Tech·Ed New Zealand 2011
From a keynote hosted by Norm Judah and All Blacks Legend, David Kirk to the journey into the Cloud, Tech·Ed 2011 was a massive and enjoyable learning experience. Not to mention a chance to network with like minds and celebrate the many joys of being a geek or a superhero at TechFest. As you put the skills and knowledge you gained into practice back at work, just remember, it's only a year until we can do it all again and much, much more.
Tech·Ed 2011 Video Highlights
Videos of Tech·Ed 2011 Highlights are available right now! Dive into highlight sessions, roaming videos and interviews, plus the Keynote
Tech·Ed 2011 Session Videos
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Tech·Ed Online
Length: 00:00:50
Only a week to go before the biggest IT Conference in NZ kicks off, get ready as we bring some of the key highlights from this year's event to Tech Ed Online - also go in draw to win one of three XBOX 360 + Kinects bundles.
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Line of Business in the Cloud
Length: 01:02:03
The breadth of the Microsoft Cloud Platform means that it is now realistic for businesses to build out their entire operation in this way. Join Chris Auld and Rex Wessels as they discuss how they built MOAD (the Mother Of All Demos). This demo application, built for Microsoft Corporation, incorporates the totality of the Microsoft Cloud platform to deliver a property letting application in the cloud. Combining the power of Office 365, Dynamics CRM, SharePoint Online, Windows Azure and Windows Phone, this session will cover the vision and architecture as well as cracking open Visual Studio to look at some code. If you are considering building out a line of business system then watch Chris and Rex and see how the cloud opens up new opportunities for innovation and speed to delivery.
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Guidelines and Best Practices for ...
Length: 01:04:39
This session will briefly discuss the different types of services supported in WCF 4, followed by detailed guidance on migrating a service implementation from an on-premises deployment to the Windows Azure platform. The session will address the Azure hosting options and considerations, the steps for securing the service using the Azure Access Control Service (ACS), and finally - enabling a hybrid solution by connecting to existing on-premises services via the Azure AppFabric Service Bus.
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Project "Crescent" the next level...
Length: 01:51:06
What is the Microsoft project code-named "Crescent" really capable of? How can it address the needs of your business? This session covers a variety of demonstrations against REAL DATA, across various industry verticals, to enable you to see what's possible when deploying this new technology. If you like BI Power Hour than you'll love "Abundantly Crescent!"
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Building a Mission-Critical High...
Length: 01:13:38
In this session we talk about the new high availability solution that is being introduced in SQL Server code-named "Denali". The session provides an overview of AlwaysOn and introduces the key new features and capabilities that will help businesses achieve the high availability SLA for mission critical applications.
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Trade Me:0-70 million pages in ...
Length: 01:13:38
Trade Me is New Zealand's biggest website, with over a 1.7 million items for sale and serving over 70 million pages on a busy day. Hear about their platform from the webs through to the database and how they've handled their growth to 70 million pages a day. Matt van Deventer (Head of Infrastructure) and David Curlewis (Head of Database) will share some of the lessons they've learnt along the way, strategies for keeping ahead of their growth and talk about what happens when things go wrong.
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Good architect vs. Bad architect
Length: 00:54:43
The quality bar that separates good and bad architects became much clearer in the last 5 years as industry matured in definition of IT Architect profession expectations, validation criteria and education guidelines. In contrast with engineering, failures of poor architecture decisions are not immediately visible and they rarely cause imminent failure – yet they are still signs of bad architect. In this session we will explore what are the skills, experiences and expected knowledge when hiring/assessing/promoting an architect and what to do when someone doesn't meet expected (or self-advertised) quality bar.
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Hitchhiker's Guide To Technical...
Length: 01:00:04
Beautiful designs and architectures are all good and well, but is application architecture enough? To what degree are modern solutions architected around end user adoption or for operational excellence with great embedded telemetry? What are the characteristics of great architecture and the behaviors of a great architect and technical leaders? Join certified architect Norm Judah, Microsoft Services CTO, to discuss the development of architects and technical leaders within Microsoft Services.
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Hitchhiker's Guide To Technical...
Length: 01:00:04
Beautiful designs and architectures are all good and well, but is application architecture enough? To what degree are modern solutions architected around end user adoption or for operational excellence with great embedded telemetry? What are the characteristics of great architecture and the behaviors of a great architect and technical leaders? Join certified architect Norm Judah, Microsoft Services CTO, to discuss the development of architects and technical leaders within Microsoft Services.
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Developer's Introduction to F#
Length: 01:09:04
Visual Studio 2010 introduced F#, a new .NET language that's a big break from the C#/Visual Basic tradition. Learn what F# is, why and where is it useful to real-world developers, and how can it fit in with your existing C# and Visual Basic knowledge and codebase.
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Dynamic and meta-programming ...
Length: 01:02:17
With the introduction of the C# dynamic keyword and the Dynamic Language Runtime, it's now possible to extend your C# programs to use a dynamic style. Your program can figure out at run-time what classes, fields, properties and methods it needs, and can use the new dynamic features to create and access them. Learn how to do things that previously required you to learn a whole new language, all within the familiar environment of C# and .NET 4 -- and find out how it all works behind the scenes.
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A Developer's Guide to Integrating ...
Length: 00:51:30
SharePoint and CRM is a match made in heaven! With Dynamics CRM 2011 & CRM Online, Microsoft provides out-of-box document integration with SharePoint 2010 but customers are increasingly looking for ways to integrate these two technologies further. In this developer-focused session, we take a look at how you can bring CRM data to SharePoint using webparts, Business Connectivity Services (BCS), web services and more. You will also see demos of BCS Connector for CRM and an end-to-end online application connecting SharePoint Online, CRM Online, Microsoft Silverlight and Azure. If you're looking to understand how you can integrate these two technologies, then you won't want to miss this demo-filled session.
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A Developer's Guide to Integrating ...
Length: 00:51:30
SharePoint and CRM is a match made in heaven! With Dynamics CRM 2011 & CRM Online, Microsoft provides out-of-box document integration with SharePoint 2010 but customers are increasingly looking for ways to integrate these two technologies further. In this developer-focused session, we take a look at how you can bring CRM data to SharePoint using webparts, Business Connectivity Services (BCS), web services and more. You will also see demos of BCS Connector for CRM and an end-to-end online application connecting SharePoint Online, CRM Online, Microsoft Silverlight and Azure. If you're looking to understand how you can integrate these two technologies, then you won't want to miss this demo-filled session.
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When CRM 2011 Goes Viral
Length: 00:46:08
Microsoft Dynamics CRM has come a long way over the years. As organisations use the platform to its full potential as an XRM system, they are wanting their internet facing portals to be integrated with Dynamics CRM. In this session we will demonstrate how a grants management solution was built on top of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. A platform independent internet facing portal accessing CRM was created to allow customers to submit and follow-up on their applications.
During the demonstration we'll go over the steps to build a portal from scratch starting with the data layer connected to CRM 2011, to the business logic, and to the MVC 3 web front end using the latest Razor engine along with a Silverlight Bing map.
The goal of the presentation is to share a customer experience using Dynamics CRM to solve a business requirement while showing how CRM can be used as an XRM system and how easy it is to build extra layers/portals that can be accessed from any system including mobile devices such as an iPad. -
Exchange 2010 High Availability Concepts
Length: 01:07:34
This session covers the basics of the new technologies, concepts, terms and methods used to plan, design, manage and troubleshoot Exchange high availability. Learn how settings like AutoDatabaseMountDial and Activation Preference work. Get an understanding of the basic functions of Active Manager, learn the difference between the Witness Server and the Alternate Witness Server, and more!
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Microsoft Research - Technologies ...
Length: 00:31:24
In this talk, I will highlight some technologies from MSR that can be used to develop cool projects. I'll highlight the newly released Kinect SDK and other exciting tools as examples of how machine learning and signal processing technologies can be used to build interesting applications that receive and process signals and result in more natural interaction with computing devices.
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Transforming Our Future Today
Length: 00:46:20
Want to see the next Mark Zuckerberg in the making? UPT Digital leverages the accessibility of modern software development tools to engage early teens in creating commercial software applications. Teams learn by doing, from concept and design through content creation and software development, targeting Windows and WP7 via tools such as C#, XNA and Silverlight. Mentored by Microsoft Research in Redmond through a cascaded mentor system which allows key players to rapidly adopt new technologies and then diffuse that IP through the group, enabling stability despite the flux of students enrolling into and graduating from the program. Agile methods help coordinate the diverse pool of talent and interest necessary for creating multimedia apps and games. Watch as the team present a number of ongoing product development projects to demonstrate these ideas in action.
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Creating a Federated Extranet ...
Length: 00:52:44
Need to share documents or web content with "Aliens" outside your organisation? Federation really does make extranets simpler – and you don't have to dress like a Trekkie.
After years of hype about Federation, out-of-the-box support arrived with SharePoint 2010 and ADFSv2.
But getting it all to work can be like mustering sheep without a dog – lots of running about and falling in "mud".
This session shares tools, tricks and planning which will make your implementation easier. -
Rational Guide to SharePoint 2010 ...
Length: 01:00:04
Get the real deal on configuring User Profile Synchronization in SharePoint 2010 in this demo and best practices heavy session. This session will cover the architecture of the new User Profile Synchronization capability in SharePoint Server 2010 and provide a walkthrough of the configuration requirements and setup eccentricities. This session will be split 70/30 between demonstrations and lecture.
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The SharePoint 2010 Search Service...
Length: 01:00:47
In this session I will introduce the architecture behind the SharePoint 2010 out of the box search service and show how easily it can be carved up in order to support scaled search requirements and performance optimization. In my opinion Search is one of the most improved out of all the SharePoint services, come and find out why.
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Hack-Ed - Boost your defences!
Length: 01:03:39
Running a website is a risky business. Applications within organisations and on the internet are under attack all the time, by all kinds of people.
How do you make your ASP.NET WebForms, MVC or SharePoint application as secure as possible? Which protection mechanisms are built in to the platform, and what are the recommended techniques for those that aren't?
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Releasing Trade Me's Latest Project
Length: 00:59:15
Trade Me is a pretty big New Zealand web site. We've been working on a little something that we think might interest the Tech Ed audience and we'd love for you to join us as we announce and release it.
In the process we'll be showing off our stack and demonstrating our deployment process as we push our new project live to NZ's largest web site.
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Responsive Design - The View of the ...
Length: 00:56:09
There is no mobile Web, there is no desktop Web, and there is no tablet Web. We view the same Web just in different ways. So how do we do it? If you are a designer or front-end developer, come to this session to learn how to embrace the fact that the web doesn't have the same constraints as the printed page, and how to design and develop for this flexibility.
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Enabling a Responsible Consumerizat ...
Length: 01:02:10
Device proliferation and consumerization of IT is putting additional demands on the IT department. This session will help you determine how to develop a successful consumerization strategy that will help you enable consumeization of IT while protecting intellectual property.
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How to develop a successful Desktop ...
Length: 00:52:54
New desktop technologies such as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) are causing many to consider re-architecting their desktop infrastructure. In this session you will see the progression of the Thin Client, VDI and Remote Desktop architectures, clarify and uncover some Desktop TCO myths, by reviewing major analyst's opinions and their progression over time. We will then go over successful and not so successful desktop selection methods on which we have participated in real IT environments. Finally we will present the Microsoft desktop strategy that focuses on meeting desktop requirements based on roles / personas, rather than implying that one technology fits all. We will go over examples that illustrate when and how to use Presentation, Application, and HW Virtualization offerings, covering Remote Desktop Services, MS Application Virtualization, as well as VDI through Hyper V.
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Peeking at the Source of a Successf ...
Length: 00:41:57
Jeff Wilcox, developer of successful Windows Phone App 4th & Mayor will deliver a 300-level talk that looks into what it takes to create a large Windows Phone app, from dealing with the marketplace, solving common problems, and a look at a smart data caching and loading system for pulling down data from web services. Even if you are building small apps Jeff will show you how to polish it and make a difference by adding visual effects, addressing usability and design issues, as well as adding error reporting and other key app services.
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Windows Phone First Up/ All Up
Length: 01:03:26
This session is intended to introduce developers to Windows Phone. It isn't your boring old level 100 intro session. This session assumes that you know how to develop applications and skips past the "hello world" stuff to talk about tools, navigation elements, the back stack, phone controls and the marketplace. MarkBishop (Windows Phone Product Manager) will start the session presenting on the all up phone business in NZ. Nick will then take over and build an app from scratch during this session and finish the session by submitting it to the marketplace. Come along if you are interested in developing applications for Windows Phone but are yet to taker the first step.
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Network Access Protection in the ...
Length: 01:00:48
NAP, HA, NPS, SHV, SHA? - Want to make sense of this alphabet soup? - This technical deep dive session will take you through a step-by-step approach for implementing Network access protection to enforce security and configuration on your Windows 7 clients. Topics covered will include implementation steps for deploying NAP with IPSEC, high availability design considerations, integration with System Centre Configuration Manager 2007, the implications of implementing null encryption, a staged approach to enabling NAP in an existing environment and troubleshooting tips and tricks.
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Get Out of Dodge: Migrating to W ...
Length: 01:00:30
You can't wait any longer. Your infrastructure is still clinging to the 2003 x86 server architecture but with every day that goes by, you worry more and more that the other shoe will drop. You know you have to bite the bullet and get these critical services over to more modern hardware paired with the current supported revisions of the server platform. These are the services that keep the lights on, the servers running and most importantly: the users happy! This demo-intensive session covers how to migrate essential services like DHCP, DNS, File/Print, Certificate Services and more. But migration is only half the battle. In order to not leave you hanging - this session wraps up with how to manage and maintain these services using the new remote administration tools and Windows PowerShell v2.0. If you have customers stuck in the x86 to x64 migration frontier - show them the path to x64 2008 R2 nirvana.
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How to secure and manage Consume ...
Length: 01:03:50
Consumerization is really about managed vs. unmanaged devices. If you want to know how to enable consumerization of IT, this session is for you. We will cover how to responsibly architect a consumerization of IT strategy on any device be it a phone, slate, or PC and still protect the companies intellectual property. This session discusses the use of UAG, IPSec, VDI, RDS and RDS remote applications and how those capabilities can be used for a successful deployment of Consumerization of IT.
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Tech·Ed New Zealand KeyNote
Length: 01:10:29
Tech·Ed 2011 New Zealand kicks off with a 60 minute Keynote session presented by Norm Judah and David Kirk.
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2011 Hack-Ed - The Attackers are coming!
Length: 01:00:41
The internet is a fast moving business, web applications in 2011 are being attacked in new ways, using new tools and techniques. This talk will cover the state of the art in web security, and have some fun sharing stories of sites that have been attacked and how well they survived.
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Tech Talk Interview with Scott Schnoll
Length: 00:09:04
Interview with Scott Schnoll on whats new with Exchange Server 2010.
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Welcome to NZ's Premier IT Conference – Tech·Ed 2011
Length: 00:02:08
Tech·Ed is the largest and best technology conference in NZ. Find out from attendees what they are looking forward to the most this year.
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What is happening in the Hub?
Length: 00:03:37
Tech·Ed Hub is the place where 2000 IT Professionals and developers connect and network over 3 days in one location.
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Tech Talk Interview with the UPT Digital Kids
Length: 00:04:38
Hear from our youngest speakers at Tech·Ed, the UPT Digital Kids and some of the exciting things there doing with Microsoft Stack.
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Tech Talk Interview with Steve Smith
Length: 00:05:43
Interview with Steve Smith on training in the UK, how does it compare?
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Tech Talk Interview with Debbie Ireland
Length: 00:04:57
Tech Talk interview with Debbie Ireland, SharePoint MVP, SharePoint Trainer, SharePoint Conference Organiser and MSCommunities President.
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End Of Day 1 - 2011 Tech·Ed NZ
Length: 00:02:10
Follow Millen Baird as he talks to the attendees about their highlights after the first day of Tech·Ed New Zealand 2011.
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Tech Talk Interview with Rob Reinauer
Length: 00:05:53
Tech Talk Interview with Rob Reinauer - Private Cloud and SQL Virtualisation
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HP - Principal Sponsor of 2011 Tech·Ed New Zealand
Length: 00:02:41
Principal Sponsor of the 2011 New Zealand Tech·Ed - What's new in the HP space.
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Tech Talk Interview with Carolyn Chau
Length: 00:05:00
Principal Sponsor of the 2011 New Zealand Tech·Ed - What's new in the HP space.
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Tech Talk Interview with Brendon Ford
Length: 00:05:00
Tech Talk Interview with Brendon Ford, CTO of Provoke and also Committee Events Manager for MSCommunities.
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Tech Talk Interview with Team OneBuzz
Length: 00:04:58
Tech Talk Interview with Team OneBuzz - Find out more about what's next for the 2011 Imagine Cup NZ Winners
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Tech Talk Interview with Michael Niehaus
Length: 00:05:19
Tech Talk Interview with Michael Niehaus - What's coming for Windows Deployment in 2012
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Tech Talk Interview with Team Unite
Length: 00:05:30
Tech Talk Interview with Team Unite - Hear from one of the top 20 teams from the 2011 New Zealand Microsoft Imagine Cup Competition.
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Tech Fest MC - Dai Henwood
Length: 00:02:24
Millen Baird finds out what Dia Henwood, MC for techfest has prepared for this years big event.
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Tech Talk Interview with Andrew Ehrensing
Length: 00:05:14
Tech Talk Interview with Andrew Ehrensing - Lync - How do you see as a complete replacement for PBX.
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Tech Talk Interview with Dr Nitin Paranjape
Length: 00:05:43
Tech Talk Interview with Dr Nitin Paranjape - Maximising Business Value from the Office Platform.
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Tech Talk Interview with Miha Kraljis
Length: 00:04:44
Tech Talk Interview with Miha Kraljis - How the role of architects is developing.
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Tech Talk Interview with Thomas Lewis
Length: 00:04:32
Tech Talk Interview with Thomas Lewis - What's new on the web.
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Tech Talk Interview with Regan Murphy
Length: 00:04:44
Tech Talk Interview with Regan Murphy - Dynamics - What's new?
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Interview with Main Act - Fat Freddy's Drop
Length: 00:02:54
Millen Baird Interviews Main Act for the 2011 Tech Fest - Fat Freddy's Drop!
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Highlights from Tech Fest 2011
Length: 00:03:02
Highlights from the 2011 New Zealand Tech Fest.
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2011 Tech·Ed New Zealand - Wrap Up
Length: 00:02:46
Wrap up of the three day event - check out the highlights!
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Addressing the Auckland Council ...
Length: 00:54:43
On 1 November 2011 the Auckland Council inherited a complex IT environment that was the result of the amalgamation of 8 different organisations. As a result, the Auckland Council now has to address the challenges related to a multitude of systems serving the same basic purpose but with differing implementations. This challenge is further compounded by the Council's accountability for an efficient management of the IT assets through a value-based capital expenditure plan, while improving on the maturity of its Information Services and the inherited IS architecture. In this talk we will provide details of these challenges and present the current thinking that is addressing the challenges with the consolidation of IS assets, the revamping of the architecture using a balanced Enterprise Architecture-driven portfolio and programme of work and a focus on improving the maturity of the IS organisation. We will also show how this is being effectively done by presenting an example of a consolidation project.
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Pimp My App - 3 screens and ...
Length: 00:59:19
User Experience guru Shane Morris is back in New Zealand with Pimp my App 3D. Like last year's critically acclaimed "Pimp My App" session Shane Morris will tell you everything about user interface layout and design that fits into 50 minutes, but with a new twist. Shane is taking his talk 3D(evices)! He will focus on design across multiple devices with the metioric rise of Web, Mobile and Tablet it is not longer good enough to design a web app in a single dimension.
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Tech·Ed Online
Check out Tech·Ed Online and view some of the popular sessions from each of the tracks on demand.
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Tech·Ed Session Catalogue
Tech·Ed 2011 New Zealand has over 170 breakout sessions from 15 different tracks. View them now and download the mini guide.
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