Tom DuPont

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Tom DuPont lives in Dallas, Texas, where he is the Vice President of CodeSmith Tools, LLC. But don’t let the title fool you, Tom is a total code monkey! He specializes in .NET development with C#, ASP.NET MVC, and even that crazy JavaScript stuff. Tom has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas.

In his spare time Tom enjoys long rides across the country on his motorcycle.

Sessions

Attack, of the Cloud!

Level: 300
Track: None
Time: 09:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Day: 2
Room: Improving Enterprises 2

Cloud computing is great, but what do we put in the cloud? The web is advancing at an incredible pace and it’s time to start building true Web Applications, not just web sites! Web Apps shake off the constraints of operating system specific frameworks, and free developers to work in open standards based environment. This session will cover a variety of topics ranging from ASP.NET MVC development, unit testing, REST APIs, JSON, JQuery, ExtJS, tips and tricks, lessons learned, and more. It will conclude with building a sample blog reader Web App, and then deploying that to Windows Azure.

Using Embedded QA to Build Rock-Solid Software

Level: 200
Track: None
Time: 09:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Day: 1
Room: Telerik

Without an automated means to collect errors from deployed applications, how can you know that your software is performing as expected? Embedded QA can be used to augment your own internal QA efforts, greatly increasing both the effectiveness of your testing and overall stability of your applications. As Jeff Atwood phrased it, "If you're waiting around for users to tell you about problems with your website or application, you're only seeing a tiny fraction of all the problems that are actually occurring. The proverbial tip of the iceberg." This presentation will go over the value of Exception Driven Development, and the tools you need to gain the vision necessary to improve your applications today.