NWADNUG: Jay Smith - Exposing Yourself with RSS and ATOM Syndication

Lightning Presentation

Title: 2009 Tech Salary Survey
Description: Discussion about the current trends for 2009 in Tech Salaries.

• Employee Concerns about Career Marketability
• Salary Satisfaction
• Average Salaries by Metro Area & Region
• Average Salaries by Job Title & Industry
• Average Salary of Skills, Years Experience, and Company Size

Presenter: Jeremy Wilson works for GDH Consulting as a recruiter. GDH Consulting provides professional services solutions in Information Technology and Business Management uniquely tailored to the needs of our clients. GDH has earned continuous repeat business from our client partners since 2001, and is recognized by Inc Magazine as one of the fastest growing companies in 2006, 2007, and 2008. I have been with GDH for 4 years as an Account Manager and Recruiter working with small, medium, and large sized clients in the NW Arkansas IT market.

Main Presentation

Title: Exposing Yourself with RSS and ATOM Syndication

Description: In just about every web application today some amount of information is exposed via RSS or ATOM feeds. Many frameworks have been developed to give your applications this functionality. With the release of Windows Communication Framework a new set of classes were added to allow for the creation and consumption of RSS and ATOM feeds right in the framework. This session will take an look at these classes and how they can be used to generate feeds of any kind from your application.

Presenter: Jay Smith works for Tyson Foods, Inc. where he is a PMO Architect and Evangelist, and is a former President of the Northwest Arkansas .Net User’s Group. Jay currently serves on the INETA Speakers Committee and works diligently with others on test bed projects to learn new concepts and designs. You can read more about Jay on his blog http://www.jaysmith.us or follow his tweets at http://twitter.com/jaysmith.
Jay regularly presents to user groups on various topic including Design Patterns, Visual Studio 2008, Enterprise Library, WPF, and Unit Testing. He is a registered speaker on Codezone, you can make speaker request through there or contact him directly.

Swag:

Resharper 4.5 License
Microsoft T-Shirt
Inside Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Book
Restful .Net Book
Inside Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Web Services Book
Build a Program Now Visual Basic 2008 Book

When:
5:30 PM - 5:45 PM - Welcome and News, Sign-in and Food
5:45 PM - 6:00 PM - Lighting Presentation
6:00 PM - 6:10 PM - Intermission – Presenter switch over
6:10 PM – 7:30 PM – Main Presentation
7:30 PM – 8:00 PM – Closing and Prize give-a-ways

Where:
The Jones Center
922 East Emma Avenue
Springdale, AR 72764
Room 226 (Kansas City Room)

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