IT Training
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An exclusive partnership with IDesign is set up to bring the best training to Belgium. IDesign’s Master Classes are usually 5 days of hands-on training, and are the world’s most intensive, most comprehensive .NET training classes. There is simply no substitute for being trained by the world's leading experts in the subject, and the IDesign architects offer a profound insight on the technology and its applications. The material presented goes well beyond anything that can be found using conventional training sources often presenting IDesign's original techniques and breakthroughs. In addition to the frontal presentations, the classes use lab exercise and numerous conceptual demos and original tools and utilities. The demos are useful not only in training but afterwards, serving as a starting point for new projects, and as a rich reference and samples resource. |
May 22-24, 2013 - Belgium (location TBD)
Advanced Windows Security
Paula Januszkiewicz
This deep dive Windows Security Master Class teaches you advanced Windows operating system security, based on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012, with comparison to older Microsoft operating systems. The training is a mix of theory and practical implementation, based on best practices and personal experiences of the teacher. Paula is the IT Security Auditor and Penetration Tester, Enterprise Security MVP, trainer (MCT) and Microsoft Security Trusted Advisor.
May 29-31 2013 - Belgium (location TBD)
HTML5 Wizard Class
Kevin DeRudder
HTML5 is a markup language for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web and a core technology of the Internet. It is the fifth revision of the HTML standard and, as of December 2012, is a W3C Candidate Recommendation. Its core aims have been to improve the language with support for the latest multimedia while keeping it easily readable by humans and consistently understood by computers and devices. The time is now to add the new HTML and CSS features to your website. In this 3 day training, you will learn and practice all the new features of HTML without forgetting CSS and JavaScript. The teacher will learn you how to add the magic to your website and you will also be ready to start building Windows 8 apps.
June 17-21 2013 - Belgium (location TBD)
Killer Windows 8 App Master Class
David Platt
Windows 8 Store apps differ greatly from traditional PC apps. To develop them successfully, your entire approach to the user experience (UX) needs to change. For example, the touch-based interface requires fundamentally different ways of thinking about program control. It’s not just a matter of making your existing menus a little bigger. Microsoft is not only publishing these new user interface standards, they’re enforcing them with a mandatory review. Deviate from them, and Microsoft won’t let your app into the store. Learn these new rules from Software Legend David Platt; not just the how-to, but the when-to and when-not-to, and most important of all, the why.
September 16-20 2013 - Belgium (location TBD)
Cloud Architect Master Class
Shy Cohen
Cloud Computing is the next evolutionary stage in the world of IT. At its core, Cloud Computing is about delivering software and various “software building blocks” as services rather than products. These services are consumed as a utility, and are paid for according to usage rather than via a permanent license (much like how we pay for electricity or water). For the Architect, the cloud combines concepts like system virtualization, service-oriented architecture, and utility computing to create an on-demand, “infinitely” scalable, elastically provisioned, online set of components and services, which form the foundation for a previously-unattainable level of technology innovation. From an implementation standpoint, the cloud provides virtually unlimited resources to implement large and small systems alike.
October 7-11, 2013 - Belgium (location TBD)
Project Design Master Class
Juval Löwy
The Project Design Master Class will take you to a new level as project managers and architects. The class shares IDesign's original battle proven techniques and methodologies that so far have only been the privilege of IDesign's direct customers. You will master the core body of knowledge and skills required of modern software project design. IDesign will mentor you how to gain credibility and perfect communication with top management by providing real life, repeatable and workable options for the project - solutions that balance cost, schedule and risk. Practicing our techniques feels as if "the blinders are off", enabling you to mechanize most aspects of project design while relaying on the IDesign Method and making the most of other tools.
October 7-9, 2013 - Belgium (location TBD)
ALM with TFS 2012
Pieter Gheysens
You did hear about the new release of Team Foundation Server (TFS 2012)? You didn't have (enough) time to look into it properly but you want to see and learn what's coming? Learn it by doing it and get trained by an expert! This intensive 3 day training will give you a detailed overview of the new Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) features that will be included inside the next release of Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server. You will experience how this new release might unblock the impediments in software development processes to deliver continuous value for the business.
November 4-8, 2013 - Belgium (location TBD)
Architecture Clinic
Monty Montgomery
More details to be published soon.
Q1 of 2014 - Belgium (location TBD)
Architect's Master Class
Richard Campbell
While many developers and managers have a clear idea regarding the characteristics and practices, and corresponding set of responsibilities of their own roles, the picture is often vague when it comes to software architects. What is the single most important task facing the software architect? What is the division of labor and responsibilities between the architect and the project manager? How much the architecture should be tied in to the particulars of the underlying technology used, or for that matter, for the specifics of the projects? What are the necessary skills and analysis tools employed by an architect?
March 18-20, 2013 - Belgium (location TBD)
ALM with TFS 2012
Pieter Gheysens
This event already took place - see course details here.
week of December 10, 2012 - Belgium (Mechelen)
Architect's Master Class
Juval Löwy (IDesign)
week of August 29, 2011 - Belgium (Mechelen)
WCF Master Class
Michele Leroux Bustamante (IDesign)
June 20-22, 2011 - Belgium (Mechelen)
NHibernate Master Class
Davy Brion (That Extra Mile)
October 11-15, 2010 - Belgium (Mechelen)
Architect's Master Class
Juval Löwy (IDesign)
March 1-5, 2010 - Belgium (Antwerp)
Architecting WPF Applications
Brian Noyes (IDesign)
October 5-9, 2009 - Belgium (Zaventem)
.NET Design Master Class
Dino Esposito (IDesign)