LANUG Meeting Wednesday October 13th – Chris Eargle – Secrets of a .NET Ninja
Wednesday, October 13th 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Biography
Chris Eargle is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional – C# and INETA Community Champion from Columbia, SC, USA. He has designed and developed several enterprise and open source applications, and he runs the local .NET User Group: the Columbia Enterprise Developers Guild. He is a frequent guest of conferences and community events promoting best practices and new technologies. His blog, kodefuguru.com, has been featured on ASP.NET, MSDN, and Reddit. Chris is the co-author of Under the Hood of .NET Memory Management, to be released December 2010.
Secrets of a .NET Ninja
In my years developing C# applications, I have seen techniques both good and bad. I will demonstrate those that are good, rant against those that are bad, and reveal those unknown to many. Whether a novice or a seasoned coder, you will find something useful, or perhaps even wicked, that you can do with C# and the .NET Framework.
SWAG Sponsor: Telerik (http://www.telerik.com/)
Location: ITT 3100 Cottage Hill Road Mobile, AL 36606
If you are interested, here are some other happenings in the Mobile, AL area:
- SharePoint Mobile http://sharepointmobile.groups.live.com/
- Pensacola SQL Server Users Group http://www.pensacolasql.com
- Hub City .Net User Group http://hubcitynug.org/
- Meridian .NET User Group http://mnug.org/
- Deep Fried Bytes (PodCast) http://deepfriedbytes.com
- Alabama Tech Events https://altechevents.wordpress.com
- Community Megaphone http://www.communitymegaphone.com/
- Connect Southern Developers: http://hubcitynug.org/announcements/help-me-connect-the-southern-community/
Thank you,
Ryan Duclos
LANUG Tuesday, July 20th Meeting – Introduction to Windows Azure – Ryan Duclos
Location: ITT 3100 Cottage Hill Road Mobile, AL 36606
If you are interested, here are some other happenings in the Mobile, AL area:
- SharePoint Mobile http://sharepointmobile.groups.live.com/
- Pensacola SQL Server Users Group (Next Meeting: 07/29/2010) http://www.pensacolasql.com
- Hub City .Net User Group http://hubcitynug.org/
- Meridian .NET User Group http://mnug.org/
- Deep Fried Bytes (PodCast) http://deepfriedbytes.com
- Alabama Tech Events https://altechevents.wordpress.com
- Community Megaphone http://www.communitymegaphone.com/
- Connect Southern Developers: http://hubcitynug.org/announcements/help-me-connect-the-southern-community/
Thank you,
Ryan Duclos
LANUG Tuesday, July 6th Meeting – Testing ASP.NET Applications with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate – Steve Andrews
Steve Andrews has added Mobile to his Geek Road Trip (http://geekroadtrip.com).
Session Abstract:
Testing web applications has always been a manual and tedious process. With Performance Tests in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, automated web testing is now a reality. In this session, we’ll look at created Web Tests and configuring parameters and database driven testing. We’ll also look at performance testing your web applications to find and squash performance issues.
Speaker Bio: http://www.platinumbay.com/about.aspx
Steve Andrews is an independent consultant, INETA speaker, and Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio ALM. He has been working in technology for over ten years focusing on custom application development and Application Lifecycle Management. Steve is also Microsoft and IBM certified and a community fanatic having led sessions at nearly 100 events across North America. When he’s not developing software solutions or engaging with the community about software technology, Steve is a closet singer and songwriter and plays the guitar and keys. Occasionally, Steve even gets to sleep. Occasionally.
Sponsor: Morrison Management Specialists (http://www.iammorrison.com/)
Location: ITT 3100 Cottage Hill Road Mobile, AL 36606
- SharePoint Mobile http://sharepointmobile.groups.live.com/
- Pensacola SQL Server Users Group (Next Meeting: 07/29/2010) http://www.pensacolasql.com
- Hub City .Net User Group http://hubcitynug.org/
- Meridian .NET User Group http://mnug.org/
- Deep Fried Bytes (PodCast) http://deepfriedbytes.com
- Alabama Tech Events https://altechevents.wordpress.com
- Community Megaphone http://www.communitymegaphone.com/
- Connect Southern Developers: http://hubcitynug.org/announcements/help-me-connect-the-southern-community/
Thank you,
Ryan Duclos
Steel City SQL June Meeting
Join us Tuesday the 15th for the June Meeting of Steel City SQL. This month’s meeting will feature Robert Cain fresh off a trip to TechEd presenting on What I Learned at TechEd. This presentation will include various topics such as PowerPivot, oData, Dallas and Parellel Data Warehousing. Food and beverages for this month’s meeting will be sponsored by PASS. If you plan on attending this month’s meeting let us know by sending us an RSVP email to rsvp@steelcitysql.org so we can make sure we have enough food. Hope to see you there.
BALU Lunch Social – Wednesday May 26th
The Birmingham Area Linux Users are having a Lunch get together on Wednesday May 26th!
At Cantina in Pepper Place, Downtown, 3RD AVE S and 29TH ST S. Parking
adjacent to 3RD AVE S.
Cantina
2901 2nd Avenue South, Birmingham, AL – (205) 323-6980
Rubyham meets Wed, May 26
The Rubyham Users Group will be meeting on Wedensday, May 26 at 6:00 PM. They will meet at Isotope 11, 529 Beacon Pkwy W, Suite 105, Birmingham, AL 35209 or 1-877-ISO-TOP1.
The meeting is slated to last about an hour. In that time we will do a few mini presentations. Talk a bit about Ruby news, and handle any group business. We will have Pizza and Soft Drinks during the meeting!
Thanks to Isotope11 for providing the meeting space, Meetup Group, Pizza and Drinks!
Presentation Topics:
Anthony Crumley – RuDI (Ruby Data Inter-change format)
Robby Clements – Topic TBA
Adam Dill – Topic TBA
Open Slot
Steel City SQL May Meeting
Join us on Tuesday the 18th at New Horizons Computer Learning Center for our May meeting. This meeting will feature Kevin Boles, SQL Server Guru and MVP, presenting on Care and Feeding Tempdb and Disk Partition Management. Kevin be reviewing a hodge-podge of goodies related to tempdb configuration and monitoring and IO configuration and optimization. Every database server out there should be doing these things right to get the most out of their hardware! Kevin is a SQL Server expert, working exclusively with the product since version 6.5. With over fifteen years of database experience, he holds virtually every SQL Server related certification including MCT and MVP. Kevin teaches occassionally and has been a very successful independent consultant for the past ten years. He is also a Mentor with Solid Quality Mentors, a top-tier global SQL Server consulting firm. His passion is the relational engine, especially performance analysis and tuning. Food and beverages for this month’s meeting will be sponsored by PASS. If you plan on attending this month’s meeting let us know by sending us an RSVP email to rsvp@steelcitysql.org so we can make sure we have enough food. Hope to see you there.
Building Dynamic Applications with LINQ – Jim Wooley
Tuesday, May 18th Meeting – Building Dynamic Applications with LINQ – Jim Wooley
When: Tue, May 18, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Where: Mobile Information Technology (MIT) 651 Church St. Mobile, AL
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BUG.NET/BSDA Meeting for April 13 – Parallel Programming in .Net 4.0
The first combined meeting of the BUG.NET / BSDA will take place on April 13, 2010. Speaker and MVP Jeff Barnes will present Parallel Programming in .Net 4.0.
Given the continually growing number of cores without a significant increase in the processor clock rate, it is no longer an option to simply say “we can just get a better processor” when we need an application to run faster. To increase performance, parallel programming is becoming become a necessity. Like it or not, there is a good chance you will need to leverage parallel programming at some point in the not too distant future. Fortunately, .NET 4.0 has introduced great support to easily tap into the computing power of multiple cores and multiple processors. We will take a tour of the new Task Parallel Library (TPL), parallel support added for LINQ, and enhancements in VS2010 that make multithreaded debugging dramatically easier. Come find out how easy parallel programming can be.
The meeting will begin at 6:30 pm with food, and there will be some swag for the end of the meeting. As usual our host will be the folks at New Horizons in Homewood AL.
Why You Should Care About Dependency Injection – Jeff Barnes
I’m a passionate software developer and advocate of the Microsoft .NET platform. In my opinion, software development is a craft that necessitates a conscious effort to continually improve your skills rather than falling into the trap of complacency. Currently, I work as a .NET Software Craftsman for DAXKO, a leading provider of operations and financial management solutions for member-centric nonprofits. I’m also a three time Microsoft MVP in Connected Systems.
Topic: Why you should care about Dependency Injection
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