RavenDB is the poster child for document databases in the .NET world. As the NoSQL movement goes mainstream many .NET developers are curious to know more about this tool. In this tutorial we will give you the skills you need to get up and running with Rave...

When most people hear about messaging, they think about large distributed systems, message brokers, service buses - and that is certainly one use case. But messaging can be used in other contexts as well. And we will look at some of these. We will see how ...

So HTML5... What is all the fuss about? It seems all the major vendors are actually in agreement on something. In this tutorial we'll be powering through the murky waters of HTML5 taking a brief look at where all the hullabaloo has come from, why it matter...

As online services and mobile apps take over the world, one of the key challenges facing developers is that of security and identity. How can we trust our users? How can we persuade our users to trust us - and to trust each other? What does it actually mea...

It is becoming more important to know Javascript. As a language it has infiltrated all three layers of application development , from JQuery in the front end, through NodeJS in the middle tier, to Map/Reduce functions on backend databases like CouchDB. In ...

While Unit Testing and Test Driven Development (TDD) have become a solid foundation for many development teams, automated acceptance testing can still be painful and time-consuming. In this hands-on introduction, Ben Hall will introduce how you can success...

Mark Rendle presents this tutorial on his new web application framework, Simple.Web. Founded on the principle that MVC is a "broken" pattern, Simple.Web applies the SOLID design principles to web application development, and makes building RESTful web site...

Increasingly developers are relying on distributed architectures to solve the problems of scaling their applications and their development teams. But that means they now have to consider the problem of getting the parts of their systems to talk to each oth...

In this session, Matthew Baxter-Reynolds gets you up and running with building Metro-style apps for Windows 8 and Windows RT developers. You'll learn about the new .NET Framework profile for Metro-style and how it integrates with Windows Runtime (WinRT). Y...

With .Net Framework 4.5 (as used with WinRT) we will have a new set of libraries for creating Asynchronous code with resorting to manual configuration of threads and the grunt work associated with callback functions. We’ll provide an overview of how the ...

Most software projects involve doing something new, which brings uncertainty. Our brains aren't comfortable with that, so we have to make conscious effort to stop pretending to be certain when we're not! In this workshop-filled tutorial we look at how comm...

n this Practical Functional-first Programming with F# tutorial, Don Syme introduces you to the practical application of F#/.NET programming to solve real-world analytical programming problems. The tutorial will begin with a short lecture introducing the ...