developing software. Residing in Berea, Ohio, he is a software engineer at Inedo, which helps software developers automate their build-deploy-release process with BuildMaster. /rest/sessions/CI-Going-Beyond-Continuous-Integration @apapadimoulis http://thedailywtf.com/ rest/speakers/Aaron-Bedra Aaron Bedra Aaron Bedra is a member of Clojure/core and a developer at Relevance, Inc. where he spends his time as a tech lead, speaker and author. He is a frequent contributor to the Clojure language and its supporting libraries as well as an active member of the Clojure community. Aaron is the co-author of Programming Clojure, 2nd Edition /rest/sessions/CANCELLED-ClojureScript-One--to-rule-them-all- @abedra http://clojure.com/blog/ rest/speakers/Jim-Weirich Jim Weirich Jim Weirich first learned about computers when his college adviser suggested he take a computer science course: "It will be useful, and you might enjoy it." With those prophetic words, Jim has been developing now for over 25 years, working with everything from crunching rocket launch data on supercomputers to wiring up servos and LEDs on micro-controllers. Currently he loves working in Ruby and Rails as the Chief Scientist at EdgeCase, but you can also find him strumming on his ukulele as time permits. /rest/sessions/Code-Kata-and-Analysis /rest/sessions/Writing-Solid-Ruby-Code @jimweirich http://onestepback.org rest/speakers/Brandon-Satrom Brandon Satrom Brandon is a web evangelist for Microsoft, based in Austin, TX. A unapologetic lover of the web, Brandon loves to talk about HTML, JavaScript, CSS, open source and whatever new shiny tool or technology (like CoffeeScript) has distracted him from that other thing he was working on. Brandon loves writing and speaking and loves hanging out with and learning from other passionate developers, both online and in person. /rest/sessions/CoffeeScript-is-for-Closers @brandonsatrom http://www.userinexperience.com rest/speakers/Mark-Ramm Mark Ramm Mark Ramm has been solving problems with Python for over a decade, and has been hacking on python web libraries and frameworks for much of that time. Right now, he's working to try to help SourceForge.net recapture it's mojo. In his free time he's written books, magazine articles, a bunch of code, and a quite few tweets.   /rest/sessions/Concurrency-in-Python @markramm http://compoundthinking.com/blog rest/speakers/Paul-Stack Paul Stack Paul Stack is currently employed as a team lead for an internationally known restaurant booking service where he leads a team working on the .Net platform. Paul has spoken throughout the UK at developer user group events and at a number of regional events. He usually speaks about his experiences of continuous integration and about the movement from continuous integration to continuous delivery. /rest/sessions/Introducing-Continuous-Delivery @stack72 http://paulstack.co.uk/blog rest/speakers/Godfrey-Nolan Godfrey Nolan Godfrey Nolan is founder and president of RIIS and author of Decompiling Java. Godfrey specializes in requirements capture using visualization tools such as iRise and Balsamiq and requirement management tools such as ReqPro and CaliberRM primarily in the Detroit Metro area and is currently using executable requirements at a couple of clients in the automotive and telecommunications space. /rest/sessions/Continuous-Integration-on-Mobile-Platforms @riisllc rest/speakers/Leonard-Fingerman Leonard Fingerman I'm a passionate software test professional who continuously strives to find better ways to improve software quality. Through various test automation methods and techniques I was able to demonstrate effectiveness and progress for a number of software projects - large and small. I have presented various test automation topics at IASA conference, Agile Atlanta user group as well as Atlanta Java user group. /rest/sessions/Continuous-Test-Automation-through-CI rest/speakers/Colin-Gemmell Colin Gemmell Colin Gemmell is Web/Application Developer from Glasgow, Scotland. He has gained a wide range of experience in his time as a developer working on everything from enterprise applications to small promotional web-sites. Starting out first Borland Delphi before graduating to .NET he made the jump to Ruby on Rails and hasn’t yet looked back. A constant presence in the in the Glasgow tech community Colin has spoken a numerous programming and tech events and conferences covering the length and breadth of the UK. He also current runs the Glasgow Ruby User Group. /rest/sessions/Cooking-Up-Environments-with-Chef @colin_gemmell http://pythonandchips.net rest/speakers/Jimmy-Bogard Jimmy Bogard Jimmy oversees the technical design and architecture of solutions delivered, evaluating potential technologies and increasing awareness of technologies on the horizon. Jimmy has delivered solutions ranging from shrink-wrapped products to enterprise e-commerce applications for Fortune 100 customers. He is also a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) and is an active member in the .NET community, leading open source projects, giving technical presentations, and facilitating technical book clubs. Jimmy is a member of the ASPInsiders group, the C# Insiders group, and received the "Microsoft Most Valuable Professional" (MVP) award for ASP.NET in 2009, 2010 and 2011. /rest/sessions/Crafting-Wicked-Domain-Models @jbogard http://jimmybogard.lostechies.com rest/speakers/Brian-Schuth Brian Schuth Twenty years ago Brian Schuth put his philosophy degree in the closet, started work as a software developer, and never looked back. Working in a polyglot of languages, from m4 and perl to Javascript, C# and Ruby, he has created software primarily for the health research and epidemiology. An advocate and evolving practioner of Agile practices, he is currently an independent contractor, working wherever the next gig takes him. He spends most of his time in Eastport, Maine, his adopted home town, where he explores Agile practices in theatrical direction when not sitting in front of his keyboard. /rest/sessions/CANCELLED--Creating-a-CrossPlatform-Application-in-C-and-Monotouch-A-Case-Study @bschuth http://www.alphce.com/blog rest/speakers/Mike-Bobiney Mike Bobiney Mike Bobiney is the founder of Tap Through Apps, an iOS and mobile web application consulting business based out of Livonia, MI. He has done work in various capacities for Fourtune 500 companies and local businesses in the Detroit area. Mike’s wide range of interests as it applies to software craftsmanship has lead him to begin experimenting with open source products. As a result, he’s taken it upon himself to bring the Detroit Ruby user group to Downtown Detroit where Mike helps organize monthly meetups. /rest/sessions/Crossplatform-mobile-apps-with-jQuery-Mobile @mikebob http://mikebobiney.com rest/speakers/Colin-Bowern Colin Bowern Colin Bowern is a solutions architect and coach focused on the advancement of organizational goals through pragmatic technology investments. His work spans music, financial, public sector, and technology industries including start-up and multi-national organizations like Microsoft, Bank of Montreal, and officialCOMMUNITY. Colin engages teams and executive management to boost productivity and drive innovation using user-centric design and promoting craftsmanship in software engineering. Recognized by the community for interactive contributions in public speaking, community building, and writing, Colin has been awarded a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional designation for ASP.NET/IIS for the past several years. His work appears across books, forums, and web casts. You can find out more about Colin on the web at ColinBowern.com. /rest/sessions/Database-Migrations-for-Web-Applications @colinbowern http://colinbowern rest/speakers/Jeff-Fansler Jeff Fansler Jeff Fansler is the Founder and President of Fanzoo Technology, Inc. He is also a father, hockey player, home brewer, major geek, and enjoys long walks in his office with a picture of the beach on the monitor. Jeff’s career has been focused on bringing the benefits of software and the internet to a wide range of business needs. Jeff started Fanzoo Technology, Inc. in 2006 and has helped several clients design, develop, and support products and custom line of business applications. Throughout his career he has learned a lot about the business of software but more than anything, he has learned that there is always more to learn and that everyone has something to contribute. /rest/sessions/Dealing-with-Data-in-a-Windows-Phone-7-Mobile-Application @Fanzoo http://www.ThisIsFanzoo.com rest/speakers/Michael-Slade Michael Slade Michael Slade is an Applications Programmer – Lead with Progressive Insurance. Prior to joining Progressive, he was a senior software engineer with ABB, where he spent 12 years building real-time, highly concurrent Windows applications to help ABB customers automate their chemical, power, and manufacturing plants. /rest/sessions/Design-Patterns-for-Parallel-Programming /rest/sessions/Parallel-Programming-in-Windows-8-Metro-Applications @michaelhslade http://michaelhslade.com/ rest/speakers/Jen-Myers Jen Myers Jen Myers is an interaction designer in Columbus, Ohio, where she also teaches HTML/CSS and organizes the web development education program Girl Develop It Columbus. Her particular areas of interest are interactive user experience design, teaching innovation and creating technical solutions for social causes. She spends the rest of her time writing, watching good movies and raising a future geek girl. /rest/sessions/Developers-Cant-Design-and-Other-Completely-Untrue-Design-Myths @antiheroine http://www.jenmyers.net rest/speakers/Sohil-Shah Sohil Shah I am currently the Chief Engineer at OpenMobster. OpenMobster is an open source platform for mobilizing Cloud services. It consists of a very efficient sync platform to store Cloud data locally on the device and then keeping it in sync with the Cloud and your other devices. A short definition would be 'iCloud for the Enterprise'. Before OpenMobster I worked on JBoss Portal as a senior software engineer at Red Hat. My duties involved architecting and implementing the Portal infrastructure on the CMS and Security side. I have spoken multiple times at JBoss World on the topic of Single Sign On. /rest/sessions/Developing-Enterprise-Mobile-Apps @openmobster http://openmobster.blogspot.com rest/speakers/Keith-Dahlby Keith Dahlby Keith Dahlby is a new father, Git enthusiast, .NET developer, language geek and C# MVP from Cedar Rapids, IA. He leads the E-Commerce at J&P Cycles and blogs about various software development topics with Los Techies. His open source efforts include posh-git, a Git environment for PowerShell, and FSRazor, F# support for the Razor view engine. Keith has spoken at community events around the Midwest and he studied Human-Computer Interaction at Iowa State University. His talks have been described as "terrific!", "very interactive!", and "the best I've seen all hour!". /rest/sessions/Dynamic-NET-Demystified @dahlbyk http://keith.lostechies.com/ rest/speakers/Hadi-Hariri Hadi Hariri Hadi Hariri is a developer, speaker, podcaster and Technical Evangelist at JetBrains. His passions include software architecture and web development. Book author and frequent contributor to developer publications, Hadi has been speaking at industry events for over a decade. He is based in Spain where he lives with his wife and two sons, and runs the .NET Malaga User Group. He is also an ASP.NET MVP and ASP.NET Insider. /rest/sessions/Dynamic-in-a-Static-World @hhariri http://hadihariri.com rest/speakers/David-Giard David Giard David Giard has been developing solutions using Microsoft technologies since 1993. He is a Microsoft MVP; an INETA mentor; and the President of the Great Lakes Area .Net User Group. David has presented at many of the conferences and user groups around the Midwest. He is a recovering certification addict and holds an MCTS, MCSD, MCSE, and MCDBA, as well as a BS and an MBA. He is the host and producer of the mildly popular online TV show Technology and Friends. You can read his latest thoughts at www.DavidGiard.com. David lives in Michigan with his two teenage sons. /rest/sessions/Effective-Data-Visualization-The-Ideas-of-Edward-Tufte @DavidGiard http://davidgiard.com rest/speakers/Bill-Pugh Bill Pugh Professor at Univ. of Maryland, inventor of Skip Lists, lead on FindBugs, 6 time JavaOne Rock Star, one of the puzzling type-it brothers, and part time fire eater. /rest/sessions/Effective-use-of-FindBugs-in-large-software-development-efforts /rest/sessions/Painful-Java-Puzzlers-and-Bug-Patterns @wpugh http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh rest/speakers/Bryan-Hunter Bryan Hunter Bryan Hunter is a geek, a founding partner of Firefly Logic and the president of the Nashville .NET User Group. Bryan is obsessed with Lean, functional programming (Erlang, C# and F#), CQRS and Caliburn.Micro. He has been speaking on each of these subjects tirelessly for years at meetups, bars, user groups, bars, regional conferences and bars. You can say hi to Bryan on Twitter (@bryan_hunter), read his blog at http://codeswamp.com, and see what Firefly Logic is all about here: http://fireflylogic.com /rest/sessions/Erlang-An-Intro-for-C-Developers @bryan_hunter http://codeswamp.com rest/speakers/Matt-Yoho Matt Yoho Matt Yoho is a developer and agile enthusiast with a love for Ruby and the web who works for EdgeCase, LLC in Columbus, OH. He is a supporter of the Software Craftsmanship movement and is the Apprenticeship coordinator at EdgeCase. He likes comic books, karaoke, Free Software, and sweet potato fries. He is one fairly hep cat. /rest/sessions/Exploiting-a-RESTful-Approach /rest/sessions/Have-Fun-the-Rong-Way @mattyoho rest/speakers/Gary-Bernhardt Gary Bernhardt Gary Bernhardt is a creator and destroyer of software compelled to understand both sides of heated software debates: Vim and Emacs; Python and Ruby; Git and Mercurial. He runs Destroy All Software, which publishes advanced screencasts for serious developers covering Unix, Ruby, OO design, and TDD. /rest/sessions/Capability-vs-Suitability @garybernhardt http://destroyallsoftware.com/blog rest/speakers/Eric-Wiley Eric Wiley Eric is the founder of Infotoken, an user-centered interaction design studio based in Northeast Ohio. He works closely with stakeholders, subject matter experts and developers to evolve human-computer interactions by way of actionable design documentation and prototypes. Eric has been working in the interactive industry since 1995; with specific focus on the content strategy, information architecture, and interface components of the user experience. He collaborates regularly with design studios and in-house teams to develop better interfaces for web, industrial devices and software. He is a regular contributor to the air traffic control interface component of the Federal Aviation Administrationʼs ongoing NextGen project; a comprehensive overhaul to the national airspace system. Eric is an active member of the Cleveland Web Standards Association and local leader of the Cleveland Interaction Design Association. He lives in Peninsula, Ohio with his wife and their son. /rest/sessions/CANCELLED--Fast-Track-Mental-Models @ericwiley rest/speakers/Bill-Heitzeg Bill Heitzeg Bill Heitzeg manages the eCommerce platform for Domino’s. He has worked on a number of eCommerce projects, before joining Domino’s, including Sabre and Travelocity. He has also done quite a bit of software consulting and training in the past as well. He likes to brew beer and will most likely bring some to CodeMash. /rest/sessions/Free-Pizza-A-Glimpse-Inside-Dominos-Pizzas-Mammoth-Online-Operation @billheitzeg rest/speakers/Mark-Rendle Mark Rendle I’m currently employed as Principal Software Architect at Dot Net Solutions Ltd, where we are creating all manner of software and services on the Microsoft stack, including ASP.NET MVC, Windows Azure, WPF and Silverlight. Since April 2011, I have been a Windows Azure Development MVP. My career in software design and development spans three decades and more programming languages than I care to remember. C# has been my favourite language pretty much since the first public beta, when you had to write the code in a text editor and compile it on the command line. Those were the days. You kids today, with your IntelliSense™ and your ReSharpers, don’t know you’re born… In my spare time, I work on the Simple.Data not-an-ORM project, and build developer-centric tools for mobile devices, including the award-winning Pocket C# for Windows Phone 7. That’s when I’m not just geeking out learning new programming languages and frameworks; 2011 is the year of JavaScript/CoffeeScript, F# and Nancy. /rest/sessions/Functional-Alchemy-Tricks-to-keep-your-C-DRY @markrendle http://blog.markrendle.net/ rest/speakers/Nilanjan-Raychaudhuri Nilanjan Raychaudhuri I am Nilanjan Raychaudhuri working for Livingsocial. Previously worked in companies like Pillar technology and Thoughtworks. I have managed and developed software solutions for more than 12 years and specializing in integrated multi-tiered web and server applications. I am known for hard work, well-tested code, and clean OO design. I believe in high-discipline agile methodologies, customer focus, simple tools applied elegantly, and continuous improvement. I believe I am almost unique among programmers having strong skills with both databases and objects together. I have a passion for the elimination of duplication in design, code, data, and most of all – effort. I write software for a living. But since I enjoy creating things and solving problems, I also write software on my pastime. I am currently working on scala-webmachine (restful resource framework). In past I worked on other open source projects like Panopticode, scala-inline and autotest4j. When I am not working on projects I play with functional programming and DSL. Currently writing a book on Scala programming language called “Scala in Action” from Manning publication. /rest/sessions/Functional-Programming-in-Java @nraychaudhuri rest/speakers/Jeff-Morgan Jeff Morgan Jeff Morgan has spent 25 years writing software, holding various roles including Senior Developer, Manager of Application and Enterprise Architect, Director of Technology and most recently Chief Technology Officer at LeanDog. He has been an evangelist for the Agile Software Development movement since 2003 and has spoken at several organizations, conferences, and technical events. He has coached agile teams for the past seven years with an emphasis on the engineering practices like TDD, Pair Programming, and ATDD. He is also the author of several popular Ruby gems. He is passionate about the Cleveland IT community and his company, LeanDog, currently sponsors and hosts 6 technology group meetings each month in downtown Cleveland. His company also sponsors GiveCamps to build and donate software to local non-profit organizations. /rest/sessions/Get-the-Tech-Out-of-Your-Cukes @chzy http://www.cheezyworld.com rest/speakers/Dustin-Campbell Dustin Campbell Dustin Campbell is a senior program manager on the Visual Studio team, where he works on the Visual Basic and C# language service experiences. Currently, he is focused on the future of Visual Basic and C# in Project Codename Roslyn. Before joining Microsoft, he developed much of the low-level plumbing of the award-winning CodeRush and Refactor! products at DevExpress. A regular speaker, Dustin is a noted authority in many advanced areas of the Microsoft .NET Framework and dives deep “under the hood” of any technology that he works with.   Dustin is a programming language nut. His favorite color is blue. /rest/sessions/Getting-Your-Hands-Dirty-with-the-Roslyn-APIs @dcampbell http://diditwith.net rest/speakers/Robert-Cooper Robert Cooper Robert Cooper is a developer based in Atlanta where he develops telemedicine apps at Reach Heath. He is the author of GWT in Practice and a contributor to a number of open source projects including Shortyz Crosswords for Android. /rest/sessions/GWT-is-Smarter-than-You @kebernet http://www.screaming-penguin.com rest/speakers/Ben-Callahan Ben Callahan President of Sparkbox and Founding Partner of FORGE, Ben is a thought leader on front-end development sharing his ideas about the web on the Sparkbox Foundry and industry blogs like Smashing Magazine. His leadership at Sparkbox has driven the organization to be a leading provider of responsive web design and he continues to push for better user experiences outside the context of specific devices. /rest/sessions/HandsOn-Responsive-and-Adaptive-Web-Design @bencallahan http://seesparkbox.com/foundry/author/ben_callahan rest/speakers/Timothy-Fisher--Kate-Pricer Timothy Fisher & Kate Pricer Tim has over 20 years of experience in the software development field. He has served in roles ranging from lead developer to chief architect for a variety of large and small companies. He is also the author of the Java Phrasebook and the Ruby on Rails Bible. Currently, Tim works as a technical consultant for Compuware in Detroit, Michigan where he is currently leading the technology teams for Compuware Ventures. Tim’s main area of development focus over the past year has been mobile app design and development. Outside of his day job, Tim is very active in the local development community having organized multiple user groups and is lead developer on multiple open source projects. Kate is a recent graduate of the International Academy of Design & Technology. Since joining Compuware in 2011, Kate has already had a significant impact at Compuware. Kate has been the lead designer on several web and mobile projects. Her accomplishments have also included being the designer of the logo for Compuware Ventures and the lead designer for several start-ups that are funded by Compuware Ventures. For the last 6 months, Tim and Kate have worked closely collaborating on several mobile and web projects including an award winning app developed exclusively for Maker Faire Detroit 2011. Within Compuware they have formed a team known within Compuware as “Fisher Pricer” which has gained recognition throughout the company for the innovative way they have been working and collaborating side-by-side, merging design and technology on each project they work on. /rest/sessions/High-Performance-Developer--Designer-Collaboration @tfisher http://blog.timothyfisher.com rest/speakers/Chris-Risner Chris Risner Chris Risner is a Senior Software Engineer and Team Leader at Quicken Loans, the nation’s largest online mortgage lender based in Detroit, MI where he leads the mobile development team responsible for bringing amazingly engineered applications to mobile devices. Before leading the mobile development team Chris worked on many large scale enterprise applications in Java and .NET. Chis is a prodigious learner who loves technology of all flavors and has a vast amount of experience in Smart Clients, Asp.Net MVC, C#,, Java, Objective C, Android and iOS. Chris speaks from his many successes in different areas of technology. You can find out more about Chris at http://chrisrisner.com /rest/sessions/Intro-to-Android-Development @chrisrisner http://chrisrisner.com rest/speakers/David-Neal David Neal David is a father, geek, musician, and software developer living in the Nashville, TN area. David is currently the Director of Development for Cell Journalist, an online social media service provider for TV stations, newspapers, and radio. Prior to joining Cell Journalist, David was a senior software engineer for Telligent, the premier social networking platform for .NET that powers some of the largest online communities, such as Microsoft's ASP.NET Forum, MSDN Blogs, Dell, and Game Informer. David is passionate about software craftsmanship, user experience, music, and bacon. David also serves on the leadership team for the Nashville .NET user group. /rest/sessions/Intro-to-RavenDB-NoSQL-is-Rapping-at-Your-Door @reverentgeek http://reverentgeek.com rest/speakers/Sandeep-Bhanot Sandeep Bhanot Sandeep Bhanot is a Developer Evangelist at Salesforce.com. In a prior incarnation (he is Indian after all), he was an Enterprise Architect and SOA Consultant. As a Developer Evangelist at Salesforce.com, he helps spread the gospel of the Cloud and Heroku. /rest/sessions/Introducing-Heroku--The-Polyglot-Cloud-Application-Platform @cloudysan http://blogs.developerforce.com/ rest/speakers/Gun-Makinabakan Gun Makinabakan Gun Makinabakan has a Master's Degree from Purdue University, Indianapolis specializing in parallel computing and cloud computing technologies. In late 2008 Gun co-founded iMobileCode, a mobile application development company operating in US and Turkey. With applications in 4 major platforms, user base of couple millions and tens of millions of monthly usage rate; iMobileCode became one of the leaders in mobile world in Turkey. Since 2008, iMobileCode has developed multi platform mobile application for various companies including Ford, msnbc, Fox TV and Coca Cola. Gun has given presentations in national conferences in Turkey, CodeStock 2010 & 2011, Atlanta Cocoa Camp and various local user groups in US about mobile application development and Amazon Web Services. /rest/sessions/Introducing-iOS-Programming @gmakinabakan rest/speakers/Chris-Adamson Chris Adamson Chris Adamson is an iOS and Mac developer, editor, and author, based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the co-author of Core Audio (Addison-Wesley Professional) and iPhone SDK Development (Pragmatic Programmers), among others. He has several apps on the App Store, including the navigation app "Road Tip". He maintains a corporate identity as "Subsequently & Furthermore, Inc.", and has thus far owned 11½ Macs. /rest/sessions/iOS-Networking-Bonjour-iCloud @invalidname http://www.subfurther.com/blog rest/speakers/Brad-Colbow Brad Colbow Brad Colbow is an award-winning web designer, illustrator and speaker best known for his comics that are published monthly in .Net magazine and "The Brads" a weekly strip found on his personal website. His work has appeared on the New York Time's website, CNET, Smashing Magazine and elsewhere. You can find out more about him and his work on his website colbowdesign.com /rest/sessions/Its-the-Little-Things @bradcolbow http://bradcolbow.com rest/speakers/Scott-Seighman Scott Seighman Scott Seighman is a Principal Sales Consultant with Oracle where his primary focus is architecting open solutions that span the computing landscape, from embedded devices to cloud architectures. Based in Cleveland, Scott is tasked with cultivating the technical staffs within Oracle's Partner community through training, workshops, webinars, product evaluations, and demos. Prior to joining Oracle, Scott spent 12 years with Sun Microsystems as a systems engineer, promoting Java technologies (ME, SE, EE) throughout the Midwest. /rest/sessions/Java-SE-7-The-Platform-Evolves rest/speakers/Stephen-Chin Stephen Chin Stephen Chin is a technical expert in RIA technologies, and Chief Agile Methodologist at GXS. He coauthored the Apress Pro JavaFX Platform title, which is the leading technical reference for JavaFX, and is lead author of the Pro Android Flash title. In addition, Stephen runs the very successful Silicon Valley JavaFX User Group, which has hundreds of members and tens of thousands of online viewers, and also is co-organizer for the Flash on Devices User Group. Finally, he is a Java Champion, chair of the OSCON Java conference, and an internationally recognized speaker featured at Devoxx, Jazoon, and JavaOne, where he received a Rock Star Award. Stephen can be followed on twitter @steveonjava and reached via his blog: http://steveonjava.com/ /rest/sessions/JavaFX-2-for-JVM-Language-Hackers @steveonjava http://steveonjava.com/ rest/speakers/Kendall-Miller Kendall Miller Kendall Miller is one of the founding partners of Gibraltar Software, an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) that develops and markets commercial applications for .NET developers, including: Gibraltar – an application logging and monitoring platform; and VistaDB – a small-footprint, SQL Server-compatible embedded database engine. Both products are used by customers around the world ranging from individual consultants through Fortune 100 companies and governments. Before starting Gibraltar Software, Kendall worked for multiple startups leading their technology development from concept through profitability. In each case, he's focused on translating enterprise-level performance and capabilities down to smaller companies. Using multiple generations of Microsoft technologies over the past 15 years, Kendall is experienced with the details of modern .NET development as well as the challenges that have stayed the same for generations. You can follow his blog at rocksolid.gibraltarsoftware.com or on Twitter (@KendallMiller). /rest/sessions/Massive-Scalability-for-ASPNET-you-can-Afford @kendallmiller http://reliable.esymmetrix.com rest/speakers/Kevin-Berridge Kevin Berridge Kevin Berridge is passionate about techniques and principles for building great software regardless of language or platform. For the past 10 years he has been working on products that make a difference in the Justice and Health Care industries. He is in charge of Software Engineering at Pointe Blank Solutions and runs the Burning River Developers meetup in Cleveland. Kevin is always excited to learn about the underlying principles that influence the way we do development today. When not hacking, he's probably playing jazz trombone. /rest/sessions/Mastering-Change-With-Mercurial @kberridge http://kevin-berridge.blogspot.com rest/speakers/Jeff-Casimir Jeff Casimir Jeff Casimir has been writing Ruby and Rails applications since 2005 and started Jumpstart Lab in 2009. He currently travels the world teaching the best Ruby/Rails classes on earth. /rest/sessions/MetricsPowered-RubyRails-Performance @j3 http://jumpstartlab.com/ rest/speakers/Jeff-Blankenburg Jeff Blankenburg Jeff. Geek. Dad. Phone Guy. Hey You. These are all names that Jeff Blankenburg has been called in the last 15 minutes. His 12 years of web and mobile development experience led him to Microsoft, where he has had the privilege to speak to software developers all over the world. Jeff has published numerous mobile applications, as well as a book on writing apps. (He recommends that you buy both. Twice.) He will be happy to sign your copy of any book you have, written by him or not, lowering the value of the book significantly. /rest/sessions/Mobile-Smackdown-Iron-Chef-Style @jeffblankenburg http://jeffblankenburg.com rest/speakers/Carin-Meier Carin Meier Carin started off as a professional ballet dancer, studied Physics in college, and has been developing software for both the enterprise and entrepreneur for the past 15 years. She comes from a solid Java background, but has discovered a passion for the power and elegance the dynamic languages of Ruby and Clojure. When left to daydream, she thinks about the dynamics of flocks of birds, what the giant squids might really be doing down there in the deep, and maybe opening a first-rate cheese shop one day. /rest/sessions/Once-Upon-a-Time-in-Clojureland--Learning-Clojure-with-a-Fairy-Tale @carinmeier http://gigasquidsoftware.com/wordpress/ rest/speakers/Joe-Fiorini Joe Fiorini Joe is a Ruby & Javascript developer, husband and father from Cleveland, Ohio. He works for LeanDog Software where he builds solutions for customers using Ruby on Rails. He has contributed to a number of open source projects including RSpec, Ruby on Rails and GitX. He is currently writing his first screencast on Backbone.js. /rest/sessions/Organized-Javascript-with-Backbonejs /rest/sessions/CANCELLED--The-User-Obsessed-Developer @joefiorini http://userobessed.net rest/speakers/Brent-Stineman Brent Stineman Brent has a passion, a passion for 'the cloud'. Nothing has captured the imaginations of IT as much as the potential of this brave new frontier. For the last three years, this passion has been focused on the Windows Azure platform, sharing his excitement, experience, and first-hand knowledge with anyone that wants to listen. Brent was recognized in 2010 as an inaugural Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for the Windows Azure Platform. /rest/sessions/PHP-with-Windows-Azure @brentcodemonkey http://brentdacodemonkey.wordpress.com/ rest/speakers/Bruce-Eckel Bruce Eckel Bruce Eckel (www.BruceEckel.com) is the author of Thinking in Java (Prentice-Hall, 1998, 2nd Edition, 2000, 3rd Edition, 2003, 4th Edition, 2006), Thinking in C++ (PH 1995; 2nd edition 2000, Volume 2 with Chuck Allison, 2003), C++ Inside & Out (Osborne/McGraw-Hill 1993), and First Steps in Flex (with James Ward, 2008) among others. He's given hundreds of presentations throughout the world, published over 150 articles in numerous magazines, was a founding member of the ANSI/ISO C++ committee and speaks regularly at conferences. He provides public and private training and consulting in programming languages and software system design. /rest/sessions/Polyglot-Programming-The-Power-of-Hybridization /rest/sessions/Reinventing-Business @BruceEckel http://www.artima.com/weblogs/index.jsp?blogger=beckel rest/speakers/Geoffrey-Goetz Geoffrey Goetz Geoffrey Goetz is a Mobile Architect at Compuware Corporation in Columbus Ohio, as well as a published author for GigaOm's TheAppleBlog. Geoffrey’s online articles have been picked up in syndication by popular sites including USA Today, Money, Fortune, Forbes and The New Your Times. Geoffrey is also a published book author ("Mastering JBuilder") and veteran international speaker on a variety of topics ranging from Win32, to Java, to Mobile. He has been on the development scene in central Ohio since graduating from Ohio State in 1992. Geoffrey has been a speaker on mobile development at CodeMash, MobileX and the local CIDUG meetings. You may also recall several presentations that Geoffrey has delivered Borland Developers Conference as well as locally at COJUG as far back as the late 90's. Geoffrey’s involvement on the mobile scene started with J2ME (as featured in the January 2000 issue of JDJ) and includes such ubiquitous platforms as Java Ring/Smart Card (when such things existed). Geoffrey has also recently been involved in cross platform and native development on both the iOS and Android platforms for various Fortune 100 and 1000 companies. /rest/sessions/Preparing-for-Release-to-the-App-Store @ggeoffre http://gigaom.com/author/ggeoffre/ rest/speakers/Adam-Goodman Adam Goodman Adam is a co-founder and Principal Security Engineer at Duo Security, where he and his cohorts work to radically improve the ease-of-use in strong authentication systems. He was previously a founding engineer at Zattoo, Europe's largest live-streaming Internet TV operator, where he led the development of the secure P2P distribution and digital rights management protocols that carried the first live broadcasts of Europe's second-largest pay TV operator over the Internet. Adam also enjoys puns way too much for his own good... /rest/sessions/Putting-Web-API-Security-Issues-to-REST @akgood rest/speakers/Evan-Machnic Evan Machnic Evan Machnic is a PANDA at Engine Yard and individual Rails Developer. He is also an occasional Rails on Windows masochist. /rest/sessions/Rails-Development-on-WindowsSeriously @emachnic http://broadmac.net rest/speakers/Daniel-H-Steinberg Daniel H Steinberg Daniel Steinberg has spent the last three decades programming the iPad, iPhone, and Mac OS X. OK, he hasn't. But he's been programming the iPhone and the iPad since the SDK's first appeared in beta and Mac OS X for many years before. Daniel is co-author of the book iPad Programming from the Pragmatic Programmers and author of their book Cocoa Programming. Daniel presents iPhone and Cocoa training for the Pragmatic Studio and consults through his company Dim Sum Thinking. When he's not coding or talking about coding for the Mac, the iPhone, and the iPad he's probably cooking or hanging out with his wife and daughter. /rest/sessions/Storyboards-New-development-in-iOS5- @dimsumthinking http://dimsumthinking.com rest/speakers/Dawn-Code Dawn Code Dawn Code is a software test evangelist who has been working to integrate testers as members of software development teams and improving the working relationships between testers, developers, and everyone else for the past 9 years. When not speaking at testing and agile conferences and user group meetings, she spends her time working in the open source community. She also writes actively, publishing articles and posting to her blog at passionatetester.com /rest/sessions/Test-Driving--beyond-the-parking-lot @dckismet http://passionatetester.com rest/speakers/Bill-Sempf Bill Sempf Hi, my name is Bill Sempf, and I am an enterprise architect. Though I used to hate the term enterprise architect, it is clearly the only thing out there that defines what it is that I do. My breadth of experience includes business and technical analysis, software design, development, testing, server management and maintenance and security. In my 18 years of professional experience I have participated in the creation of well over 200 applications for large and small companies, managed the software infrastructure of two Internet service providers, coded complex software happily in every environment imaginable, and made mainframes talk to cell phones. In short, I make the technology that people are using every play nicely together. /rest/sessions/Testing-the-Security-of-Your-Web-Apps-with-Backtrack-5 @sempf http://www.sempf.net rest/speakers/Jonathan-Penn Jonathan Penn Jonathan Penn is a mobile and web app developer with a long history of quality work sprinkled with mischief. As an independent contractor, Jonathan loves helping clients through training and bootstrapping new ideas with vigor and discipline. Aside from working with hard-to-solve problems, he is the mad scientist behind the apps at Navel Labs (http://navel-labs.com), and scribbler-in-chief at Cocoa Manifest (http://cocoamanifest.net), a technical blog for exceptional iOS resources and commentary. /rest/sessions/UI-Automation--Testing-iOS-Apps-from-the-Top-Down @jonathanpenn http://cocoamanifest.net/ rest/speakers/Matt-Stine Matt Stine Matt Stine is a Technical Architect at AutoZone in Memphis, TN. He is an eleven year veteran of the enterprise software and web development industries, with experience spanning the healthcare, biomedical research, e-commerce, and now retail store domains. His current focus is the development and support of an enterprise Java platform supporting 4600+ AutoZone stores. Matt appears frequently on the No Fluff Just Stuff symposium series tour, as well as at other conferences such as JavaOne, SpringOne/2GX, The Rich Web Experience, and The Project Automation Experience. He has served as Agile Zone Leader for DZone, and his articles also appear in GroovyMag and NFJS the Magazine. Matt is also author of the Selenium 2.0 DZone Refcard. Matt is also the founder and past president of the Memphis/Mid-South Java User Group. His current areas of research emphasis include lean/agile software development, continuous delivery, DevOps, and infrastructure as code using tools such as Puppet, Chef and Vagrant. /rest/sessions/Vagrant-Virtualized-Development-Environments-Made-Simple @mstine http://www.mattstine.com rest/speakers/Jesse-Liberty Jesse Liberty Jesse Liberty is a Senior Developer-Community Evangelist on the Windows Phone Team. Liberty hosts the popular Yet Another Podcast and his blog is required reading. He is the author of numerous best-selling books, including Programming Reactive Extensions and LINQ and the forthcoming Migrating to Windows Phone. He was a Distinguished Software Engineer at AT&T; Software Architect for PBS and Vice President of Information Technology at Citibank and can be followed on twitter at @JesseLiberty /rest/sessions/Whats-New-In-Windows-Phone-Mango @JesseLiberty http://JesseLiberty.com rest/speakers/Parag-Joshi Parag Joshi Parag Joshi (@ilovethexbox ) is an independent consultant and has over 13 years software development experience working on various Microsoft based technologies. He has been developing on .NET since the first beta. He is an active member of the Cincinnati .NET User Group (@CINNUG) and runs an XNA Linked-In User Group at http://LetsXNA.org with support from CINNUG. With the new Windows Phone 7 ecosystem, he is busy developing Windows Phone XNA games for his 7 year old son and getting advanced input from his 15 month old daughter. You can check out the Let’s XNA site for more community XNA game development. /rest/sessions/Windows-8-Metro-App-with-Near-Field-Communication rest/speakers/Keith-Elder Keith Elder Keith Elder is the co-host of the popular online technology podcast Deep Fried Bytes. He is also a Director of Software Engineering at Quicken Loans, the nation’s largest online mortgage lender based in Detroit, MI and is the founder of the Hattiesburg, MS .Net User Group called Hub City NUG. Keith is an experienced technologist, systems administrator, software engineer, speaker, trainer and all around geek. As an experienced educator, trainer and speaker he has logged thousands of hours in front of the classroom teaching students of varying ages from the 6th grade to the college level. He has trained countless developers from various business sectors ranging from top auto manufactures, fortune 500 companies and Universities. As a Microsoft MVP he speaks throughout the United States at major technical conferences, Code Camps, and .Net User Groups. Keith’s ability to explain complex topics with a friendly common sense southern attitude make him a highly regarded speaker at technical conferences. You can read more about Keith’s interests, hobbies, rants and raves on his blog at http://keithelder.net/. /rest/sessions/CANCELLED--Windows-8-Porting-a-Real-SilverLight-Application-to-WinRT /rest/sessions/SESSION-UPDATED-Building-an-Englishbased-Rules-Engine-Using-NET-and-IronRuby rest/speakers/Brian-Prince Brian Prince Brian H. Prince is a Cloud Evangelist for Microsoft. He gets super excited whenever he talks about technology, especially cloud computing, patterns, and practices. His job is to help customers strategically leverage technology, and help them bring their architecture to a super level. In a past life Brian was a part of super startups, super marketing firms, and super consulting firms. Much of his super architecture background includes building super scalable applications, application integration, and award winning web applications. All of them were super. Further, he is a co-founder of the non-profit organization CodeMash (www.codemash.org). He speaks at various international technology conferences. He only wishes his job didn’t require him to say ‘super’ so much. Brian is the co-author of “Azure in Action”, published by Manning Press. Brian holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science and Physics from Capital University, Columbus, Ohio. He is also a zealous gamer. 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He was responsible for the implementation, maintenance, and support of every system he sold, which was a formative experience that continues to influence his approach to consulting and coaching. Barry has played various roles in his 15 years in the software industry, including lone developer, team lead, director, and Agile coach and mentor. Barry is one of the few native Atlantans, currently specializing in coaching and mentoring for Agile software development in addition to doing contract software development. Over the years, he has developed on multiple platforms, focusing primarily on Microsoft technologies and then Java from 2003 onward. He views technology as a set of tools, and embraces the use of dynamic as well as statically-typed languages, procedural, object-oriented, and functional programming, each having their own strengths in a given problem domain. /rest/sessions/Keynote-How-We-Got-Here-And-What-To-Do-About-It rest/speakers/Ted-Neward Ted Neward Noted architectural expert, author and speaker Ted Neward will share insights into this topic honed over a decade of working with a wide range of organizations. An Architectural Consultant with Neudesic, LLC, Ted holds no patents, founded no open source frameworks, and invented no languages, choosing to revel instead in endless rounds of Halo, pizza, and gallons of Diet Coke. /rest/sessions/Keynote-Rethinking-Enterprise rest/speakers/NimblePros NimblePros NimblePros is an agile software studio located in Hudson, Ohio. NimblePros focuses primarily on Microsoft technologies with an emphasis on software quality and craftsmanship. In addition to consulting services, NimblePros provides software tools Nitriq and Atomiq, software auditing services, and online training in partnership with Pluralsight On-Demand. NimblePros also runs the Northeast Ohio Software Craftsmanship group, HudsonSC.com, which meets the 3rd Wednesday of each month. /rest/sessions/Dojo-Bowling-Game-Kata /rest/sessions/Dojo-FizzBuzz-Kata /rest/sessions/Dojo-Greed-Kata /rest/sessions/Dojo-Gilded-Rose-Refactoring-Kata /rest/sessions/Dojo-Ball-Flow-Agile-Exercise /rest/sessions/Dojo-String-Calculator-Kata /rest/sessions/Dojo-Tennis-Scoring-Kata /rest/sessions/Dojo-Potter-Books-Kata /rest/sessions/Dojo-Marshmallow-Challenge-Game @nimblepros http://nimblepros.com/ rest/speakers/Joe-Nuxoll Joe Nuxoll Joe Nuxoll is best known in the software technology world as a co-host of the popular podcast "The Java Posse". By day, Joe is a UI designer for Tesla Motors, and is working on the in-car user interface for the new Model S. 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