WCF Master Class in June 2012

Miguel A. Castro will come to Belgium in the week of June 18, 2012, to teach the WCF Master Class.

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LiveMeeting in November 2011

On November 22 I will do a presentation on IntelliTrace, Test Impact Analysis and Team Build. Full details of this LiveMeeting can be found at https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032496738&Culture=nl-BE.

Architecting Mobile Applications

A new training course has been announced: Architecting Mobile Applications with Dino Esposito, a three day course in November 2011.

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WCF Master Class (August 2011)

The WCF Master Class has been rescheduled to take place in the week of August 29, 2011. At this moment there are 8 registrations for the WCF Master Class with Michele Leroux Bustamante from IDesign. Read more at http://www.sparkles.be/training/wcfmasterclass2011.aspx.

ISV Discovery Day Spring Edition

Sparkles will be present at the upcoming ISV Discovery Day (May 12, 2011) to give a session on Application Lifecycle Management End-to-End. Read more about all the sessions at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nicktrog/archive/2011/04/18/save-the-date-for-the-isv-discovery-day-spring-edition.aspx.

Sparkles @ Microsoft Techdays Belgium 2011

Pieter Gheysens will deliver a session in the ALM deep-dive track on April 28 at Techdays Belgium. The session is titled Build-Deploy-Test with Visual Studio Lab Management 2010.

Most companies don’t have dedicated test environments that are clean, easy to reset and similar to the production environment. This makes it very hard to test software applications. Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 allows you to define, configure and create complete test environments as needed. It can coordinate both physical and virtual environments, and comes with an incredibly powerful suite of effective tools that make managing environments simple and cost effective. In this session, you will be able to see the Lab Management workflow in action: we will define a test environment, identify a suite of (automated) tests for an application, set up a new automated build, deploy the application automatically in the test environment and run the (automated) tests. In the end we will take a look at the collected information through the different data collectors (Intellitrace, System Information, …). This session is geared towards developers, testers, architects, IT personnel and managers who want to see an in-depth, scenario-based demo of Visual Studio Lab Management 2010.

Free WCF book to win

Sparkles is giving away the Programming WCF Services book by Juval Löwy to 2 lucky people who sign up for the Sparkles newsletter. Winners will be announced on March 1, 2011.

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Professional Scrum Developer course

New training offering in 2011: Professional Scrum Developer training (five days training in week of May 9, 2011).

Title: Professional Scrum Developer
Teacher: Rudi Larno & Steven Kockelkoren
Date: May 9-13, 2011 (5 days)
Location: Belgium (TBD)

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NHibernate Master Class with Davy Brion

New training offering in 2011: NHibernate three day Master Class with Davy Brion (April 4-6).

Title: NHibernate Master Class
Teacher: Davy Brion
Date: April 4-6, 2011 (3 days)
Location: Belgium (TBD)

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Sparkles website 1.6 released

The Sparkles website got some updates: up-to-date event schedule for 2011, easy newsletter subscription, new Feedburner feed with live updates on home page, adding references on about page, …

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