Monospace Welcomes Headspring Systems as a Principal Sponsor

Continuing its involvement in open source for the .NET Framework, Headspring has become a principal sponsor of the Monospace Conference.

A commitment to open source for .NET is a core principal of Headspring. In addition to sponsoring Monospace, Headspring’s employees have contributed to numerous .NET open source projects including, MvcContrib, AutoMapper, The Tarantino Project, and CodeCampServer. Jeffrey Palermo, Headspring’s CTO, comments "We leverage open source software when delivering software projects. The more we support the open source community, the more we benefit.”

Dustin Wells, Headspring’s CEO, comments “Headspring is very excited about the future of Mono and the possibilities it opens for utilizing the .NET Framework on iPhones, Macs, and Linux.”

Headspring is a custom software development and Agile software consulting firm in Austin, Texas. Headspring specializes in delivering custom software development using Agile methods to help clients build and manage custom software projects more effectively. Headspring has helped clients maximize the value of each dollar spent through high-velocity output from each team member supported by Headspring's rigorous development standards and commitment to quality. In addition to custom software development, Headspring also helps clients through our technology training and coaching programs.

For more information about Headspring, please visit the website at www.HeadspringSystems.com.

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Monospace: The iPhone Development Training Opportunity that Can't Be Beat!

The Monospace conference is offering a full day of iPhone development training with the MonoTouch development tools and framework!

On Wednesday, October 28th, the Monospace conference features two back-to-back training sessions on iPhone development:

iPhone Development with Monotouch, taught by Geoff Norton, Engineering Lean for Montouch, and Advanced iPhone Development with Monotouch, taught by Miguel de Icaza, Mono Project Founder and Vice President of Developer Platform at Novell.

The Monospace conference is four full days of development training and open format learning and teaching for only $249! For a limited time, use the discount code MONO199 and bring the price down to $199.

Attendees of the Monospace conference will also receive a $150 discount on the MonoTouch tools.

In addition to the MonoTouch training, Geoff Norton will be giving a MonoTouch demo at Austin's Cocoa Coders iPhone developer user group on the evening of Tuesday, October 29th.

You can come to Monospace just for the full day of iPhone training, or stay the whole week. Either way, it's a value that can't be beat!

Register at: http://monospace.us

See you there!

Mono Project People Teaching at Monospace

The Monospace Conference brings software developers together with some of the industry's most knowledgeable experts in Mono and its platforms.

Many of the Monospace tutorial teachers are the people developing the Mono technologies, and this is your chance to learn directly from them.

From iPhone development with MonoTouch to Moonlight, and from web apps to cross-platform development, the tutorial program puts you in-touch with the people with the most knowledge in the subjects you want to know more about.

Check out the list of people from the Mono Project teaching at Monospace!

iPhone Development with MonoTouch
Geoff Norton, Engineering Lead for MonoTouch, Novell

Moonlight
Larry Ewing, Engineer, Mono Project, Novell
Rod Paddock, Editor, Code Magazine | Principal Consultant and Founder, Dashpoint Software

Introduction to Developing on Mono
Miguel de Icaza, Mono Project Founder and Vice President of Developer Platform, Novell

Linux Jumpstart for Windows Developers
Joseph Hill, Mono Product Manager, Novell

Mono and the Web - ASP.NET MVC, WebForms, Tools, and Servers
Jackson Harper, Engineer, Mono Project, Novell

Cross-Platform Development with Mono
Aaron Bockover, Lead Developer of the Banshee Media Player and Engineer at Novell

The Mono Runtime and Core Extensions
Rodrigo Kumpera, Software Engineer, Novell

See you at Monospace!

Advanced NHibernate Tutorial by Ayende Rahien at Monospace

NHibernate is the most mature and widely-adopted Object-Relational Mapping framework for .NET, and Ayende Rahien is it's best-known expert and project contributor.

The Monospace Conference offers you a unique opportunity to learn from the best at Ayende's Advanced NHibernate tutorial. Here's a chance to rapidly increase your skill and understanding of NHibernate by learning from an industry leader who has built NHibernate applications across a number of industries and system scales, from personal websites to large-scale, high-transaction enterprise apps.

Monospace attendees will also receive a discount coupon for NHibernate Profiler, the visual debugger and performance analyzer for Hibernate and NHibernate.

Don't miss this unique opportunity to improve your software development abilities in a rare installment of this popular workshop in North America!

Sign up for Monospace now at: http://monospace.us

Monospace Welcomes the CodePlex Foundation

The announcement of the CodePlex Foundation has sparked a lively and engaging on-line conversation about open source in the Microsoft community. The Monospace Conference is taking that on-line conversation real-time!

Monospace is the open source and cross-platform conference for Mono and .NET. The first two days of the conference program offers a series of half-day workshops, teaching .NET developers how to leverage existing skills on the myriad platforms and opportunities that the Mono Project opens up, including iPhone, Linux, Mac, and Windows.

During the last two days of the conference, participants are invited to take over, shaping their own conference according to their own needs and interests, going deeper into the new understandings gained in the first two days of tutorials, or on any subject that participants want to explore. Open space sessions can be presentations, panels, chalk talks, group discussions, workshops, or any format that a session convener chooses.

During the open space at Monospace, open source leaders, contributors, and users have a chance to engage directly with Sam Ramji, President of the CodePlex Foundation, and Miguel de Icaza, Founder of the Mono Project, and CodePlex Foundation Board of Directors member.

Monospace provides a unique opportunity to hold a frank dialog about the CodePlex Foundation with the people who have been working to bring it to life, giving participants a chance to clarify the meaning of the CodePlex Foundation and its goals, and maybe even shape the foundation and the future of broader open source support and adoption in the Microsoft world.

The frank and open dialog offered by the open space format has had a tremendous impact on the open source community in the .NET space over the past couple of years, and this year with the participation of the Mono community, the conversation goes even deeper, and the community grows ever broader and in new directions.

We're really excited to have the CodePlex Foundation's participation at Monospace and we appreciate the dedication of Sam and Miguel to open source on the CLI and in the Microsoft communities, and for their openness to engage in the dialog!

Ten Reasons to Come to Monospace

The Monospace Conference is taking place from October 27th to October 30th in Austin, Texas. Here are a handful of reasons why you should attend!

The People

They looked outside of the box and liked what they saw. They came, they, saw, and they connected. The rest is future history!

The Fusion

Two .NET communities walked into a bar... three came out. I thought that "fusion" might a good name for this conference. I can't wait to see what comes of the Microsoft .NET community and the Mono community spending four days together learning and talking about cross-platform software development on the CLI.

It's in Austin

Monospace will be a last grasp at warm, pleasant weather before winter for many people coming to the conference. Austin is a city of music, swimming holes, mostly laid back people, and free wireless for as far as the eye can see. We'll try to work swimming holes into the conference program somehow.

It's Cheap

There's two days of tutorials and two days of Open Space. It's happening at the Austin Convention Center, the world class home of Austin's annual South By Southwest conference. It's only $249 USD.

It's a Good Time for a Broad Array of Cost Alternatives

If you're running all of your .NET apps on commercial systems, you might be able to change the equation and move some of those apps onto open platforms. It's the economy, stupid.

The Format

Twelve half-day tutorials will be taught in three tracks during the first two days. The following two days are an Open Space. It's a format geared for retention. You learn a few things and they get grounded by two days of Open Space. It's not the kind of conference you could catch later on-line.

Mono Developers

Developers who make Mono and developers who make stuff using Mono, as well as developers who are excited about learning Mono and about the platforms that it runs on. It's a conference for people who recognize Mono's advantages and who are learning to take those advantages, and for people who are showing others how to do the same.

Teach a Windows Guy about Grep

Ok, that one is a bit contrived. Most of the Windows .NET people at Monospace are comfortable at the command line. They're the uncommon .NET people who also use Linux and Mac. Nonetheless, many .NET folks are just beginning to come up to speed on the array of platforms that Mono opens to .NET development. So, if you've ever wanted to show off your favorite features of your favorite platform to someone who hasn't used it before, Monospace is the place to connect with open-minded learners!

The Location

It's in Austin. I know we talked about this already, but you really ought to do an image search for Austin, TX. Ignore the picture of the snake on the first page of results. The association of snakes and Texas appears to be some kind of flaw in Google's indexing.

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