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| Findlay Area .NET Users Group (FANUG) - Meetings and Announcements |
7/22/2010
Wednesday July 28, 2010
Note: Meeting will be last Wednesday this month
NoSQL: I can't relate to my database, anymore
It's not you, it's me. Or rather, my needs have changed. The kind of apps we build today are different than the ones we built two decades ago. The scale requirements are different as are the levels of abstraction we work with. Relational databases are not our only option. The NoSQL movement is coming to an app near you. Will you be ready? In this session we will look at some non-relational databases with a focus on the document database style using MongoDB. Scalability may get your attention, but there is more to the story. See what happens when we take another perspective on persistence.
Speaker
Dennis Burton - SRT Solutions
Dennis Burton, is a web developer with SRT Solutions whose diverse portfolio includes online learning management systems, precision measurement using high speed data acquisition applications, as well as automotive diagnostic software. Since the beginning of his career, he has been working with systems that require processing large amounts of data quickly.
Dennis has been around long enough to be old to some and young to others, but firmly believes that what you do with your time is more important than how long you have been spending it. As an active member of the development community, Dennis serves on the board of the Lansing .NET User Group, the Ann Arbor .NET User Group and as an organizer for the Lansing Day of .NET.
6/28/2010
Tuesday June 29, 2010
Getting the most from Version Control
Justin discusses source control, an often-overlooked part of the development process. Version Control is not a new concept, but often it isn’t used to its full potential. Come and learn the foundation of basic version control, common practices around repository structure and deployment, and some advanced techniques in version control management.
Speaker
Justin Kohnen
Justin Kohnen, Vice President for Communication of the Dayton .NET Developers Group, graduated from University of Dayton in 2003 with a BS in Computer Science. Justin is a Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist for ASP.NET 2.0 Web Applications. He is currently running his own Software Business as well as working for Triune Group as a Senior Software Engineer, developing in ASP.NET 3.5. Using technologies such as Entity Framework, Microsoft Enterprise Library, WCF, ASP.NET AJAX, and Microsoft Team Foundation Server.
5/12/2010
Tuesday May 18, 2010 - 2 Presentations
Supercharged Productivity with Linq2SQL
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A Quick Introduction To NHibernate
Note: Meeting will be held a week early this month
Supercharged Productivity with Linq2SQL
Wouldn’t it be great if you could eliminate the time you spend writing data access code with SQL and instead spend that time adding features and value to your software or passing that savings on to your customers? What if in addition to the cost and time savings you could also improve the applications testability, maintainability, security and performance at the same time? All of this is not only possible but easy to do by using Linq2SQL.
Linq2SQL is a powerful yet elegantly simple to use technology by Microsoft. This presentation will start off by demonstrating how painless it is to get started with using Linq2SQL, and then quickly move on to real world examples demonstrating how to handle common development scenarios using Linq and Linq2SQL.
Speaker
Chris Farrell - Quick Solutions
Chris Farrell has been developing software in the .NET space since 2002. After graduating from Bowling Green State University, Chris worked as lead application developer at CorpComm Group in Lima, OH for more than five years before joining the Solutions Project Group of Quick Solutions in Columbus. Chris serves as a board member of the Lima Regional IT Alliance (www.lrita.org) and was a key contributor on the open source RainbowPortal CMS project. In his spare time, Chris attends tech conferences and is also an avid runner.
A Quick Introduction To NHibernate
NHibernate is an ORM framework that can help you take some of the monotony out of your data access code. We will take a fast look at why we would want to use NHibernate and some of the benefits this has on our code.
Speaker
Ryan Lanciaux
Ryan Lanciaux is a Professional Software Developer in Northwest Ohio. Although he programs in several languages, his current area of focus is in C# and VB.NET. Ryan has developed many large scale web applications since the late 1990s. He regularly contributes to the programming community through his website. 4/21/2010
Tuesday Apr 27, 2010
Mix 2010: An Overview
This presentation will cover the highlights of Microsoft’s Mix 2010 conference. We will discuss development for Windows Phone 7 Series, Silverlight 4, Internet Explorer 9, .NET 4, and Visual Studio 2010, among other topics. This will be an overview of these subjects, but will also include several code demos as well.
Speaker
Jeff Blankenburg - Microsoft
Jeff Blankenburg is an ultra-passionate web developer who works for Microsoft. As a Developer Evangelist, he has the unique responsibility to consult and advise software developers about the new tools, technologies, and practices available to them. Jeff's previous roles as a software developer allowed him to build industry-changing websites and marketing efforts for Victoria's Secret, Abercrombie & Fitch, Ford Motor Company, Sony, and several major pharmaceutical companies. Through many major speaking engagements and an active, technically-focused blog, Jeff has established himself as a valuable resource to anyone writing software or looking for advice on their next software endeavor. 3/25/2010
Tuesday Mar 30, 2010
Lap Around WPF
Windows Presentation Foundation, the big brother to Silverlight, has been positioned as the platform of choice for Windows Client development. Not just for shiny, gratuitous animations, WPF makes building full-featured, easy to use, client applications an easier and more productive experience for you as a developer. Come learn the skills to build a rich user experience on the largest desktop platform.
Speaker
Ryan Cromwell - Strategic Data Systems
Ryan Cromwell is Senior Consultant and Microsoft Team Foundation Server Technical Specialist with Strategic Data Systems. Ryan is committed to the continual improvement of his craft through education, experimentation, and the occasional error. He can be found weekly at the Dayton Code & Coffee consuming more than his fair share of coffee, while experiencing cooperative learning of unfamiliar topics. Ryan has led presentations on various topics such as Agile, Scrum, WPF, WCF, Software Patterns, and Team Foundation Server. 2/18/2010
Tuesday Feb 23, 2010
Dependency Injection Patterns with StructureMap
As software design best practices continue to evolve, there has been a particular focus on developing reusable, loosely coupled, and testable components for our applications. While the benefits of implementing software in this fashion are plain, integrating these modules into our software architectures has become a significant chore. With dependency injections frameworks, we can now make our objects responsible for their own construction, mitigating the frustration of hand-wiring object dependencies and allowing us to build more stable and extensible platforms.
In this talk we will explore StructureMap, a Dependency Injection framework for .NET. After a brief introduction to general DI patterns, we will review in detail a number of features in the framework, including many that are new or haven’t been widely discussed. A demonstration will also be provided with a focus on leveraging StructureMap to configure and use a complex 3rd party library.
Speaker
John C. Dages - Quick Solutions
John Dages is a consultant who has worn a number of hats. With a development background ranging from health care to online gaming, he has always enjoyed discovering elegant solutions to complex problems. A fervent believer in the “right tool for the job”, he is continually learning new technologies and methodologies to deliver maximum value for custom software products.
John holds a BA in computer science from DePauw University. 1/18/2010
Tuesday Jan 26, 2010
Introduction to ASP.NET MVC w/ a spice of jQuery
The ASP.NET MVC framework and the jQuery javascript framework work very well together in order to build up to date, rich client web applications with no need for silly plugins.
ASP.NET MVC is an alternative to the traditional ASP.NET web forms from Microsoft. They both use ASP.NET as the mechanism to talk between a web browser and IIS but the patterns they implement are far different.
ASP.NET MVC is modeled after popular model-view-controller web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails. It was not built to replace ASP.NET web forms but rather as an alternative to the viewstate/post back model of web forms.
We will look at the patterns of the ASP.NET MVC framework and explore the work flow of requests and responses to and from a server as well as how it differs from the traditional web forms applications.
jQuery is a javascript framework that is designed to make cross-browser DOM programming easier and make developing with javascript suck less.
In this presentation, we will go over the basics of jQuery which will allow you to go home and get started right away. We will cover concepts such as DOM manipulation, CSS manipulation, ajax requests, and user interface effects. jQuery makes performing these tasks trivial and allows you to add ajax calls and Flash-like effects to your web site easily.
Speaker
Jamie Wright - Brilliant Fantastic
Jamie Wright is president of Brilliant Fantastic, a software development consulting service provider and ISV for software management applications. He has over ten years software development experience in Microsoft technologies and has developing in .NET since the first beta release. He specializes in application architecture, design patterns, object-oriented design, and business objects using the .NET framework. He loves spending time with his newly growing family, blogging at http://wrightin.gs, twittering at http://twitter.com/jwright, and he is currently getting therapy for his gadget addiction. 11/25/2009
Tuesday Dec 1, 2009
Latest from Microsoft PDC09 (Professional Developers Conference)
There was an amazing amount of announcements at the PDC. Brian will cover what was released, including news on Azure, AppFabric, Office14, Sharepoint14, Silverlight 4 and IE9.
Speaker
Brian Prince - Microsoft
Brian H. Prince is an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft. He loves to talk about technology, especially cloud computing, patterns, and practices. Prior to joining Microsoft in March 2008, he was a Senior Director, Technology Strategy for a major mid-west partner.
Further, he is a co-founder of the non-profit organization CodeMash (www.codemash.org). He speaks at various regional and national technology events including TechEd.
Brian holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science from Capital University, Columbus, Ohio. He is also an avid gamer. 10/23/2009
Tuesday Oct 27, 2009
Acceptance Testing With Selenium & Cucumber
Unit testing is an important part of your development cycle, but acceptance testing ensures your software meets your project’s requirements. This session shows you two great tools to help write automated acceptance tests: Selenium and Cucumber. You’ll learn how to use these tools to start from a requirement and move through a user story to an acceptance test. You’ll see how Selenium IDE cuts your development time by recording tests automatically for you, and you’ll discover how Selenium RC lets you use one set of tests to evaluate multiple browsers. Finally, we’ll walk through using Cucumber to write a plain-text description on how your system should behave – and use that same file to drive an acceptance test! We’ll discuss how these tools fit in your development process, and how they can be included in automated builds. This session will leave you with an understanding of how these tools can help you boost your quality and ensure you’re meeting your system’s functional requirements.
Speaker
Jim Holmes
Father. Husband. Geek. Veteran. Around 25 years IT experience. Co-author of “Windows Developer Power Tools.” Coffee Roaster. MVP for C#. Chief Cat Herder of the CodeMash Conference. Liked 5th grade so much he did it twice. One-time setter, middle blocker, and weakside hitter. Blogger (http://FrazzledDad.com). Program Manager for Telligent, makers of neat social software. Big fan of naps. 9/27/2009
Tuesday Sep 29, 2009
Introduction to Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)
VSTO is a .NET Smart Client technology that allows you to build managed code applications with .NET languages like VB.NET and C#, and have the functionality of those applications manifest in the rich user interfaces of Microsoft Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook and others from the Office stack. We will walk through multiple demos to show just how easy it is to build powerful VSTO applications, demonstrating adding controls into Excel, adding functionality to the Office 2007 Ribbon UI, and adding custom task panes.
Speaker
Jennifer Marsman
Jennifer Marsman is a Developer Evangelist in Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Evangelism group, where she educates developers on Microsoft’s new technologies. Prior to becoming a Developer Evangelist, Jennifer was a software developer in Microsoft’s Natural Interactive Services division. In this role, she filed two patents for her work in search and data mining algorithms. Jennifer has also held positions with Ford Motor Company, National Instruments, and Soar Technology. Jennifer earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering and Master’s Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her graduate work specialized in artificial intelligence and computational theory. |
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