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July 15th - .Net Entity Framework w/ Daniel Egan
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Abstract: In this session we will explore both Object Relational Mappers (ORM) as well as ERD’s (Entity Relationship Diagrams) and how the Entity Framework utilizes these to give the .Net developer the tools necessary to build powerful enterprise applications.
About the Presenter: Former President INETA - North America, Former Microsoft Regional Director, Microsoft MVP ASP/ASP.Net , MCSD, MCT Before joining Microsoft, I held a variety of positions in the information technology and engineering fields. At Odyssey Consulting Group I served as Chief Architect and CEO. I was fortunate enough to be a Microsoft Regional Director, Microsoft MVP - ASP/ASP.Net , Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and an MCSD as well as a .Net Insider for the Southern California Region. I have always been active in the developer community and was the Co-Founder of the SoCalDotNet Developers Group. I had the unique opportunity to serve as President of INETA, the international .Net association and enjoyed my time there immensely.
When not working on technical stuff, you can find me shooting away with my Cannon trying to get that "perfect" shot, or teaching a .NET Certification course at California State University Fullerton. To find out more about me, visit my blog, Dot Net Doc at www.DotNetDoc.com.
Meeting Agenda:
* 6:00p Mixer/Networking/Pizza
* 6:30p Presentation Starts
* 7:30p Break
* 7:45p Presentation Resumes
* 8:45p Raffle
Directions: Park
in parking structure at 570 E Huntington Dr, Monrovia, CA 91016 .
Meeting is across the street in 605 E Huntington Dr. Once parked, use
the overhead walk way to get to the building. The meeting will be
right inside the door after the walk way.
This is a Green Dot sponsored event. There is no entry fee and the event is free for attendees.
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June 17th - Leveraging Visual Studio Team System w/ Mike Vincent
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Abstract: Visual Studio Team System can be a good investment in these tough economic times. In this fast moving session we'll explore some of the ways VSTS 2008 can deliver value by getting your whole organization team involved to deliver successful projects. We'll touch on people, process, process templates, TDD, continuous integration and reports. And, maybe provide you some material to convince pointy haired bosses the value of good application life-cycle management.
Then we’ll move on to highlight what’s coming in VSTS 2010. It’s BIG!
About the Presenter: Mike Vincent is a solutions architect based in Orange County, California providing clients with application lifecycle management, software architecture and development services, primarily focusing on Microsoft .NET technology. He has been in the software business for over 20 years in addition to engineering and marketing management positions.
Actively involved in the user group community since the early 90's, Mike is Vice President of INETA Noram. He founded both the SoCal .Net Architecture group which is now also IASA's SoCal Chapter and the Orange County C# Developers group, now OC .NET. Mike is a frequent presenter at user groups, regional events, and code camps.
DOWNLOAD SLIDES HERE
This is a Green Dot sponsored event. There is no entry fee and the event is free for attendees.
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May 20th - Generics, Collections, and Enumerables w/ Steve Bearman
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Abstract: With Generics, Generic Collections, and Generic Enumerables we are now writing code in new, much more powerful ways. Generics (MyClass<T>, List<T>, etc.) is the foundation of this, and all three are a critical part of many leading edge technologies, including LINQ. They are also powerful, effective tools for your own use. In this practical, feature-packed, C# code intensive session you will learn the ins and outs of Generics, and its uses and limitations. We will explore enumerable interfaces (required for foreach( ), LINQ, and LINQ extension methods), how they work, how to use them, and especially how to get the compiler to do most of the implementation. We'll cover the generic versions of .NET Collections (List< >, LinkedList< >, Stack< >, Queue< >, Dictionary< >, HashSet< >, etc.) and how to select and how to use them. We'll also look at the new generic delegate types and new design patterns that use them. We will see this in action with a simple Poker card example. From a card class (and its enumeration) and decks (collections), through shuffling (enumerating with a generic method), dealing and cheating (enumerating with collections, generic delegates), to evaluating poker hands (enumerations and surprisingly simple LINQ).
About the Presenter: Steve Bearman is an independent software developer with his company, Suzy B Studios, and Chase Computing International, and Systems Engine. He has developed software throughout his professional career, originally in direct support of science and engineering, later for the broader range of technology, medicine, business, ecommerce, and finance. He has taught graduate-level computer science, and has published technical papers dealing with the collection and use of data. For several years he managed operations and marketing for a manufacturing corporation. His recent large software projects include supporting international clients for a large, networked GPS-based fleet management system he developed; developing software for a large hedge fund; and designing and developing ASP.NET software in support of NASA/JPL's Deep Space Network. He has many great colleagues and enjoys collaborating on projects of all sizes.
DOWNLOAD SLIDES HERE
This is a Green Dot sponsored event. There is no entry fee and the event is free for attendees.
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Best Of MIX Events Silverlight 3, Azure, MVC vs Webforms
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Hey Socal Developers!! There are some cool new exciting things coming out in the next version of the .Net framework?
Have you had a chance to see Silverlight 3 or Azure? Well now is your chance.
We only have a few spots left for each location so dont miss out on this great event. Register ASAP at the links below before they are sold out.
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Daniel N. Egan - Developer Evangelist - MicrosoftFormer President INETA - North America Former Microsoft Regional Director Microsoft
MVP ASP/ASP.Net , MCSD, MCT Before joining Microsoft, I held a variety
of positions in the information technology and engineering fields. At
Odyssey Consulting Group I served as Chief Architect and CEO. I was
fortunate enough to be a Microsoft Regional Director, Microsoft MVP -
ASP/ASP.Net , Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and an MCSD as well as
a .Net Insider for the Southern California Region. I have always been
active in the developer community and was the Co-Founder of the
SoCalDotNet Developers Group. I had the unique opportunity to serve as
President of INETA, the international .Net association and enjoyed my
time there immensely. When not working on technical stuff, you can
find me shooting away with my Cannon trying to get that "perfect" shot,
or teaching a .NET Certification course at California State University
Fullerton. To find out more about me, visit my blog, Dot Net Doc at www.DotNetDoc.com.
Rob Bagby - Developer Evangelist
Rob Bagby is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft. He has
consulted on Microsoft technologies for over 10 years and began
developing on the .NET framework when the pre-beta bits were first
released to the public. Rob has developed various applications for
customers ranging from local companies to Fortune 500 firms. Rob was
developing AJAX applications before AJAX was AJAX. In 1998, he
co-architected and developed a browser-based front-end for OLAP using
XML/HTTP when both IE5.0 and SQL Server 7.0 were still in Beta. Rob has
a Masters degree in International Finance from Thunderbird, The
American Graduate School of International Management.
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What will be covered
AGENDA Did you make it to MIX 09? Join us for the afternoon and get the very Best of MIX! What's New in Silverlight 3? Are
you interested in building business-focused Rich Internet Applications
(RIAs)? Would you like to take advantage of 3D in the browser, but
assume it is too hard? Have you wanted to take a Silverlight
application offline? Then this session is for you. We will explore
and illustrate the new features of Silverlight 3, including the
following: · Support for perspective 3D · Offline Support · .NET RIA Services which simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms Building Web Applications with Windows Azure This
session will begin with a brief overview of Azure and discuss some of
the announcements made at MIX. We will then illustrate through demo
how to build a Windows Azure application from the ground up. We will
illustrate how to consume Azure Table Storage, how to host services,
web pages and Silverlight components, as well as how to deploy your
solution to the cloud. MVC 1.0 vs ASP.Net Webforms Have you heard about the new ASP.NET
MVC framework from Microsoft and wondered what it was all about? Are
you curious whether this replaces ASP.Net WebForms? Well in this
session you will learn how to use the model-view-controller (MVC)
pattern to take advantage of your favorite .NET Framework language for
writing business logic in a way that is de-coupled from the views of
the data. In addition, we will talk about the pros and cons of both
MVC and Web Forms, how to determine the best choice for a specific
project, various techniques and patterns used to build MVC applications
vs. Web Forms applications, and the implications for using each
approach. While we aren't validating parking, we've got plenty of fun give-aways to make it worth your while to attend! Please register for the event most convenient for you. Hope to see you there! | |
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Archived Events
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Book Reviews
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Book Review: C# In Depth
Reviewed by Naveen Razdhan
This is one of the best computer books that I have ever read. Reading this book was like reading a fast paced action packed thriller, where each chapter opens you to new mysteries and then everything culminates together into an interesting climax in chapter 11, 12 and 13.
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Book Review: Professional SQL Server 2005 Performance Tuning
Reviewed by Sudheer K. Maharana
From my experience with SQL Server and Oracle for the last 15 years of my IT experience, Database Performance tuning is more of an art and science (even though the book says it is more of a science). As SQL Server transformed into different versions, the information to gather performance related data matrix improved. Hence, the quest for ways to get information on how to troubleshoot performance problems in SQL Server grew.
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Book Review: C# Design and Development
Reviewed by Vu Tran
The book cover a deep and clear overview useful strategies for design and implement software solutions. The author starts from high-level on the subject, showing the different design aspects that need to be considered including application lifecycle models.
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Book Review: Real World Haskell
Reviewed by Jeff Bergman
Real World Haskell is very ambitious in its scope. It tries to gradually introduce the Haskell way of doing things such that even someone coming from an imperative programming background can follow.
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Book Review: C# 3.0 Design Patterns
Reviewed by Sean Xiao
Starting with Structural Patterns, the author tries to give programmers a different way to review known design patterns of GoF with .NET C# 3.0. However, this makes new starter hard to understand the usage of design patterns and get the overview pictures of it. Other patterns, such as Creational or Behavioral Patterns are better beginning for new design pattern learner.
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Book Review: Software Engineering: Principles and Practice
Reviewed by Richard Trinh
Software Engineering Principles and Practice by Hans van Vliet is a good textbook which delves into the WHAT of software development, and takes a user through the normal Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) from requirements gathering to deployment in a production environment. And like good software, each chapter is loosely coupled allowing the reader to get more information on the topic of interest.
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Expert Service-Oriented Architecture in C#: Using the Web Services Enhancements 2.0 by Jeffrey Hasan
Review by Adnan Masood
Practical, Developer-oriented, and Contemporary!
Long awaited Jeffrey Hasan’s Expert Service-Oriented Architecture in C#: Using the Web Services Enhancements 2.0 is finally out. Developing distributed applications has become an increasingly indigenous part of a present-day developer's software life cycle. XML web services provide us an easier and standardized way to facilitate distributed communications. Service orientation takes this to another level, i.e. standardizing loose coupling of these services via contracts. Hasan's book provides answers for today's enterprise needs to learn and formulate their existing distributed communication frameworks as they shift towards Service Oriented Architecture.
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