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 | Patrick Hynds
Patrick Hynds, is the President of CriticalSites and a Microsoft Regional Director. Named by Microsoft as the Regional Director for Boston, he has been recognized as a leader in the technology field.
An expert on Microsoft technology and experienced with other technologies as well (Websphere, Sybase, Storage Management, Java, Unix, Netware, Network Security, etc.), Patrick has taught freelance software development and Network Architecture and has been a successful consultant who enjoyed mastering difficult troubleshooting assignments.
A graduate of West Point and a Gulf War veteran, Patrick brings an uncommon level of dedication to his leadership role at CriticalSites. Experienced in addressing business challenges with special emphasis on security issues involving leading-edge database, storage, web and hardware systems.
Patrick often speaks at major technical conferences including: TechEd US, TechEd Hong Kong, the Middle East Developer's Conference in Cairo, Egypt, Microsoft Security Summit in New York and Boston, DevDays, Code Camp and many more. In spite of the demands of his management role at CriticalSites, Patrick stays technical and in the trenches acting as Project Manager and/or developer/engineer on selected projects throughout the year.
Sessions
AJAX in the Real World
Date: April 13th, 05:15 PM - 06:30 PM
Level: 200
In this session we will cover AJAX as it is being used in line of business applications including demonstrations of how to implement AJAX without getting carried away.
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Optimization and Performance Tuning
Date: April 14th, 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
Level: 200
Most people know what a database index is and can even tell you why they are important, but surprisingly few can tell you how they work and what factors decide whether they work well. In this session we will explain the details of how Microsoft SQL Server does indexing and also touch on the new features in the latest versions of SQL Server that might make some of your old assumptions about how to work with indexes obsolete.
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What a Developer should know about IIS 7
Date: April 13th, 03:30 PM - 04:45 PM
Level: 200
With the release of IIS7 there are a lot of features that developers can leverage to make themselves less dependent on networking staff. This session will focus on the new configuration system as well as the security features built into IIS7 running on Windows Server 2008
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