Code Katas: Honing the Craft

by Ian Davis on January 9, 2012

Wednesday January 11, 2012, 6:00 PM

Code Kata, created by Dave Thomas, are ways to practice coding and get feedback.

In this presentation, I will perform the Gilded Rose kata  which is available on GitHub. This will be a combination of the code kata with a performance kata, giving us a chance to review how we can make writing code faster and more reliable.

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Windows 8 Development Architecture and Strategy

by Mark Michaelis on November 7, 2011

Wednesday November 9, 2011, 6:00 PM

With Windows 8 Microsoft ushers in a new set of technologies designed to challenge Apple’s market share while maintaining the full productivity of the PC.  In this session we discuss what they are offering and what technologies they are introducing to successfully compete – both from a users perspective and a developers perspective.  Don’t miss this session to understand a new breed of applications from Microsoft and the development technology and architecture that makes it all possible.

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Continuous Testing: Think Different

September 30, 2011

Due to scheduling conflicts, the presentation this month will be on continuous testing. Wednesday October 12, 2011, 6:00 PM Continuous testing can dramatically increase your productivity. There are a number of open-source tools that do just that. What we are really talking about in continuous testing is applying a lean workflow. By looking at how [...]

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No meeting for September

September 12, 2011

Unfortunately we are going to have to cancel this month’s meeting as well. The good news is when we have a meeting in October, we will have already had the BUILD Conference and the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011, so there should be plenty of content to speak on for a while.

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No User Group Meeting for August

August 8, 2011

Due to vacation scheduling conflicts, there will not be a User Group meeting for the month of August.

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Essential Async in C# 5.0

July 5, 2011

Wednesday July 20, 2011, 6:00 PM Come join us for a night of Async programming done the easy way with the new libraries coming out with C# 5.0. The good news is, you don’t have to wait that long to use this technology, since there is a technology preview available today, so don’t think this [...]

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No Meeting for June

June 6, 2011

There will not be a meeting for the month of June due to scheduling issues. We will be meeting in July and I will get the topic posted soon.

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Programming Smart Phones

April 26, 2011

Wednesday May 11, 2011, 6:00 PM For something a little different, Mike Mayfield will be discussing how to program smart phone apps. Android development will be emphasized, but there will be some discussion of iPhone and Windows Phone programming. The use of standard patterns like MVVM, Adapter, and Repository that we use in Windows programming [...]

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Programming a Lego Mindstorm (NXT) using .NET

February 8, 2011

Wednesday February 16, 2011, 6:00 PM Come join us for a night of learning how to take over the world with Legos. Ok, maybe world domination won’t be covered, but we will talk about how to program against the Lego Mindstorm NXT API using .NET. Who knows where your imagination will take you from there

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What’s new with the web

January 11, 2011

Wednesday January 19, 2011, 6:00 PM Continuing with our post-PDC 2010 talks, come join us for an evening of “What’s new with the web”. In this meeting, we will build a working, data driven website using some of the latest technologies from Microsoft. As of right now, most technologies that will be discussed have not [...]

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