I wanted to go ahead and announce our July meeting:

Speaker: Alan Stevens (www.netcave.org, @alanstevens)

Topic: TBD

Date: July 16th

More info on the topic will be announced as the time nears.

 

The .Net User Group Meeting for this month has been canceled due to scheduling conflicts, however the Web Developer Group will still meet on the fourth Thursday (June 25th) and everyone is invited to attend. Chris Williams will be speaking on Leveraging Social Networking Tools.

We're also working on a new website for the Web Developer Group and would like your input. You can join us at NashWebDev.com

Date: June 25th, 2009

Time: Pizza @ 6:00pm; Presentation @ 6:30pm

Topic: Leveraging Social Networking Tools

The use of social networking sites, such as LinkedIn, BrightKite, Facebook & Twitter are growing at an incredible rate. In this talk, we'll take a brief look at some various forms of social networking tools and their respective APIs. I'll also demo building a Twitter client app using VB.NET (and C#), WPF and the Twitter API and discuss some ways that these things can be used in business. This is meant to be an interactive talk, so discussion is highly encouraged.

Location:

VACO, LLC
Highwoods Plaza I (Signage out front says Aspect - Cogent)
Suite 460 (4th floor)
5410 Maryland Way
Brentwood, TN 37027
(615) 324-8226

We'll be giving away t-shirts, books and software licenses to live attendees. If you can't make it in person, join us remotely via Live Meeting by clicking the link below:

https://www323.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=NashWebDevJune&role=attend

Time: Pizza @ 6:00pm; Presentation @ 6:30pm;

Topic: jQuery Introduction

jQuery is a JavaScript framework that makes client-side coding more simple and powerful than compared to straight JavaScript. This session will give an overview of benefits of jQuery, show how to integrate jQuery in your project, and demonstrate how easy it is to do complex things with a small amount of jQuery code.

Location:

VACO, LLC
Highwoods Plaza I (Signage out front says Aspect - Cogent)
Suite 460 (4th floor)
5410 Maryland Way
Brentwood, TN 37027
(615) 324-8226

We'll be giving away t-shirts, books and software licenses to live attendees. If you can't make it in person, join us remotely via Live Meeting by clicking the link below:

https://www323.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=NashWebDevMay&role=attend

 

This month's meeting is tonight at Vaco. The topic is "jQuery Introduction Talk" by @elijahmanor #tech #dnug http://bit.ly/XQr5A

If you can't attend in person, join us using Live Meeting at the link below:
https://www323.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=NashDotNetMay&role=attend

This month's Web Developer Group meeting is Thursday, April 23rd. We quickly outgrew the Compuware meeting space and are meeting at Vaco Technology. They have also offered to provide beer for the meetings. Thanks to Compuware for helping us get started and to Vaco for giving us room to grow!

Time: Pizza & Beer @ 6:00pm; Presentation @ 6:30pm

Speaker: Gaines Kergosien

Topic: The 10 Minute Community Site - How to Leverage Content Management Systems

Most websites need the same basic functionality including user registration, login, security and roles management, search engine optimization and a host of other bits that make the site manageable and user friendly. This presentation will focus on using existing content management systems, such as DotNetNuke, to avoid recreating the wheel and allow you to get a fully functional website up in under 10 minutes.

If you can't attend in person, join us using Live Meeting at https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=NashWebDevApril&role=attend

Location:

VACO, LLC
Highwoods Plaza I (Signage out front says Aspect - Cogent)
Suite 460
5410 Maryland Way
Brentwood, TN 37027
(615) 324-8226

Directions from Downtown Nashville:

Exit I-65 South at Old Hickory Boulevard / Brentwood Exit 74B (west).
Turn left at the Franklin Road light.

Turn right at the Franklin Road/ Maryland Way intersection, onto Maryland Way.
Continue on Maryland Way through the Winner's Circle light.
Take a right into 5410 Maryland Way, immediately after the "Highwoods Plaza I" sign.
Our office is located on the fourth floor - Suite 460.

Our meeting this month is on Thursday, April 16th.  We've also had a last minute venue change.  We will no longer be meeting at the Brentwood Library.  Instead, Vaco Technologies has graciously offered to let us use their brand new space in Maryland Farms for our meetings.

Starting this month, Vaco will provide our new permanent home.  In addition, they've offered to chip in on beer for our meetings. :-)

Time: Pizza & Beer @ 6:00pm; Presentation @ 6:30pm;

Speaker: Evan Hoff

Topic: Engineering Your Way to a More Maintainable Code Base

It's been said that a software developer transitions to software engineer when he can take a quality attribute, such as maintainability, and engineer a ten fold improvement for that attribute in his application or design.

In this particular talk, we will look at the quality attribute of maintainability, including: how one might define and measure it and specific, measurable techniques for engineering its improvement in a code base.

Location:

VACO, LLC
Highwoods Plaza I (Signage out front says Aspect - Cogent)
Suite 460
5410 Maryland Way
Brentwood, TN 37027
(615) 324-8226

Directions from Downtown Nashville:

Exit I-65 South at Old Hickory Boulevard / Brentwood Exit 74B (west).
Turn left at the Franklin Road light.

Turn right at the Franklin Road/ Maryland Way intersection, onto Maryland Way.
Continue on Maryland Way through the Winner's Circle light.
Take a right into 5410 Maryland Way, immediately after the "Highwoods Plaza I" sign.
Our office is located on the fourth floor - Suite 460.

UPDATE: Video Posted

An Introduction to F#

What is F#?  Why should you care?  What advantages can F# provide for real world developers?

In this presentation we will answer these questions, cover the basic syntax of F#, and explore a sample F# line-of-business application.

Thursday, March 19th
Brentwood Library
Pizza @ 6pm
Presentation @ 6:30pm

About Dan Mohl

Dan Mohl is a professional software engineer with over 10 years of hands-on development and team lead experience. His interests include understanding the intricacies of various programming languages, enterprise application architecture, and how to bridge the gap between business and technology. He is currently employed as a Lead Developer / Team Lead at Healthways, Inc. with responsibility for a large-scale, SOA based web solution.  You can follow Dan on twitter via www.twitter.com/dmohl and read his blog at http://www.bloggemdano.blogspot.com.

The March .NET User Group meeting will be held on Thursday, March 19th at the Brentwood Library off Concord Rd. Dan Mohl will be speaking on F#. Dan is a lead developer at Healthways and plays lead guitar with Band Laetria. His blog can be found at bloggemdano.blogspot.com. We'll also be giving away some great prizes including a Telerik Premium Collection license valued at $1,299. If you can't attend the meeting in person, you can join us by tuning into our Live Meeting broadcast at http://bit.ly/xlG5X.

The Nashville Web Developer Group will meet the following Thursday, March 26th at Compuware (320 Seven Springs Way Suite 100, Brentwood, TN, 37027 http://bit.ly/kb7j). Roberto Lopez has volunteered to speak on consuming ADO.NET data services with Microsoft Silverlight. Attend remotely via Live Meeting by going to http://bit.ly/O91QK.

We have a guest speaker coming in for our meeting this month...

Speaker:
Phil Japikse

When:
Tuesday, February 17th
Pizza @ 6:00pm
Presentation @ 6:30pm

Where:
Brentwood Library
8109 Concord Rd
Brentwood, TN

If you can't attend the meeting in person, join us on Live Meeting at https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=NashDotNet200902&role=attend

Test Driven Development (TDD) and NHibernate

TDD: Test Driven/Test First Development is more than writing your unit tests first. It requires a very different thought process. We'll dive into that process to cover unit testing best practices, including code coverage, testing frameworks, Visual Studio integration, and discover the rhythm of TDD.

NHibernate:
Tired of writing CRUD? Codegen or not, there's got to be a better way! NHibernate is the most excellent port of Java's Hibernate to the .Net platform offering flexibility and versatility to give you time to solve the problems you are paid to solve. We looking into extending the framework, configuration, mapping, concurrency, and solutions to the most common CRUD scenarios.

Bio:
Phil has been working with .Net since the early days, and developing software for over 20 years. Specializing in helping clients architect .Net based eCommerce solutions and also Smart Client/WPF solutions for the Health Care industry.  Phil is also an active member of the .Net community, serving as a director for the Cincinnati .Net User's Group and Software Architecture SIG, speaking throughout the Heartland for Code Camps and User Groups.  A Principal Consultant with Pinnacle Solutions Group, Inc. (a Senior level firm specializing in Custom Software, BI, and eCommerce solutions located in Cincinnati, OH), Phil is an avid .Net Application Architect, Developer, Speaker, and Trainer.  Phil is also a contributing author for www.NPlus1.org, a site by architects, for architects.  Phil currently holds MCSD.Net, MCDBA, and Scrum Master certifications.  Phil also serves as a Firefighter/Paramedic for the local fire department and volunteers for the National Ski Patrol. You can follow Phil on twitter via www.twitter.com/skimedic   and read his blog at www.japikse.blogspot.com.