I am pleased to announce that I will be speaking at DevReach in Sofia, Bulgaria next month.  This is the sixth year for this conference - which bills itself as the Premier Conference on Microsoft Technologies in Eastern and Central Europe - but its the first time for me. 

In fact I have never been to any of the countries in Eastern Europe, the furthest east in Europe I have been being Vienna in Austria and Helsinki in Finland.

I am quite excited, both to be able to speak at this event – but also for the opportunity to experience Bulgaria.

I will presenting two sessions – one on Razor and one on building ASP.NET Applications using WebFormsMVP and the Model View Presenter pattern.

• The Almighty @ - A Razor Primer

• Have your Cake and Eat it Too – Using the WebFormsMVP Framework to Develop Testable Web Applications

While not focused on DotNetNuke – DotNetNuke plays a large part in both sessions – as DotNetNuke supports both Razor and the WebFormsMVP project.

So if you live in Eastern Europe – and are planning on attending DevReach – come and see my sessions and say Hi.

This year I have decided to place a bigger focus on speaking at Developer Conferences and so over the last few months I have been submitting session proposals to major conferences around North America.

I am pleased to say that many of my submissions have been accepted and I have quite a busy speaking calendar for the upcoming Spring conference season.

VSLive

Conference Dates: April 18-22, 2011
Venue: Rio, Las Vegas
Website: http://vslive.com/lv

This excellent conference for .NET Developers is held two or three times a year and in April it will be held in Las Vegas.  I will be presenting two sessions at this conference.

• The Almighty @ – A Razor Primer
• WebMatrix Real World Data Centric Applications

If you would like to see me speak please use the registration code – VLSPK23 – for a $400 savings.

DevTeach

Conference Dates: May 30 – June 3, 2011
Venue: Intercontinental Hotel, Montreal, Canada
Website: http://www.devteach.com/

This excellent conference which is held annually in one of Canada’s 3 major cities, is this year planned for Montreal in the beautiful province of Quebec.  Come and see me speak on:

• The Almighty @ – A Razor Primer
• Have your Cake and Eat it Too - Using the WebFormsMVP Framework to Develop Testable Web Applications

Prairie DevCon

Conference Dates: June 13-14, 2011
Venue: Delta Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Website: http://www.prairiedevcon.com/

The Prairie Developer Conference is the conference event for software professionals in the Canadian prairies!  At this conference I will be teaming up with my son Andrew to give two Razor presentations

• The Nurse² Razor Show – Parts 1 and 2

Notice that the focus is Razor – Razor and WebMatrix are new technologies and DotNetNuke’s support for Razor means that I will be able to put a DNN spin on many of my speaking engagements.

If you plan on attending any of these conferences – ping me (@cnurse is my twiiter alias) – and we can meet up.

For the fifth year in a row, I awoke this New Years morning to an email from Microsoft, congratulating me on being awarded an MVP (Most Valuable Professional) Award for ASP.NET for the coming year.

It is humbling to realize that you are recognized as an expert in the Community and I am very proud of this achievement.

I would like to wish all my readers a Happy New Year – and hope that you have a prosperous 2011.

I would also like to congratulate all the new and renewed MVPs who also received their email this morning and I look forward to meeting all my MVP friends at the summit at the end of February.