School of Dev 2009 - Saturday, March 28th 2009 is going to be bigger and better than ever! This year we are joining efforts with the first ever SharePoint Saturday Tulsa!
Offering something for everyone! SharePoint End Users, Developers, Administrators and Architects. Of course, the School of Dev content will continue to deliver for everyone from beginner to advanced developer!
There's no greater pleasure for an event organizer than to have the advanced developers come up after an event and say how much they learned. This is what happened last year. This year will be even better.
You think you already know it all? Show up and you'll feel like you should be a contestant on "Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader?".
Registration will be open soon, so keep your eye on the School of Dev 2009 site for more details.
If you haven’t already registered for the Nwa Code Camp you need to get with it. The event is schedule for April 25 and space is limited.
To register please visit http://codecamp.nwadnug.org/ and click on the register link at the top of the screen.
This is the first attempt to have a regional event in Northwest Arkansas and we will be closely monitoring attendance to determine if we should continue to create events of this nature in this area.
There will be 3 tracks with 12 sessions on various topics, everything from SharePoint, Windows Communication all the way to iPhone development.
Please forward this information on to everyone you know that would be interested and encourage them to attend. Think of this as free training in a time where training and travel budgets are being cut daily.
We need your help making this an event a huge success in our area.
Just a reminder that tonight is the next meeting of the Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group at the Jones Center in Springdale, AR at 5:30 PM.
John Teague will present "A Path to Automated Testing". This is a free event but RSVP is encouraged. For more information, contact Tim Tyrrell at officers@nwadnug.org, or for more details and to RSVP go to http://snipr.com/clioj.
Ryan Wells has announced the next meeting of the Northwest Arkansas CocoaHeads group.
CocoaHeads is a group devoted to discussion of Apple Computer's Cocoa Framework for programming on MacOS X. During monthly meetings, members present on their projects and offer tutorials on various programming topics.
To find out more about CocoaHeads visit their site at http://cocoaheads.org/.
The next meeting of the Nwa CocoaHeads will be March 12, 2009. Ryan has encouraged everyone to to bring their favorite Xcode tips and tricks and come ready to learn.
This meeting will be held at Arsaga's Coffeehouse, Mission & Crossover, Fayetteville, Arkansas, http://cocoaheads.org/us/FayettevilleArkansas/index.html
You can also so monitor #nwacocoa on twitter.
One of the few things announced at the MVP Summit we CAN talk about is the just released RC2 for ASP .NET MVC.
One of the main things to know is a change that was made in the installer. The installer will require that the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 be installed. This is mainly for the development environment and does not keep you from doing a bin deployment to a server without SP1 of the 3.5 Frameowrk.
Another new feature again with the installer is a Server-Only install mode. Which enables installing on a server that does not have Visual Studio installed.
Some of the more interesting updated in this release:
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jQuery 1.2.6 was replaced with jQuery 1.3.1
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New overload of the ValidationSummary method
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DefaultModelBinder Validation Messages are now localizable
You can find out more about the reason for the change and get links to the download at Phil Haack's post.
Direct link to Microsoft Downloads.