PUG Challenge Americas

PUG Challenge Americas 2012 Agenda

The 2012 Agenda is Ready!

After many long days and nights sifting through another bounty of excellent session proposals our selection committee is happy to announce the following sessions and speakers for PUG Challenge Americas 2012!

Subject to change, periodically check this page for updates!

Expert speakers from Progress Software and the community include: Hugues Aubuchon, Adam Backman, Matt Baker, Rich Banville, Tom Bascom, Sunil Belgaonkar, Jay Bhatt, Gus Bjorklund, Bob Brennan, Robin Brown, Shelley Chase, Scott Dulecki, Roy Ellis, Carol Esau, Mike Fechner, Dan Foreman, Mike Furgal, Dustin Grau, Paul Guggenheim, Frank Hilhorst, Rob Holzel, Peter Judge, Paul Koufalis, Tim Kuehn, Jeff Ledbetter, Dmitri Levin, Mike Lonski, Julian Lyndon-Smith, Sarah Marshall, Steve Pittman, Jordi Sastre, Michael Solomon, Fernando de Souza, Rob Straight, Mary Szekely, Gilles Querret and Ken Wilner!

General Session

• The Future of Progress and OpenEdge! - Jay Bhatt, CEO Progress Software

Programming

• More of What You've Asked For: The ABL in Progress OpenEdge 11 - Robin Brown, Fernando de Souza
• New Tricks for Old Dogs: Fetch My Data! - Scott Dulecki
• Cross-Platform Mobile Phone Development (iPhone, iPad, Android) for OpenEdge Back-Ends Using .NET - Mike Fechner
• Customizing OpenEdge Architect (for non Java-Developers!) - Mike Fechner
• What is GUI for .NET and Why Aren't I Using It? (or GUI for .NET for Dummies) - Mike Fechner
• The Progress Application Profiler - Dan Foreman
• Interfacing OpenEdge with HTML5 for WebApps and Mobile Devices - Dustin Grau
• Climb Aboard the ProDataSet Train - Paul Guggenheim
• FINALLY, We Can CATCH Errors THROWn To Us! - Paul Guggenheim
• The Easiest Way to Write Web Applications - Jordi Sastre
• Pick an Index, Any Index... - Michael Lonski

Database

• I Never Backup Production So Why Would You? - Adam Backman
• Still More Database Performance Improvements - Rich Banville
• Database Management Worst Practices - Tom Bascom
• Database Repair and Recovery - Dan Foreman
• Progress System Tables - Dan Foreman
• 27 Days to 27 Hours: Best Practices in Dump & Load Optimization - Paul Koufalis
• From Vulnerable to Inviolable: How Company X Secured their OpenEdge Environment - Paul Koufalis
• Performance Testing Progress and Oracle - Dmitri Levin
• Removing Performance Bottlenecks in Your SQL Connections - Data Connectivity Best Practices - Steve Pittman
• Inside The RDBMS: Space, The Final Frontier - Gus Bjorklund
• Multi-Tenant Administration - Easier Than You Thought It Would Be - Rich Banville, Matt Baker
• Storage Optimization Strategies - Tom Bascom
• Panel: SANs and Storage - Adam, Dan, Gus, Paul & Tom

Integration

• The Virtual Reality - Virtualization Both Inside and Outside the Cloud - Mike Furgal
• Getting Started in the Cloud - Practical Everyday Uses for Beginners - Paul Koufalis
• Multi-Tenancy for the Uninitiated Techie - Tim Kuehn
• Implementing a Complete BI Solution With OpenEdge and Open Source Software - Hugues Aubuchon
• What's The Point? Share Point in the Progress World - Bob Brennan
• Introducing Progress Arcade - Mike Ormerod
• Stomp 10:20:30 Getting the Message Across - Julian Lyndon-Smith

Development

• What's New in Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge 11? - Sunil Belgaonkar
• Managing the Software Development Process - Michael Solomon
• An IDE Whose Time Has Come - Michael Lonski
• Security for SaaS/Cloud - Roy Ellis
• Identity Management 101: How Do You Know Your Users Are Who They Say They Are? - Sarah Marshall
• Maia 10:20:30 Code Generation - Julian Lyndon-Smith
• Version Control with Mercurial and Progress - Julian Lyndon-Smith
• Beginner's Guide to Continuous Integration - Gilles Querret
• Automated Deployment - A Follow-On to CI - Gilles Querret
• Of WebSockets, Facebook and the many ways to talk to the client - Frank Hilhorst
• Everything you always wanted to know about JAVA/OpenEdge integration but were - Frank Hilhorst
• Progress OpenEdge BPM: An Application Revolution Demonstration - Shelley Chase
• Progress OpenEdge Advanced Business Language Multi-Tenant Programming - Mary Szekely
• Take Control of Your Business With OpenEdge BPM - Ken Wilner
• What Is My Object Doing Anyway? - Peter Judge
• Panel: SCMS and Build Automation - Gilles, Jeff, Mike & Dustin
• Panel: OO Cage Match - Gus, Julian, Michael, Peter & Tim

Info Exchanges & Fireside Chats

• OpenEdge Language and Tools Info Exchange - Rob Holzel, Rob Straight, Shelley Chase
• OpenEdge Database Info Exchange - Rob Holzel, Rich Banville
• Fireside Chat - Colleen Smith, Ken Wilner
• Fireside Chat - CarolEsau

Commercial Sessions

• Roundtable TSMS vs Roundtable Team - What's the Difference? - Jeff Ledbetter, Tugboat
• Overcoming Your Reporting and Replication Hurdles - Mike Furgal, Bravepoint
• Performance Data: What is Important and How Do I Make Sense of It? - Adam Backman
• How to take Advantage of the Progress Technologies for Better Reporting - James Stein, CornerStar
• Application Evolution Success Stories - Dustin Grau, Bravepoint

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