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    Speaking at TechEd North America 2010

    Check out my pre-con at TechEd North America, Joel and I will be speaking on Agile. Register here. :) PRC07 The Agile Methodology Demystified: Implementing Agile in Your Organization Track: Development Practices Speaker(s): Joel Semeniuk, Stephen Forte Agile project management and development methods are being adopted at many development shops. After an introduction to the basics of Agile and Scrum, including: project planning and estimation, the Scrum Master, team, product owner and burn down, and of course the daily Scrum, certified scrum masters Stephen and Joel show many real-world applications of the methodology drawn from their own experience. Negotiating with the business, estimation, and team dynamics are all discussed...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
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    Telerik LINQ to M Refresh

     SQL Server Modeling (formerly "Oslo") is a new model driven development paradigm. Developers can model their applications using the new M language. M allows you to define a structure for your data as well as represent it in graph based values. Representing values in the M language is very similar to JSON, which will allow you to represent your data in name/value pairs. Here is an example of M values in action: People {      { Id=>1, Name=>"Steve", Age=>36},      { Id=>2, Name=>"Mike", Age=>29} } Last summer, Telerik created the industry’s only LINQ to M (Values) implementation. The Telerik LINQ to M implementation allows the developer to use pure LINQ statements...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
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    Know Excel? Take the quiz and win an HD monitor!

    Do you know Excel? Answer a few quick questions at the Excelerators Quiz site, and find out how you rate. Let me know your results and you could even win a brand new HD monitor from Microsoft! The prize you can win will include a Dell ST2310 23 inch flat panel monitor , keyboard, and mouse. (Over $250 value.) Here is how you can win the goods: Go take the quiz and report here your results in the comments, or ping me on Facebook . Take the quiz between today and February 4th. I will decide the winner and send the results to Microsoft. (Tiebreaker will be a PowerPivot challenge I will...
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
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    Speaking at the Great Indian Developer Summit

    I’ll be speaking at the Great Indian Developer Summit from April 20-23 at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, India. This will be my second time to the GIDS and it will be hard to top last year’s adventure of Video Drivers, Prison Riots, and Silverlight, but I will try. I will be speaking on .NET day on: Business Intelligence Design Patterns: BI Made Easy! Sharing Code between .NET and Silverlight (This is mostly on SL 3.0, but will I show how you can do it with SL 4.0 too, which is *much* easier!) On web day I will be speaking about: Building Line of Business Applications with Silverlight 4.0 Sessions are only...
    March 22, 2023 1 min read
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    Half-day Agile Seminar Feb 24th in Pune, India

    I will be presenting a half day seminar on Agile Development, Tools and Teams on Wednesday February 24th at the MCCIA in Pune. The event is brought to you free by e-Zest, MCCIA, and Telerik. Seats are limited, to sign up in advance, please email seminar@e-zest.net. The Program Details One of the most popular Agile project management and development methods, Scrum is starting to be adopted at major corporations and on very large projects. After an introduction to the basics of Scrum like: project planning and estimation, the Scrum Master, team, product owner and burn down, and of course the daily Scrum, Stephen (a certified Scrum Master) shows many real...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read