Speaking at TechEd Africa ‘09 at Tim Keller

Speaking at TechEd Africa ‘09

I’ve been asked to present two sessions at Microsoft Tech•Ed Africa 2009. Its being staged again this year in Durban and should see 2000 IT Pro’s, Developers and miscellaneous geeks decend upon the outstanding Durban International Convention Centre from 2-5 August.

My sessions are:

Windows Server & FastCGI technologies for PHP (DTL204)
Developer Tools, Languages, and Frameworks
Mon 3 Aug | 300 – Advanced | Developer, IT Pro

PHP is a wildly popular scripting language for the web, and powers some of the largest websites on the Internet. Traditionally, PHP on Windows has been something of an oxymoron. Join us and find out why PHP is now highly performant, scalable and efficient when run under FastCGI on Windows Server and IIS. Presented by a local PHP developer, you’ll gain insight into how you can take advantage of PHP on Windows, and integrate it with technologies like PowerShell, ASP.NET and SQLServer.
Embrace Open Source on CodePlex (DTL302)
Developer Tools, Languages, and Frameworks
Tue 4 Aug | 300 – Advanced | Developer

If you’re a software developer interested in running an open source project or just looking around for a particular tool to download, come check out the latest from CodePlex. CodePlex is the open source project hosting site from Microsoft. Launched in May 2006, CodePlex hosts thousands of open source projects. CodePlex users can start open source projects with support for source control, bug tracking, wiki pages, downloads, forums, and project statistics. Additionally, CodePlex supports the widest range of source control clients. This talk explores the top downloaded projects, outlines the CodePlex feature set, and explains how we build the CodePlex software.