Rod Paddock

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Rod Paddock is president and founder of Dash Point Software, Inc. DPSI is an award winning software company based in Seattle, WA . Dash Point Software specializes in application architecture, development and software training. Clients include Six Flags, First Premier Bank, Microsoft, The US Coast Guard and US Navy.

Dash Point specializes in Visual Studio .NET (C# and VB.NET), Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro, and SQL Server development. Rod has been a very popular speaker at a wide variety of developer conferences in North America and Europe since 1995. His most recent speaking appearance was at the DevTeach 2005 conference in Montreal Canada . Rod was made an MSDN Canada speaker in 2004 and is currently a Microsoft VB.NET MVP.

Rod is also editor in chief for Code Magazine (www.code-magazine.com) and has written numerous articles and books on software development.

Rod can be contacted via his web site www.dashpoint.com or his blog http://blog.dashpoint.com

Sessions

Adding Dynamic Features to ASP.NET MVC with jQuery

Category: Developers
Level: 200

In this talk Rod Paddock will demonstrate how to add interesting dynamic features to your ASP.NET MVC applications using jQuery. Time will be spent demonstrating how to use the AJAX communucation functions and other cool jQuery features.

Jquery 101

Category: Developers
Level: 200

Web 2.0 is here to stay. jQuery is a JavaScript library that abstracts away all of the gory details of working with JavaScript for web applicatons. This session will demonstrate how to added Jquery to your ASP.NET applications today. This session will focus on proper uses of Jquery including how to organize your javascript code, how to use selectors in Jquery. How to manipulate your web content dynamically. Along with uses of the standard Jquery library time will also be spent exploring some of the most useful Jquery plugs ins.