Michael Eaton
Michael Eaton is the founder of Validus Solutions, a custom software development and coaching company that specializes in leveraging client-based technologies. Validus has been developing solutions using Microsoft tools and technologies since 2001 and serves clients throughout the mid-west. Michael speaks throughout the United States at various regional events, user groups and conferences sharing his love of client development to other developers. He also spends time coaching and mentoring other developers. Michael runs the Kalamazoo X Conference and is a C# MVP. When not working on projects or spending time with his family, he treats his World of Warcraft addiction with ample doses of…World of Warcraft.
Website URL: http://www.mjeaton.net/blog
Best Practices for a Team of One
Whether you work in a cube or the comfort of your home office, there are many challenges facing the lone developer. Everything, from estimation to project management to coding, changes when you are a single developer instead of a team. What are some things you can do to make life easier as a lone(ly) developer? In this session, I will discuss many of the lessons learned and practices I've developed working almost exclusively as a single developer for the past ten years.
XAML: So easy, a web developer can do it
You're a web developer with years of experience creating amazing web applications, but you've just been assigned to a *gasp* WPF or Silverlight project! Because you're an expert developer, you're expected to love this new technology and be productive from day 1. You click File | New | WPF (or Silverlight) project and feel completely lost as you open the XAML files. Not only that, but you have to contend with new patterns like MVVM! Trust me, it's not as bad as it appears and XAML is NOT as hard as you think. This session will cover the things you need to know to be successful on your first XAML-based project.