.NET Success Stories Part 2
In this, the second installment in our ongoing ".NET Success Stories" series, Carl talks with Jesse Ezell and Chris Kinsman about projects they have developed and successfully deployed with Microsoft .NET languages, tools, and technologies.
Chris talks about a huge project done for an insurance company that successfully uses ASP.NET and Windows Forms with autodeployment. As well, he talks about some applications he wrote for slot machine management at a casino.
In the second half, Jesse Ezell discusses an application he helped develop for Articulate Software that utilizes Flash as a server application to convert Powerpoint presentations to Flash.
Guests:
Chris Kinsman
Chris Kinsman is president of Vergent Software, one of the founders of Guided Design and formerly the VP of Technology for DevX.com, a web site that provides information for developers. He has extensive experience with ASP, Web Farms, Clustering, Data Access, and Scalability. His books include "Visual Basic.NET Developer's Guide to ASP.NET, ADO.NET and XML" and "C# Developer's Guide to ASP.NET, ADO.NET and XML". Chris has spoken at a variety of conferences including VSLive and Microsoft TechEd, and is the track chairman for ASPLive.
Jesse Ezell
Jesse Ezell is the co-founder of Activehead, a .NET consulting company in Joplin, Missouri. Jesse has been working with the .NET framework since the early betas, is an active member of the .NET community, and spends the majority of his time designing and coding .NET software solutions.
Links:
- Zebra Technologies http://www.zebra.com
- Vergent Software http://www.vergentsoftware.com
- Jesse Ezell Blog http://weblogs.asp.net/jezell/
- Wiretree Consulting http://www.wiretree.com/v3/index.html
- Articulate Software http://www.articulateglobal.com/main.html
- Camtasia http://www.camtasia.com