TechEd Blogging: Wednesday’s Cabana Question of the Day

Attendee question of the day:
A long running CPU and memory intensive piece of work needs to be done when requested by a user in an ASP.NET application and then reported back to the user when complete. How do you do it without placing too much load on the ASP.NET server?
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TechEd Blogging: "Test Driven Development with ASP.NET" in the Cabanas

After much confusion and schedule changes, I was able to take over Steve Smith’s session on TDD at TechEd today (Steve was unable to attend TechEd due to military service). Many thanks to Brian Marble for making the last minute arrangements!
The attending group was an adhoc bunch. Although TDD is certainly growing in popularity since [...]

TechEd Blogging: Pair Programming at TechEd

I will be in the Development Cabana in the “Sails” area of the San Diego Convention Center. I have been writing some articles, code, eating icecream and otherwise keeping busy. If you would like to come along and try some Test Driven Development first hand – I am open for pairing and general questions during [...]

TechEd Blogging: Bright sunlight and a caterers challenge!

The first day: I arrived at the San Diego Convention Center around 10am via cab ($15 for 4 miles … a little steeper than DC!). The building is very impressive … it is huge with interesting architecture and unusual elevators. Registration was a breeze using the staff line and finding the development cabanas was easy [...]

TDDing ASP.NET tonight in Vienna – from TODO list to ASP.NET with an audience …

I will be presenting “Test Driven Development with ASP.NET” tonight at the WinProVienna .NET User Group in Virginia (near Tyson’s Corner). This is going to be an updated ASP.NET version of my other TDD presentation which has a very heavy “hands on” approach by pairing with the audience. Some of the feedback that I have [...]

See you at the Microsoft TechEd 2004 Cabanas!

I will be assisting other developers and meeting the community during Microsoft TechEd 2004 this year. The Developer Tools and Technologies Cabana lounge will be the place to meet developers, trainers and speakers from far and wide.
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