TEE10 Highlights: Giorgio Sardo - "HTML5 and Internet Explorer 9 Demo Fest"

Giorgio Sardo (Microsoft), Senior Technical Evangelist. Blog.

Go to http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive, download the latest Internet Explorer 9 Preview, and then check out some of the HTML5 samples linked from Giorgio's blog. Awesome!

I particularly like Never Mind the Bullets.

TEE10 Highlights: Chris Mayo - "How to Customize SharePoint Online for Your Environment Using SharePoint Designer 2010"

Chris Mayo (Microsoft), Technical Specialist, SharePoint Online. Blog.

A very good overview of Office365 and SharePoint Online - Microsoft's emerging Office/SharePoint software-as-a-service product offerings for the cloud.

I'll seriously consider using Office365 for my Microsoft Office licensing for my limited company as soon as it goes into general release. Check it out and sign up for the Beta!

TEE10 Highlights: Rafal Lukawiecki - "Analysis with Microsoft PowerPivot"

An enthusiastic overview from Rafal Lukawiecki and some great demos of the new PowerPivot functionality for Microsoft Office Excel 2010. This is incredible technology, allowing end users to store millions of rows of data in memory in Excel and perform extremely fast data analysis tasks. Definitely worth skilling up on this one.

Welcome to "the twitter" @rafaldotnet.

TEE10 Highlights: Aaron Bjork and Peter Provost - "An Agile Talk on Agility"

Aaron Bjork (Microsoft), Program Manager on Team Foundation Server. Blog.

Peter Provost (Microsoft), Program Manager on Visual Studio. Blog.

Agenda for a one hour presentation:

Introduction

4 x 10-minute Sprints (2 mins planning, 8 mins work)

1 x 10-minute Retrospective

Topics: Well ... we'll see what's on the requirements backlog and prioritise at the start of each sprint ;-)

TEE10 Highlights: Sander Hoogendoorn - "How Frameworks Can Kill Your Projects, And Patterns to help you avoid getting Killed

Slide deck available on Sander's blog post.

Twitter: @aahoogendoorn

TEE10 Highlights: Tim Huckaby - "Using Natural User Interface (NUI) Technologies to Improve User Experience"

Tim Huckaby, Founder, Interknowlogy.  Blog.

A great overview of some of the very cool apps that have been built for the medical and gaming industries using the Microsoft Surface in the past couple of years, and some insights into neural- and gesture- interfaces for apps in the near future.

TEE10 Highlights: Stephen Forte and Joel Semeniuk - "Scrum, but"

A very entertaining, insightful, and interactive presentation from Stephen Forte (@worksonmypc) and Joel Semeniuk (@Joel_Semeniuk) from Telerik on how the Scrum development methodology is adapted for different organisational environments.