We’re extending the early bird pricing for Donald Belcham’s “Making the Most of Brownfield Application Development” until Friday July 9th! Until that day you can register for the full day workshop at the discounted price of $149.99!

Click herefor more information including how to register!

Some attendees have inquired on where session materials can be accessed. We've left it to each presenter to make their session materials available via their blog, ftp site, or other means. To help get you to the materials we've added "Click Here for Session Materials!" links on our Sessions page: http://www.prairiedevcon.com/sessions.aspx

If there's a session that doesn't have a link, feel free to contact the presenter directly via our speakers page to request the materials:
http://www.prairiedevcon.com/speakers.aspx

Donald Belcham delivered his “Making the Most of Brownfield Application Development” workshop to rave reviews at the Prairie Developer Conference in Regina. We’re excited to announce that Donald will be delivering his workshop in Winnipeg on Friday, July 23rd!

Pricing for the event is $149.99 before July 2nd, and $199.99 after and up to the event date.

For more information including workshop abstract and how to register, check out the event info page here.

We’ve added to new sessions to the schedule as Michael Norton regrettably cannot attend the conference.

Joel Semeniuk will be presenting his TechEd talk “Lean Thinking, Hefty Results” and James Kovacs will follow up his NHibernate Dojo session with an “Advanced NHibernate” lecture.

Please review the schedule page of our site to review the changes that have been made to the timetable, and also the sessions page to read the abstracts for these two sessions.

What is a Hands On Coding/Dojo Session?
These are sessions where attendees bring their own computers and are led through a coding session by the presenter. The Prairie Developer Conference is featuring a number of Hands On Coding sessions covering jQuery, nHibernate, refactoring, Test Driven Development, and Behaviour Driven Development.

What Do I Need to Bring?
Bring along a computer (laptop works best obviously) as well as a prepared environment to follow along with the examples presented. To aid this, review the software requirements below for each of the Hands On Coding sessions.

nHibernate Dojo with James Kovacs
Visual Studio .NET 2010 or 2008
SQL Server 2005 or 2008, Express or Developer Edition
Additional materials will be made available at the session.

jQuery Dojo with James Kovacs
FireFox 3.6+, IE8, or Chrome
FireBug (if FireFox is being used) and Web Developer

Real World Behaviour Driven Development with Amir Barylko
Visit Amir’s website for details on what is required for this session.

Refactoring Towards Sanity with Robert Reppel
Visual Studio 2010 (download a trial version here.)
ReSharper 5.0 (download a trial version here.)
More information and details can be found on Robert’s website.

Hands On Test Driven Development
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5
NUnit 2.5.5 (download)
Rhino Mocks 3.6 (download)

Let us know if you have any questions or issues getting the software installed!

We’ve posted the schedule for the Prairie Developer Conference tonight, and you can view all of the session goodness over at the Sessions area of our site: http://www.prairiedevcon.com/schedule.aspx

We’ve extended the final registration discount of $100 off until May 31st! You have an extra two weeks to take advantage of this excellent professional development opportunity at an incredible value!

Visit our registration page today for details on how to register!

If you haven’t registered for the Prairie Developer Conference yet, you have until Sunday May 16th before the $100 discount off expires!

If you register before Monday May 17th you can take advantage of our $399.99 price. On May 17th and onward conference registrations will be offered at the regular price of $499.99. As always, groups of three or more get a $50 discount per registration!

If you don’t have your ticket to the Prairie Developer Conference yet, what are you waiting for? Register today!

http://www.prairiedevcon.com/registration.aspx

The Regina technology community is putting on a free social event the night before the Prairie Developer Conference at the Delta Regina! This is a fantastic opportunity for conference attendees and non-attendees alike to come out and meet with the presenters as well as connect with their local technology community!

Conference attendees can beat the rush on Wednesday morning by registering Tuesday night at the event and receiving their attendee package (lanyard, nametag, etc.). Also, we’ll be doing a prize draw just for conference attendees at the community event that night!

The community-leaders are providing finger food and non-alcoholic beverages, and Prairie Developer Conference is providing each attendee with one alcoholic beverage drink ticket.

For more information including how to register for the event (we need to know how much food to order!), click here!

Microsoft is in Regina tonight on their Energize IT tour! They’ll be showcasing some exciting new technologies including the new Office suite, Silverlight, SQL Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, VS.NET 2010, and others!

Welcome time is 5:30 and it goes until 8:30. For more information and how to register, check out the registration page here.