Founded in 1991 by local entrepreneur Tom Salonek, Intertech, Inc. has grown from a one-person shop to the largest combined software developer training company and research-supported consulting firm in Minnesota.
Intertech designs and develops software solutions that power Fortune 500 businesses, mid-sized companies, and state government. Intertech works with NASA, Wells Fargo, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Intel, and other major companies around the United States helping them learn and use technology.
Intertech’s technical team frequently publishes books in the Intertech Instructor Series through a partnership with Apress in Berkley, California. In addition, Intertech team members are frequently published in magazines, online websites, and are requested to speak at national conferences.
Microsoft Visual Studio is the world’s most popular development environment for designing, developing, and testing next-generation Windows-based solutions and Web applications and services.
By improving the development experience for Windows, the Web, mobile devices, and Microsoft Office, Visual Studio helps organizations deliver a variety of solutions more productively than ever before. Visual Studio Team System expands the product line with new software tools that enable greater communication and collaboration throughout the development life cycle. With Visual Studio, businesses can deliver modern service-oriented solutions more efficiently.
Apress is a technical publisher devoted to meeting the needs of IT professionals, software developers, and programmers, with more than 700 books in print and a continually expanding portfolio of publications. Apress provides high-quality, no-fluff content in print and electronic formats that help serious technology professionals build a comprehensive pathway to career success.
The Apress editorial and production team work hand-in-hand with all authors to ensure that their unique voices come through in each book. We are committed to supporting the ever-growing programming community by taking risks on publishing books in niche and nascent technologies.
We are proud to publish an extensive range of books geared toward programmers from all areas, including industry bestsellers Pro C# and the .NET Platform by Andrew Troelsen, CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions by Andy Budd, Pro Spring by Rob Harrop and Jan Machacek, and Beginning Ubuntu Linux: From Novice to Professional by Keir Thomas. Our business and software management line, which features titles by a trove of well-respected authors (including Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston, Micro-ISV by Bob Walsh, and multiple books from the inimitable Joel Spolsky), have helped legions of programmers adapt to the business side of technology and become more productive.
Apress supports user group education and training efforts. Please register to participate. Benefits include the following:
- 25% discount off the retail price of Apress titles
- Free books for review purposes
- Promotional items like cool Apress T-shirts
- Sponsorship of user group even
If you are doing anything with Windows Azure, the first tools you'll want to have are the Cloud Storage Studio, Azure Diagnostics Manager and Azure Management Cmdlets. If you want to get to Sql Server from your browser, please check out Omega.MSSQL. All of their tools are highly polished, professional and examples of how nicely written WPF/Silverlight applications should work. Check them out at cerebrata.com.
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CloudBerry Lab is established in 2008 by a group of experienced IT professionals with the mission to help organizations in adopting Cloud computing technologies by closing the gap between Cloud vendors propositions and consumer needs through development of innovative low costs solutions.
Our flagship product CloudBerry Explorer makes managing files in cloud EASY. By providing a user interface to Amazon S3 and Azure blob storage accounts, files, and containers , CloudBerry lets you manage your files on cloud just as you would on your own local computer. Built on a proven, Microsoft .NET platform, the CloudBerry Explorer has thousands of users at leading Fortune 500 companies, including Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon, SAP, Sun, Accenture, Cap Gemini, etc
CloudBerry Backup is our secure online backup solution that helps individuals and organizations to store backup copies of their data in online storage. It is a powerful Backup and Restore program designed to leverage Amazon S3 and Windows Azure technology to make your disaster recovery plan simple, reliable, and affordable.
CloudBerry Lab supports user group by providing discounts for our products.
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Write less code and more business logic from ComponentOne, a trusted name for over 24 years. As the leading provider of Microsoft Visual Studio components, IDE platform development tools, and applications; developers, architects, and designers continue to turn to ComponentOne for enterprise solutions. ComponentOne’s flagship product, Studio Enterprise makes it easy to add time-saving, performance-enhanced controls to your Visual Studio toolbox. This includes popular DataGrid, Chart, Report, Scheduler controls, plus 100s more for building WinForms, Web or mobile applications. Developers have cut development time for user interfaces from days to minutes using Studio Enterprise. Download a free trial at www.componentone.com.
As the world leader of user interface development tools and User Experience experts, Infragistics empowers developers to create UIs that are the foundation for developing killer apps— applications with extreme functionality, complete usability and the “wow-factor!”
No .NET platform is off-limits—we have UI component toolsets for Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET and Silverlight. Our superior support,UI testing tools, training and consulting services ensure your success like no others. Your ideas, our powerful tools, great killer apps.
Telerik is a leading vendor of development, team productivity, and automated testing tools, as well as UI components and content management solutions for Microsoft .NET. Created with passion, Telerik products help software development teams every day to be more productive and to deliver reliable applications on time and under budget. Telerik was founded in 2002 by a few friends with a simple idea – to “deliver more than expected”. Nowadays, a market leader with a team of more than 220 professionals spread around the globe in 5 offices, Telerik is still true to its motto – building outstanding products and serving customers with fanatical dedication.
CodeSmith Generator is a software development tool to help you produce higher-quality, more consistent code in less time. Technically speaking it is a template driven source code generator that automates the creation of common application source code for any language. The Generator enables software developers to efficiently:
- Reduce repetitive coding.
- Generate your code in less time with fewer bugs.
- Produce consistent code that adheres to your standards.
- Create your own custom templates for any language
Learn more at www.codesmithtools.com
