About Me
Joel Neubeck is a Principal Consultant with the development practice at Neudesic, a Microsoft Gold Certified partner. Prior to joining Neudesic, Joel led a talented team of software engineers and interactive developers as the Director of Technology for a top interactive marketing agency in the US. With over 14 years of experience in interactive application development, Joel has displayed a passion for engineering innovative interactive solutions. His diverse background includes expertise in ASP.NET, Silverlight, Flash and Flex. Joel was recently named one of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) for Client Application Development, specifically for his work with Microsoft Silverlight.
Presentations
Mix 2009 – Creating a Great Experience on Digg with Windows Internet Explorer 8 (March, 2009)
Come hear how Terralever was able to use the powerful new features of Internet Explorer 8 to change how users interact with the Digg Web site. Learn how using Accelerators and Web Slices changed the way users are able to discover, as well as simplify submitting stories. We look at how taking advantage of these exciting features can improve a users experience, while increasing the number of users visiting your site
XNA Gamefest 2008 – Building Games with Silverlight (July 22, 2008)
Bill Reiss and myself will be co-presenting a session titled Building Games with Silverlight. This session is part of the casual game track and will focus on our experience being involved in the development of a Silverlight game. We hope to shed some insight into strengths and wekness of Silverlight asa casual gaming platform.
Desert Code Camp 2008 – Developing Casual Games with Silverlight 2 (June 2008)
Learn how we used Silverlight 2 to create some compelling interactive casual games. This presentation will focus on the developer role and our use of Visual Studio 2008 and fully managed code to construct a flexible, scalable gaming architecture.
Desert Code Camp 2008 – Introduction to Deep Zoom in the Silverlight 2 framework (June 2008)
Learn how to use Deep Zoom in the Silverlight 2 framework to allows users to quickly and seamlessly zoom in on high resolution photographs.
Mix08 – Silverlight as a Gaming Platform (March 2008)
Come learn how Silverlight was used to create Tunnel Trouble, an online game built using Silverlight 2.0. This session will cover concepts of using Silverlight technologies and tools to build game boards, animations, collision logic, game loop logic, integrating media into game play as well as integrating with web services and leveraging managed code for efficiency.
CodeCamp 2008 – C# 2.0 Language Features for Late Comers (September 2007)
C# 3.x is exciting and deserving of the spotlight, but thousands of coders are in jobs still maintaining 1.x projects and just now getting up to speed on 2.0. Some haven’t had a chance to get hip to generics and anonymous delegates.
