There is a need to “Sharpen Your Axe” so to speak, every now and again. What do we mean by that? In the pioneering days of the West, it was no good for a lumberjack to just keep chopping at trees day in day out with the same old axe. Every now and then he had to sit down, relax, take time to sharpen his axe, and to smell the roses. That way he got a lot more done.

It’s the same with Software Development . In the daily need to meet deadlines and milestones often we neglect the things that brought us into the industry in the first place. The desire to experiment and to learn ‘new stuff’! Half the problem of course is that there is more than enough ‘new stuff’ out there or so it seems, and it is a bit of a head scratcher, trying to decide which way to go first off.

That’s why VBUG are putting on this one day conference, to give help you get started in some key areas of current and emerging technologies.
We will be taking a look at two of the ‘hot’ technologies in the Microsoft Web Technologies area namely Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight. You can start to see how the User Interfaces of the future might look.

But that is not all. There are other technologies out there which have been around nearly a year and are gathering momentum, namely Windows Workflow and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or MOSS. Is Workflow the new way to write applications? Is the next Web Development Platform MOSS? You decide after seeing these sessions.

Finally you can hear about some completely different things such as Functional Programming, Speech Recognition and Virtual Earth Mapping which may or may not have an impact on your daily work. Just knowing about these things however, can often make you start to think about your existing challenges in a different and productive way.

So we invite you to come along and take part in a great day of technological “axe sharpening”. All of the speakers are Software Developers like you and have a passion for current and the emerging technologies and for sharing their knowledge with others such as yourself.

It’s going to be a great event, and a great investment in you for the coming months and years.

TIME	AGENDA
08:15 - 09:00	Registration
09:00 - 09:15	Keynote Andy Westgarth
09:15 - 10:15	Mark Quirk Visual Studio 2008
10:15 - 10:30	Morning Break
10:30 - 11:30	Dave McMahon MOSS
11:30 - 11:45	Morning Break
11:45 - 12:45	Gary Short Windows Workflow 101
12:45 - 13:45	Lunch
13:45 - 14:45	Oliver Sturm WPF Business Apps - Part 1
14:45 - 15:00	Afternoon Break
15:00 - 16:00	Oliver Sturm WPF Business Apps - Part 2
16:00 - 16:15	Afternoon Break
16:15 - 17:15	Richard Costall Silverlight Showcase
17:15	CLOSE

This 1 day event is rated at £119.00 ex VAT per VBUG member, or £149.00 ex VAT to all non VBUG members.

The rate also includes FREE learning materials for Silverlight and WPF, provided by our event partners, Innerworkings (http://www.innerworkings.com/). This material to be access through a unique URL which will be made available at time of booking.

Please note:

Conference Ticket Cancellation:
In the event a booking is cancelled within 14 (fourteen) days of the 24th April 2008 date, you remain liable for 100% of the ticket price.

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