Digging Deeper: Video Presentations

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 sites with informational videos that we came up with to help:

• Channel 9


• Dimecasts


• Peepcode.com - Linux/OSS videos


• Pluralsight training


• Tekpub


• usergroup.tv - presentations of .NET User Group presentations

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:

• 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

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:

• CodeBetter - blog aggregator


• Coding Horror


• Daring Fireball


• PragProg e-magazine


• Programmers.stackexchange.com


• Lambda the Ultimate


• Lifehacker


• lostechies.com


• Phil Haack


• Reddit Programming


• Scott Gutherie


• Scott Hanselman


• StackExchange Submission Page

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:

• DeepFriedBytes


• Hanselmintutes


• Herding Code


• Hypercritical


• Nerdist


• Stackexchange


• Stuff You Should Know

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

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

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