- App Harbor - deploying to cloud from Source Control
- Executor - quick launching of applications
- Google Reader - hub for reading RSS feeds
- HTML5 Boilerplate - HTML5 compliant default template for sites
- Initializr - HTML5 boilerplate
- Launchy - quick launching of applications
- Less - programmable CSS
- Ninite - installs several programs at once in a bundle; good for starting up new install
- UI Development
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Digging Deeper: Tools
At this month's meeting, we discussed where we go to learn about new topics or dive deeper into the tools we use every day. Here's a listing of the tools that we came up with to help:
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Digging Deeper: Blogs
At this month's meeting, we discussed where we go to learn about new topics or dive deeper into the tools we use every day. Here's a listing of the blogs that we came up with to help:
Digging Deeper: Podcasts
At this month's meeting, we discussed where we go to learn about new topics or dive deeper into the tools we use every day. Here's a listing of the podcasts that we came up with to help:
Diving Deeper: Book Suggestions
At this month's meeting, we discussed where we go to learn about new topics or dive deeper into the tools we use every day. Here's a listing of the books that we came up with to help:
- Top 100 Agile Books
- Safari Books
- SWEBooks on Google Code
- A Pattern Language
- The Architecture of Happiness
- Beautiful Code
- Beautiful Teams
- Clean Code
- Design of Everyday Things
- Domain Driven Design
- Hamlet's Blackberry
- Head First Design Patterns
- Head First Software Development
- Joy of Clojure
- Land of Lisp
- Learn You a Haskell for Great Good
- Passionate Programmer
- Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
- Peopleware
- Producing Open Source Software
- Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
- The Well-Grounded Rubyist
Monday, September 12, 2011
September 2011 Meeting - Blogs and Books
The next Northwest Arkansas .Net User Group meeting will be held September 13th, 2011 at 6:00 PM at 8th & Walton in Bentonville (note the new location).
Get your Ticket for the meeting here! Remember his is how we figure out how much food to get so please help us make sure we have enough for everyone.
Meeting Information
Title: Books and Blogs
As professionals, we all have different sources that we use to expand our knowledge about our fields. Some of us read blogs about development or ways to manage a project. Others read books about how to better manage their relationships with teammates or interact with managers.
This month's meeting offers you a chance to hear about books and blogs that other members of the group use to "sharpen their saws" and the opportunity to share your own sources of inspiration.
Anyone wishing to present can share a brief (1-5 minutes) presentation about a book or blog that he or she finds useful. If you have a copy of your book to pass around, please bring it with you. No one will be required to share, and everyone is free to contribute.
Agenda
6:00 PM - 6:15 PM - Welcome and News, Sign-in and Food
6:15 PM - 8:10 PM - Main Presentation
8:10 PM - 8:30 PM - Closing and Prize give-a-ways
Where
8th & Walton
902B South Walton Blvd, Suite 18
Bentonville, AR 72712
Get your Ticket for the meeting here! Remember his is how we figure out how much food to get so please help us make sure we have enough for everyone.
Meeting Information
Title: Books and Blogs
As professionals, we all have different sources that we use to expand our knowledge about our fields. Some of us read blogs about development or ways to manage a project. Others read books about how to better manage their relationships with teammates or interact with managers.
This month's meeting offers you a chance to hear about books and blogs that other members of the group use to "sharpen their saws" and the opportunity to share your own sources of inspiration.
Anyone wishing to present can share a brief (1-5 minutes) presentation about a book or blog that he or she finds useful. If you have a copy of your book to pass around, please bring it with you. No one will be required to share, and everyone is free to contribute.
Agenda
6:00 PM - 6:15 PM - Welcome and News, Sign-in and Food
6:15 PM - 8:10 PM - Main Presentation
8:10 PM - 8:30 PM - Closing and Prize give-a-ways
Where
8th & Walton
902B South Walton Blvd, Suite 18
Bentonville, AR 72712
Monday, August 8, 2011
NWADNUG: Agile Code
The next Northwest Arkansas .Net User Group meeting will be held August 9th, 2011 at 6:00 PM at 8th & Walton in Bentonville (note the new location). Rob Tennyson will talk about writing agile code and work through examples of agile development.
Please RSVP before noon on August 9th so we can order enough food for everyone.
Meeting Information
Title: Agile Code
From the Agile Manifesto: Responding to change over following a plan. From the manifesto’s 12 principles:Welcome changing requirements, even late in development and Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
Code that works to enable those three statements is code that I refer to as agile code. We’ll talk about writing that kind of code by working through a simple example pulled from the book Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# by Robert Martin.
About the Presenter: Rob Tennyson, Application Development Manager, Microsoft
Rob is an Application Development Manager at Microsoft working with Premier customers in the Central Region. He has over 10 years of application development experience on the Microsoft platform and focuses on helping developers build more maintainable and higher quality applications. Keeping this the driving focus has the awesome side effect of creating applications faster, cheaper, and defect free.
Agenda
6:00 PM - 6:15 PM - Welcome and News, Sign-in and Food
6:15 PM - 8:10 PM - Main Presentation
8:10 PM - 8:30 PM - Closing and Prize give-a-ways
Where
8th & Walton
902B South Walton Blvd, Suite 18
Bentonville, AR 72712
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
July 2011 Meeting - Brian Sullivan on Building a More Maintainable Model with Entity Framework Code-First
The next Northwest Arkansas .Net User Group meeting will be held July 12th, 2011 at 6:00 PM at 8th & Walton in Bentonville (note the new location). Brian Sullivan will guide you through building a true POCO model, basic mapping techniques, and leveraging conventions to keep your mappings DRY using EF "Code-First".
Please RSVP before noon on July 12th so we can order enough food for everyone.
Meeting Information
Title: Ditch the Designer - Building a More Maintainable Model with Entity Framework Code-First
The whiz-bang visual designer features of the Entity Framework demo well, and may even work for small projects, but anyone who's worked with EF knows that on larger projects, the design surface quickly becomes unusable and a bottleneck to your development process. Thankfully, the Entity Framework team has heard our anguished cries and introduced a new API for defining your EF models, dubbed "Code-First". In this presentation, Brian will guide you through building a true POCO model, basic mapping techniques, and leveraging conventions to keep your mappings DRY.
About the Presenter: Brian Sullivan
Brian Sullivan is a developer analyst for Falcon Applications, LLC in Shreveport, LA. He got his start in programming maintaining legacy mainframe applications in COBOL at a large trucking company, but quickly realized he needed to find a more productive environment in order to stay sane. He jumped at the opportunity to help transition some of those COBOL applications to .NET, and he hasn’t looked back since. He has been working with Microsoft technologies for about 6 years, and is interested in increasing the exposure of agile techniques and methodologies in the Microsoft developer community. He currently runs the Shreveport .NET User Group and speaks frequently at local user groups and regional conferences. Brian is a graduate of Harding University in Searcy, AR.
Agenda
6:00 PM - 6:15 PM - Welcome and News, Sign-in and Food
6:15 PM - 8:10 PM - Main Presentation
8:10 PM - 8:30 PM - Closing and Prize give-a-ways
Where (NEW LOCATION)
8th & Walton
902B South Walton Blvd, Suite 18
Bentonville, AR 72712
Please RSVP before noon on July 12th so we can order enough food for everyone.
Meeting Information
Title: Ditch the Designer - Building a More Maintainable Model with Entity Framework Code-First
The whiz-bang visual designer features of the Entity Framework demo well, and may even work for small projects, but anyone who's worked with EF knows that on larger projects, the design surface quickly becomes unusable and a bottleneck to your development process. Thankfully, the Entity Framework team has heard our anguished cries and introduced a new API for defining your EF models, dubbed "Code-First". In this presentation, Brian will guide you through building a true POCO model, basic mapping techniques, and leveraging conventions to keep your mappings DRY.
About the Presenter: Brian Sullivan
Brian Sullivan is a developer analyst for Falcon Applications, LLC in Shreveport, LA. He got his start in programming maintaining legacy mainframe applications in COBOL at a large trucking company, but quickly realized he needed to find a more productive environment in order to stay sane. He jumped at the opportunity to help transition some of those COBOL applications to .NET, and he hasn’t looked back since. He has been working with Microsoft technologies for about 6 years, and is interested in increasing the exposure of agile techniques and methodologies in the Microsoft developer community. He currently runs the Shreveport .NET User Group and speaks frequently at local user groups and regional conferences. Brian is a graduate of Harding University in Searcy, AR.
Agenda
6:00 PM - 6:15 PM - Welcome and News, Sign-in and Food
6:15 PM - 8:10 PM - Main Presentation
8:10 PM - 8:30 PM - Closing and Prize give-a-ways
Where (NEW LOCATION)
8th & Walton
902B South Walton Blvd, Suite 18
Bentonville, AR 72712
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