HDNUG Meeting - #90 ( 06/11/2009, 6:30PM-8:30PM )

• Developing Data Driven Applications w/ASP.NET Dynamic Data

  Previous Presentation Slides: http://rachelappel.com/files/presentations/Dynamicdata.zip

  Bio: Rachel has been working as a mentor, instructor, software developer, architect and DBA for nearly 20 years. During her career, Rachel has worked with a variety of languages, technologies and systems and has contributed to projects of all sizes including large scale enterprise applications at some of the world’s leading companies.

  Rachel is the Vice President of the .Net Valley user group, as well as a leader and regular speaker in the Philly.NET and Central Penn.NET user groups of Pennsylvania. She can also be found speaking at code camps, user groups, community events and conferences.

  Rachel’s expertise lies within developing solutions that align business and technology using the Microsoft .NET family of products, particularly ASP.NET & SQL Server. She is also an ASP.NET MVP, ASPInsider and holds the Microsoft Certified Trainer, MCAD & MCSD certifications.

  She is also a member of the INETA speakers bureau.

  In 2008 Rachel has joined the team at Wintellect as a hired gun.

  
  

HDNUG Meeting - #89 ( 05/14/2009, 6:30PM-8:30PM )

• I Wanna Be A Rock Star! by Stephen Fulcher

  This session will be a deep dive into the caves of the ASP.NET runtime. We’ll watch a request go all the way through the ASP.NET pipeline from IIS back to IIS again through the bowels of the runtime – talk about your coffee bar conversation piece … you can’t Google this! This is essential knowledge for the aspiring ASP.NET expert. We’ll travel across processes and threads through queues, runtime events and HttpModules into the happy object and HttpHandlerFactories and HttpHandlers and request filters and out again to the other side. It will be a ride to remember!

  Bio: Stephen Fulcher (sf@crocodilesoftware.com) is the CEO of Crocodile Software (http://www.crocodilesoftware.com), a provider of software and IT services. He spent five years at Microsoft in developer related roles (1997-2002) and then five additional years as a Microsoft Regional Director (2003-2007). He lives in Houston with his family.

  
  

HDNUG Meeting - #88 ( 04/09/2009, 6:30PM-8:30PM )

• Becoming a JQuery Ninja by Mohammad Azam
  
  

HDNUG Meeting - #87 ( 03/12/2009, 6:30PM-8:30PM )

• Using the Composite Application Guidance for WPF by Claudio Lassala

  Abstract: This presentation covers an overview of the Composite Application Guidance for WPF (codename Prism), its architecture and Composite Application Library (CAL), and how applications are be built on top of it. If you build any application that goes beyond "Hello World", it's likely that you create composite applications. Prism allows for applications to be built with proper separation of concerns, promoting loose coupling, extensibility, and testability. It also helps with WPF's goals of allowing developers and designers to collaborate more easily on the same project. The presentation also cover some dependency injection and Model-View-ViewModel patterns.

  Bio: Claudio Lassala is a Senior Developer at EPS Software Corp. He has presented several lectures at Microsoft events such as PDC and various other Microsoft seminars, as well as several conferences and user groups across North America and Brazil. He is a multiple winner of the Microsoft MVP Award and also holds the MCSD for .NET certification. He has articles published on several magazines, such as MSDN Brazil Magazine, CoDe Magazine, UTMag, Developers Magazine, and FoxPro Advisor. Blog: http://claudiolassala.spaces.live.com/

  
  

HDNUG Meeting - #86 ( 02/12/2009, 6:30PM-8:30PM )

• Featured Speaker CHANGE!!! - Using ASP.NET Url Routing with existing ASP.NET applications by J Sawyer

  Abstract: ASP.NET Url Routing is a new feature of .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 that is the magic glue behind the clean Url's in both ASP.NET MVC and Dynamic Data. But did you know that you can use this in your own applications without using MVC or Dynamic Data? In this session, we'll explore ASP.NET Url Routing, what it is and how it works. We'll also add this to an existing ASP.NET application, allowing us to clean up and standardize existing page URLs to make them more bookmark and search engine friendly.

  Bio:J Sawyer is a Microsoft Developer Evangelist. J's blog, Ruminations of J .Net, can be found at http://blog.microsoft-j.net/.

  
  

HDNUG Meeting - #85 ( 01/08/2009, 6:30PM-8:30PM )

• Featured Speaker - Topic to be determined by Ben Scheirman

  Topic to be determined.

  Ben Scheirman is an agile web developer from Houston, TX. He is a Certified ScrumMaster, ASP Insider, and Microsoft Certified Solution Developer. You can read about these topics on his blog, online at http://www.flux88.com. Check out his upcoming book, ASP.NET MVC in Action by Manning Press at http://manning.com/palermo. Ben is a Principal Consultant with Sogeti.

  
  

HDNUG Meeting - #84 ( 11/13/2008, 6:30PM-8:30PM )

• Featured Speaker - Web Service Software Factory by Bill Daugherty

  This session will cover the Web Service Software Factory.

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HDNUG Meeting - #83 ( 10/09/2008, 6:30PM-8:30PM )

• Featured Speaker - Scrum-tastic Development with Visual Studio Team System and Light Weight Scrum by Mike Azocar

  This session will cover Scrum development with Visual Studio Team System and the community-based Light Weight Scrum Process template.

  Mike Azocar is a Microsoft Solutions Architect for Sogeti Houston. He also has the distinction of being one of the few Microsoft Certified Professionals whose only certification is from a test that he helped to author (Exam 70-510). Mike evangelizes Visual Studio Team System and works closely with both the Microsoft Houston office and the VSTS Product Team in Redmond. Mike participated in a VSTS panel for .Net Rocks which aired on 6/28/2007. Recently, Mike competed (and lost) the Speaker Idol competition and presented a Chalk Talk session on Process Templates at Tech Ed 2007 in Orlando. Mike's blog can be found at www.michaelazocar.com/blog.

  
  

HDNUG Meeting - #82 ( 08/14/2008, 6:30PM-8:30PM )

• Featured Speaker - Refactoring, Patterns, new language features, code quality, and more! by Claudio Lassala

  Command design pattern, Lambda Expressions, Extension Methods, fluent interfaces, refactoring, test-driven development, writing elegant code, and more. This session will cover a little bit of many things learned from projects I've been working on. We expect every attendee to learn a few tricks that can be applied immediately, and also to feel encouraged to go out and research more on whatever area appeals the most. Besides learning those things, we really hope attendees will start thinking and approaching their code in a different way.

  Claudio Lassala is a Senior Developer at EPS Software Corp. He has presented several lectures at Microsoft events such as PDC and various other Microsoft seminars, as well as several conferences and user groups across North America and Brazil. He is a multiple winner of the Microsoft MVP Award and also holds the MCSD for .NET certification. He has articles published on several magazines, such as MSDN Brazil Magazine, CoDe Magazine, UTMag, Developers Magazine, and FoxPro Advisor. Blog: http://spaces.msn.com/claudiolassala/

  
  

HDNUG Meeting - #81 ( 07/10/2008, 6:30PM-8:30PM )

• Featured Speaker - Silverlight by Markus Egger

  Markus's presentation will cover Microsoft's Silverlight.

  Markus is the President and Chief Software Architect of EPS Software Corp., a custom software development and consulting firm located in Houston, Texas. He specializes in consulting for object-oriented development, Internet development, B2B, and Web Sercices. EPS does most of its development using Microsoft Visual Studio (.NET). EPS has worked on numerous software projects for Fortune 500 companies including Philip Morris, Qualcomm, Shell and Microsoft. Markus has also worked as a contractor for the Microsoft Visual Studio team where he is mostly responsible for object modeling and other object and component related technologies. Markus is an international speaker having presented at numerous conferences in North America and Europe. Markus has written numerous articles for publications including CoDe Magazine, Visual Studio Magazine, ASP.NET Pro Magazine, FoxPro Advisor, Fuchs, FoxTalk and Microsoft Office and Database Journal. Markus is the publisher of "Component Developer Magazine" (CoDe Magazine), a .NET publication focusing on technologies such as .NET and Web Development. Markus is the author of the book, Advanced Object Oriented Programming with VFP 6.0. Markus is the author of several well known tools such as the Voodoo Web Controls, GenRepoX, and Visual WebBuilder. Markus has received the Microsoft MVP Award (96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004) for his contributions to the developer community. Visual LandPro 98, one of the applications Markus was in charge of, was nominated for the Microsoft Excellence Awards three times. You can contact Markus by email (megger@eps-software.com) or visit him online (http://www.eps-software.com).

  
  

HDNUG Meeting - #80 ( 06/12/2008, 6:30PM-8:30PM )

• Featured Speaker - Introducing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 by Michael Steinberg and Introducting Microsoft SQL Server 2008 by John Hellman

  Michael will present information about the new features of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and John will present information about the new features of Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

  Michael Steinberg, a long time member of HDNUG is the President of HDNUG and John Hellman, who works for Sogeti in Houston, is the Vice-President.

  
  

HDNUG Meeting - #79 ( 05/08/2008, 6:30PM-8:30PM )

• Featured Speaker - Introducing Windows Workflow Foundation in .NET Framework 3.5 by John Ebeling

  This presentation, which is an INETA Visual Studio 2008 Community Launch Event, will provide an introduction to the changes to Windows Workflow Foundation in .NET Framework 3.5. If time permits, John will also cover some of the changes to the Visual Studio 2008 IDE.

  John Ebeling is a long time member of HDNUG. He has server on the board as the elected Secretary and has been our Webmaster for several years. He is an independent Software Developer and has been developing software for more than 15 years. John has spoken to the group several times before as well as at last years Houston TechFest.