The next Northwest Arkansas .Net User Group meeting will be held January 10th, 2011 at 6:00 PM at the University of Phoenix in Rogers. Chris Koenig will discuss database development with Windows Phone "Mango".
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. Please RSVP before noon on January 10th so we can order enough food for everyone.
Meeting Information
Title: Database for Mango
With the release of the new "Mango" operating system, the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 now supports SQL Server CE as part of the Windows Phone runtime environment. Join Microsoft Developer Evangelist Chris Koenig for a tour of SQL Server CE Database Support on Windows Phone. We’ll talk about defining, creating and accessing databases on the device, deploying databases with your application, and making updates to your database as you version your application.
About the Presenter: Chris Koenig
Chris Koenig is a Senior Developer Evangelist with Microsoft, based in Dallas, TX. Prior to joining Microsoft in March of 2007, Chris worked as a Senior Architect for The Capital Group in San Antonio, and as an Architect for the global solution provider Avanade. As an Architect and consultant, Chris worked with a variety of clients from many vertical markets, ISVs and other solution providers on enterprise-class Windows and web-based applications. Today, Chris focuses on building, growing, and enhancing the developer communities in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana while specializing in Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight development.
Chris can be reached on Twitter at @chriskoenig
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
University of Phoenix - Pinnacle Hills Learning Center
1800 S. 52nd St, Suite 100
Rogers, AR 72758
Friday, January 6, 2012
Monday, December 12, 2011
December 2011 Meeting - Practical Test Driven Development
The next Northwest Arkansas .Net User Group meeting will be held December 13th, 2011 at 6:00 PM at the University of Phoenix in Rogers (note the new location and time).
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. Please RSVP before noon on December 13th so we can order enough food for everyone.
Meeting Information
Title: Practical Test Driven Development
So you've listened to the great minds of Agile development, and agree that Test Driven Development sounds awesome ... but your code base isn't even remotely setup for dependency injection, or interface, or any of that. So you gave up. Well fear not my friends, I'm here to help you understand how to do TDD, without starting from a blank slate. It is perfectly possible to make TDD happen, but you just need to learn to use a couple of tricks that make refactoring your existing code less painful.
About the Presenter: Tim Rayburn
Tim Rayburn is a Principal Consultant with Improving Enterprises and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Connected Systems Development. He is President of the Dallas Connected Systems User Group, and he commonly speaks at user groups throughout Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, as well as at conferences such as the Tulsa TechFest, Houston TechFest, VSLive! Austin, Microsoft TechEd and the Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference.
Tim can be reached on Twitter at @trayburn
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
University of Phoenix - Pinnacle Hills Learning Center
1800 S. 52nd St, Suite 100
Rogers, AR 72758
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. Please RSVP before noon on December 13th so we can order enough food for everyone.
Meeting Information
Title: Practical Test Driven Development
So you've listened to the great minds of Agile development, and agree that Test Driven Development sounds awesome ... but your code base isn't even remotely setup for dependency injection, or interface, or any of that. So you gave up. Well fear not my friends, I'm here to help you understand how to do TDD, without starting from a blank slate. It is perfectly possible to make TDD happen, but you just need to learn to use a couple of tricks that make refactoring your existing code less painful.
About the Presenter: Tim Rayburn
Tim Rayburn is a Principal Consultant with Improving Enterprises and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Connected Systems Development. He is President of the Dallas Connected Systems User Group, and he commonly speaks at user groups throughout Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, as well as at conferences such as the Tulsa TechFest, Houston TechFest, VSLive! Austin, Microsoft TechEd and the Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference.
Tim can be reached on Twitter at @trayburn
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
University of Phoenix - Pinnacle Hills Learning Center
1800 S. 52nd St, Suite 100
Rogers, AR 72758
Sunday, November 13, 2011
November 2011 Meeting - Enterprise Development with MVC3
The next Northwest Arkansas .Net User Group meeting will be held November 15th, 2011 at 6:00 PM at the University of Phoenix in Rogers (note the new location and time).
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. Please RSVP before noon on November 15th so we can order enough food for everyone.
Meeting Information
Title: Enterprise development with MVC3 - Time to Put on Your Architectural Hats
When it comes to Enterprise development, best patterns and practices are more a necessity than something good to have. This talk would go through some of those best practices with focus on some of the tools quintessential for success on MVC applications. It will also incorporate some real world scenarios and different ways to solve them as well as building modular solutions with separation of concerns leading to scalable apps.
About the Presenter: Chander Dhall
Chander Dhall is a Microsoft MVP, professional software architect/lead developer, trainer, INETA speaker, open source contributor, community leader and organizer with more than eight years of experience in enterprise Software Development. He works in a goal oriented, technologically driven, fast paced AGILE (SCRUM) environment. He is the founder of Dallas day of dot net. He has a Master’s Degree in computer science with specialization in algorithms, principles and patterns and is focused on building high performing modular software. Chander leads the UT Dallas .NET user group and recently got recognized as "One of the top organizers" by Eventbrite.
Chander has been a featured speaker in numerous conferences and code camps all over the world. Chander can be reached on Twitter at @csdhall
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
University of Phoenix - Pinnacle Hills Learning Center
1800 S. 52nd St, Suite 100
Rogers, AR 72758
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. Please RSVP before noon on November 15th so we can order enough food for everyone.
Meeting Information
Title: Enterprise development with MVC3 - Time to Put on Your Architectural Hats
When it comes to Enterprise development, best patterns and practices are more a necessity than something good to have. This talk would go through some of those best practices with focus on some of the tools quintessential for success on MVC applications. It will also incorporate some real world scenarios and different ways to solve them as well as building modular solutions with separation of concerns leading to scalable apps.
About the Presenter: Chander Dhall
Chander Dhall is a Microsoft MVP, professional software architect/lead developer, trainer, INETA speaker, open source contributor, community leader and organizer with more than eight years of experience in enterprise Software Development. He works in a goal oriented, technologically driven, fast paced AGILE (SCRUM) environment. He is the founder of Dallas day of dot net. He has a Master’s Degree in computer science with specialization in algorithms, principles and patterns and is focused on building high performing modular software. Chander leads the UT Dallas .NET user group and recently got recognized as "One of the top organizers" by Eventbrite.
Chander has been a featured speaker in numerous conferences and code camps all over the world. Chander can be reached on Twitter at @csdhall
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
University of Phoenix - Pinnacle Hills Learning Center
1800 S. 52nd St, Suite 100
Rogers, AR 72758
Thursday, September 29, 2011
October 2011 Meeting - Model-View-Presenter in ASP.NET Web Forms
The next Northwest Arkansas .Net User Group meeting will be held October 11th, 2011 at 6:00 PM at the University of Phoenix in Rogers (note the new location). Jay Smith will discuss the Model-View-Presenter (MVP) design pattern as it relates to development using ASP.NET Web Forms.
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: Model-View-Presenter in ASP.NET Web Forms
In today's world of rapidly changing UI's it is very important to isolate application business logic into a separate layer to avoid having to re-write it every time the UI technology changes. In this session, I will cover some ways to extract your business logic from the UI layer and encapsulate it in the Presentation layer making upgrading the UI clean and straight forward by implementing the Model-View-Presenter design pattern in ASP.NET Web Forms.
About the Presenter: Jay Smith, Lead Programmer Analyst for Tyson Foods, Inc.
Jay Smith is a Lead Programmer Analyst for Tyson Foods, Inc. and Microsoft ASP.NET/IIS MVP. Prior to joining Tyson Foods in April 2, 2001, Jay worked as a Windows Server Engineer for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Jay has worked on a variety of web based applications for internal use, as well as, worked with internal teams to improve team efficiency and developer practice adoption. Jay focuses on building, growing, and enhancing the developer community in the Northwest Arkansas area while specializing in Software Architecture, Agile Practices (Scrum and Extreme Programming), and ASP.NET MVC.
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
University of Phoenix - Pinnacle Hills Learning Center
1800 S. 52nd St, Suite 100
Rogers, AR 72758
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: Model-View-Presenter in ASP.NET Web Forms
In today's world of rapidly changing UI's it is very important to isolate application business logic into a separate layer to avoid having to re-write it every time the UI technology changes. In this session, I will cover some ways to extract your business logic from the UI layer and encapsulate it in the Presentation layer making upgrading the UI clean and straight forward by implementing the Model-View-Presenter design pattern in ASP.NET Web Forms.
About the Presenter: Jay Smith, Lead Programmer Analyst for Tyson Foods, Inc.
Jay Smith is a Lead Programmer Analyst for Tyson Foods, Inc. and Microsoft ASP.NET/IIS MVP. Prior to joining Tyson Foods in April 2, 2001, Jay worked as a Windows Server Engineer for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Jay has worked on a variety of web based applications for internal use, as well as, worked with internal teams to improve team efficiency and developer practice adoption. Jay focuses on building, growing, and enhancing the developer community in the Northwest Arkansas area while specializing in Software Architecture, Agile Practices (Scrum and Extreme Programming), and ASP.NET MVC.
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
University of Phoenix - Pinnacle Hills Learning Center
1800 S. 52nd St, Suite 100
Rogers, AR 72758
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Digging Deeper: Documentation Sites and Projects
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 documentation sites or projects that we came up with to help:
- Boot to VHD
- FubuMvc - good source of code to read through
- Microsoft OneCode - Listing of individual code snippets for learning
- NuGet - Discover packages for including in .NET projects
- Read The Docs - listing of project documentation from source control imports
- SymbolSource - allows debugging into NuGet packages that put code into site
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:
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
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