At our August meeting, Allen Parish will take us through some of the new features of Visual Studio 2010. If you're not using it yet, come see what you're missing. If you're already using, come learn about some of the features you didn't even know were there! Improving will be providing food and we have some books and software to give away as well. Hope to see you there!
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For our September meeting, Herb Nowell will be presenting on RESTful services in WCF. Improving will be providing pizza and there will be door prizes from Microsoft.
Ben Floyd will be presenting at our October meeting. More details to come.
Mike talked about Object Oriented Design and concepts from his book Streamlined Object Modeling
Come join us for our May meeting. Eric will be covering career growth and how you can be better prepared for getting your next job, promotion, or raise. There will be door prizes provided by Microsoft and pizza provided by Improving Enterprises. Please RSVP if you plan to attend (up to 2 hours before the event) so that we don't have (another) pizza shortage!
Come join us for our June meeting. Allen will be discussing some of the new features of C# 4.0. There will be door prizes provided by Microsoft and pizza provided by Improving Enterprises.
Come join us for our July meeting. INETA is sponsoring us this month and we'll be hosting Jeffrey Palermo. Jeffrey Palermo is the CTO of Headspring Systems. Jeffrey specializes in Agile management coaching and helps companies double the productivity of software teams. He is instrumental in the Austin software community as a member of AgileAustin and a director of the Austin .Net User Group. Jeffrey has been recognized by Microsoft as a “Microsoft Most Valuable Professional” (MVP) for technical and community leadership. He is also certified as a MCSD.Net and ScrumMaster. Jeffrey has spoken and facilitated at industry conferences such as VSLive, DevTeach, and Microsoft Tech Ed. He also speaks to user groups around the country as part of the INETA Speakers’ Bureau. His web sites are headspringsystems.comand jeffreypalermo.com. He is a graduate from Texas A&M University, an Eagle Scout, and an Iraq war veteran. Jeffrey is the founder of the CodeCampServer open-source project and a co-founder of the MvcContrib project.
Come join us for our August meeting! Herb Nowell will discuss applying ideas from the crafts and trades to create better software and more job satisfaction. There will be door prizes provided by Microsoft and Pearson Education and pizza provided by Improving Enterprises.
Come join us for our September meeting.
Ben will be discussing cross-cutting concerns briefly and then talk about one specific application block called the Policy Injection Application Block (PIAB). The PIAB allows developers to quickly implement many cross-cutting concerns. It also allows developers (and system administrators) to quickly change the rules followed by thing such as logging and exception handling without having to recompile and distribute code. Everything can be configured through a config file!
Ben will be doing a code heavy demonstration (C#) that will take an application with some logging and exception handling and turn it into an application that uses the PIAB to handle this for all parts of the code. He will also implement parameter validation (a form of code contracts).
There will be pizza provided by Improving Enterprises.
Come join us for our October meeting. This month's meeting will be an informal get-together where we will discuss a number of tech topics and get to know one another better.
Our November meeting will be a special event co-hosted by the Texas A&M Computing Society student group. We are planning an awesome event with special giveaways from Microsoft and a speech on Silverlight. More details coming soon!
Come out and join us for our January meeting to see Eric Huckabay from Improving Enterprises discuss project setup. Eric will be giving us information on how to get rolling quickly and efficiently on your next software project and give tips that will help you improve the one you're already working on.
Come out and join us for our February meeting! Casey Watson from Improving will be here with us from Dallas to teach us how we can create iPhone (and iPad?) applications using C# and the .NET framework using MonoTouch.
Come out to the DNUG for our May meeting. Allen Hurst will be demonstrating some new features of ASP.NET MVC 2.0. The framework keeps getting better and better, come out and learn and share your experiences with MVC. Improving will be providing food and we've got lots of great door prizes from Microsoft to give away!
Joshua Chick from Improving Enterprises is going to guide us through the plethora of options and configurations available in SQL Server 2008. Come by to learn, ask questions, and share your experiences with SQL Server setup and configuration. Improving Enterprises will be providing lunch and Microsoft has donated door prizes to give away.
Come out to our July meeting! Tony Champion from Champion Data Solutions is coming in from Houston to talk to us about Sliverlight, specifically new features of Silverlight 4.0. Come out and learn how to build great RIA applications on the .NET framework. Improving Enterprises will be providing food and Microsoft is donating door prizes for giveaways.
