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Upcoming Meetings
Previous Meetings
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******Tuesday***** July 20th, 2010 |
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At Unum in Conference Room 151 - Our normal meeting location. |
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5:45 - Food & Conversation
6:00 - Meeting & Presentation Starts |
Speaker: Mark Berry
Topic Description: TBA
CSLA and Silverlight
Are you living in 2001? Are you a slave to some HTML/XHTML standard that was never meant for your application? Walk into the light – the Silverlight. ASP.net, Ajax, and JQuery are all amazingly creative hacks to cope with our HTML crutch. Come to the talk and see why Silverlight is not about rewriting the Flash game Bejeweled, but about writing real business objects (not just Data Transfer Objects) that can run on the client. Animations are cool, but client-side business validation with CSLA and Silverlight is good for your customer and good for your code maintenance.
Presentation and Code from November meeting located here
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Speaker BIO:
About Me
Mark Berry enjoys training and consulting on the Microsoft stack. He has been a regular speaker at user groups and code camps. His primary focus over the last ten years has been BizTalk and application integration. Lately he has become enamored with the UI improvements of Silverlight and WPF. In his crystal ball, he sees significant changes in the way developers create applications that utilize the internet and wants to be a part of it. His new motto – “less plumbing… more painting
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Date: 7/20/2010 5:45:00 PM
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******MONDAY***** June 21st, 2010 |
| Where |
At Unum in Conference Room 151 - Our normal meeting location. |
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5:45 - Food & Conversation
6:00 - Meeting & Presentation Starts |
Topic: We have 2 Topics:
Topic 1: Crap Code
Topic 2: Credit Crunch Code – Paying Back the Technical Debt |
Speaker: Phil Winstanley
Topic Description: Crap Code
There you sit, it's a Wednesday morning and before you is the code another developer has left you. At first you can't believe your eyes, perhaps you misread it... No ... He really did write it like that ... Crap Code.
In this session we'll explore Crap Code that we've come across in the past few years of Consulting, the problems it causes and the solutions to the idiocy of other developers. You'll laugh, you'll cry - but most of all, you'll come out of the session realizing you're a pretty good developer.
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Speaker: Gary Short
Topic Description: Crap Code
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Technical debt is the cost of putting off good development practices. This debt, must be paid back to avoid the "interest payments" becoming crippling.
This presentation will further define technical debt, before examining some anti-patterns and how to avoid them. We’ll then look at how to put a financial cost on technical debt, and end by examining some measures.
Presentation and Code from November meeting located here
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Speaker BIO:
Phil Winstanley provides solutions to situations which have complex technical requirements. His expertise is internationally acclaimed and he is prominent in the network of specialists in this field, being a member of the Microsoft MVP programme since 2002 and a member of the ASP Insiders since its inception.
Phil is a top-grade communicator, as instanced by his being awarded Microsoft’s "Most Valuable Professional" (MVP) –
ASP/ASP.NET status for 2002 to 2009. He is one of only a few ASP.NET MPVs in the world, and won this award for his dedication to the Microsoft web development community. He is a sought-after speaker at user-group conferences and major product launch presentations, and co-author of a book on best practice in database methodology.
As well as C#, Gary also has an interest in dynamic languages such as Smalltalk, Ruby and Python as well as iPhone development using Objective-C.
Gary Short works for Developer Express as the Technical Evangelist on the frameworks team. He has a deep interest in technical architecture, especially in the areas of technical debt and refactoring. Gary is a C# MVP and gives presentations at user groups and conferences throughout the UK, Europe and the USA.
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Meeting Sponsored By:
Date: 6/21/2010 5:45:00 PM
| When |
Tuesday May 11th, 2010 |
| Where |
At Unum in Conference Room 151 - Our normal meeting location. |
| Time |
5:45 - Food & Conversation
6:00 - Meeting & Presentation Starts |
| Topic: The Best of Mixx 2010 |
Speaker: Brian H. Prince
Topic Description:
Brian will be covering the Best of Mixx and bringing us up to date on the latest technologies and practices.
Presentation and Code from November meeting located here
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Speaker BIO:
Brian H. Prince is an Architect Evangelist for Microsoft.
He gets super excited whenever he talks about technology, especially cloud computing, patterns, and practices. His job it to help customers strategically leverage MS technology, and help them bring their architecture to a super level.
In a past life Brian was a part of super startups, super marketing firms, and consulting firms. Much of his super architecture background includes building super scalable applications, application integration, and award winning web applications. All of them were super.
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Meeting Sponsored By:
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Jessica Greer |
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Account Recruitor |
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jgreer@teksystems.com |
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Work: (423) 432-8474 |
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Mike Teske |
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Account Recruitor |
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mteske@teksystems.com |
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Work: (423) 242-2627 |
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Ranked #1 in industry by IT Services Business Report for eight consecutive years, TEKsystems is a flagship company of Allegis Group, a $5.6 billion enterprise with positive annual growth since its founding.
In a single year, TEKsystems provides over 70,000 technical professionals to support critical IT engagements at more than 5,500 client sites, including 82% of the Fortune 500. With 90 offices and over 2,200 recruiters throughout North America and Europe, our reach grants us access to 81% of the technical professional workforce. It also enables us to speak with over 10,000 technical professionals a week and meet with more than 2,600 of them face to face when recruiting top talent.
Our size speaks to our experience and success in helping our customers meet business goals. However, being big is not necessarily what makes us great. Our proven process to understand our customers' specific needs and deliver the right solutions supported by the absolute best match of talent sets us apart.
We are committed to our clients' utmost satisfaction – and this commitment shows in the results of our annual customer surveys. In terms of overall satisfaction, TEKsystems' customers rated us nearly 30% points higher than our competition. Moreover, TEKsystems' customers' likelihood to recommend our services to a friend or colleague is ranked 35% points higher. We are confident that we can bring this superior level of satisfaction to your organization.
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Date: 5/11/2010 5:45:00 PM
| When |
Tuesday April 20th, 2009 |
| Where |
At Unum in Conference Room 151 - Our normal meeting location. |
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5:45 - Food & Conversation
6:00 - Meeting & Presentation Starts |
| Topic: SQL Server Service Broker applications |
Speaker: Kevin G. Boles
Topic Description:
With Service Broker, a feature in Microsoft SQL Server 2005, internal or external processes can send and receive guaranteed, asynchronous messages by using extensions to Transact-SQL Data Manipulation Language (DML). Messages can be sent to a queue in the same database as the sender, to another database in the same SQL Server instance, or to another SQL Server instance either on the same server or on a remote server.
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Date: 4/20/2010 5:45:00 PM
| When |
Tuesday April 13th, 2009 |
| Where |
At Unum in Conference Room 151 - Our normal meeting location. |
| Time |
5:45 - Food & Conversation
6:00 - Meeting & Presentation Starts |
| Topic: Next Generation Testing with Visual Studio 2010 |
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Speaker: Randy Pagels and Microsoft
Topic Description:
Join us for a sneak peek at some of the new capabilities in Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010, a landmark release of the premier development and testing toolset for Windows®, Web and Cloud development.
Microsoft has made significant investments to improve the Testing/QA tools in Visual Studio 2010. The Next Generation Testing Event is your exclusive opportunity to experience the incredible power and capabilities these new tools bring to the QA and testing process. At this event, you’ll get a comprehensive overview, as well as a deep dive, into the range of new tools and how they can enable you to improve the way you develop and test software on the Microsoft platform.
This will be an invaluable opportunity to learn how to take software development to the next level with Visual Studio 2010’s new testing features
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Meeting Sponsored By:
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Gary Holder |
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gholder@zycron.com |
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Work: (423) 697-2016 |
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Zycron is a customer-focused an information technology services and solutions firm headquartered in Nashville, TN. Since 1991, Zycron has offered IT solutions to a broad client base and today is the primary provider for numerous Fortune 500 companies.
We provide qualified, cost-effective IT solutions in the form of individual resources, full project teams and project management services to many of the nation’s largest corporations.
Our team, which consists of experienced local executives and international partners, provides client-specific solutions across all industries, with extensive experience in health care, energy and utilities, and state and local government.
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Date: 4/13/2010 5:45:00 PM
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