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DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper Sydney 2011

If you are going to be around Sydney during beginning of July, there is a great technical event going around that will be going on July 2rd and 3rd.

http://www.dddsydney.com/

DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper! Sydney is this year being hosted on 2nd & 3rd July. The developer conference, for developers by developers – with three tracks of great content covering a mix of ALM, Web, and general development topics from the best community and industry leaders!

On July 3rd we will offer you the opportunity to compete with others in building a proto-type application Windows Phone 7 Mango or the Kinect for Windows SDK and take out the prizes for the day.

Registration

The registration for the 2 days of the event is now open. You can choose to attend only one day if you like.

You can register for DDD Sydney at

http://www.dddsydney.com/Registration.aspx

Voting For Sessions

If you plan to attend DDD Sydney, you will love to know that you can help determine how awesome the event is going to be by voting for topics you want to attend from the pool of session submissions.

MvcConf

Assuming some of you have attended live or watched the recordings for the past MVCConf conference. It’s a virtual conference concerned (as the name tells) about everything related to Web MVC Frameworks in .NET (ASP.NET MVC, FubuMVC, Spark, …).

Videos from the previous MvcConf event can be found at:

http://www.viddler.com/explore/mvcconf/videos/ and http://tekpub.com/conferences/mvcconf

MvcConf 2

They plan to have a second event after the great success of the first one. And they started a call-for speakers. See:

http://www.mvcconf.com/

Quoting Details

When:

Tuesday Feb 1st 8AM – 5PM CST

Where:

Virtual

Register:

Check back 1/17

Call For Speakers

If you would like to speak at this years conference. Fill out the Speaker Proposal form.

An Awesome Conference

MvcConf is a virtual conference focused on one thing: writing awesome applications on top of the ASP.Net MVC framework. Your brain will explode from taking in so much hard core technical sessions. Sounds fun eh?

This is a community event and we want the best and brightest sharing what they know.

We intend to record each session and make them available online for viewing. We intend to make the videos available free of charge, depending on conference sponsorships.

About a week ago, @AmrEldib and @EmadMokhtar recorded the 3rd episode of EgyGeeks podcast. We were not sure whether to make a 2nd part of it, stretch the episode itself, or what. At the end, we just put it online today as to look for more feedback as usual.

It’s a new year, and I wish I had a happier post to write, but the local news about the people dead around the Church in Alex makes that hard. We even discussed whether it’s good to have the episode today, but, we already don’t have specific time between each episode and another, and the episode recording has been waiting around for a while, and didn’t want to just keep waiting.

The Recording:

You can view the official announcement page to listen to the recording, and give feedback. You may leave you comments here as well.

Announcement Page:

http://www.egygeeks.net/2011/01/egygeeks-podcast-3-little-cloudy.html

Podcast Links

You may engage more with EgyGeeks, or just grab the episode from the following links:

• Download MP3.
• Subscribe to this podcast via RSS (for Zune and other players).

This is a PowerPoint Presentation (and extraction of the contents) I made as per a couple of friends’ request (@EmadAshi and @AmrEldib) to show how OAuth works along with Twitter and how easy it is to cache OAuth credentials.

As I was doing related work for TweetToEmail. I felt a PowerPoint presentation will be even better than a blog post for this one, but here you get the two.

The Presentation

The Contents

Application Registration

• A Twitter user creates a Twitter Application
  • If the application is web based, it needs to provide a URL. “Localhost” is not accepted as a domain for this URL
• A Twitter Application gets two pieces of information
• Consumer Key
• Consumer Secret
• A Twitter Application will use these in all coming requests.

Initializing The Process

• User comes to the application and it decides to authenticate against Twitter
• Application makes a request using Consumer Key and Secret to obtain “Oauth Request Token”, which consists of two parts
  • Token
  • Token Secret
• Application makes authentication URL including the “Oauth Request Token” parameter, and optionally a “Call-back URL” (if different than default URL in first step)

About EgyGeeks Podcast

If you don’t know what is EgyGeeks Podcast, I highly recommend checking out my first blog post about it.

In brief, EgyGeeks is an usergroup of many developers (mainly Egyptian .NET geeks, but not only) that started with some online gatherings instead of usual offline ones, and now starting to add podcasts to the game (In Arabic)…

Personal Blah Blah Blah Part…

If you remember that I haven’t made it to the first “published” episode (maybe some day we decide to publish the very first secret episode, who knows!), well, I was lucky enough to make it to this one though!

Podcast’s 2nd Episode: Joel’s Test

This time the topic is Joel’s test. If I remember correctly, It was @AmrElDib’s idea. Nice one.

Joel’s test is a set of 12 questions that try to be a general standard scale for software companies, especially to use for those considering offers for different companies and want to evaluate how professional is the work in there. They are advised to ask those question to the companies.