Drawing from personal experience and research from leading behavioral psychologists, this session aims to empower developers to explore themselves and their craft. Helping them to establish confidence in their career, establish their voice in a highly competitive market, manage conflicts healthfully and communicate more effectively with others. No matter where you happen to be on your journey of continual improvement, reflecting on yourself and the effects of interpersonal relationships can provide valuable insight towards achieving your goals technically and emotionally. Learn to leverage the wisdom of those around you to cultivate powerful positive relationships without sacrificing the most important asset in your toolkit: yourself.

Asynchronous programming is hard. That's why the tools continue to change. In this session, we'll examine the deficiencies in previous asynchronous models, the current APIs, and why the next version of C# is adding new features to make asynchronous programming more natural. We'll examine how and why these enhancements make asynchronous programmer easier, but not necessarily easy. We'll see how they improve readability of code that leverages asynchronous models.

Mobile devices becoming more and more powerful and most of the modern devices have HTML5 compliant browsers. Understanding the mobile platform and developing a site specifically geared for mobile is becoming critical to success. For example, there are more than 250 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices. People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice as active on Facebook than non-mobile users. There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products. Mobile is here to stay and is only becoming more important. In this 30 minute session, Josh Holmes (Architect Evangelist for Microsoft Ireland and co-founder of GANG) will dive into the why HTML5 for Mobile and how to get started.

Why are some Software Developers wildly successful? What brings them to the point of being able to address every problem with eagerness and skill? Why do some nearly drool over the opportunity to root out a bug while others cringe?

In this highly interactive, thought-provoking session, Richard will show you how many of your deep-seated premises regarding customers, other team members, and the art and science of software development itself can affect your mental state. Further, you'll learn how monitoring and managing your mental state can bring you to the point where each new roadblock is not a drudgery, but an opportunity. Our goal will be to open you up to thinking differently about core ideas that you've held since you began to write software, and how to take control of those ideas going forward.

We've all been there; poor project management leads to poor decisions by team members which finally leads to...well, an end. Usually, that end is viewed as a success by some and a failure by others. In this session, two approaches to project management will be highlighted through stories. Though the project in question has nothing to do with software, the situations encountered will seem strangely familiar. Join us as we try to makes sense of the decisions made by the Swamp King and his retinue of experts and what we can learn from the consequences to improve our real-world software projects.

Behavior Driven Design or BDD focuses on obtaining a clear understanding of desired software behaviour through discussion with stakeholders. It extends Test Driven Development or TDD by writing executable test cases in a natural language that non-programmers can read. This session looks at the options currently available for writing executable requirements for your .Net projects.