Free Community-driven Developer Day on Sat May 14

If you like a free day of training on Microsoft technologies presented directly by developers with experience using technologies then sign up for the DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper day that's being held on Saturday 14 May at Microsoft's Thames Valley Park campus.  Don't wait to sign up - we're 75% full already and based on similar events in the US we're likely to sell out completely.  Microsoft have graciously provided the venue and are handling the registration and logistics, but all of the speakers are independent community developers! The www.developerday.co.uk site has a full overview of the event, the agenda and sessions and the speakers involved.

There are three different tracks with 6 presentations in each.  Here are a sample of some the talks from developers I know that I'm looking forward to:

• Alex Homer and Dave Sussman will be talking on SQL 2005 and another secret topic
• Ian Cooper, who runs the London .NET User Group, on Patterns of Data Access in .NET (here are my notes from a previous version of this talk I heard)
• Phil Winstanley, ASP.NET MVP, will be talking about preparing for ASP.NET 2.0
• Craig Murphy, Jedi Scrum Master and XML Web Services MVP, on Managing Iterative Development with Scrum
• I'll be covering What's new with Web Services in .NET 2.0.

I'm also looking forward to hearing about custom attributes in .NET, refactoring, test driven development, debugging tips and writing custom FxCop rules.

As well as the presentations it's also a great chance to network with other .NET developers.  For instance, I know that Jamie Cansdale is likely to be there, so if you've got any questions/comments for him on his fantastic TestDriven.NET addin there's an opportunity.

A big thanks to Mike Ormond and his team (Mike Pelton who first posted about the event) for providing the venue and logistics support.