Tech-Ed Online Videos

The Tech-Ed Online website features recorded presentations of sessions conducted at venues around the world. There are over 1700+ videos just from TechEd North America. The entire collection of recorded presentations are spread across 19 categories -

1. Application Integration & Interoperability
   
2. Application Server & Infrastructure
   
3. Architecture
   
4. Business Intelligence
   
5. Cloud Computing & Online Services
   
6. Database Platform
   
7. Developer Tools, Languages & Frameworks
   
8. Development Practices
   
9. Dynamics
   
10. IT Strategy
    
11. Management
    
12. Office & SharePoint
    
13. Security, Identity & Access
    
14. Unified Communications
    
15. Virtualization
    
16. Web Platform
    
17. Windows Client
    
18. Windows Phone
    
19. Windows Server
    

After some cursory browsing, I picked these for viewing in the coming weeks -

• How Frameworks Can Kill Your Projects, and Patterns Can Prevent You from Getting Killed
• Metrics That Matter: Real Measures to Improve Software Development
• Why Software Estimation is so Painful and How It Doesn’t Have To Be
• Top 10 Mistakes in Unit Testing
• Microsoft ASP.NET MVC for Web Form Programmers
• My Web Site Is So Slow...and I Don’t Know What to Do about It!
• The Total Noob’s Guide Windows Workflow Foundation 4 
• The Most Persistent Microsoft SQL Server Myths (and Why They Are Wrong)
• Authentication and Passwords: The Good, the Bad, and the Really Ugly!
• Developing High Performance JavaScript, AJAX, and Layout for Microsoft Internet Explorer 8

The sessions can be viewed online (needs Silverlight plugin) or downloaded in WMV, MP4 & PPTX format

Also see:
Explaining Technology in Plain English
Free SQL Server Videos

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