Speaking in Detroit twice next week – Code to DI For and QL Tech Conf
September 11, 2017 Category: Events, News 1 Comment »
I know I’ve mentioned before how great it is to work for a company that provides time to attend and speak at various conferences. This is a whole next level.. Quicken Loans Technology group puts on their own annual conference that is truly a top notch 1 day conference. In addition to the speakers listed on the web site, I’ve also heard the likes of Steve Smith and Jim Holmes will also be presenting – I’m so pumped to be attending this! (and completely humbled to be presenting).
At QL Tech Conf I’ll be giving a UX’y talk
I’ll be sharing some of the lessons learned from when I ran the product design UX team at GetThere. We’ll be talking about how we used Innovation Games, rapid prototyping and design studios to better collaborate build better products. I really like the topics covered in this talk because they don’t just apply to UX teams. We’ve used Innovation Games to help facilitate retrospectives, organize team work and all sorts of contexts. I’ve found the prototyping techniques I’ll be covering useful whenever I need to communicate an idea or concept. Super handy for all dev and UX teams!
At MIGANG (Michigan Great lakes Area .NET Group) I’ll be speaking on Dependency Injection
I love this talk. This is the talk I gave in Ft. Worth where someone commented “Had me laughing so hard I could hardly eat my nachos.” I went for nearly 10 years in my professional development career before I adopted a DI approach to authoring code… the techniques that I’ll be showing have had the single greatest impact on how I write software today. I’ve been giving this talk, in one form or another, for several years now. If you’re in the area, be sure to stop by, we’ll hit up the local pizza place afterwards and have a great time!
Speaking: 10 Reasons your Software Sucks–Denver Road Trip Edition!
June 4, 2015 Category: Events 1 Comment »
This is quite possibly my most popular talk of all time.
This was the key note at the Tulsa Tech Fest, a featured talk at the Sela Developer Conference in Tel’Aviv Israel and I’ve given this talk at multiple events around the United States. I’m excited to head to the Rocky Mountain state later this month. I’ll be speaking at the Microsoft office in Denver on June 15th, 2015 talking about the 10 Reasons your software sucks, and the practices that you need to fix it.
If you’re in the Denver area…
first go attend the Denver Dev Day event (that I’m unfortunately missing by about a week), then come to the Denver Visual Studio Users Group on June 15th.. It’s going to be a great time! See you there.
Description
Fresh off of the European tour of “So You Think You Can Code,” * we bring you the hit sensation, 10 Practices Every Developer Needs to Start Right Now. Recently from off-Broadway, you are going to learn some new things and have a fun time learning them! (Seriously, Caleb recently gave this talk at the Microsoft office in New York… right off Broadway). Yes friends, this is the talk that kicked off a controversy at the 2010 Dallas Tech Fest, read the blog, see the slides… then come see and learn for yourself!
Based on years of consulting and working with some of the largest (and smallest) software companies in the world, these are the 10 practices that if you started doing today, would drastically improve the quality and delivery of your software!
* Caleb was never in Europe, but it’s still going to be a great session!
Topics hit on:
- Object Oriented Principals
- SOLID Coding
- Security Concerns
- Software Patterns
- Automated Testing
- Source Control – Branching and Merging Strategies
- Continuous Integration
- Agile, Scrum, XP, Lean
- Team Dynamics
- Continually Learning, and more
Be sure to hang around afterwards, Caleb will be around to discuss any of the areas from his talk in more detail — it’s going to be great time!
ASP.NET AJAX and Visual Studio 2008 in Tallahassee, FL on Thursday.
March 3, 2008 Category: Events 2 Comments »
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On Thursday, March 6th 2008, I’ll be presenting at the .NET Users Group in Tallahassee, FL. We’re going be covering working with ASP.NET AJAX with Visual Studio 2008. If you’re in the area stop by and say hi!
Register here so that they know that you’re coming!
See you then!
Hey Texas Tech! Check out Microsoft Silverlight at the Lubbock .NET User Group – Jan 22
January 21, 2008 Category: Events 1 Comment »
Tomorrow, Jan 22, 2008 – I’ll be presenting on Silverlight with Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend at the Lubbock .NET Users Group. If you go to Texas Tech, or are in the area come on out for it!
See you there!
Update: Here are the slides from the talk. Enjoy!
Tulsa Developers .NET Tonight!
November 19, 2007 Category: Events No Comments »
I’ll be at the Tulsa .NET Users Group tonight! Speaking on .NET 3.5… coincidence that Visual Studio 2008 RTM‘d the same day? Most likely. 🙂
If you join us… don’t expect me to be on the RTM version of Visual Studio yet. I’m using Visual Studio 2008 (beta 2) + Expression Blend 2 (sept. preview) + Expression Design SP1 + Silverlight 1.1 (alpha) + Silverlight 1.1 SDK (alpha) + Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Tools for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
It’s that last one that keeps me from updating Visual Studio before tonight. I’ll have to test / or wait for the Silverlight Alpha tools (since this will be an add-on for Visual Studio) to upgrade to the Visual Studio 2008 RTM.
I learned a long time ago to not change my demo machine the day of a presentation… but that doesn’t mean that it’s still very tempting to see if it would all work!
Join us tonight: http://www.tulsadnug.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=107
See you then!
ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight at Louisiana .NET User Groups
November 6, 2007 Category: Events 1 Comment »
Tonight, Tues – Nov 6, 2007, I’ll be presenting at the Greater New Orleans .NET User Group on ASP.NET AJAX with Visual Studio 2008.
Tomorrow night I’ll be at the Baton Rouge .NET User Group talking about Microsoft Silverlight with Expression Suite and Visual Studio 2008.
This is my first trip to go speak on INETA’s behalf as a part of the INETA Speaker’s Bureau. I’ve been a fan of INETA (the International .NET Association) and their work ever since I ran the user group in Tulsa, and while I worked at Microsoft. Now, I’m excited be a part of this amazing group supporting the .NET communities in the US and Canada!
I’m excited and looking forward to meeting all of the people out there! If you’re in the New Orleans or Baton Rouge areas stop on by! Check back here, I’ll post my slides from the talks later this week.