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August
25 2009 (Tuesday)
Speaker: Ramesh Vasu
Topic: Integrating the Future with .NET
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The next frontier in connected business and lifestyle
solutions is the integration of millions of embedded devices
to enterprise applications. Known as embedded-to-enterprise
connectivity, this will enable physical assets to transmit
detailed usage and performance data over the Internet, utilizing
on-board monitoring units and communication devices. It
has been reported that there are more than 50 billion machines
in the world including cars, sensors, meters and household
appliances among many others. The world is at the cusp of
witnessing an exciting generation of new applications that
will touch all areas of our lives.
This presentation will focus on advances and the role of
.NET in light of where the future of embedded-to-enterprise
connectivity is headed. The speaker, Ramesh Vasu, will speak
from his rich experience in architecting, developing and
integrating embedded systems and business applications using
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Ramesh Vasu is the founder and president
of Ramesh Innovation, Inc., a company that is positioning
itself to deliver industry-specific products, solutions
and services for embedded-to-enterprise connectivity.
Before founding Ramesh Innovation, Inc. in 2006, Mr. Vasu
was a Senior Architect at Avanade, heading the technology
and business development of intelligent transportation
solutions. At Avanade, Mr. Vasu was the chief architect
of a $15M Electronic Fare Collection System for the Washington
State Ferries, the largest ferry system in the world.
This project involved the complex integration of a myraid
of field devices with financial systems using a high volume
messaging infrastructure. Mr. Vasu has worked very closely
with Microsoft Automotive to demonstrate the concept of
connected vehilces at the Innovative Mobility Showcase
in 2005. He was also a speaker at the 12th Intelligent
Transport Sytems World Congress in San Francisco. Mr.
Vasu is also involved in the development of smart meters
and advanced algorithms for wireless sensor networks.
Before Avanade, Mr. Vasu held senior technical positions
at Pandesic, Intel, and AEG Westinghouse.
Mr. Vasu holds a B.S (Chemistry) degree from the University
of Madras, a B.E degree in EE from the Indian Institue
of Science and a M.B.A degree from UC Davis. He is a MCSD
and a certifed SAP Consultant as well. He lives in El
Dorado Hills with is wife and two children.
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| Sep
29 2009
Speaker: Paul Sheriff
Topic: Build Unit Tests the Easy Way
with VS.NET 2008
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| Build Unit Tests the Easy Way
with VS.NET 2008
Everyone knows that they should be writing better test
cases for their applications, but how many of us really
do it? In VS.NET 2008 testing is an integrated part of
the development environment. So there is no longer any
reason to avoid not doing test driven development and
automated unit testing. In this seminar you will learn
how to architect your applications to make testing quicker
and easier. You will learn to use the tools in VS.NET
2008 to help you do the testing.
You will Learn
1.How to architect for test driven development
2.Creating test cases
3.Using the VS.NET 2008 testing tools.
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Paul D.
Sheriff is the President of PDSA, Inc. (www.pdsa.com),
a Microsoft Partner in Southern California. Paul
acts as the Microsoft Regional Director for Southern
California assisting the local Microsoft offices
with several of their events each year and being
an evangalist for them. Paul has authored several
books, webcasts, videos and articles on .NET, SQL
Server and SharePoint. Paul can be reached via email
at PSheriff@pdsa.com or at Paul Sheriff's Inner
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| Oct
27 2009
Speaker: Manoj P Keechilot
Topic: ASP.Net Virtualization
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| In this seminar, Manoj will attempt to put
some advanced topics in ASP.NET in black & white. Virtualization,
site map providers and themes will be introduced. To add
color, the demo will include Silverlight. The approach would
be to use simplicity and fun to demystify the concepts. |
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Manoj is
a founding director of SacDotNet. Please see his
detailed profile on this website
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