Date for Desert Code Camp - 2016.1 Saturday, October 8, 2016 8:00:00 AM - Saturday, October 8, 2016 6:00:00 PM

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.NET

The .NET Framework is a popular development platform for building apps for Windows, Windows Store, Windows Phone, Windows Server, and Windows Azure. The .NET Framework platform includes the C# and Visual Basic programming languages, the common language runtime, and an extensive class library.

State	Interested	Session
		Advanced Basics: SOLID Principles	More Info
		Demonstrating Common Software Design Patterns in C#	More Info
		How to Scale .NET Apps with Distributed Caching	More Info
		I'll Get Back to You: Task, Await, and Asynchronous Methods	More Info
		Introduction to message-oriented systems in .NET	More Info
		Introduction to Service Fabric	More Info
		Introduction to the Microsoft Bot Framework	More Info
		Learn the Basics: Inversion of Control (IoC)	More Info
		Microservices with .NET Core and Docker	More Info
		NET Gadgeteer Jumpstart - Programming Gadgets in C#	More Info
		Rock Your Apps With 10 Things You Probably Aren’t Doing	More Info
		Semantic Logging with ETW and SLAB	More Info
		Template 10 "Making Windows 10 apps awesome"	More Info
		Utilizing MVVM Light Toolkit to develop WPF applications	More Info

Agile

Talks on Agile practices such as SCRUM, Lean and eXtreme programming, software craftsmanship

State	Interested	Session
		Agile with Microsoft Tools	More Info
		AN INTRODUCTION TO GAMIFICATION – BUILDING BETTER TEAMS USING SERIOUS GAMES	More Info
		Daily Standup Poker	More Info
		Developers are Users: Architecture and Tools as Design Decisions	More Info
		How to implement Scrum and SAFe using Dale Carnigie techniques (Individuals and interactions over processes and tools)	More Info
		Introduction to Microservices	More Info
		SAFe and sound	More Info

ASP.NET

State	Interested	Session
		Building Enterprise Architecture Using ASP.NET Web API REST with Dapper ORM	More Info
		Discover the RESTier Framework to Produce ASP.NET Web API OData v4 APIs	More Info
		Making Sense of the new ASP.NET Stack	More Info
		Testing in ASP.NET Core with XUnit and MoQ	More Info
		WebAPI with F#	More Info

Cloud

Azure, Amazon, Oracle, etc.

State	Interested	Session
		[Cancelled] - Orchestrating muli-container applications	More Info
		Adding Advanced Search Capabilities With Azure Search (Elastic Search)	More Info
		Anatomy of a Web Request	More Info
		Azure Storage Security	More Info
		Build Web Applications with Zero Server Coding and (almost) Zero Cost	More Info
		Building a Global Supercomputer	More Info
		Enabling Voice Driven Smart Home Experiences with Amazon Alexa	More Info
		Exploring Machine Learning with IBM Watson	More Info
		Gaining Better User Experience in your apps with Microsoft Cognitive Services	More Info
		Getting Started with Google App Engine and Datastore	More Info
		Internet of Things Made Simple	More Info
		Introduction to Apache Milagro?: Secure IoT to the Cloud	More Info
		Introduction to Cloud Foundry a developers take	More Info
		Overview to Azure Storage	More Info
		Rock Your Development With A Real World Example (Part 1)	More Info
		Rock Your Development With A Real World Example (Part 2)	More Info
		Scalability (In a Nutshell)	More Info
		Visual Studio 2015 and Azure Resource Manager	More Info
		Your First Amazon Alexa Skill	More Info

Database (SQL/NoSQL)

State	Interested	Session
		Apache Solr: The Geospatial NoSQL Database	More Info
		Getting started with SparkSQL	More Info
		Introduction to Impala	More Info
		MongoDB	More Info
		RethinkDB	More Info

Design (UX/UI)

State	Interested	Session
		Foundation Front End Web Design	More Info
		Stop Designing for Users. Design for Humans – How to design experiences in times of artificial intelligence? Challenges, opportunities & tools.	More Info
		UX Design in Web and Mobile Applications	More Info
		You Too Can Be A Sketching Machine	More Info

DevOps/System Administration

State	Interested	Session
		DevOps for Developers	More Info
		DevOps Real World Learnings, Efficiencies, and Challenges	More Info
		Docker: Creating the Ultimate Development Environment	More Info
		Getting Started with Team Foundation Server 2015 Build	More Info
		Infrastructure as code: running microservices on AWS using Docker, Terraform, and ECS	More Info
		Release Management with Team Services	More Info

Functional Programming

Programming with Haskell, Clojure, F#, and other functional programming languages

State	Interested	Session
		Exploring Concurrency with Elixir and OTP	More Info
		Functional programming concepts demystified	More Info
		Intro to functional programming	More Info
		Introduction to Elm	More Info
		Introduction to PureScript	More Info

HTML/CSS

State	Interested	Session
		ABCs of HTML5 Video	More Info
		Accessibility Testing Tools for Developers	More Info
		CSS Quirks, Tricks, and Must Knows	More Info

Java

Java allows you to play online games, chat with people around the world, calculate your mortgage interest, and view images in 3D, just to name a few. It's also integral to the intranet applications and other e-business solutions that are the foundation of corporate computing.

State	Interested	Session
		Bots, Amazon Echo, language user interfaces in general	More Info
		Building Micro-services with OSGi & Apache Karaf	More Info
		Building REST Services with Apache CXF	More Info
		Getting started with Kafka	More Info
		How to build Distributed Systems with Operational Excellence mindset	More Info
		Introduction to Apache Spark	More Info
		Microservices with SpringBoot	More Info
		RxJava: A Crash Course	More Info
		Testing Strategies in a Microservice Architecture	More Info
		Using Apache Camel for Enterprise Integration	More Info

Javascript/Node.js

JavaScript (JS) is an interpreted computer programming language.^[5] It was originally implemented as part of web browsers so that client-side scripts couldinteract with the user, control the browser, communicate asynchronously, and alter the document content that was displayed.^[5] More recently, however, it has become common in server-side programming, game development and the creation of desktop applications.

State	Interested	Session
		An Introduction to MEAN Stack	More Info
		Atom and Electron Explainer	More Info
		Building Modern Web Applications with Spring Boot & React	More Info
		Deploying Node.js on Docker	More Info
		Designing APIs	More Info
		Electron for Desktop Developers	More Info
		Generators - Live Action Role Play - Crowd Participation	More Info
		Gulp.js Introduction	More Info
		Hello Universe: Building React Applications That Scale	More Info
		How does React work 'under the hood'?	More Info
		How ES6 and TypeScript have greatly improved Dojo 2	More Info
		Inside Wijmo 5, a Large-scale JavaScript Product	More Info
		Intro to Tessel 2: IoT with Javascript	More Info
		Introduction to Angular JS	More Info
		Introduction to Dojo 2	More Info
		Introduction to Lore: A Convention-Driven Framework for React	More Info
		Introduction to React	More Info
		JavaScript accessibility: it's not as hard as you think!	More Info
		Making Front-End Development Bearable with TypeScript	More Info
		Reactive Programming with RxJS	More Info
		Reduce, Reuse, Redux	More Info
		Simplifying Mobile with React Native	More Info
		The Lastest Hardware and Networking APIs for Progressive Web Apps.	More Info
		What's new with TypeScript 2?	More Info
		You Too Can Build a Bot!	More Info

Mobile (Android/iOS/Microsoft)

State	Interested	Session
		Android development basics	More Info
		Beat The Clock: The PhoneGap One Hour App Challenge	More Info
		Building iOS apps with Xamarin and C#	More Info
		Developing and Managing Bluetooth LE Beacons using the Eddystone Framework	More Info
		Mobile accessibility: the good, the bad and the ugly	More Info
		Mobile Apps and More with Alpha Anywhere	More Info
		Productivity factors on mobile software development	More Info
		VIPER for iOS Developers	More Info
		Xamarin Development - All about the data (Advanced)	More Info
		Xamarin Development with Custom Controls (Intermediate)	More Info
		Xamarin Mobile Application Development (Beginner)	More Info

Other

State	Interested	Session
		A Developer's Guide to Finding Optimal Solutions	More Info
		A No-Slides Introduction to Elixir and the Phoenix Framework	More Info
		An Introduction to College: My first year as a Comp. Sci. student at SDSU	More Info
		Angularjs	More Info
		Beating back the Monolith: Techniques for working more effectively with legacy code by understanding the complexity of your domain	More Info
		Being a good code reviewer	More Info
		Building your First IoT Project	More Info
		Catch Me If You Can - Catching Windows System Exceptions in Native C++	More Info
		Clean Code: Homicidal Maniacs Read Code, Too!	More Info
		Concurrency in Golang	More Info
		Design Patterns: The mystic secret of great programmers	More Info
		Electronics 101 for IoT Developers	More Info
		Electronics for Beginners	More Info
		From Dull to Dazzling: How Visualization enhances data comprehension	More Info
		Getting started with Clojure	More Info
		Gitting started with Git, it's easier than you think	More Info
		Hiring for the Team You Want: Your Hiring Process is Also Your Engineering Process	More Info
		Idiomatic Go	More Info
		Introduction to Git and GitHub	More Info
		Introduction to Rust	More Info
		IoT with ESP8266	More Info
		Land of the Free: Open Source for Productivity and Profit without Pitfalls	More Info
		Learn Gradle by example	More Info
		Living In The Terminal, Making The Most Of Your Keystrokes	More Info
		Making SharePoint Rock with React and Angular	More Info
		oDDs & enDs: Microservices with DDD and Actors	More Info
		Reactive Microservices with DDD and Actors	More Info
		Rock RMS for developers	More Info
		Scratch game programming	More Info
		Secure, Resilient and Frugal: Develop like a Rock Star!	More Info
		Soft Skills for a Hard World	More Info
		Statefulness in Distributed Systems	More Info
		Tech Like a Girl	More Info
		Unity	More Info
		Web development with grails	More Info
		Why is it so hard to learn web development?	More Info

PHP

State	Interested	Session
		Building RESTful APIs with Laravel/Lumen	More Info
		PHP 7 - New Features and Faster Websites	More Info
		PSR-7: HTTP Messages, Middleware, & Microframeworks	More Info
		Refactoring OpenSource Code	More Info
		Unit Testing with PHPUnit	More Info

Python

Python is a programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively. You can learn to use Python and see almost immediate gains in productivity and lower maintenance costs.

State	Interested	Session
		Actor Model - Introduction and Usage	More Info
		Home Automation using Home Assistant	More Info
		Introduction to Pandas: A Python tool for data analysis	More Info
		Introduction to Python and the Python Ecosystem	More Info
		Plotting with Python Using Matplotlib and More	More Info
		Python Regular Expressions - Introduction	More Info

QA/Testing

State	Interested	Session
		Are you mocking me? Getting started with Mockito	More Info
		Beyond unit testing with Intern	More Info
		Unit Testing Makes Me Faster: Convincing Your Boss, Your Co-Workers, and Yourself	More Info

REST

State	Interested	Session
		Idemptoency: what it is and why you should care	More Info
		Learning the Language of HTTP for Better Data Experience in your Mobile Apps	More Info

Ruby

A dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write.

State	Interested	Session
		Hello, Ruby!	More Info