Speakers

Special Guest: Ayende Rahien (aka Oren Eini)

Oren Eini is the author of Rhino Mocks, one of the most popular mocking frameworks on the .NET platform, and is also a leading figure in other well known open source projects including NHibernate, RavenDB,the Rhino Tools Suite and the Castle project.

Oren has over 15 years of experience in the development world with a strong focus on the Microsoft and .NET ecosystem. And has been awarded the Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional since 2007.

An internationally known presenter, Oren has spoken at conferences such as DevTeach, JAOO, QCon, Oredev, NDC, Yow! and Progressive.NET.

Oren is the author of the book “DSLs in Boo: Domain Specific Languages in .NET”, published by Manning (http://manning.com/rahien/)

Oren’s main focus is on architecture and best practices that promote quality software and zero-friction development.

Oren, using his pseudonym as Ayende Rahien, is a frequent blogger at http://www.ayende.com/Blog/.

Special Guest: Sebastien Lambla

Sebastien Lambla runs Caffeine IT, a .net consultancy / contracting company helping the good people of London adapt to new technologies, new processes, new methodologies and challenges. Specializing in cutting-edge tools, from RESTful architectures to occasionally connected rich clients, Sebastien has been developing with .net since 2000, and has a secret love affair with javascript. In his spare time he’s the lead developer on the OpenEverything projects for the .net platform, including OpenRasta, a resource-oriented web framework and OpenWrap, an advanced package and dependnecy manager.

Website

http://codebetter.com/sebastienlambla/

Twitter

http://twitter.com/serialseb

Special Guest: Rainer Stropek

Rainer Stropek ist seit 16 Jahren als Unternehmer in der IT-Industrie tätig. Er gründete und führte in dieser Zeit mehrere IT- Dienstleistungs Unternehmen und entwickelt im Augenblick in seiner Firma “software architects” mit seinem Team die preisgekrönte Software “time cockpit“. Rainer hat Abschlüsse an der Höheren Technischen Schule für MIS, Leonding (AT) sowie der University of Derby (UK). Er ist Autor mehrerer Fachbücher und Artikel in Magazinen im Umfeld von Microsoft .NET und C#. Seine technischen Schwerpunkte sind C# und das .NET Framework, WPF/Silverlight, die Windows Azure Plattform sowie SQL Server. Rainer tritt regelmäßig als Speaker und Trainer auf namhaften Konferenzen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz auf (z.B. BASTA, SAPPHIRE, MS BigDays, MS Architecture Conference, MS TechEd, OOP, ADC, DEVCamp, etc.).