Premium Sponsors
Microsoft Corporation
Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. At Microsoft, we’re motivated and inspired every day by how our customers use our software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what’s most important to them. We run our business in much the same way, and believe our five business segments – Client, Server and Tools, Online Services Business, Microsoft Business Division, and Entertainment and Devices Division – offer the greatest potential to serve our customers.
We are committed long term to the mission of helping our customers realize their full potential. Just as we constantly update and improve our products, we want to continually evolve our company to be in the best position to accelerate new technologies as they emerge and to better serve our customers.
For more information, visit www.microsoft.com.
Central Piedmont Community College
Central Piedmont Community College is an innovative and comprehensive public two-year college with a mission to advance the life-long educational development of adults consistent with their needs, interests, abilities, and efforts, and to strengthen the economic, social, and cultural life in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg region of North Carolina. The College accomplishes this purpose by providing high-quality, flexible educational programs and services which are academically, geographically, and financially accessible, and which meet individual and community needs. This purpose requires a fundamental commitment to teaching excellence and a supportive, caring student environment.
For more information, visit www.cpcc.edu.
Logical Advantage
Logical Advantage is a full service information technology (IT) solution provider located in Charlotte, North Carolina. We are dedicated to providing high quality, cost-effective custom software development and consulting services. We pride ourselves on our ability to master our clients’ most complex business challenges, delivering solutions that require expertise in the broad spectrum of software and information technology.
Logical Advantage’s expertise lies in the development of enterprise-class solutions utilizing custom developed software and data integration. Our services include application outsourcing, software re-engineering, QA testing, data integration, technology consulting and strategic staffing services.
For more information, visit logicaladvantage.com.
Lash Group, AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group
For more than 20 years, Lash Group has been the leader in the innovative design, development and implementation of unique product support programs. These programs are designed to address specific reimbursement and patient access issues for pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, biotechnology firms and payers. Our partnerships with our clients encompass every stage of the product life cycle from pre-launch to commercialization and beyond.
Placing “Patients First” is the core theme of Lash Group’s services. Putting patients first drives us to build better programs, become more efficient and help patients start therapy in a timelier manner. This focus has made our best-in-class service a standard in the industry by which others are measured
For more information, visit www.lashgroup.com.
Addison-Wesley
Addison-Wesley delivers books for the professional developer like the award-winning Microsoft .NET Development Series with the most comprehensive and practical coverage of the latest .NET technologies. The award-winning Microsoft .NET Development Series was established in 2002 to provide professional developers with the most comprehensive and practical coverage of the latest .NET technologies. It is supported and developed by the leaders and experts of Microsoft development technologies, including Microsoft architects, MVPs, and leading industry luminaries. Books in this series provide a core resource of information and understanding every developer needs to write effective applications.
New Titles Include: Effective REST Services via .NET, Essential LINQ, Visual Studio Tools for Office 2007, Essential Silverlight 3 and Programming .NET Compact Framework 3.5.
For more information, visit www.informit.com/imprint/series_detail.aspx?st=61214.
NCover
NCover Complete is the leading .NET test coverage platform in the world. Using advanced profiling and reporting methods, NCover wraps every part of the development, build, and quality assurance process with objective code quality metrics. With integration into the tools you are already using, NCover squashes rework and reduces risk for everyone involved in the project.
Every day, more than 100,000 individual developers use NCover in more than 150 countries to write incredible code. With “1 in 4” of the Fortune 100 and 19 of the 25-largest banks in the world using NCover to reduce risk for mission critical application development, the NCover Team is on a mission to change the way software is being developed.
For more information, visit www.TestProvenDevelopment.com.
TX Text Control
TX Text Control has been creating word processing components for developers since 1991. Our components for .NET and ActiveX allow developers to add rich word processing functionality to their applications in a reusable form. Why automate MS Word when you can fully integrate the features needed into your solution with TX Text Control? WYSIWYG word processing, both browser-based and windows forms. Convert documents between formats. Automate document creation processes Server-side. Easily convert documents to PDF for easy distribution or to PDF/A for long term archival. All these powerful features, plus many more, are available to you in an all-in-one package. This is why TX Text Control has been the market leader in word processing components for nearly 20 years.
For more information, visit www.textcontrol.com.
L-3 Enterprise IT Solutions
L-3 Enterprise IT Solutions (EITS) is the Information Technology Center of Excellence in L-3, one of the largest government contractors in the United States. EITS has successfully served the Department of Defense, federal civilian government agencies and state and local governments with a broad range of IT services and solutions for over 30 years. The success of EITS results from its proven leadership in the area of IT consolidation, its strength in IT governance and its standards-based processes, quality management and project management. "Our employees are passionate about our mission. Working together, we are determined to achieve our company's vision to be the leading systems, solutions, and technical services company, solving our customers' most important business and mission-critical problems through innovative applications of technology and domain knowledge." –Les Rose, President of L-3 EITS
For more information, visit www.l3its.com.
TEKsystems Inc.
Ranked #1 in industry by IT Services Business Report for eight consecutive years, TEKsystems is a flagship company of Allegis Group, a $5.6 billion enterprise with positive annual growth since its founding.
In a single year, TEKsystems provides over 70,000 technical professionals to support critical IT engagements at more than 5,500 client sites, including 82% of the Fortune 500. With 90 offices and over 2,200 recruiters throughout North America and Europe, our reach grants us access to 81% of the IT workforce. It also enables us to speak with over 10,000 technical professionals a week and meet with more than 2,600 of them face to face when recruiting top talent.
Our size speaks to our experience and success in helping our customers meet business goals. However, being big is not necessarily what makes us great. Our proven process to understand our customers’ specific needs and deliver the right solutions supported by the absolute best match of talent sets us apart.
For more information, visit www.teksystems.com.
Contributors
O'Reilly
For more information, visit oreilly.com.
Queen Associates, Inc.
For more information, visit www.qai3.com.
Wrox
For more information, visit www.wrox.com.
Murach
For more information, visit www.murach.com.
Quest Software
For more information, visit www.quest.com.