Archive for the ‘ASP.NET’ tag
Meet Ugo Lattanzi – ASP.NET MVP from Italy
Tell us who you are?
My name is Ugo Lattanzi and I’m MVP on ASP.NET. I’m living in Milan but I’m from Grottammare, a little city located in the middle of Italy east coast near the sea. I started working with web application since 1993 when internet was really slow and the connections were rare. Obviously I’m started to work with the principal web technologies like HTML, Javascript, ASP, ASP.NET, MVC, WCF, Azure, etc.
Currently I’m working as Senior Software Architect in Gaia Srl and I’m working for a web application based on Microsoft Technologies for important customers. Moreover I’m writer, teacher and speaker for important conferences.
Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded?
My MVP history is really short, I was awarded for the first time in the October 2009 and for me it’s a huge honor to be an MVP.
What do you do in order to keep up with latest tools and technologies?
For my job it’s really important to stay up to date with the latest technologies; fortunately my it match with my passion and my company support me in this “Mission”.
40+ Cool Features of Microsoft Expression Web
MicrosoftFeed continues its journey of sharing great features of Microsoft Expression Studio. This episode will tell you guys about the cool and outstanding features of Microsoft Expression Web 3.
Microsoft Expression Web is a part of the Microsoft Expression Studio. Microsoft Expression Web is a HTML editor and general web design program by Microsoft. It allows you to edit web pages using XML, CSS, ASP.NET, XHTML, XSLT and JavaScript. Following are some of the cool features of Microsoft Expression Web 3:
Meet 50+ Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professionals
The Microsoft MVP Program is a worldwide award and recognition program that strives to identify amazing individuals in technical communities around the globe who share a passion for technology and the spirit of community. Microsoft MVPs are recognized for both their demonstrated practical expertise and willingness to share their experience with peers in Microsoft technical communities.
Microsoft MVPs are awarded every quarter and recognizes the contributions of an individual to technical communities over the past year. Here are some of the Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professionals interviewed by us:
Meet Michal Valasek – ASP/ASP.NET MVP from Czech Republic
Tell us who you are?
I’m 30 years old geek from Czech Republic, spending my live writing websites using technologies too young to be respectable, changing enough to keep me alert or obscure enough to be interesting. Also I’m trying to persuade developers around me to do the same – with varying levels of success.
Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded?
I was first awarded when computers were made from wood and powered by a treadle. Or at least I remember it that way. It was about six or seven years ago, I was in the first batch of awarded MVPs in Czech Republic and if I recall correctly, I’m currently the longest serving one here.
What do you do in order to keep up with latest tools and technologies?
Read a lot of blog posts being delivered via several hundreds of RSS feeds. Choose some technologies you like and then play with them.
What does being an MVP mean to you?
Being MVP for me means to have a bigger whip when I need something from Microsoft. In my eyes, the MVP award is directed more towards the company itself than outside. For my customers and readers it does not matter if I’m MVP or not. As long as I’m able to help, it’s good. MVP means than I’m easily able to help. MVP mans that I can get information, support and other resources more easily, because the blue logo hovering over my head means that I’d pass the acquired knowledge further, not keep it just for myself.
Meet Mihai Tataran – ASP/ASP.NET MVP from Romania
Tell us who you are?
My name is Mihai Tătăran, I am happilly married, and I live in Timișoara, Romania. Here I manage my own software company which started in 2006 and has kept on growing pretty steadilly ever since.
Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded?
My MVP award was received in july 2009, so I am new in the team 
.
What do you do in order to keep up with latest tools and technologies?
Since my primary role as a CEO of a consulting company, I always read about and play with the latest Microsoft technologies. I organize and present at many local events (including Live Meetings, offline meetings, etc); and I am involved in designing the architectures of every software project my company develops, and I teach .NET technologies to software companies.
Orchard – a free, open source and community-focused CMS
Recently at MIX, Renaud Paquay, a Senior Developer Lead from Microsoft demoed Orchard. Orchard is a free, open source, community-focused project aimed at delivering applications and reusable components on the ASP.NET platform. This CMS platform built on ASP.NET MVC 2 and licensed under the new BSD license. It is also included in the ASP.NET Open Source Gallery under the CodePlex Foundation.
Orchard will create shared components for building ASP.NET applications and extensions, and specific applications that leverage these components to meet the needs of end-users, scripters, and developers. Some of the silent features of Orchard are:
- .NET MVC Framework
- Out of the Box Modules Like Blogs and Pages
- Easy Module and Theme Development
- Ability to Use/Develop/Share Modules
- Vibrant Developer Community
Meet Kostas Pantos – ASP.NET MVP from Greece
Tell us who you are?
My name is Kostas Pantos and I’m a software Architect currently starting my own software company in Greece www.techaholics.gr. Over the past years I’ve worked for a number of large companies in Greece and was involved in developing cutting-edge software always using the latest technology (ASP.NET, AJAX, Silverlight, WPF, Linq, EF and so on) in order to build wow experiences. I really enjoy speaking about technology and have talked in a number of Microsoft and community related events. Finally I’m an active member of the Greek developers’ community and enjoy helping fellow developers solve their technical issues.
Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded?
I was first awarded on April of 2007 and have managed to keep the award since then till today and hope that I’ll be able to keep it for the next couple of year as well
What do you do in order to keep up with latest tools and technologies?
I take advantage of all available resources, webcasts, tutorials, blog posts, books, magazines, conversations, technical samples and hands-on offered from various developer communities as well as interact and participate at various software development events and conferences.
Pakistan – SharePoint 2010 Community Launch in Pictures
SharePoint Pakistan User Group recently arranged “SharePoint 2010 Community Launch” at University of Central Punjab, Lahore. During the event the speakers covered latest technologies like Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010, ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio Team System and provided real world guidance on Developing Application on top of SharePoint 2007, ASP.NET, Exploring Implementation and Integration scenarios and getting ready for SharePoint 2010.
SharePoint Pakistan User Group – SharePoint 2010 Community Launch
SharePoint Pakistan User Group is arranging a “SharePoint 2010 Community Launch” that will be held on 5th of December, 2009 at University of Central Punjab, Lahore. Technical Communities play very important role in helping developers stay in touch with other developers, learn latest technologies and getting solutions to the problems they are facing in the their working environments This event will help reigniting the communities in Lahore as well as help restructuring SharePoint Pakistan User Group and related Microsoft User Groups.
The event will exclusively disclose the latest technologies like Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010, ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio Team System and while providing real world guidance on Developing Application on top of SharePoint 2007, ASP.NET, Exploring Implementation and Integration scenarios and getting ready for SharePoint 2010.
Microsoft announced SDK for Facebook Platform
Microsoft with it’s ongoing collaboration with Facebook released a very exciting new developer resource: the Microsoft SDK for Facebook Platform. This SDK combines the power of Web, client and social technologies to enable millions of developers to transform their imagination into next generation application experiences.
No matter what your application flavor is, the Microsoft SDK for Facebook Platform supports the development of applications across Silverlight, WPF, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, and Windows Forms, enabling easy consumption of Facebook services delivered through the Facebook Open Stream API. According to the press release by Facebook team
Tell us your .Net Story Win over $16,000 in Prizes!
Every developer has a story. Microsoft want to know yours. How did you use the .NET Framework to create a killer app? What parts of the .NET Framework (ASP.NET, ADO.NET, WPF, WCF, WF, etc.) did you use to develop it? What other Microsoft products (SharePoint, SQL Server, Windows Server, etc.) were used in the solution? What challenge did you solve? How did you integrate your solution with other solutions and systems? Participate in the Tell us your story competition and you can win one of over $16,000 in prizes.
