My first real presentation: Intro. to Programming Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) ... and challenges!
Just a few more days until my June 3rd presentation
Introduction to Programming Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) at the
WichitaDevelopers.NET Code Camp!
I am ready to go, except WCF is being a pain in the butt trying to get a few things to work for my code demo pieces right now. So I am in the middle of rebuilding my Virtual PC from scratch again, hoping installing the components in the exact recommended order will help. If not, I'll be trying an older CTP release of the tools.
Thanks to
Ami Vora for her presentations and hard work on the
WindowsCommunication.net site and the
slides!
As well as
Paul Fallon for the excellent advise on what to focus on when presenting WCF and all the other great advise and tips!
Finally,
Code-Magazine.com for publishing
Juval Lowy's article "
WCF Essentials - A Developer's Primer". I had been trying to decide for quite some time what I wanted to be able to present on and this article brought WCF back to my attention and a light bulb went off that I have yet to see or hear of any one giving a presentation on WCF in my neck of the woods.
I've seen presentations on the other components of
WinFX.
Paul Ballard gave a great presention on
Windows Workflow Foundation back in Oct 2005 for the
Tulsa .NET Users Group and
Markus Egger gave an excellent presentation on
Windows Presentation Foundation in Feb 2006 at the
Little Rock Tech Expo.
Since it's something I have some familiarity with, having had past web services and windows services with remoting projects, I realized this would be the most logical topic! I could help spread the word and hopefully share my excitement for this awesome new Framework Feature. I'll post more specifics about WCF and my presentation later.
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About dwalker
David Walker has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant with companies such as: Texaco, Bank of Oklahoma, Winner Communications (ESPN.com) and IBM Global Services. At the age of 14, he began his application development ambitions with a Commodore 64, BASIC, and a 300 baud modem. Even at that early age, he primarily focused on two specific application types: multi-user communities and database applications.
His hunger to learn as much as possible about development lead him through courses such as DBase III, DBase IV, Pascal, C, C++, Java, and several in UNIX. He started his development career first doing heavy processing with Access and VBA, then moved on to VB 3, Oracle, and Delphi. Visual Basic was one environment that remained constant for many years, including his very first .NET projects performed in Visual Basic.NET.
After working several years on very high end internal Corporate applications, the consultant company he was working for, sought out his ideas for actual software products that could be packaged and sold. He had already developed several prototypes of a dynamic portal application, before portals even became popular, so this became the logic decision and he became the Director of Product Development. Under his direction, a team of developers and graphic artists, took a skinning approach before that become popular, and completed the core portal application, and continued on to developer 15+ add-on modules, including things such as: Help Desk Ticket Systems, Change Control, Records Management, Human Resources, and many more applications. Eventually, it spun off into it's own separate company as KnowledgeGEAR, a complete intranet in the box solution.
Having worked as a consultant, he has had a experience with a very wide range of applications and architectures, at one time, even converting several Fox Pro and GW-Basic applications to VB 6 and ASP. His early training of Unix and the C language and years of experience with JavaScript, lead him very quickly to C#, where he has remained focused ever since.
He is the current President of the
Tulsa Developers .NET user group.. He has been an MCP since 2003 and MCAD and MCSD since 2005. He is currently pursuing his MCDBA and then on to MCSE.