Title: Be a Better Developer
Description: As a developer you end up wearing a lot of different hats: researcher, designer, janitor, mediator, teacher, student… the list can go on. You likely juggle these hats almost every day and we haven't even mentioned writing a line of code yet. If you want to become a better developer you'll have to learn how to switch these hats out easily and what it means to wear each one well. Most talks often focus on a given technology or tool; some resource that you can use. This talks focuses on how to improve the best resource you have: YOU. Come hear how you can improve yourself by learning, teaching and, yes, even being lazy.
Speaker: Michael Wood is a Co-Director for the Microsoft Practice at Strategic Data Systems (SDS) in Centerville, OH, but lives across the river in Kentucky. He has been working in .Net since pre-Beta 2 back in 2001. He has contributed to the "Visual Studio Hacks" book from O'Reilly and has recently started publishing a series of blog posts called the .Net Nugget. Michael is the Lead Director for the Cincinnati .Net User Group, founder of the Cincinnati Software Architecture Special Interest Group, and a senior member of the staff of nPlus1.org. Michael has given presentations to user groups and companies regarding .NET technologies such as Windows Workflow, PLINQ and XML. You can find out more about Michael and read his blog at www.mvwood.com/blog.
