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Rock Solid Knowledge enjoy sharing their technology exploits with other like minded individuals...If you are looking for speakers for a technical conference or a local user group meeting why not drop us a line

Upcoming Conferences

DevWeek is Europe’s leading independent conference for software developers, database professionals and IT architects, and features expert speakers on a wide range of topics, including .NET Framework 4.0, Silverlight 2, WCF 4.0, Visual Studio 2010, RESTful services, Windows Workflow, ASP.NET AJAX 4.0, SQL Server 2008, LINQ, C# 3, .NET Patterns, Ruby, and more

Rock Solid Knowledge is delivering the following sessions at DevWeek 2012 hope to see you there

  • A day of writing asynchronous code with C#5 ( Andy Clymer and Richard Blewett )
  • Designing and building ASP.NET MVC applications ( Kevin Jones )
  • An introduction to Workflow 4.5 ( Richard Blewett )
  • It's a kind of magic ( Andy Clymer )
  • Understanding LINQ ( Richard Blewett )
  • It's a kind of magic ( Andy Clymer )
  • Entity Framework 4 and Repository Pattern ( Andy Clymer )
  • Asynchronous programming with C# 5 ( Andy Clymer )
  • Whats new in WCF 4.5 ( Richard Blewett )
  • Building Services with Workflow 4.5 and Windows AppFabric ( Richard Blewett )
  • The .NET Garbage Collector: how to live hapily with the GC ( Richard Blewett )
  • Design for Testing ( Kevin Jones )

Past Conferences

DevWeek is Europe’s leading independent conference for software developers, database professionals and IT architects, and features expert speakers on a wide range of topics, including .NET Framework 4.0, Silverlight 2, WCF 4.0, Visual Studio 2010, RESTful services, Windows Workflow, ASP.NET AJAX 4.0, SQL Server 2008, LINQ, C# 3, .NET Patterns, Ruby, and more

Rock Solid Knowledge delivered the following sessions at DevWeek 2010

  • Moving to a parallel mindset with .NET 4.0 ( Andrew Clymer and Richard Blewett )
  • A practical introduction to design patterns ( David Wheeler )
  • Designing and building ASP.NET MVC applications ( Kevin Jones )
  • Keynote Doctor,Doctor my application won't scale ( Richard Blewett,Andrew Clymer,Kevin Jones,David Wheeler )
  • Understanding LINQ ( Richard Blewett )
  • The chaotic world of asynchronous programming ( Andrew Clymer )
  • The .NET Garbage Collector: how to live happily with the GC ( Richard Blewett )
  • Advanced WPF: templates, triggers, converters and ViewModels ( David Wheeler )
  • Expression Blend for developers ( David Wheeler )
  • From DI to MEF ( David Wheeler )
  • Building custom activities with Workflow 4.0 ( Richard Blewett )
  • Building services with Workflow 4.0 and Windows AppFabric ( Richard Blewett )
  • Reactive Framework ( Richard Blewett )
  • Advanced WPF/Silverlight: Building a Hollywood UI ( David Wheeler )
  • Advanced Silverlight: Discovering Silverlight's hidden gems ( David Wheeler )
  • Advanced Silverlight: Creating amazing games ( David Wheeler )
  • Unit testing with Visual Studio 2010s ( Kevin Jones )
  • Design for testing ( Kevin Jones )
  • Patterns dartboard ( Andrew Clymer and Kevin Jones )
  • EF and the Repository pattern ( Andrew Clymer )
  • Is the Free Lunch Back ? ( Andrew Clymer )
  • A day of building web applications the .NET 4.0 way ( Andrew Clymer and Richard Blewett )
  • Building big, complex Silverlight applications ( David Wheeler )
  • Day of Unit Testing ( Kevin Jones )

Bearpark Publishing, the company which organises the annual DevWeek conference and runs the ITarchitect web site, will be running its third annual Software Architect conference in 2009, aimed at Software Architects and other IT professionals with an interest in software architecture.

Rock Solid Knowledge delivered the following sessions at Software Architecture Week 2010

DevWeek is Europe’s leading independent conference for software developers, database professionals and IT architects, and features expert speakers on a wide range of topics, including .NET Framework 4.0, Silverlight 2, WCF 4.0, Visual Studio 2010, RESTful services, Windows Workflow, ASP.NET AJAX 4.0, SQL Server 2008, LINQ, C# 3, .NET Patterns, Ruby, and more

Rock Solid Knowledge delivered the following sessions at DevWeek 2010

  • Whats new in WPF 4 ( Dave Wheeler )
  • Creating Workflow based WCF Services ( Richard Blewett )
  • Design for Testing ( Kevin Jones )
  • Dependency properties the critical technology ( Dave Wheeler )
  • Are Singletons evil? ( Andrew Clymer and Kevin Jones )
  • Lets get XAMLfied ( Dave Wheeler )
  • A lap around Silverlight Part 1 ( Dave Wheeler )
  • A lap around Silverlight Part 2 ( Dave Wheeler )
  • Advanced WPF make it perform ( Dave Wheeler )
  • Patterns Dartboard ( Andrew Clymer and Kevin Jones )
  • Is the free lunch back? ( Andrew Clymer )
  • A Day of Enterprise Patterns ( Andrew Clymer and Dave Wheeler )
  • A Day of Unit Testing ( Kevin Jones )
  • A Day of .NET 4 ( Richard Blewett )
  • A Day of OO Design Patterns ( Kevin Jones and Andrew Clymer )
  • An introduction to Workflow 4 ( Richard Blewett )
  • The chaotic world of asynchronous programming with .NET 4 ( Andrew Clymer )

BASTA! is known for its tremendous expertise density. Hardly a conference in Europe offers such a high number of speakers, all known and respected their respective fields. The focus of all presentations and workshops is on real practical benefits - useful programming tips, interesting insights into new technologies and best practices.

Rock Solid Knowledge delivered the following sessions at BASTA! Spring 2010

  • An Introduction to Workflow Foundation 4 ( Richard Blewett )
  • Building WCF Services with Workflow Foundation 4 ( Richard Blewett )
  • Is the Free Lunch Back ? ( Andrew Clymer )
  • Chaotic world of Asynchronous programming with .NET 4 ( Andrew Clymer )

Bearpark Publishing, the company which organises the annual DevWeek conference and runs the ITarchitect web site, will be running its third annual Software Architect conference in 2009, aimed at Software Architects and other IT professionals with an interest in software architecture.

Rock Solid Knowledge delivered the following sessions at Software Architecture 2009

BASTA! is known for its tremendous expertise density. Hardly a conference in Europe offers such a high number of speakers, all known and respected their respective fields. The focus of all presentations and workshops is on real practical benefits - useful programming tips, interesting insights into new technologies and best practices.

Rock Solid Knowledge delivered the following sessions at BASTA! 2009

  • Generics, Lambdas and Extension Methods - Beyond List ( Richard Blewett )
  • What’s new in Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0? ( Richard Blewett )
  • Deploying WCF Services using the Windows Application Server ( Richard Blewett )

DevWeek is Europe’s leading independent conference for software developers, database professionals and IT architects, and features expert speakers on a wide range of topics, including .NET Framework 4.0, Silverlight 2, WCF 4.0, Visual Studio 2010, RESTful services, Windows Workflow, ASP.NET AJAX 4.0, SQL Server 2008, LINQ, C# 3, .NET Patterns, Ruby, and more

Rock Solid Knowledge delivered the following sessions at DevWeek 2009

  • A Day of .NET Design Patterns ( Andy Clymer and Kevin Jones )
  • Essential Silverlight ( Dave Wheeler )
  • Introduction to the Windows Workflow Foundation ( Richard Blewett )
  • A lap around Silverlight 2 ( Dave Wheeler )
  • Advanced Silverlight 2: Communications with the big bad world ( Dave Wheeler )
  • Whats new in WPF ( Dave Wheeler )
  • Advanced Silverlight 2: implementing navigation ( Dave Wheeler )
  • Advanced WPF: writing custom WPF controls ( Dave Wheeler )
  • The Patterns dartboard ( Andy Clymer and Kevin Jones )
  • Advanced WPF: designing composite applications ( Dave Wheeler )
  • The chaotic world of asynchronous programming ( Andy Clymer )
  • Advanced WPF: the missing bits ( Dave Wheeler )
  • Designing for Testing ( Kevin Jones )
  • So you think you know Javascript ( Kevin Jones )
  • Foundations of Enterprise Design Patterns in .NET ( Dave Wheeler )
  • More Enterprise Design Patterns in .NET ( Dave Wheeler )
  • A Day of Connected Systems with .NET 4.0 and Oslo ( Richard Blewett )
  • From the Coalface: real-world WPF ( Dave Wheeler )
  • A Day of Ruby on Rails ( Kevin Jones )

Øredev is the premier technical and user conference in Europe focused on the software development process - from programming to project management.

Rock Solid Knowledge delivered the following sessions at OreDev 2008