John Bristowe walks us through important new tools for software development in 2015.

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About the speakers

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John Bristowe (@JohnBristowe) is a Developer Evangelist with Telerik and is based out of Sydney, Australia. Prior to joining Telerik, he was a Senior Developer Evangelist with Microsoft. John enjoys all the meats of our technology stew, hacking on everything from angle brackets to .NET. John’s passion lies in modern web standards like HTML5 and CSS3. John is also an experienced speaker and frequently presents at developer conferences and events. Many moons ago, John was a member of the Microsoft Regional Director program and was awarded a Microsoft MVP award for his work in the developer community on technologies such as ASP, ASP.NET, and the Microsoft Web services stack. John has many years of experience developing software for operating systems such as the BeOS, variants of Linux and UNIX and, of course, Windows. He has also spent a great deal of time building Web and rich client applications. John is passionate about assisting the technical community and spends much of his time talking to students, teachers, and professionals in the industry. John is a passionate guy and loves helping developers. Borrowing from Star Trek, his "continuing mission" is to showcase awesome development tools and platforms, support the developer community and help developers realize their full potential through the solutions they build for the client, phone, web and cloud. In other words, to help developers "boldly go where no one has gone before".

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