October 2007 Meeting
Tuesday, October 9, 2007 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Central Time (US & Canada)
Register online
Microsoft Corporation
2203 E. Empire Street
Suite J
Bloomington Illinois 61704
Event Overview
Intro to Microsoft’s Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Joe Kraft from Pearl Technology will present a high level overview of
the Windows Communication Foundation (formerly Indigo), Microsoft’s
unified programming model for building service-oriented applications.
Discussed will be the WCF Architecture, Data Contract Versioning,
Message Queuing, Transaction Support and Security aspects of WCF.
Joe
Kraft is a Senior Application Developer and the Application Development
Practice lead at Pearl Technology. He received his BBA from the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1994, and has merged his business
knowledge with his love of technology throughout his career.
Joe
brings with him 13 years of development experience, starting his career
at an Internet startup company developing websites for area companies
using HTML, JavaScript, and Perl CGI. From there he moved onto more
advanced website development in Cold Fusion, Java, and Microsoft’s
ASP.Net.
With over 7 years of consulting
experience, he has had exposure to all facets of the development
lifecycle, including requirements gathering, project management,
working on a team, creating test cases, and developing rollout
methodologies. He has experience with SQL, Oracle, Sybase, and DB2
databases, both on the administration side and with the T/SQL and
PL/SQL programming languages. He has also developed, and managed,
eCommerce sites with over $40,000,000 in annual sales.
As
the manager of Pearl Technology’s Application Development vertical, Joe
brings a unique perspective to projects as he has the business
knowledge to look at a project from a management perspective and help
guide the project towards the best possible completion.
O'Reilly has generously provided us with two WCF books to give away (Learning WCF and Programming WCF Services). We will also be giving away an Microsoft wireless keyboard and mouse package
Dinner will be provided, so bring your appetite and your business cards, for networking.