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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://devlicio.us/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Tim Barcz : Conferences</title><link>http://devlicio.us/blogs/tim_barcz/archive/tags/Conferences/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Conferences</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Build: 31106.3070)</generator><item><title>St. Louis Day of .NET</title><link>http://devlicio.us/blogs/tim_barcz/archive/2010/08/02/st-louis-day-of-net.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:30:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">40756a8b-6212-4073-9d98-6c26781577de:61359</guid><dc:creator>Tim Barcz</dc:creator><slash:comments>5</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://devlicio.us/blogs/tim_barcz/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=61359</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://devlicio.us/blogs/tim_barcz/archive/2010/08/02/st-louis-day-of-net.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Now that we&amp;rsquo;ve entered August, we&amp;rsquo;re just three short weeks away from &lt;a href="http://www.stlouisdayofdotnet.com/"&gt;St. Louis Day of .NET&lt;/a&gt; (taking place August 20-21).&amp;nbsp; Last year I gave two talks (&lt;a href="http://www.ayende.com/projects/rhino-mocks.aspx"&gt;Rhino Mocks&lt;/a&gt; and beginner&amp;rsquo;s guide to unit testing).&amp;nbsp; This year I&amp;rsquo;ve been lucky enough to selected to be speaking again on two topics:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stlouisdayofdotnet.com/SessionDetail.aspx?SessionID=159"&gt;Building and Creating a High Performance Team&lt;/a&gt; - This session will give you strategies to turbo charge your team. It will deal with everything from how to build trust within a team to talking to management to process/methodology. This talk will use real-world examples from my recent experiences with my team at &lt;a href="http://www.jpcycles.com"&gt;J&amp;amp;P Cycles&lt;/a&gt; and will include perspectives from both the development side as well as the managerial side.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stlouisdayofdotnet.com/SessionDetail.aspx?SessionID=160"&gt;Website Usability 101&lt;/a&gt; - Do you want to create a more intuitive website? Want to make your customers happier? Website Usability is a very hot topic right now. I&amp;#39;ll discuss several tools you can use to test your website and resources you can turn to if you&amp;#39;re getting started in usability. First we&amp;#39;ll define what it is and why you want it and then we&amp;#39;ll walk through a series of tools and resources you can use. Attendees will see real-world examples throughout and will leave understanding how easy and quick testing can be.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;This conference is one of the best in the Midwest bringing in great speakers and content with a great venue (&lt;a href="http://www.ameristar.com/St_Charles.aspx"&gt;Ameristar&lt;/a&gt;).&amp;nbsp; This year there are already over 500 people registered for the event with numbers likely to go even higher as the date nears!!&amp;nbsp; It&amp;rsquo;s a great chance to learn some new technical content to improve your .NET mastery as well as network with several other .NET professionals in the area.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(My dirty little conference secret: I like session content, St. Louis has some great content, but for me, it&amp;rsquo;s the discussion that take place outside of and between the sessions.&amp;nbsp; Breakfast with developers and geek out sessions over a pint of beer. St. Louis Day of .NET provided some of the best conversations of the year last year.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;rsquo;re planning on going let me know would love to connect in person&amp;hellip;also I have two discount codes that I can offer that will get $75 off registration.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://devlicio.us/aggbug.aspx?PostID=61359" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://devlicio.us/blogs/tim_barcz/archive/tags/Announcement/default.aspx">Announcement</category><category domain="http://devlicio.us/blogs/tim_barcz/archive/tags/Conferences/default.aspx">Conferences</category></item></channel></rss>