Ok, I'm a newbie but I really can't find a whole lot of real-world examples of DDD. Still haven't found good examples of repositories or even how to do decent validation of objects let alone aggregates.

Mock frameworks have often provided a lot of confusion and frustration for aspiring Test Driven Developers. But new syntax features and approaches have greatly simplified how you can effectively use mocks in your tests. Unfortunately, the tools themselves do not always make it easy/obvious to do the simplest thing. This talk would show how to simplify your tests and efficiently use a tool like RhinoMocks without having it become an obstruction or make your tests brittle.

Using .NET with Azure and Amazon

Intro/overview of the usage and benefits of the dynamic Python language in the .NET framework.

What are the pain points with Silverlight? How can we use it in a testable, maintainable way? What are best practices, and known pitfalls?

It wasn't long ago (only a few months ago!) that some of us were hand-coding Data Access Layers. Between NHibernate, SubSonic, Castle ActiveRecord and a ton of others (and let's not forget Linq to SQL and Entity Framework), what benefits have they provided to those who use them? How do we chose which is appropriate for our own styles / teams / projects?

Spark is a very popular view engine for ASP.NET MVC that has some unique features and markup that make coding your views a lot cleaner and easier

MonoTouch is an exciting new framework that wraps the iPhone SDK APIs and allows you to code in C#/.NET using the .NET libraries you are used to, and compile everything down to native iPhone code to create apps that can be sold in the App Store.

We've had an offer from a Silverlight MVP to give some real world examples and experience reports about working with Silverlight. This talk would not focus on TDD or testability, but more of a pragmatic overview of Silverlight development.

CruiseControl.NET is an Automated Continuous Integration server, implemented using the Microsoft .NET Framework.

Strategies around scalable web site design

Using thins like in-memory databases, NDBUnit, Jailbreaker, and other tools to simplify database tests and integration tests.

Update on the Rails framework, how it's grown, what it has to offer today to .NET developers