NWADNUG: 2011 Kick Off and Code Karoake

The next Northwest Arkansas .Net User Group meeting will be held on February 8, 2011.



Announcements:

Northwest Arkansas TechFest - Friday, March 25th, 2011 - Call for Speakers

Meeting Information:

Title: 2011 Kick Off and Code Karaoke

In this meeting we will have an open discussion about what the group wants to do in 2011 and any remaining time will be Code Karaoke.

What is Code Karaoke?

Code Karaoke is for everyone in the group that has something they want to discuss or present. If you desire please come ready to show or discuss a topic for 5-10 minutes. This can be anything development related that you have been doing, working on, or trying to learn.

Agenda

6:00 PM - 6:15 PM - Welcome and News, Sign-in and Food
6:15 PM - 6:30 PM - 2011 Planning
6:30 PM - 6:40 PM - Intermission
6:40 PM - 8:10 PM - Code Karaoke
8:10 PM - 8:30 PM - Closing

Where
Technology 101
105 SE 22nd St, Suite #7
Bentonville, AR 72712

Please come with ideas of what you would like to accomplish for 2011 for the group and your fun short informational or code presentation.

Hope to see you there!

NWADNUG: Northwest Arkansas Give Camp

The next Northwest Arkansas .Net User Group meeting will be held on December 14th, 2010 5:30 PM. Matt Hinze will be presenting Inversion Control in Action.



Remember his is how we figure out how much food to get so please help us make sure we have enough for everyone.

Announcements:
Northwest Arkansas GiveCamp - January 14-16, 2011 - More Info

Meeting Information

Title: Northwest Arkansas Give Camp

This meeting will be a discussion and planning for how we can be involved with the Northwest Arkansas Give Camp event being held in January. Please bring yourself and anyone at your company that would be interested.

Agenda

6:00 PM - 6:15 PM - Welcome and News, Sign-in and Food
6:15 PM - 8:10 PM - Give Camp Planning

Where
Technology 101
105 SE 22nd St, Suite #7
Bentonville, AR 72712

NWA DNUG: David Walker “Developing for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight Tips &Tricks”

The next Northwest Arkansas .Net User Group meeting will be held on November 9th, 2010 6:00 PM.

Remember his is how we figure out how much food to get so please help us make sure we have enough for everyone.

Announcements:
Tulsa Techfest - November 12, 2010 - Open Call for Speakers - Registration
Northwest Arkansas GiveCamp - January 14-16, 2011 - More Info

Meeting Information

Title: Developing for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight Tips &Tricks

In this session you will learn Tips & Tricks that you will find very useful in developing applications for the Windows Phone 7 device. From caching of data, objects, XML and images in IsolatedStorage to Databinding, Templating and more. You will leave with the tools that will tremendously speed up your time to market.

Presenter:

David Walker is an Senior Application Development Manager with Microsoft. He has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant. He has been an MCP since 2003, MCAD and MCSD since 2005, and was a Microsoft MVP - ASP/ASP.NET from July 2007 – July 2009. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was formerly a board member for INETA (Vice President, Speakers Bureau), President of the Tulsa Developers .NET users group, founder and President of the Tulsa SQL Server Group and Tulsa Java Developers, Vice President of the Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group. He has been the Chairman over the TulsaTechFest event which is going on its fifth consecutive year as the region’s largest technical training event. He also launched the very successful first annual NWA TechFest on July 8th 2010.

Agenda
6:00 PM - 6:15 PM - Welcome and News, Sign-in and Food
6:15 PM - 6:30 PM - Lightning Presentation
6:30 PM - 6:40 PM - Intermission - Presenter switch over
6:40 PM - 8:10 PM - Main Presentation
8:10 PM - 8:30 PM - Closing and Prize give-a-ways

Where
Technology 101
105 SE 22nd St, Suite #7
Bentonville, AR 72712

Hope to see you there!

NWA DNUG: Jay Smith "Estimate Tasks with Planning Poker"

The next Northwest Arkansas .Net User Group meeting will be held on October 12th, 2010 5:30 PM. Jay Smith will be show everyone how to estimate tasks using Planning Poker.

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.

Announcements:
Houston TechFest 2010 - October 9, 2010
Northwest Arkansas CodeCamp - October 23, 2010 - Registration Open
Tulsa Techfest - November 12, 2010 - Open Call for Speakers
Northwest Arkansas GiveCamp - January 14-16, 2011 - More Info

Northwest Arkansas Code Camp
The Northwest Arkansas CodeCamp is less than 20 days away. Registration is still pretty low so please help get the word out. There will be 6 tracks of sessions covering everything from mobile to ASP.NET development. Check out http://nwacodecamp.com/ to register and plesae forward this event information to anyone you feel would be interested.

This Months Meeting Information

Title: Planning Poker is a consensus-based estimation technique for estimating, mostly used to estimate effort or relative size of tasks in software development . It is a variation of the Wideband Delphi method. In this session you will learn not only what planning poker is but how to facilitate it with your team. Using Planning Poker to estimate task on your project is not only accurate its fun.

Presenter:
Jay Smith is an ASP .NET MVP and works for Tyson Foods, Inc. as a PMO Architect and Evangelist where he works with teams to test bed processes and technologies. Jay is also one of the founding members of the Northwest Arkansas .Net User’s Group and host of User Group Radio - The Community Leadership Podcast. Jay often presents to the community on various topics including Agile Software Development, Object Oriented Principles, and Application Architecture.

Agenda
6:00 PM - 6:15 PM - Welcome and News, Sign-in and Food
6:15 PM - 6:30 PM - Lightning Presentation
6:30 PM - 6:40 PM - Intermission - Presenter switch over
6:40 PM - 8:10 PM - Main Presentation
8:10 PM - 8:30 PM - Closing and Prize give-a-ways

Where
Technology 101
105 SE 22nd St, Suite #7
Bentonville, AR 72712

Hope to see you there!

NWA DNUG: Matt Hinze "Inversion Control In Action!"

The next Northwest Arkansas .Net User Group meeting will be held on September 14th, 2010 5:30 PM. Matt Hinze will be presenting Inversion Control in Action.

Announcements:

• Houston TechFest 2010 - October 9, 2010
• Northwest Arkansas CodeCamp - October 23, 2010 - Registration Open
• Tulsa Techfest - November 12, 2010 - Open Call for Speakers
• Northwest Arkansas GiveCamp - January 14-16, 2011 - More Info

Please help us get the word out for the Northwest Arkansas CodeCamp on October 23, 2010. This is going to be an awesome event. Many of the speakers that are going to be at the Tyson Development Conference will also be speaking at the CodeCamp. This years CodeCamp will be at the Tyson World Headquarters in Springdale, AR. This is a open to the public free tehnical conference. Please visit the Northwest Arkansas CodeCamp site to register to attend or to submit sessions.

This Months Meeting Information

Title: Inversion Control in Action!

Description:
Matt Hinze talks about inversion of control, object-oriented principles, software architecture and how to develop quality software very quickly. In this intermediate to advanced level talk, Matt presents the basics of IOC in C# and codes live several interesting usage patterns...

Agenda
6:00 PM - 6:15 PM - Welcome and News, Sign-in and Food
6:15 PM - 6:30 PM - Lightning Presentation
6:30 PM - 6:40 PM - Intermission - Presenter switch over
6:40 PM - 8:10 PM - Main Presentation
8:10 PM - 8:30 PM - Closing and Prize give-a-ways

Where
Technology 101
105 SE 22nd St, Suite #7
Bentonville, AR 72712

Hope to see you there!

NWA DNUG: Dennis Bottjer "Stop Drowning In Technical Debt!"

The next Northwest Arkansas .Net User Group meeting will be held on August 10th, 2010 5:30 PM. Dennis Bottjer will be presenting on Stop Drowning In Technical Debt!

Announcements

Technology 101 has new location, so be sure to check out the new address!

In an effort to control our budget we are only going to plan food for those who have RSVP'd. If you RSVP before noon the day of the meeting you will have a printed name badge, extra ticket for drawings, and be guarnteed food. Please help keep the cost of our meetings down so we can keep providing top speakers for the group.

Main Presentation

Title: Stop Drowning In Technical Debt!

Description:
Technical Debt is a metaphor introduced by Ward Cunningham to describe the result of “Quick and Dirty” Software Design. Eventually, software projects will incur either accidental or strategic Technical Debt. What is the price of accumulating to much technical debt? How do we measure our Technical Debt? How do we pay down our Technical Debt? This session will provide the answers to these questions through a balance of presentation and real-world examples using various code analysis and metrics available within Visual Studio 2008

Presenter:
Dennis J. Bottjer is a solutions architect, consultant, teacher, blogger and speaker. As a three time Microsoft ASP.NET MVP, he specializes in SharePoint and Web Development. Dennis has over 12 years of industry experience with an emphasis on the Financial and Banking Sectors. As an associate for a Fortune 100 Financial Services Company, Dennis was a key contributor during the development of an underwriting system and fulfillment system. Dennis builds community by regularly participating in user groups and community events. He has been a user group president and is currently an INETA.org membership mentor. Dennis lives in Tulsa, OK with his wife Carrie, daughter Kate, son Will and three cats.

Agenda
6:00 PM - 6:15 PM - Welcome and News, Sign-in and Food
6:15 PM - 6:30 PM - Lightning Presentation
6:30 PM - 6:40 PM - Intermission - Presenter switch over
6:40 PM - 8:10 PM - Main Presentation
8:10 PM - 8:30 PM - Closing and Prize give-a-ways

Where:
Technology 101
105 SE 22nd St, Suite #7
Bentonville, AR 72712

Arvest Ballpark Social Event Sept 1, 2010 6:45 PM

The Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group in partnership with Tyson Foods, Inc. and TEKSystems bring you A Night at Arvest Ballpark.  We have a limited number of free tickets for seats in the Tyson Foods Box for an evening watching the game and having fun.

There will be a drawing for an Xbox during the 7th inning stretch!

Event: A Night At Arvest Park

Game: Arkansas Naturals vs. Arkansas Travelers

When: Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Where: Arvest Park Tyson Box

Time: 6:45 PM (Game starts @ 7:00 PM)

To secure your free ticket please contact Megan Coger at mseba@teksystems.com.  This even is open to everyone and is a great opportunity for others to find out about the Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group and what we do. 

Tickets are available for the first 20 people who RSVP.

Tickets will be available for pick up at Will Call the day of the event.  You will need to present a photo i.d. to pick up your tickets.

Event Sponsors

Tyson Foods, Inc., founded in 1935 with headquarters in Springdale, Arkansas, is one of the world's largest processors and marketers of chicken, beef and pork, the second-largest food production company in the Fortune 500 and a member of the S&P 500. The company produces a wide variety of protein-based and prepared food products and is the recognized market leader in the retail and foodservice markets it serves. Tyson provides products and services to customers throughout the United States and more than 90 countries.

 

TEKsystems provides technology staffing and services, helping businesses deploy high-caliber IT and communications expertise under a range of delivery options including Staffing Services, Infrastructure and Application Services, Global Services, and Workforce Management Services. Ranked by Staffing Industry Analysts, Inc. as the nation's top IT staffing firm, we've become a billion-dollar services company by continually building on what we do best - blending superior client service with an unrivaled ability to source and manage IT and communications talent, resulting in successful technology executions.