Mike Vincent on

Choosing the Right Tools for the Job

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Technologies: Rules Engine, Development Frameworks, Messaging, Scalability

Session Abstract: The world is moving away from a mentality of coding from the ground up for every new project. Today it is all about delivering business value. In this session we will dive into the world of integration and how you can produce results quicker, better and faster. We'll discuss the benefits of formal SDLC processes, development frameworks, commercial components, connectivity, rules engines, xml mapping, connectors, messaging, scalability, and security.

Speaker's Bio: Mike Vincent is a solutions architect with speakTECH, a Microsoft Gold Partner in Orange County, California providing clients with enterprise and software architecture and development services, primarily focusing on Microsoft .NET technology. He has been in the software business for over 20 years in addition to engineering and marketing management positions. He founded both the IASA SoCal Chapter and the Orange County C# Developers group and is Treasurer of INETA NoAm. Mike is a frequent presenter at local and regional user groups and a driving force for the SoCal .Net Technical Summit conferences. He is the principal local organizer for ITARC San Diego.

Meeting Agenda:

    * 6:00p Mixer/Networking/Pizza
    * 6:30p Presentation Starts
    * 7:15p Break
    * 7:30p 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.

What’s possible in a post Web 2.0 world? Innovation continues at a mind-bending pace, and this presentation will showcase some thought-provoking new directions that Web Services are headed in (imagine computers programmatically calling people to perform tasks), as well as introduce a concept known as “Web Scale Computing”. The presentation will also provide an overview of Amazon Web Services, and feature code demonstrations showing how .NET developers are able to easily build managed clients for these services 

More importantly, it’s an opportunity for an interactive discussion about what the future, shaped by Web services and Web Scale Computing, looks like.

Amazon spent ten years and over $2 billion developing a world-class technology and content platform that powers Amazon web sites for millions of customers. Most people think “Amazon.com” when they hear the word; however developers are excited to learn that there is a separate technology arm of the company, known as Amazon Web Services or AWS. Using AWS, developers can build software applications leveraging the same robust, scalable, and reliable technology that powers Amazon’s retail business. AWS has now launched eleven services with open API’s for developers to build applications, with the result that over 265,000 developers have registered on Amazon’s developer site to create applications based on these services.

In this session, Jinesh Varia, Evangelist for Amazon web services, is going to provide an overview and quickly dive into:

• Code walkthrough of a .NET application - a cool application for people who suffer from "Shower Singing Syndrome"
• A Code walkthrough of how existing ASP.NET Web site can that utilize robust storage infrastructure (Amazon S3)
• A Code walkthrough of AJAX ASP.NET Application - S3Whois - that "gives email a face"
  

Also, Jinesh would love to answer any questions that you may have regarding Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and the newly launched Amazon Flexible Payment Service (Amazon FPS)

Speaker's Bio: 

As a Web Services Evangelist at Amazon, Jinesh Varia helps developers take advantage of disruptive technologies that are going to change the way we think about computer applications, and the way businesses compete. He is focused on furthering awareness of web services and often helps developers on 1:1 basis in implementing their own ideas using Amazon’s innovative services. Jinesh has over 7 years experience in XML and Web services and has worked with standard working groups in XBRL. Prior to joining Amazon as an evangelist, he held several positions in UBmatrix including Solutions Architect, Enterprise Team Lead and Software engineer, working on various XBRL-based financial services projects including ASP.NET based Call Modernization Project at FDIC. He was also lead developer at Penn State Data Center, Institute of Regional Affairs. Jinesh’s publications have been published in ACM and IEEE. Jinesh is originally from India and holds a Master’s degree in Information Systems from Penn State University. He plays tennis and loves to trek

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Part I: The Ten Commandments for an Agile Developer

Any project that involves iterative planning and frequent (enough) integration is Agile enough to begin with. One can see enormous benefits just by following principles like feature-driven development (FDD) and test- driven development (TDD). While a lot is written about the need for self-managed development teams in an agile project, little is said about developers can do to become "self-managed". The "commandments" are derived from real life experiences while introducing agile processes to those who worked differently. Apart from showing off some battle scars, the session will cover the key processes and approach required to extract the value of agile processes.

Part II: Agile tools for .NET Projects

This is where we open the presents. This session talks in detail about the popular tools used specifically for agile .NET projects, like NANT, Cruise Control and TestDriven. It also talks about how to get these tools to work together to orchestrate your project development, build and testing process. Many of these tools are FOSS (Free and Open Source Software), and the others are available for a small fee.

Speaker's Bio: 

Sowmya Karmali is a Group Product Manager at Aditi Technologies, a software services firm specializing in product engineering services. In her current role she conceptualizes go-to-market strategies for Aditi, with special focus on Web 2.0 and Office Business Applications using MOSS. She also created the Agile Core Group within Aditi to lead and mentor projects that embrace Agile Development Processes. She has helped teams adopt key agile processes like TDD, FDD and Project Automation.

She has spent over 9 years in software development as a developer, architect and project manager. She's a member of IASA (Bangalore Chapter). She recently relocated to sunny California from sunnier Bangalore. She holds an Engineering Degree from Goa University (India) and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

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Technologies : Visual Studio 2008 (Code name Orcas)

Audience : Developers, Application Architects

For our August 2007 meeting, Jon Flanders, Microsoft MVP, will talk about Visual Studio 2008 code name Orcas and enhancements in .NET 3.5 including LINQ and ASP.NET AJAX 3.5. Visual Studio 2008 is currently in beta 2 and provides tools that speed creation of software and services on the latest platforms, including the Web, Windows Vista, Office 2007, SQL Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008.

Speaker's Bio: 

Jon Flanders is an industry-leading author and instructor of in-depth developer training materials at Quicklearn. Jon is the author of "Mastering Visual Studio .NET" from O'Reilly and "ASP Internals" from Addison-Wesley and co-author of "Presenting Windows Workflow Foundation" from Sams. Jon holds a Juris Doctor from Hamline University. He has been working with .NET and ASP.NET since early betas and with BizTalk 2004 since its release in March of 2004.

Jon's blog can be found at:
http://www.masteringbiztalk.com/blogs/jon/

Technologies: Windows CardSpace

Audience: Developers, Application Architects, Designers

With the release of the Microsoft .Net Framework 3.0 came a powerful client tool and programming API that enables users to provide their digital identity to online services in a simple, secure and trusted way.  That tool and API is Windows CardSpace.  Windows CardSpace provides a simple, consistent and secure way for people to authenticate to services in a protocol neutral way.  In this session the following topics will be covered:

1. An Introduction to Windows CardSpace.
2. Windows CardSpace from the User's perspective.
3. Windows CardSpace from the Developer's perspective.

Speaker's Bio: 

Based in Southern California, Ali Powell is a Senior Application Development Consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services.  Ali has over a decade of empirical experience building distributed and loosely connected enterprise applications.  Ali is currently working on a enterprise project utilizing Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows CardSpace, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and the Smart Client Software Factory (SCSF).  Ali regularly consults with the Windows CardSpace product team.

The 2007 Southern California Code Camp is an excellent opportunity to get some great and free training not far from home. It's coming on June 30th and July 1st (Saturday and Sunday) to the UCSD campus...and best of all, it's FREE! For more details and to sign up, take a look at the web site. We hope to see you there.

Technologies: WPF, Expression Blend, VS.NET Orcas 

Audience: Developers, Application Architects, Designers

This presentation will be demo focused to accentuate the power of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).  WPF is the next-generation presentation sub-system for Windows.  It provides developers and designers with a unified programming model for building rich Windows smart client user experiences that incorporate UI, media, and documents.  We’ll take a close look at XAML (Extensible Application Markup Language), a markup language for declarative application programming, and the role it plays in WPF applications.

WPF uses vector based graphics rendering, which results in better graphics and presentation for an application. WPF also has other features such as layout, styling, and data binding, which, when you mix with interactivity, enables scenarios such as interactive data visualization. When you put all this together, you have a unified API for various presentation components, such as 2D and 3D documents and declarative programming through XAML, which is a powerful platform for data visualization that can be used to really “light-up” your enterprise applications.

“Introduction to Advanced in an hour”: This presentation will take you from the absolute beginning showing you the state of the tools and where they are in their different stages of beta and how you can use them effectively to an “under the covers” look at some real WPF software already shipping in production. 

Speaker's Bio 

Tim founded InterKnowlogy in 1999. As a Software Development Lead, Architect, Author, & Speaker, Tim has 25+ years experience including serving on a Microsoft product team as a development lead on an architecture team.  Tim is one of ~150 Microsoft Regional Directors world-wide, a Microsoft MVP and sits on multiple Microsoft advisory councils and boards.  As the CEO of InterKnowlogy he spends a large amount of his time traveling nationally and internationally speaking at various industry conferences and events. Tim regularly consults and advises Microsoft at a corporate level.

• Mobile Technologies: An Overview
• Windows Mobile 6: What's new?
• Leveraging mobile technologies using the Windows Mobile SDK
• Mobile Developement Case Study: Microsoft Windows Live for Mobile- Mobile Device Simulation: Demo of a new tool

With ASP.NET AJAX, you can:

• Create next-generation interfaces with reusable AJAX components.
• Enhance existing Web pages using powerful AJAX controls with support for all modern browsers.
• Continue using Visual Studio 2005 to take your ASP.NET 2.0 sites to the next level.
• Access remote services and data directly from the browser without writing a ton of complicated script.
• Enjoy the benefits of a free framework with technical support provided by Microsoft.

Meeting Agenda:

• 6:00p Mixer/Networking/Pizza
• 6:30p Presentation Starts
• 7:15p Break
• 7:30p Presentation Resumes
• 8:15p 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.

 Gerald Walsh
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Advanced ASP.NET 2.0

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ASP.Net 2.0 hosts a tremendous number of new features designed to help you to build powerful web applications efficiently and effectively. These features offer many powerful capabilities that are often overlooked or underused. This session will discuss several of these features that will help you extend you web application's functionality, enhance the user's experience, and improve performance with discussions on building custom HTTP handlers and writing asynchronous pages.

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Speaker's Bio: Gerald Walsh is an independent consultant and instructor focused on software application development and training using Microsoft technologies. He has over 12 years experience in developing solutions with Microsoft tools, holds the MCSD, MCAD, and MCT certifications, and has recently been employed with Microsoft in the role of Developer Evangelist. He has also recently been awarded the 2007 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for his past work in support of the developer community and for expertise in developing client software applications on the Microsoft platform.

You can contact Gerald directly at Gerald@GTDataSystems.com

Session 1: 6:30 - 7:30
Neal Hardesty on Scripting Languages for the .NET Platform

Session 2: 7:45 - 8:45
David Jung on Virtualization in .NET and Windows

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Scripting languages have long provided excellent methods for quickly developing small applications and prototypes.  In the first session, Neal Hardesty will be reviewing the landscape of scripting languages available that use or tie into the .NET platform.  Topics should include IronPython, Boo, RubyCLR, and PowerShell/Monad.

For the second session, David Jung will be speaking on the use of virtualization technology in the development, testing and deployment process.  Virtualization allows Developers and IT Professionals to create and test applications and systems more flexibly without the need for adding additional hardware infrastructure. Topics should include the use of EMC's VMware and Microsoft's VirtualPC products.

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Meeting Agenda:

• 6:00p Mixer/Networking/Pizza
• 6:30p Presentation Starts
• 7:15p Break
• 7:30p Presentation Resumes
• 8:15p 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. In case of difficulty, please contact 626-513-1665 or 562-397-8641 for assistance.

There is a $5 Entry Fee to cover the cost of pizza and meeting logistics.

The 2007 Southern California Code Camp is an excellent opportunity to get some great and free training not far from home.  It's coming on January 27th and 28th (Saturday and Sunday) to the CalState Fullerton campus...and best of all, it's FREE! For more details and to sign up, take a look at the web site. We hope to see you there.

 Jon Flanders
on
Developing Work Flows -
Windows Workflow Foundation and the BizTalk Engine

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For our first meeting of 2007, Jon Flanders, a Microsoft MVP, will talk about  "Developing Work Flows - Windows Workflow Foundation and the BizTalk Engine." 

Windows Workflow and Biztalk are excellent tools for developers looking to implement complex rules and business logic in their applications.

Speaker's Bio: Jon Flanders is an industry-leading author and instructor of in-depth developer training materials at Quicklearn. Jon is the author of "Mastering Visual Studio .NET" from O'Reilly and "ASP Internals" from Addison-Wesley and co-author of "Presenting Windows Workflow Foundation" from Sams. Jon holds a Juris Doctor from Hamline University. He has been working with .NET and ASP.NET since early betas and with BizTalk 2004 since its release in March of 2004.

Jon's blog can be found at http://www.masteringbiztalk.com/blogs/jon/

Meeting Agenda:

• 6:00p Mixer/Networking/Pizza
• 6:30p Presentation Starts
• 7:15p Break
• 7:30p Presentation Resumes
• 8:15p 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.

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