Visibility

It is one of my goals to continue to grow our Application Development service offering at Inetium this year.  Look for us to be focused on our reputation and visibility over the coming months.

If you are looking for experts on the .Net platform, WCF, Smart Client Software Factories (SCSF), SQL Server, ASP .Net, MVC, WPF, SilverLight, and other related .Net technologies… ping me.

Tech Ed Developers Conference

Attending this years Tech Ed Developers Conference?  Do you live in the twin cities?

If you answered yes to both of these questions:

Send me an email and I will coordinate a twin cities, developer after party during that week .

Inetium presents at Dev Cares in Minneapolis

Vince Bullinger will be presenting at the MSDN – Dev Cares event in Bloomington, MN tomorrow (May 13th, 2008).  Vince has session #2, “Reach Your Data with SQL Server 2008″, which starts at 8:30 am.

If you haven’t registered and still want to go, you can register for the event here:

https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=127259

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Executive Briefing

On Tuesday, I attended an Application Lifecycle Management Executive Briefing event at the local Microsoft offices here in the twin cities:

http://itanddevevents.blogspot.com/2008/04/application-lifecycle-management.html

My agenda:

• Gain a better perspective of ALM best practices from Microsoft’s perspective
• Research on the current pain points and desires of our potential customers

The target audience wasn’t an exact fit for my profile, however, I was expecting to hear about some best practices.  I personally felt like the event was more of a sales pitch than anything else.  I am very happy that I attended, and I did make several good connections.

Take a ways from the meeting:

• Good relationship building event
• Keeps ALM at the forefront of my mind
• Good discussions on typical problems companies are facing
• Free book: Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (I’ll try to provide a review as I read through)