Note: Free Food provided by PSI Note: Venue is at Daemen College, Schenck Hall, Rm 210.
About the Presenter:
Jesse Smith has been programming computers of one sort or another since he was 8 years old. He is currently a Senior Programmer/Analyst at Frontier Science Technology & Research Foundation, where he leads the development of a large Windows Forms application for labs doing clinical research on HIV and AIDS. He also occasionally works as an independent consultant, specializing in development of Windows desktop applications and their accompanying relational database schemas. Full disclosure: Jesse managed to avoid having to actually use many of the more creaky technologies discussed tonight by doing the whole "turn on, turn in [to Linux], drop out [from Microsoft]" thing that everyone else was doing at college in the '90s. (It seemed like a good idea at the time...)
More on the Presentation:
Are the lazy summer days of August making it hard to wrap your head around Windows 7, Silverlight 3, the Entity Framework, C# 4.0, Windows Azure, and all the other bleeding-edge technologies coming from Microsoft? Join us for a light-hearted trip back through the last few decades of programming on Microsoft platforms. In order to understand where we're going it helps to know where we've been, and on our tour we'll take in the sights of MS-DOS, Win32, Visual Basic, DirectX, MFC, Visual C++, and Windows Forms. We'll also look at the present and possible future of Windows desktop programming in WPF and Silverlight, and see how we got to where we are.
If you lived through the eras of these technologies, this will be a stroll down memory lane. If this was before your time, you may find yourself glad to be a 21st-century programmer!
So set the WABAC Machine to 1981 and we'll get started... And don't forget to pack your 32-bit DOS extender - we'll probably need it along the way!
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