HDNUG Meeting - #94 ( 11/12/2009, 6:30PM-8:30PM )

• Windows 7 for Developers

  Abstract: Building high-performance applications that are easy to use and visually appealing is a challenge. Discover how Windows 7 helps developers create engaging, user-friendly applications by providing familiar tools and rich development features. In this session, we explore the new Taskbar, Jump Lists, Thumbnails, and file management with libraries, as well as many other enhancements to the new operating system.

  Bio: For over 14 years Zain has been teaching and consulting on the latest Microsoft technologies. He's been a Microsoft Certified Trainer since 1995 and holds all major Microsoft certifications, plus credentials from Cisco, Checkpoint and CompTIA. Zain launched his development career with Visual Basic 3.0 and honed his implementation skills with Windows NT 3.51 and OS/2. He is the creator of Virtual World Evangelism (VWE) which is an effort to build communities in virtual places like Second Life and OpenSim. He is not only a proponent of the community aspect of virtual worlds but also is a supporter of the myriad business applications that these new mediums offer. Zain's efforts have been featured by eWeek, Redmond Developer News, Reuters and many others. He has also been interviewed by Forrester Research, ThinkBalm, UgoTrade, and Gartner for his work with virtual world communities. He is a frequent speaker at events in Second Life and other virtual worlds. and lectures world-wide to evangelize the future of this exciting new medium. Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/zainnab

  
  

HDNUG Meeting - #93 ( 10/08/2009, 6:30PM-8:30PM )

• Be a Professional Developer and Write Clean Code

  Abstract: Poorly written code can be created quickly, but it comes at a cost of high maintenance. Most of the time, code can be improved easily by following some simple practices. Professional developers should know these practices and tools and apply it to their work every day. In this session we'll cover the importance of writing clean code, the kind of attitude all developers should have towards the code they produce, as well as the practices and tools that can be used to aid you become a better developer.

  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 - #92 ( 08/13/2009, 6:30PM-8:30PM )

• Exceptional Development

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  Bio: Jason Bock, Principal consultant for Magenic, Microsoft C# MVP. Author of books: Applied .NET Attributes, CIL Programming: Under the Hood of .NET, .NET Security, and more. Site: http://www.jasonbock.net

  
  

HDNUG Meeting - #91 ( 07/09/2009, 6:30PM-8:30PM )

• I Love IronRuby

  Abstract: In this presentation Mohammad Azam will introduce IronRuby. IronRuby is a Microsoft implementation of the Ruby language. Currently, IronRuby is in PRE-ALPHA release and complies to 80% of the Ruby language specification. Mohammad Azam will demonstrate how to get started with IronRuby and interact with this beautiful language. Don't tell my wife that I love Ruby.. IronRuby i.e.

  Bio: Mohammad Azam works as a senior consultant at Sogeti. He is the founder of the knowledge based website, HighOnCoding. The website contains over 500 articles, 100+ videos and several podcasts. Mohammad Azam also runs ScreenCastADay where he publishes technical screencasts.

  In addion, Mohammad is also Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and contributes to the AspAlliance website. The contributions are in the form of videos and articles. You can check out all the videos at www.aspalliance.com/videos. Mohammad Azam's blog is at www.azamsharp.com.

  
  

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.