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Feb 17th - Windows Server AppFabric and “Velocity” w/ Jon Flanders
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Abstract:
Windows Server AppFabric is a set of integrated technologies that make it easier to build, scale and manage Web and composite applications that run on IIS. For Web applications, AppFabric provides caching capabilities to provide high-speed access, scale, and high availability to application data. This feature was previously codenamed "Velocity". “Velocity” is a distributed in-memory cache that provides applications with high-speed access, scale, and high availability to application data. Client applications that utilize the cache may be distributed across multiple computers or processes. Jon will be exploring the feature of Velcoity in detail.
About the Presenter: Jon is most at home spelunking, trying to figure out exactly how things work. Jon wrote Essential ASP for Addison-Wesley, and co-authored Mastering Visual Studio.NET for O'Reilly, and is currently working on a book on REST and WCF for O'Reilly. Jon has also been involved with Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation since early betas and currently is interested in helping Microsoft developers learn about REST.
Meeting Agenda:
* 6:00p Mixer/Networking/Pizza
* 6:30p Presentation Starts
* 7:30p Break
* 7:45p Presentation Resumes
* 8:45p Raffle
Directions: Park
in parking structure at 570 E Huntington Dr, Monrovia, CA 91016 .
Meeting is across the street in 605 E Huntington Dr. Once parked, use
the overhead walk way to get to the building. The meeting will be
right inside the door after the walk way.
This is a Green Dot sponsored event. There is no entry fee and the event is free for attendees.
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Nov 18th - SQL Server Service Broker in the Real World w/ Denny Cherry
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Abstract:
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008 include a fantastic feature that few people understand or use. That feature is the Microsoft SQL Server Service Broker. In this session we’ll dig into how to configure the service broker for not only intra-database message queuing, but database to database queuing as well as server to server database queuing. We will also dig into a real life scenario where the SQL Server Service Broker was used to do ETL from an OLTP database to an OLAP database in near real time for near real time reporting.
About the Presenter: Denny Cherry, Senior Database Administrator and Architect, Awareness Technologies
Denny Cherry has more than a decade of experience managing Microsoft SQL Server, including the database at MySpace.com that supports 175 million users, which is one of the largest SQL Server installations in the world. His areas of technical expertise include system architecture, performance tuning, replication, and troubleshooting. Denny uses these skills on a regular basis in his role as a senior database administrator and architect at Awareness Technologies. Denny is a longtime member of the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) and the Quest Software Association of SQL Server Experts, and he has written numerous technical articles on SQL Server management.
This is a Green Dot sponsored event. There is no entry fee and the event is free for attendees.
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Oct 21st - Debugging Tips & Tricks w/ Paul Sheriff
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Abstract: If you have not really dug into the VS.NET debugger, then this seminar is for you. You will explore all the various breakpoint, tracepoint, data tips, and the myriad features that this powerful debugger let’s you use. You will see how to set conditional breakpoints, learn to filter threads based on their thread id, and learn the difference between the Watch window, locals and immediate window.
You Will Learn:
- Set breakpoints with hit counts, filters, conditions.
- See how to use data tips, visualizers, and make object ids
- See when objects are about to be garbage collected
- Learn how exception handling can be used as a debugging aid
About the Presenter: Paul D. Sheriff is the President of PDSA, Inc. (www.pdsa.com), a Microsoft Partner in Southern California. Paul acts as the Microsoft Regional Director for Southern California assisting the local Microsoft offices with several of their events each year and being an evangelist for them. Paul has authored several books, webcasts, videos and articles on .NET, SQL Server and SharePoint. Paul can be reached via email at PSheriff@pdsa.com or at Paul Sheriff's Inner Circle (www.PaulSheriffInnerCircle.com).
This is a Green Dot sponsored event. There is no entry fee and the event is free for attendees.
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Sep 16th - Practical and RAD MVC w/ Steve Bearman & Nuri Halperin
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Abstract: Steve Bearman and Nuri Halperin will speak and build a complete and practical ASP.NET MVC application, from start to finish, showing rapid application development (RAD) with MVC. (even quickly building a database with an Entity Framework data access layer)
This will be *the* jump-start presentation to get developers actually going with MVC. The presentation is both enjoyable and practical, with well motivated steps and an interesting presentation. In each major area of the development we clearly show necessary steps, leveraging what Microsoft provides, recommendations, and best practices.
The MVC framework is even better than we all expected.
About the Presenter: Nuri and Steve are .NET developers in the Los Angeles area. They are now working as a team to provide practical, professional presentations (among other things).
They have spoken at most of the Los Angeles area .NET user groups and are regular speakers at Code Camps. At last month's San Diego Code Camp, for example, there presentations were:
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"Stop Searching - Start Finding!" (search engine theory and demos showing how to add search engines to your web site) (Nuri)
- "Go International! Writing localized applications" (Nuri)
- "Advanced C# Part 1: Generics, Enumerables, and LINQ Extension Methods" (Steve)
- "Advanced C# Part 2: Collections, Delegate Patterns, and Useful Generic Methods" (Steve)
This is a Green Dot sponsored event. There is no entry fee and the event is free for attendees.
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Aug 19th - What's new in Visual Studio 2010? w/ Jon Flanders
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Abstract: In this talk, Jon will go into detail on the new productivity enhancements that Visual Studio 2010 provides. Since Visual Studio 2010 is built on .NET 4.0, some of the talk will focus on .NET 4.0 features like the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF). Jon will also talk about the new Visual Studio 2010 extensibility model which bring IDE customization to the masses.
About the Presenter: Jon is most at home spelunking, trying to figure out exactly how things work. Jon wrote Essential ASP for Addison-Wesley, and co-authored Mastering Visual Studio.NET for O'Reilly, and is currently working on a book on REST and WCF for O'Reilly. Jon has also been involved with Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation since early betas and currently is interested in helping Microsoft developers learn about REST.
This is a Green Dot sponsored event. There is no entry fee and the event is free for attendees.
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Archived Events
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Book Reviews
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Professional ASP.NET MVC
Reviewed by Adnan Masood
...it's definitely a good introductory to intermediate hands-on starting book if you are interested in learning ASP.NET MVC framework
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Pro SQL Server 2008 Service Broker
Reviewed by Sudheer K. Maharana
The chapters are well organized and contain enough information to give a beginner a jump start on Service Broker
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Knight's 24-Hour Trainer: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services
Reviewed by Sudheer K. Maharana
I am definitely going to refer this book to anyone asking me to learn SSIS and be confident about it.
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Pro SQL Server 2008 Replication
Reviewed by Sudheer K. Maharana
I guess there are so many books out there on SQL Server replication but these advanced topics would have made the quality of this book even better.
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SQL Server 2008 Query Performance Tuning Distilled
Reviewed by Rajkumar Ramasamy
There is comprehensive information about most common performance issues that occurs due to Query designs and deadlocks.
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Expert .NET 2.0 IL Assembler
Reviewed by Jeff Bergman
The book is the only one that I have found on this topic and it is clearly written, and it may inspire you to take on a new project in IL
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Agile Retrospectives
Reviewed by Kevin Au
A lot of the activities I've heard at one time or another such as Five Why's, SMART goals, +/Delta, but this book does a good job of putting them together in one place
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C# 3.0 Cookbook
Reviewed by Karen Ngo
This is a solid reference book, but I don't think it is absolutely necessary to have in one's library because you can get similar and relevant examples from MSDN.
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Programming WCF Services
Reviewed by Vu Tran
This book has turned into great resource for me. It covered every detail of WCF from the basic concept of service contracts, hosting, addresses, and binding to higher level such as concurrency, or security.
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