Final update: get ready for Web Camp Belgium - 24 January 2011
We’re almost there: next Monday we are welcoming Scott Hanselman, Drew Robbins and Gill Cleeren for the first Web Camp Belgium.
The event is fully booked, so praise yourself lucky if you got a seat. If you didn’t, no need to worry, we also have some very good news for anyone who’s not able to make it in person: the whole event can be watched through a live stream.
Here’s the practical information:
- Live stream URL, will be live before 9AM on January 24th: https://bit.ly/webcampbelive
- In-person event address: Business Faculty, St. Lendriksborre 6 / Font Saint Landry 6, Brussels. Watch your mailbox for your confirmation and more information.
- On-demand session viewing: expect the sessions to be online before February on Channel 9 Belux
- Don’t hesitate to use Twitter to mix the offline with the online: put up your pictures, comments and ideas throughout the day. We are using #webcampbe on Twitter.
Some good resources to prepare for the event:
- Official Web Camps website: https://www.webcamps.ms
- Watch the Web Camps TV show on Channel9: https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Web+Camps+TV
- Download ASP.NET MVC 3 (includes NuGet)
- Download IIS Express 7.5
- Download Orchard 1.0
- Check out OData
- Check out the IE Test Drive – HTML5 demo site
- Microsoft and jQuery: check out Scott Guthrie’s blog post on the subject
- Get into some tutorials on the latest ‘Microsoft January Web Release’ (as Scott H. calls it):
- Read Scott Hanselman’s blog post: ASP.NET MVC3, WebMatrix, NuGet, IIS Express and Orchard released - The Microsoft January Web Release in Context
- Check out an extensive list of tutorials gathered by Scott: Link Rollup: New Documentation and Tutorials from Web Platform and Tools
Final agenda update
Timing |
Session |
8:30 - 9:00 |
Welcome and registration |
9:00 - 11:00 |
Opening Keynote – What’s new in the Microsoft Web Platform (by Scott Hanselman) |
11:00 - 11:30 |
Coffee Break |
11:30 - 12:30 |
HTML5: How about today? (by Katrien De Graeve) |
12:30 - 13:30 |
Lunch |
13:30 - 14:45 |
Come in as jQuery zero, go out as jQuery hero (by Gill Cleeren) |
14:45 - 15:15 |
Coffee Break |
15:15 - 16:30 |
OData: Open Data for the Open Web (by Drew Robbins) Note: Jonathan Carter was foreseen for this session, unfortunately there was a last-minute change and we are happy to have Drew Robbins deliver this session). |
16:30 - 17:30 |
Closing drink |
See you all on Monday!