Caleb Jenkins

Session: .NET on the Cheap (Free and OSS resources from the Redmond Giant) [.NET Track, Intermediate Level]

Microsoft has deep roots supporting the developer community. Somewhere along the way they lost their way and got caught up pushing for enterprises solutions...bigger and "better" (read: expensive) ways of doing software. This talk will focus on how the Redmond giant has come full circle with Open Source frameworks, free tooling and resources to make our lives better. Come check out the free tools and resources that are available to you and your company on the .NET platform. So whether you're doing .NET, PHP, Java or RAILS, come see what you might be missing.

About Caleb Jenkins

Caleb is the founder and Principal Mentor at Proaction Mentors. Prior to forming Proaction Mentors, Caleb was the Senior Software Architect at Six Flags Corporation and a Principal with Improving Enterprises. He also had a successful tenure working with the Microsoft Corporation as a Developer Evangelist and technology expert. In addition to his on going work with Proaction Mentors, Caleb serves as a national speaker for the International .NET Association (INETA). He has been recognized as an industry expert by Microsoft with their prestigious Microsoft MVP award for three straight years. He is a strong agile process advocate and a Certified Scrum Master. He has also worked as a technical editor forWrox Press, and was recently a featured presenter on xTrain and Adobe.TV. In his spare time, Caleb is the host, cameraman and editor for CommunityCast TV. He lives in the Dallas area where he continues to date his beautiful wife and busy himself playing Candy Land and Xbox 360 with their four incredible children. Occasionally he writes curriculum, speaks at conferences, and write code for silly things like Twitter applications. Eventually, we’ll get him to post some of the gazillion interviews that he’s recorded on CommunityCast TV and try to blog some more.