Meeting Notice - Tuesday November 13, 2012
"Windows 8 Application Concepts" by Jerry Nixon
Let’s walk through some of the more common patterns used in Windows 8 applications, and step through some advertising techniques that let you make a profit while give your app away for free. All that and more without compromising an excellent user experience.
Bio: Jerry Nixon [e-mail] [blog] [twitter] [linkedin]
Jerry Nixon is a Microsoft Developer Evangelist in Colorado. He has been developing and designing on the Microsoft platform for 15 years. He speaks at universities, events and groups on Kinect, XAML, Windows Phone, and Windows 8. Most of Jerry’s days are spent teaching his three daughters Star Trek character backstories and episode plots.
This meeting will be held in the Team USA Swimming building at the Olympic Training Center at our normal meeting time of 5:30 PM - CLICK here TO GET THE LOCATION AND TIME DETAILS.
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Meeting Notice - Tuesday, October 9, 2012
"Black Belt Visual Studio" by Jeremy Simmons
This presentation will cover an assortment of tips & tricks that a Visual Studio veteran has learned in his career to better his experience writing code.
There will be a whirlwind talk for 45 minutes covering as many tips and tweaks the presenter can show covering navigation, formatting, Javascript, debugging, and intermediate to advanced use of the Visual Studio IDE. Jeremy kept pace with Kathleen as she presented her own content months ago. Come watch as he spins his own magic with his developer's tool of choice.
Bio: Jeremy Simmons [twitter] [linkedin]
Jeremy Simmons is currently a Senior .Net developer at Infor Global Solutions. He has 10 years experience developing desktop and web software using Microsoft technologies. He has also worked as a Windows System Administrator, SharePoint Admin and trainer, and unofficially as a Microsoft Technology Evangelist.
He has been programming ever since he could reach the keyboard, and coding in the .Net Framework since 2001 when it was in beta. He has been an active member in the Colorado front range .Net community and member of the South Colorado .Net User Group for the past 5 years. Jeremy spends his free time with his wife, new son Jesse, and at his Christian church. He resides in Colorado Springs, where he has lived his entire life.
This meeting will be held in the Team USA Swimming building at the Olympic Training Center at our normal meeting time of 5:30 PM - CLICK here TO GET THE LOCATION AND TIME DETAILS.
SouthColorado.NET
Here is a link to the PowerPoint and example files from the presentation.
Meeting Notice - Tuesday September 11, 2012
"SQL Server Indexing for Developers" by Ray Spaeth
There are multiple ways to index SQL Server tables and the right indexes can reduce query times by orders of magnitude. The wrong indexes may not only never be used but could degrade overall database performance. Knowing how the query optimizer creates a query plan (e.g. does it use a table scan, an index scan, or an index seek) is very important in designing indexes. Many developers do not have a DBA on their team so this talk will focus on the core techniques a developer should know to do good index design. The talk will be a mix of slides and performance demos. We'll start with a quick overview of how indexes are stored in the database and the importance of having up to date index statistics and avoiding index fragmentation. We'll contrast clustered versus non-clustered indexes and take a close look at how a particular kind of non-clustered index, the covering index, can be extremely helpful to query performance. We'll also compare primary keys versus clustered indexes and examine the case where the column(s) in the primary key should not be the same as the column(s) in the clustered index. We'll then look at how to structure the where clause of queries so they are "SARGable" so the query optimizer is more likely to use an index seek. We'll also look at other topics such as index selectivity and the impact of too many indexes in an OLTP database. If time permits, we'll look at other index-related topics such as indexed views.
Bio: Ray Spaeth
Ray Spaeth is an independent software developer and database administrator of retail and wholesale support systems. He started building database applications in the late 1980s with dBase and gradually migrated from DOS to Windows based PC applications. In 1995 he started building client-server applications using SQL Server and created a comprehensive ordering/inventory/invoicing system for Lane-Borgesesia, then a large international yarn wholesaler based in Colorado Springs. Also during the mid 90s Western Pacific Airlines awarded him a contract to build and support the system that ran their retail stores in Colorado Springs and Denver. For the past 16 years he's been building a complex set of client-server, server-only, and web service applications for CMIC Consulting, a Texas based company that provides much of the IT infrastructure for the National Marketing Group (NMG), a marketing/buying group representing over 6500 independent appliance and electronics dealers in the US and Canada. These applications utilize eight SQL Server databases to support or run NMG's processes for order management, pricing, dealer merchandising, data driven dealer price tags, dealer web sites, dealer sales reporting, and competitor price checking. When not developing software and database systems, he likes to go cross-country biking, hiking, mountain climbing (has climbed ten of Colorado's 14ers), and flat water kayaking.
This meeting will be held in the Team USA Swimming building at the Olympic Training Center at our normal meeting time of 5:30 PM - CLICK here TO GET THE LOCATION AND TIME DETAILS.
SouthColorado.NET
Here is the slide deck from the presentation, as well as all of the example SQL scripts: Download
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Meeting Notice - Tuesday August 14, 2012
"Whats new in Asp.Net MVC4" by Ely Lucas
We will take a whirlwind tour of some of the best new features in MVC4, Microsoft's latest framework for building modern web applications using the model view controller design pattern. Some of the topics we will touch on are the new Web API framework, resource bundling and minification, mobile web development features, and asynchronous controllers.
Bio: Ely Lucas [blog] [twitter] [linkedin]
Ely Lucas is a Web Application Developer for Aspenware, and is a Microsoft MVP for ASP.Net. He digs web and mobile technologies, and utilizes ASP.Net, C#, HTML5, JavaScript, ObjectiveC, and Java to build them. He believes that the product of creating something amazing happens when working with great people on interesting problems. He likes participating in the local developer community in the Denver/Boulder area, where he speaks at and runs several groups. When not developing awesome software, he enjoys exercise, mountain biking, photography, and hanging out with his wife and son in Westminster, CO.
This meeting will be held in the Team USA Swimming building at the Olympic Training Center at our normal meeting time of 5:30 PM - CLICK here TO GET THE LOCATION AND TIME DETAILS.
Meeting Notice - Tuesday July 10, 2012
"Converting .NET Libraries to Windows 8" by Joe Mayo
While adopting Windows 8, you might run into scenarios where you want to re-use existing .NET code in Windows 8 class libraries. When doing so, you'll soon run into problems associated with differences in class library profiles. This presentation shows you the differences between .NET and WinRT and how to port your code. More specifically, you'll see examples of how the type system, reflection, collections, threading and more will require modifications in your code to run in Windows 8. After this presentation, you'll have more knowledge that will help you effectively convert code to run on Windows 8.
Bio: Joe Mayo [e-mail] [website] [twitter] [phone: (720) 379-8196]
Joe Mayo is an author, independent consultant, and instructor specializing in Microsoft .NET and Windows 8 technology. He has over 26 years of software development experience and has worked with .NET since July 2000. Joe has written 6 books and contributes to magazines, such as CODE Magazine. He has been an active contributor to the .NET community for years, operating the C# Station Web site, authoring the LINQ to Twitter open source project, and speaking regularly at user groups and code camps. For his community contributions Microsoft has honored Joe with several Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Awards through the years.
This meeting will be held in the Team USA Swimming building at the Olympic Training Center at our normal meeting time of 5:30 PM - CLICK here TO GET THE LOCATION AND TIME DETAILS.