Casey Watson

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Casey Watson is a Partner at Konverge Labs (http://konvergelabs.com/), Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, hopeless mobile development geek and proud father. For the last seven years, Casey has been focused on helping customers realize business value through the development of quality software products, primarily on the Microsoft .NET platform. As a Certified Scrum Master, Casey is a firm proponent of agile practices and deeply believes in the value of product over process. Recently his focus has been on helping companies build solid mobile presences through the use of cross-platform development tools like Konnector. While not blogging, coding, or updating his Twitter status (@_caseywatson), Casey enjoys spending time with his family and never turns down an ice cold bottle of Blue Moon.

Sessions

Simplifying Package Management with NuGet

Level: 100
Track: None
Time: 09:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Day: 2
Room: DevExpress

It's one of those headaches that you knew you had but, until now, never had a name for. It's package management. If you're a .NET developer and you'd like to take control of how you and your organization maintains, shares and uses application libraries, you owe it to yourself to take a look at NuGet, Microsoft's answer to Ruby Gems. NuGet goes beyond simply adding references to your project and allows for fully automated configuration and setup of third-party libraries directly from within Visual Studio using either the GUI or Powershell. NuGet allows you to not only search through an ever-expanding catalog of application packages but also to discover new ones that can help you and your team be more productive. In this session, we'll start by discussing package management from a high level, move on to installing, configuring and using NuGet from within the IDE and finally we'll discuss how you can build your very own NuGet packages and distribute them either through the official NuGet stream or your own private repository. By the end of the session, you should know all that you need to know to start taking advantage of this powerful and long overdue tool.

The Five Minute App

Level: 100
Track: None
Time: 03:45 PM - 05:00 PM
Day: 2
Room: Component One

Mobile development sucks. That's just a fact. Unlike web development, each platform, at least from a development perspective, is wildly different and there are no real standards defined yet. So, as a developer, what do you do? You can't sit back and watch the wave wash by. You certainly don't have the time to learn a half-dozen platforms (and languages.) Join us as we take a close look at the tools and methods that are available right now to ease the pain of mobile development. We're not just talking about one or even two platforms. We're certainly not talking about building web applications. We're talking about building "meta-applications" that can be rapidly interpreted and used to build a spectrum of native mobile applications using automated tools. Think "one-to-many" compilation. Join us as we build "The Five Minute App" using these tools and learn how to make mobile development suck a whole lot less.