SA Developer .NET

Please join us for an exciting session presented by Zlatan Dzinic & Nicolas Blank

Overview:

Have you been a developer trying to deploy technology and not gettingany help from infrastructure, or have you been a infrastructure engineer trying to maintain your stuff while developers ride rough shod over your standards and procedures? This session, led by a developer and ainfrastructure engineer, aims to speak to both sides and communicateand bridge the unique challenges of deploying custom development of any kind into an established environment.

Speaker Bio – Zlatan Dzinic:

Zlatan's primary role is System Architect/Technical Lead (occasional PRINCE 2 Project Manager) and he also comes from an extensive C#.NET (and SQL) Development and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) background - MS SharePoint 03/07, Opentext - Livelink, Meridio, K2.NET (and other). His main focus is Developing and Architecting Office Business Applications, SharePoint 2007 EnterpriseContent Management, including development of Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF), WindowsCommunication Foundation (WCF). Zlatan’s SharePoint work has been recognised by Microsoft in hisposition as a Microsoft MVP.

Speaker Bio – Nicolas Blank:

Nicolas is an Exchange MVP and interested in most things infrastructure, including: Exchange,PowerShell, Windows, Active Directory, Office Communication Server, Data Protection Manager.Nicolas consults, speaks, writes and delivers seminars on infrastructure topics, but remains ... developer friendly.

Date: 27thAugust, 2008

Time: 18:15 for 18:30

Venue: Microsoft Cape Town (Please note the address below)

Golf Park 3, Engen House, Raapenberg Road, Mowbray

Please RSVP by responding to this thread (or to the invite Hilton sent out to the mailing list)

I would like to RSVP if I still can

RSVPs still accepted, so you're in!  looking forward to seeing you there.

Bugger - I missed this:(

 

I gather it was similar to Nicolas and Zlatan's fight night session at Tech-Ed?

 

Question: how do I join the mailing list so I don't miss these in future?

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Yes, it was similar to the one at Tech-Ed.  The conversation was quite lively.  I believe at Tech-Ed the developers were outnumbered quite a lot by Infrastructure people.  This time Nicholas was on his own. 

The mailing list for Cape Town events can be found here:  http://groups.google.com/group/sadevctevents.  Please add yourself to the list.  We'll be sending out the invite for the next event (17 September) later today.  Hope to see you there!

Yeah - I was one of the few developer's there...it got messy. Lots of infrastructure guys accusing developers of having an "ivory tower" complex and thinking they know better than the infrastructure guys:-P

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I can only imagine how heated the conversations became.  It was interesting to hear what people think and how they experience things.  One of the attendees was in Infrastructure and then went into Dev. 

It's good that we have these kinds of talks sometimes because it gives you some insight into the other person's world.  The key take away for me was that mutual respect goes a long way.

Yep - I've started consulting with infrastructure on architecture decisions. I've also started sitting in on infrastructure's Thursday morning update sessions, got some WEIRD looks at the beginning, but now they enjoy having me there as I'm able to provide architecture/dev perspectives on things like "oh, yeah, SP3. Let's roll it out. It won't break anything."

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