I will be speaking at the St. Louis .Net User Group About Silverlight on Monday, October 27th at 6 pm. Like the Kansas City .Net User Group they start at 5:30, but it looks like they go until 7:30. It looks like the group holds office at Three city Place Suite 1100 in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Here is my bio and abstract:
The Dazzling World of Silverlight using XAML and Expression Blend
Silverlight is the shiny new tool that both Developers and Designers can use in harmony. In Expression Studio Designers can create Silverlight layouts without affecting the code behind files. In Visual Studio 2008 Developers can access the layout files that designers created and add code events. In this session we will discuss the tools involved to develop Silverlight Applications. We will dive into some XAML Code and Expression Blend tutorials that will leaving you with a taste to create more rich applications for the web.
Becky Isserman has been a SharePoint Developer, since 2005 when she went through the Portal University with Levi, Ray, and Shoup in Springfield, IL. She is an Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD). She has been a web designer/developer since she was fifteen hand coding HTML 3.0 websites in NotePad. She enjoys working with SharePoint 2007, because she can perform the roles of administrator, developer, designer, and architect. She has presented at five code camps, two conferences, and three user groups in 2008. She currently lives in Olathe, Kansas for B&R Solutions. She lives with her two cats, Gambit and Rogue, plus her boyfriend, Johnny. If you would like to contact her you can e-mail her at rebecca.isserman@gmail.com or fill out the contact form at her blog http://www.mosslover.com.
If anyone in St. Louis wants to get together and play some Rockband or meet up I think I'm going to try and work from my friend Leah's house through Thursday. However, if anyone wants to hang out for dinner she has claimed me for most dinners, especially Wednesday which is her 25th birthday.