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Welcome to the blog for the Cincinnati .Net Users Group.
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November 2008 Meeting Recap
This month Dan Rigsby capped our 2008 membership drive with a great talk on RESTing on the Web with WCF. You can find Dan's presentation materials here
and Dan's blog. After the break Mike Levy took us on a fairly deep dive into Azure given it's pre-alpha state. You can check out Andy's
writeup for a bit more detail about the evening itself.
Attendance (43): Another great attendance month! Our 2008 membership drive ended with a bang!
If you've started attending in 2008, keep it up. Remember the value you got out of it. As our attendance grows, CINNUG can book more prominent speakers. Besides, with all the great swag given away this evening you'll want to be a regular
before the 2009 membership drive gets underway. If you couldn't attend, we gave away Resharper licenses, 2 MSDN Premium subscriptions valued at $11,000 apiece, $1000 in Max Training, a subscription to Safari Books, an XBOX, and more!
Announcements:
- If you're an independent software developer, or you work from home and have some freedom to try pair programming, don't miss the opportunity
to work with Cory Haines for a day. Cory is touring the district, and for the cost of room and board for the day you'll have an opportunity to learn
from Cory and perhaps teach him something in return. Take a look at the details.
Upcoming Events
- Microsoft ArcReady will cover Professional Patterns on the Job this Tuesday,
December 2nd, from 9AM to 11:40AM at the Microsoft offices. You can register here.
- Missed PDC? Make sure you catch one of the MSDN Developer Conferences being held nationwide. The Developer Conference will
make its way through Atlanta on December 16th, Chicago on January 13th, 2009, and Detroit on January 22nd. You can register here
- SQL Server Magazine is holding the SQL Server training event SQL Server 2008: Can You Wait? The event
is December 4th in Chicago. Use the Invitation Code: SX218CP7 to register for $79!
- Don't miss CodeMash January 7th - January 9th! Prcompiler on January 6th. Take a look at the
sessions. You don't want to miss this one! If you're looking for a ride let us know on the CodeMash Ride Share discussion.
December Meeting:
We're going to combine CINNUG and CinARC for December. And rather than hold a formal meeting, we'll spend some time celebrating the holidays together.
On Thursday, December 18th we'll gather at Claddagh's in Mason around 6PM, and CINNUG will pick up a couple of appetizers to seed some good conversation.
If you'll be attending, please let us know on the Party Poll so that we can plan accordingly.
January Meetings:
CinARC Meeting (Tuesday, January 27th, 2009)
Prepare some of your career skills and attend Microsoft Developer Evangelist Brian Prince's Soft Skillz talk for CINNUG.
CinARC Meeting (Thursday, January 15th, 2009)
You're an architect and you need objective colleagues to provide feedback on your ideas. Or you're an aspiring architect wanting to understand
the ins and outs of the architecture world. Either way, CinARC helps take your skills and your development career to the next level.
This meeting is run using the fishbowl technique
where the attendees are encouraged to share their thoughts with everyone while
keeping the meeting from becoming a free for all. :) What topic will we
cover? Well, that's up to the attendees!
Both CINNUG and CinARC are held at
MAX Technical Training
in Mason, OH.
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The Mark Mydland tour makes it's stop in Cincinnati on Monday, November 17th! CINNUG will be hosting a special event that evening with Mark as the guest speaker. If you've ever had questions about VSTS (especially the Test edition or testing features) this is the guy to ask. Come hang out with us at MAX Technical Training in the "BIG" room starting at 6:00 PM. Dinner (read pizza) will be served during a break.
Hope to see you there!
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For our October meeting, Matt Casto presented on SilverLight 2 (presentation materials located here). For the grok talk, Ryan Cromwell presented on the Visitor Pattern (presentation materials located here). Thanks to both for a great meeting!
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The 2008 Membership Drive ends this month and you have three oportunities to
pick up chances to win! Come to the special event, CinARC and CINNUG meetings to get chances. Don't forget to bring
a friend and have them indicate they brought you when they sign in. It gets you more chances to win!
The drawing will be held at the end of the CINNUG meeting on the 25th. You
must be present to win.
Giveaways this year:
And the big winner will get a 1 year Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite
with MSDN Premium Subscription. Yep, that's right, the big prize is a
year's subscription to the highest level of MSDN you can get worth $10,939 MSRP!
Now that's a cool prize to get just for coming to some meetings.
Special Event (Monday, November 17th at MAX Technical
Training in Mason 6:00 PM)
The phrase “drive quality upstream” has been abused so badly by ALM software
vendors that it has to be relegated to the platitude junk pile along with such
all time favorites as “work smarter not harder,” “think outside the box,” and
“synergistic leveraging of code reuse.” Before we drive quality anywhere,
we need to give quality a seat at the table. VSTS Rosario release will do this
by automatically gathering critical information about the project and code and
making that data available when, where and to whom it is needed. During this
discussion we will examine how Rosario impacts quality across the application
lifecycle by:
- Allowing testers to provide developers with details about what the code did
instead of just providing the details about what the tester did.
- Allowing development leads and architects to visualize and understand their
current code (not the code they wish they had, but the code they really have) so
that they can minimize the impact of changes; and
- Allowing developers to understand the impact of their changes in terms of
affected tests, concurrency and bounds checking.
The Rosario release of VSTS will bring all project stakeholders together to
allow richer information to be shared across every role to make software quality
accessible and achievable.
Presented by Mark Mydland
Mark Mydland is a Group Manager for the Visual Studio Team Edition for Software
Testers product at Microsoft. In the past 12 years, Mark has worked as a
developer and consultant across a wide variety of applications and industries.
Mark first joined Microsoft in 2001 working as a member of the Natural
Interactive Services Division (NISD). During his time in that group, Mark
was the development manager for a team focused on analytics for assessing the
efficacy of natural language interpreters with a particular emphasis on driving
authoring simplification and relevance quality for user assistance. Based
on this work, Mark filed numerous patents and coauthored a paper for the SIGIR
journal. In 2004, Mark left Microsoft to work as a Director of Development
at Getty Images where he led a change in process from a traditional waterfall
methodology to a scrum-based agile approach which brought the release frequency
from 12-18 months down to 1 month. Since Getty made extensive use of VSTS,
it seemed a natural fit for Mark to join VSTS on his return to Microsoft in
2006. Mark received his B.S. from West Point in 1991. He has also
held positions with USWeb/marchFirst and Andersen Consulting/Accenture.
The Mark Mydland tour meeting will be held on Monday, November 17th at 6:00 PM at
MAX Technical Training
in Mason, OH.
CinARC Meeting (Thursday, November 20th)
Please Note the new Day - Third Thursday of Every Month
starting in November
Come join this new special interest group as we discuss topics related to
software architecture. This meeting is run using the fishbowl technique
where the attendees are encouraged to share their thoughts with everyone while
keeping the meeting from becoming a free for all. :) What topic will we
cover? Well, that's up to the attendees! Here are some topics
that will be considered for the evening's discussions:
- Identity Management
- Architecting for a Virtual environment
- ORM is for CRUD ONLY
- Making outsourcing work
- Does authorization belong in the domain model
- When and how to push back on a feature
- Architect as a leader
- Leveraging the cloud
If you have a strong opinion about any of these topics, have a topic you'd like
to suggest, or want to learn more about the topics then make sure you swing by
the meeting.
The CinARC meeting will be held on Thursday, November 20th at 6:00 PM at
MAX Technical Training
in Mason, OH.
CINNUG: RESTing on the Web with WCF (Tuesday, Novmeber 25th)
.Net 3.5 ushered in a new Web Programming Model for Wcf which extended the library to support REST, Json, and Syndication. This session will dive into what this new model has to offer and how you can use it to extend the reach and scalability of your applications.
Presented by: Dan Rigsby
Dan Rigsby is a Lead Software Engineer for
Interactive Intelligence in Indianapolis,
Indiana where he has been since March of 2000. Dan has been an avid .Net
developer since late 2001 starting with ASP.Net, but today concentrates on SOA,
Wcf, smart client applications, and a host of other areas. Dan is very active in
the community as a developer, speaker, blogger, officer at
IndyNDA, and 5 star moderator on the MSDN
forums for Wcf. He is always eager to help out others when he can and has been
awarded the Microsoft MVP award for his work with Connected Systems in Wcf.
As a
certified ScrumMaster, Dan has been involved in
agile techniques and project management. Read more about Dan and development
adventures at
http://www.danrigsby.com/ or connect with him on
Twitter or
Facebook.
Grok Talk:
The Grok talk will be given by Mike Levy. He'll be recapping some
information that was announced at last month's Professional Developer Conference
(PDC).
The CINNUG meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 25th at 6:00 PM at
MAX Technical Training in Mason, OH.
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Jennifer Marsman, a Developer Evangelist from the Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) team, has worked up a great road trip for a Group Manager on the Visual Studio team. That road trip is making a stop here in Cincinnati on Monday, November 17th and we are making a CINNUG Special Event out of it! It's not often we get a guest out from Redmond. Please come out and listen to Mark Mydland talk about the changes that are coming with Visual Studio 2010 (Rosario). This meeting will be on November 17th at the MAX Training facility in Mason, OH starting at 6:00 PM. Oh, did I mention that by coming to this event you are picking up an extra chance to win the membership drive prizes at the regular November CINNUG meeting? __________________ The phrase “drive quality upstream” has been abused so badly by ALM software vendors that it has to be relegated to the platitude junk pile along with such all time favorites as “work smarter not harder,” “think outside the box,” and “synergistic leveraging of code reuse.” Before we drive quality anywhere, we need to give quality a seat at the table. VSTS Rosario release will do this by automatically gathering critical information about the project and code and making that data available when, where and to whom it is needed. During this discussion we will examine how Rosario impacts quality across the application lifecycle by: Allowing testers to provide developers with details about what the code did instead of just providing the details about what the tester did.
Allowing development leads and architects to visualize and understand their current code (not the code they wish they had, but the code they really have) so that they can minimize the impact of changes; and
Allowing developers to understand the impact of their changes in terms of affected tests, concurrency and bounds checking. The Rosario release of VSTS will bring all project stakeholders together to allow richer information to be shared across every role to make software quality accessible and achievable. Presented by Mark Mydland Mark Mydland is a Group Manager for the Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers product at Microsoft. In the past 12 years, Mark has worked as a developer and consultant across a wide variety of applications and industries. Mark first joined Microsoft in 2001 working as a member of the Natural Interactive Services Division (NISD). During his time in that group, Mark was the development manager for a team focused on analytics for assessing the efficacy of natural language interpreters with a particular emphasis on driving authoring simplification and relevance quality for user assistance. Based on this work, Mark filed numerous patents and coauthored a paper for the SIGIR journal. In 2004, Mark left Microsoft to work as a Director of Development at Getty Images where he led a change in process from a traditional waterfall methodology to a scrum-based agile approach which brought the release frequency from 12-18 months down to 1 month. Since Getty made extensive use of VSTS, it seemed a natural fit for Mark to join VSTS on his return to Microsoft in 2006. Mark received his B.S. from West Point in 1991. He has also held positions with USWeb/marchFirst and Andersen Consulting/Accenture.
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In July we started our membership drive which will end at our November meeting on Tuesday, November 25th. For each meeting of CINNUG or CinARC you attend you get a chance to win one of our prizes (but you must be present in November to win). For each friend you bring that has never been to a CINNUG or CinARC meeting you'll get another chance to win. If you come to a special event you'll also get another chance to win. As you can tell, this can add up pretty fast. We've published that fact that our membership drive is in full swing, and how to get chances, but up until now we haven't indicated what the prizes will be. Well, the time has come to spill the beans (on at least some of the prizes): And the big winner will get a 1 year Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite with MSDN Premium Subscription. Yep, that's right, the big prize is a year's subscription to the highest level of MSDN you can get worth $10,939 MSRP! Now that's a cool prize to get just for coming to some meetings. If you want to win you have to come to the November meeting on 11/15. You can still pick up some chances to win as we have four more meetings prior to our November meeting (two CinARCs, a CINNUG meeting and a special event). Come and bring a friend!
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This month we had planned on having Chris Woodruff talk to us about Astoria (ADO.NET Data Services); however, he was unable to make it. If you were pining for that talk he is giving the same talk next week on Wednesday (Sept 24th) night for the Dayton .NET Developers Group. Check out their site for more details. As a substitute for Chris' talk Mike Wood gave an Intro to PLINQ presentation. After the pizza break Narayana Yeluru gave a grok talk on Adding Virtual Earth and Google Maps to your Applications. You can get the presentation materials for both talks by following the links on the presentation names. We also took nominations for our director positions. We had a total of six nominations, but two of the nominees that were not present declined. Therefore, it looks like no actual election is necessary and we can announce our new Board of Directors now! Mike Wood, Lead Director
Phil Japikse, Director
Matt Brewer, Director
Andy Erickson, Director These gentlemen will take on their positions officially starting on November 15th. As we say congratulations to these volunteers we say thank you to two of our current directors. Dan Hounshell and Nino Benvenuti have been great assets to the group and, while they may not be directors any longer come November, I'm sure they will still bring great value as members. Nino was a founding director of the group and his work over the last three years plus years has been greatly appreciated. Dan has been a director for around a year. Please take some time to thank these two for their hard work the next time you see them. Attendance (21): This month we saw about half our normal crowd, but it was to be expected when over half of the Cincinnati area still didn't have power, we were on a special night and at a different location. We hope that all of our members came out of the storm well. This month we continued our 2008 membership drive. The rules are the same as last year: come to a meeting and get a chance to win. Bring someone to a meeting that has never come before and both you and your guest get a chance to win. This year's membership drive will end at the November CINNUG meeting. Note that attending CinARC and any CINNUG Special events DO count towards you chances to win! You must be present in November to win. Announcements: - The 2008 Membership Drive has started! Come to CinARC and CINNUG meetings to get chances to win. We haven't decided on the prize this year, but last year it was an XBox 360.
Upcoming Events October Meetings: We have two CINNUG related meetings coming in October! Remember that each one you attend gets you a chance to win the Membership Drive prize. Keep up to date on what's coming on our home page: http://www.cinnug.org.
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August 2008 Meeting Recap
This month Leon Gersing talked about Script.aculo.us and Prototype. Jim Holmes also spoke about Code Complexity. The materials for Jim's presentation can be found here. We hope to post Leon's presentation at the CINNUG download site soon and a blog entry will be created to announce the posting.
Attendance (33): Remember our 2008 membership drive. The rules are the same as last year: come to a meeting and get a chance to win. Bring someone to a meeting that has never come before and both you and your guest get a chance to win. This year's membership drive will end at the November CINNUG meeting. Note that attending CinARC and any CINNUG Special events DO count towards you chances to win! You must be present in November to win.
Announcements:
- The 2008 Membership Drive has started! Come to CinARC and CINNUG meetings to get chances to win. We haven't decided on the prize this year, but last year it was an XBox 360.
- Elections for CINNUG Directors will be held in October. All the rules and such can be found in our Bylaws but in order to nominate, be nominated or become a Director you must be a Supporting Member, which means you have attended at least three out of the last Six meetings inclusive of Oct). You must also be a Supporting Member to vote.
- MSDN Unleashed - Oct 7th at the MS office in Mason
- ArcReady - Oct 7th at the MS Office in Mason
- If you are interested in starting a book club please contact the CINNUG Administrators. This will be members reading a technology book and meeting to discuss it.
- If you are interested in getting together for some peer/pair programming sessions to solve fictional problems for the purpose of learning TDD, BDD, patterns, coding styles and perhaps even other languages contact the CINNUG Administrators. We are tentatively thinking of calling these Bitslinger events or Code Fests.
Upcoming Events
September Meetings:
We have two CINNUG related meetings coming in September! Remember that each one you attend gets you a chance to win the Membership Drive prize.
CinARC Meeting (Tuesday, September 9th)
Come join this new special interest group as we discuss topics related to software architecture. This meeting is run using the fishbowl technique where the attendees are encouraged to share their thoughts with everyone while keeping the meeting from becoming a free for all. :) What topic will we cover? Well, that's up to the attendees!
The CinARC meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 9th at 6:00 PM at MAX Technical Training in Mason , OH .
CINNUG: Microsoft Project Astoria and the Semantic Web (Tuesday, September 16th at Microsoft Office in Mason, OH)
The goal of Microsoft Codename Astoria is to enable applications to expose data as a data service that can be consumed by web clients within a corporate network and across the internet. The Semantic Web brings to the Web the idea of having data defined and linked in a way that it can be used for more effective discovery, automation, integration, and reuse across various applications. Astoria applications are reachable over HTTP, and URIs are used to identify the various pieces of information available through the service. Chris will show how the Semantic Web can bring new opportunities to your business and/or clients using new technologies like the Astoria Project.
Presented by: Chris Woodruff
Chris Woodruff is an Architect in the West Michigan Practice group at NuSoft Solutions. His work involves integrating new technologies, assisting development teams with architecture designs, and helping with development standards. Chris is the VP of the West Michigan .NET User Group and also is an Advisory Council Member at Capella University for the External Information Technology Advisory Council. Chris is the founder and coordinator of the Day of .NET West Michigan and also helps with other Day of .NET events in Michigan. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the College of Engineering at Michigan State University. In his spare time, Chris coaches his sons sporting teams and plays poker.
Grok Talk: Narayana Yeluru will be presenting a shorter talk on Google Maps and Virtual Earth.
The CINNUG meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 16th (Special Night and Place!) at 6:00 PM at the Microsoft Office in Mason, OH.
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Russ MacMahon, a member of the user group, has shared with us that UC will be celebrating 50 years of computing with a conference. You can find out more about this event in the upcoming weeks by keeping an eye out on the Applied Science web site. You can register at UC conferencing. Here are some of the topics for the conference: - Hans Jaffe and the early days of computing
- Wearable and pervasive computing
- Business of the Web and social networking
- The rise of Photoshop and the devolution of truth
There are a lot more topics on the docket, so check it out!
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Mark your calendars! Microsoft's free events for the fourth quarter of the year have been announced. Both events will be on October 7th at the Microsoft Office in Mason. The ArcReady event is on "Architecting for the Modern Distributed Application". This event will be from 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM. [Register] MSDN Unleashed (the event formerly known as DevCares) will be held in the afternoon from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM. The topics for this event are: "Demystifying WPF" and "Developing Applications with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1". [Register] This is free training! Get registered and we hope to see you there!
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Jim Holmes gave our Grok talk this month on Code Analysis. I've posted his slide deck (which has urls in it for the tools he demonstrated) here.
Enjoy!
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Phil Japikse, who is a regular at the CINNUG and CinARC meetings, will be presenting his Test Driven Development in .NET talk for the Cincinnati Programmer's Guild (CincyPG) on Wednesday, July 20th (that's this Wednesday!). If you aren't familiar with the CincyPG they are non-platform specific user group that meets at MAX on the third Wednesday of the month at 6:00 PM. We have some cross over of members from our groups so if you want to learn more about the group ask Joe W. or Maggie L. about it at the next meeting. You can find out more about the group at their website: http://cincypg.org/.
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For those interested in riding the bus to DevLink there is now an official DevLink Bus page! Go fill in the contact form so that you can get your name on the list. More information is forthcoming as the organizers are soliciting sponsors to help offset the cost. If you know of a company that is interested in getting their name one the devLink bus page and on a banner/sign for the bus then please contact us so we can forward the information on to the organizers. If you have been waiting to buy your devLink pass (registration) then don't wait too much longer. The early registration deadline ends July 3rd. Right now the cost is $50.00 while starting July 4th it bumped to $75.00.
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