Podcasts with speakers of the Samara WebProfessionals Conference

On the eve of the conference for web developers in Samara, the WebProfessionals.ru team recorded three podcasts with conference speakers. We talked with Vladimir Yunev ( XaocCPS ), an expert on web development at Microsoft, about trends in the world of web development and what is useful and new can be heard in the speeches of the conference speakers. With Artem Pankov, an expert and representative of the Drupal community, we discussed the achievements and perspectives of Drupal in Russia. And with Evgeny Agafonov, the head of web development at ABBYY, we discussed web development at ABBYY, innovations in ASP.NET MVC 4 and the Web API.

Podcast with Vladimir Yunev:
1. The most important trends in the world of web development:
- Mobile web development - 80% of site views will be done via mobile devices
- Web development in the clouds - the benefits and principles of working with clouds. Is it easy to enter the clouds?
2. WebProfessionals in Samara:
- What will this conference be about?
- For whom is it intended and is it worth going there if development experience is small?
3. What's new in Microsoft products for web developers?
- Windows Azure
- MVC Framework 4
- Visual Studio
4. Human resource issue in the web development market in Russia:
- Areas of work of Microsoft with personnel
- Certification programs from Microsoft - what is it and why are they needed?
- What should developers expect from 2012?
- Events and conferences for developers in 2012
- New market prospects - what is worth paying attention to?

Podcast with Artem Pankov:
- For what and for whom is Drupal intended?
- Drupal development market: where to grow?
- Why does the public sector love Drupal?
- Money issue: budgets of Drupal projects and salaries of specialists.
- The reasons and advantages of working with IIS and Asure
- Drupal + Ubercart = the future of small and medium-sized businesses on the Internet?
- How do you teach and where do you learn Drupal?

Podcast with Yevgeny Agafonov:
- Web development in ABBYY: how did it come about and what is it like?
- Innovations in ASP.NET MVC 4: what is useful for the developer?
- Features of the new ASP.NET Web API: what features does it offer?
- Translation difficulties: Implementing ABBYY products on the Microsoft Azure platform.
- Web developers in a fast growing company. How are such pros found, selected and gathered together? Stories from the life of developers in the company ABBYY.
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Information about speakers

Vladimir Yunev. Microsoft Web Development Technology Expert. Web development specialist on the Microsoft ASP.NET platform. He co-authored a book on ASP.NET MVC technology. Permanent participant in technical conferences where he speaks on web development. In 2009 and 2010, he was awarded the status of Microsoft MVP. Since February 2011, he has been working for Microsoft as a “expert in web development technologies”.

Artem Pankov. In 2008 he graduated from Moscow State Technical University. N.E. Bauman and founded the company "Information Systems for Business", specializing in the development of Drupal. Drupal community expert, DrupalConf conference organizer, author of the Russian Drupal Association initiative. Under his leadership, Drupal projects were created for the Presidential Administration, Megafon, the Federal Antimonopoly Service and others.

Yevgeny Agafonov. Graduated from Moscow State University, Faculty of Chemistry. He has been working for ABBYY since 2004, now he is the head of Lingvo web development. Microsoft ASP.NET MVP since 2005, MCP. Expertise - architecture and development of web applications, Azure applications, Metro applications for Windows 8.