{"id":180,"date":"2006-11-06T10:43:29","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T17:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameskovacs.com\/2006\/11\/06\/MSDN+Canada+Speakers+Bureau"},"modified":"2006-11-06T10:43:29","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T17:43:29","slug":"msdn-canada-speakers-bureau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/2006\/11\/06\/msdn-canada-speakers-bureau\/","title":{"rendered":"MSDN Canada Speakers Bureau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am now a card-carrying member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/canada\/speakers\/\">MSDN Canada Speakers Bureau<\/a>*. (OK, maybe they don&#8217;t issue cards, but it&#8217;s still a great honour.) The long and short of it is that user groups from across Canada can invite me to speak and Microsoft Canada will cover the expenses.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some possible topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Enterprise Architecture for Mere Mortals: Authentication<\/span><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/span>Discussing advantages\/disadvantages of different authentication models and how to make them work, including trusted subsystem, full delegation, constrained delegation, and protocol transition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Tools of the Trade: Must-Have .NET Utilities<\/span><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/span>An overview of .NET tools that should be in your toolbox.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ASP.NET Kung-Fu: Advanced Techniques and Idioms<\/span><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/span>Solving problems in ASP.NET using techniques such as HttpHandlers and HttpModules.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Introducing Windows CardSpace<\/span><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/span>Looking at the technology, its architecture, and why you should care.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be adding more presentations in the coming months. So if you are looking for someone to present on a particular topic, don&#8217;t hesitate to ask. I might have something in my back pocket&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* Please note that the public page is horribly out-of-date. <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/bsimser\/\">Some<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/jbristowe\/\">people<\/a> have incorrect information. Others, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpboodhoo.com\/\">Jean-Paul Boodhoo<\/a>, are not yet listed. User Group leaders have up-to-date information on all speakers. Talk to them about inviting one of us to come speak at your user group.<\/p>\n<p>BTW &#8211; If you&#8217;re looking for a fantastic presenter to talk about TDD, Agile, and patterns, I would highly recommend inviting Jean-Paul out to your user group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am now a card-carrying member of the MSDN Canada Speakers Bureau*. (OK, maybe they don&#8217;t issue cards, but it&#8217;s still a great honour.) The long and short of it is that user groups from across Canada can invite me to speak and Microsoft Canada will cover the expenses. Here are some possible topics: Enterprise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}