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It’s this time of the year, and DDD Sydney is taking place again by end of June 2012 :-)
Yes, it’s “the other” DDD …  Developer Developer Developer!

If you don’t remember the way sessions get chosen in DDD is that call for submissions is first open for everybody for a couple of weeks, then the submitted sessions are listed for public voting for similar time (or so). Anyone can choose up to 10 (TEN) sessions that they want to have available if they decide to register for attending the event. Later, most voted sessions are what gets into the event agenda.

The registration is usually open by voting time (now!), although more actively publicized after the vote is closed.

My Session Proposals

Like last year, I have submitted some session proposals for DDD in the hope to get one of them voted most to deliver within the day.

You can see all submissions and vote for the ones that interest you most from here. I have included a copy of my submissions here in case you find the page hard to read (or just zoom-in a bit).

Too long to read?

Readify, the great consulting company where I work now, is hiring for Senior Developer (Consultant) and Senior Consultant positions all across Australia, and sponsors work visa for accepted international applications. You can apply here: http://bit.ly/readify-openings.
You don’t have to mention this post (but I’ll be happy of you do of course)

Working at Readify, what’s it’s like

Through blog, twitter stream, and more, you probably saw me talk about how awesome it is to work here at Readify. Being in the same company with Tatham Oddie (the creator of WebformsMVC and tons of other things, and frequent speaker in MIX and other events), Richard Banks (the father of ALT.NET Sydney, and great Agile master), Krzysztof Kozmic (the Castle Windsor guy), Philip Leonardo (the creator of LinFu dynamic proxy, used by default in NHibernate),, and .. the list is so long actually, and I have missed most of them…

Not just that, through my work at Readify, I have had the chance to play with a lot of technologies and frameworks. Windows Azure, OData, WebformsMVP, Windsor, Autofac, SQL Server 2008 R2, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, jQuery UI, knockoutJS, HTML 5, CSS3, and have all sorts of geeky conversations about the newest hypes like Windows 8 and VS 11. 

وصف الحلقة من دوت نت عربي:

الحلقة 21: محمد مليجي يتكلم عن برامج التحكم بالمصدر الموزعة
Distributed Source Control

يتكلم محمد مليجي عن حلول البرمجيات المستخدمة للتحكم بالشيفرة، و بالأخص منها الحلول الموزعة مثل جيت Git، و ميركيوريال Mercurial، ذكر محاسنها و عيوبها، و متى تستخدم. ،كما ذكر بعض النصائح المتعلقة بها و كيفية التعامل معها بالشكل الأنجح

تنزيل الحلقة: MP3 ,ZIP

So, for my Arab friends, the last episode of DotNetArabi  (which -as the name suggests- is a .NET focused podcast, a bit close in style to HanselMinutes and DotNetRocks, but in Arabic) has been released, and it’s featuring me, talking about Version Control Systems.

I have been on DotNetArabi back in 2009 talking about ORMs. In the new episode (recorded June 11, 2011), I discuss the current options of Source/Versioning Control Systems (VCS). Starting with classic ones like TFS/SVN to the Distributed Version Control (DVCS) ones like Git/Hg. Sharing some stories of myself and others working with various options, and giving some tips and tricks around not only choosing a VCS but facing some tough situations in branching and even work-politics (yeah) when it comes to using those.

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.