"Designing Pragmatic RESTFul APIs Using Asp.Net Web API" by Ely Lucas

Building a web based RESTful API for your application will help you reach multiple types of clients, from web browsers to mobile devices, and is a key component in today’s modern architectures. However, there is a lot of confusion over what REST means, and if you should call your API RESTful or not. During this talk, we will discuss what REST is and what it is not, and we will take an approach of designing a pragmatic API that will satisfy your business needs. We will use ASP.Net Web API, a framework that makes it simple to build web services over HTTP. Web API is now in its second release, and we will cover the basics as well as some of the new features introduced in the latest version.
Come and we will go over the basics of this exciting framework and combine it with the power of the ASP.Net web stack to create a full end to end application.

Bio: Ely Lucas [blog] [twitter] [linkedin]

Ely Lucas is a web and mobile developer that works at Aspenware and helps clients create amazing software. He is a Microsoft MVP in ASP.Net and is active in the local developer community.

Meeting Details: The meeting will start promptly at 6:00 PM. Food and prizes are provided.
MEETING LOCATION: Epicentral (Downtown Colorado Springs). View location details (link).

"Introducing the Universal App for Visual Studio 2013 Update 2: code once, run on every Microsoft platform - a developer overview" by Jerry Nixon

At Build 2014, Microsoft unveiled Windows 8.1 Update 1, Windows Phone 8.1, and Visual Studio 2013 Update 2. In addition, we introduced the ability to use the new Universal App project-type in Visual Studio to write for every Microsoft platform with a single, shared code base. I will introduce the Universal App model, demonstrating this new paradigm around the Visual Studio Solution – shared projects. What does it mean for Windows developers? What does it mean for every developer?

Bio: Jerry Nixon [e-mail] [blog] [twitter] [linkedin]

Jerry Nixon is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft, teaching and speaking on Windows, Phone, and Desktop. Seasoned in Colorado, his career launched with Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 — he was delivering data-centric solutions while "database developer" was a novel term. He received a civilian Naval Commendation for security work, preceding his work for the Start Up that become Microsoft CRM. The bulk of Jerry's work targeted insurance and finance, especially not-for-profits. For 15 years, he built Microsoft-centric solutions and mobile apps. Today, Jerry speaks on XAML, mobility and Kinect at events, communities, and schools — influencing another generation of excellent, Microsoft developers. To that end, most of Jerry's free time is spent teaching his three daughters Star Trek character backstories and episode plots.

Meeting Details: The meeting will start promptly at 6:00 PM. Food and prizes are provided.
MEETING LOCATION: Epicentral (Downtown Colorado Springs). View location details (link).

Are you a web developer? Then this season’s Denver Dev Day was tailored for you. Come learn from your peers and colleagues as they explain the basics and reveal advanced tips and tricks around ASP.Net, MVC, WebAPI, Angular, Knockout, and Typescript.

This is a half-day event. Starting at either 8:30 in the morning or 1:15 in the afternoon, the information-packed sessions are repeated to accommodate a larger community audience.

Denver Dev Day is free, open to the public, and packed with practical training and information on software development. Denver Dev Day will have several tracks with various professional speakers and respected, community leaders. It will be held at the Microsoft Offices in the Denver Technology Center, a campus that is friends with the developer community.

Sign up today and we will see you there!

http://DenverDevDay.EventDay.com

"await State.Current.Progra­mmingAsync();" by Shawn Kendrot

Come chat about the current state of asynchronous programming in .Net with Shawn Kendrot. He'll discuss how development differs on the different platforms (Windows Store, Windows Phone, .Net 4.5) because they are not identical. We'll investigate these new magic async and await keywords, when to use an asynchronous model, and how you can make functionality asynchronous.

Bio: Shawn Kendrot [blog] [twitter] [linkedin]

Shawn is slinging code with RGS in Fort Collins, CO. He has developed asynchronous applications in Silverlight, Desktop, Windows Store, Windows Phone, and web applications. You can find Shawn blogging at VisuallyLocated.com and tweeting from @skendrot

Meeting Details: The meeting will start promptly at 6:00 PM. Food and prizes are provided.
MEETING LOCATION: Epicentral (Downtown Colorado Springs). View location details (link).

"Building Single Page Web Applications on ASP.Net MVC 5 and AngularJS" by Ely Lucas

AngularJS is an open source JavaScript framework that you can use to cut through this complexity to build Single Page Web Applications. It provides powerful features often found in server side frameworks, such as controllers and services, to help you organize and construct your client side application.
Come and we will go over the basics of this exciting framework and combine it with the power of the ASP.Net web stack to create a full end to end application.

Bio: Ely Lucas [blog] [twitter] [linkedin]

Ely Lucas is a web and mobile developer that works at Aspenware and helps clients create amazing software. He is a Microsoft MVP in ASP.Net and is active in the local developer community.

Meeting Details: The meeting will start promptly at 6:00 PM. Food and prizes are provided.
MEETING LOCATION: Epicentral (Downtown Colorado Springs). View location details (link).