Using HTML5 Today

HTML5 capabilities in recent browsers offer improvements in interactivity, performance, search engine optimization and maintainability.

This session describes the state of HTML5 today and covers strategies for taking advantage of HTML5. Learn how to use HTML5 features on your site today, including ways to help address cross-browser, cross-version compatibility issues.

Speakers:

DCDNUG is excited to bring 2 great speaker for the 10th Anniversary of INETA.

Steve Albers is a Principal Software Architect & Developer for Time Warner Cable and has worked in software development for 20 years, focusing on web technologies, systems integration and application performance.

Steve has a BA in Marketing Management from Virginia Tech, an MS in Information Systems from George Mason University, and was an NVCC Continuing Education instructor. Steve has worked with .NET since 2002 and is Microsoft MCSD certified.  

G. Andrew Duthie, aka devhammer, is the Developer Evangelist for Microsoft’s Mid-Atlantic States district, where he provides support and education for developers working with the .net development platform. In addition to his work with Microsoft, Andrew is the author of several books on ASP.NET and web development, and has spoken at numerous industry conferences from VSLive! and ASP.NET Connections, to Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference (PDC) and Tech-Ed. Andrew has been participating in the user group community since way back in 1997, when one of his co-workers dragged him out to the Internet Developers User Group in Tyson's Corner, VA, and he's been hooked ever since. Andrew is also the creator and developer of Community Megaphone, a site designed for promoting and finding developer community events. Andrew can be reached through his blog at http://devhammer.net/. You can also follow Andrew on twitter.

Agenda:

 6:30 PM - 6:45 PM Pizza! Beverages! Networking!
 6:45 PM - 8:15 PM  Using HTML5 Today -  Steve Albers & G. Andrew Duthie
 8:15 PM - 8:30 PM Sponsor's time
 8:30 PM - 8:45 PM Raffle for some great giveaways!

Win some of the great give aways like.

• Telerik Gift Set
• TekPub Yearly Subscription of Online Training
• Jet Brains Resharper/Dotnet License
• Webucator Training voucher
• SQL Data Set license
• Nevron chart for .net lite edition
• Various books from Apress and O'Rielly on Windows Azure, ASP.NET, MVC, Sharepoint
• Tshirts and many other goodies.

Thanks to Everyone for making the the last DCDNUG event huge success. 

Spread the word, bring a friend, hope to see you there!