Derik Whittaker

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• Announcement
• ASP.Net MVC

• Upcoming Speaking Engagements

  Just wanted to send a message out there to anyone that is going to be in the Raleigh/Durham area this week. I will be giving 2 talks this week. One at TriNug and another at the Raleigh Code Camp . If you are in the area and want to stop by to heckle me... Posted Nov 09 2008, 04:53 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with no comments Filed under: Announcement, ASP.Net MVC, Conference

• KaizenConf Wrap Up -- What an Exhausting Learning Experience

  Well, that does it for this years KaizenConf . I can honestly say that I had a great time, I met some great people (nice to put faces to twitter handles) and shared some great stories. What is great is that when I setout to make it to this openspace conference... Posted Nov 02 2008, 06:53 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Conference

• KaizenConf - Open Communication, Resistance to Change, Going with the Staus quo w/ reference to various team roles

  Another session that I sat in on today was "Open communication, Resistance to change, Going with the status quo with reference to the various roles on the team " If I could wrap up the entire session in a phrase it would be the following: When... Posted Nov 01 2008, 03:20 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Conference

• Kaizenconf day 1 wrap up

  Yesterday was day 1 of this years KaizenConf and it got started off with a bang. I was not able to make it to most of the conferences pre-conference workshop, but I was able to make it to one. Fluent APIs with C# - Chad Myers Chad put together a great... Posted Nov 01 2008, 06:52 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Conference

• Iowa Code Camp in the rear view mirror

  Well, it is official, the Iowa Code Camp has come and gone. Yesterdays event was awesome. They had about 125-150 people show up for the first ever Code Camp in Iowa. The venue could not have been any nicer and setup any better. There were a total of 5... Posted May 04 2008, 11:31 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Conference

• Deeper in .Net Slides/Sample Code

  The slides and sample code for the conference can be found here . I would highly recommend that you take a look at 'The Scaling Habits of Asp.Net Applications' as well as 'The Science of a Great UI'  Both of these were great. Posted Apr 09 2008, 01:16 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with no comments Filed under: Conference

• Deeper in .Net wrap up

  Wow, yesterday was great. Myself and Jordan Martz make the trek up from Chicago land up to Brookfield WI to attend a great .Net developers conference. The conference had a great turnout of about 400 people that listened to 5 great presentation LINQ Internals... Posted Apr 06 2008, 10:20 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Conference

• Deeper in .Net (live) -- Essence of Linq

  Speaker : Chalie Calvert The fifth and final session was about diving deeper into Linq.  This was a great session.  He really dove pretty deep into the guts of linq and how it actually worked.  He did not cover a vast amount of linq syntax... Posted Apr 05 2008, 05:38 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Conference

• Deeper in .Net (live) - Scaling Habits of ASP.Net

  Speaker: Richard Campbell (yea, that Richard .  But no Carl :( ) The third session today deals with scaling a ASP.net application.  Going from the 'make it work' stage to 'make it scale' stage in our developers and how we as... Posted Apr 05 2008, 03:04 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Conference

• Deeper in .Net (live) -- The Science of a Great UI

  Author: Mark Miller (Developer Express, iNeta Speaker) The second session of the day was about great UI's.  I thought that this would be how to design great UI's, but no.  It really was about how we as developers need to start observing... Posted Apr 05 2008, 11:11 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Conference

• Deeper in .Net Live -- Linq internals with VB 9 (oh yea, VB baby)

  Author: Scott Wisniewski The first presentation of the day is 'Linq internals with VB 9'.  The presenter is a Microsofty that made the trek out from Redmond to visit the midwest.  The goal of the presentation is to give a high level... Posted Apr 05 2008, 09:10 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Conference