The Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group has gone big time!!!! For several months we have been struggling to find a good venue. We moved to the Jones center, but the room we got still was not working out the way we wanted. The awesome staff at the The Jones Center did a great job getting us setup and now will be meeting in the "Chapel". The new venue can hold 337 members with theater seating and a big screen, we have also hired the on-site caterer to provide meals each meeting. So, if you have been tired of eating pizza and have been wanting better seating we now have it.
This months meeting Dennis J, Bottjer will be presenting Tips for Improving SharePoint Performance.
Description: A discussion for SharePoint Developers, Administrators and Solutions Architects focused on improving Internet and intranet performance. Tips will discuss a wide range of topics from adjusting out of the box settings to identifying memory leaks in custom code. This discussion will benefit anyone currently design a SharePoint implementation!
Presenter: Dennis J. Bottjer is a Software Solutions Architect, for Microsoft Gold Partner SpringPoint Technologies, in Tulsa, OK. He is a Microsoft ASP/ASP.NET MVP. He previously worked for one of the largest US based Financial Services Companies on the FORTUNE 100. He has an undergraduate degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Oklahoma. Dennis served for two years as the President of the Jacksonville Developers User Group.
SWAG:
Inside Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 ($49.99)
Inside Office SharePoint Server ($44.99)
Professional Team Foundation Server ($39.99)
Hunting Security Bugs ($49.99)
JetBrains ReSharper ($199)
CodeSmith Studio ($99)
Infragistics NetAdvantage Suite ($999)
Windows Vista Ultimate ($319.99)
When:
September 2, 2008
5:30 PM - 5:45 PM - Welcome and News, Sign-in and Food
5:45 PM - 6:00 PM - Lighting Presentation
6:00 PM - 6:10 PM - Intermission - Presenter switch over
6:10 PM - 7:30 PM - Main Presentation
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM - Closing and Prize give-a-ways
Where:
The Jones Center
922 East Emma Avenue
Springdale, AR 72764
Room 100
NetMeeting URL: http://snipr.com/3a50w
Everyone mark you calendars and get ready to see the Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group to the next level!
Last night I sat in on a LiveMeeting session hosted by Chad Myers and Zach Young, both Chad and Zach have both been working with others on the Fluent NHibernate project. This was an awesome discussion and Chad did a great job demonstrating NHibernate and how Fluent NHibernate is trying to fill the gap for programmatically create the NHibernate configuration instead of creating the XML files.
As Chad explained Fluent NHibernate is an API for creating NHibernate mappings programmatically instead of using XML configuration files. Its goal is to reduce the difficulties faced when incorporating NHibernate in a project by providing improved readability, testing capabilities, and compile time safety.
I have just started trying to learn NHibernate and after working through a few projects definitely can see how a lot of time is creating the XML configuration and mapping files. After viewing what Fluent NHibernate I plan on working through a few of the applications and convert them to see how well it works.
Related post by Chad Myers:
Fluent NHibernate – Configuration
Related post by Zach Young:
Does the Fluent NHibernate create static XML mapping files?
The NHibernate Project
The Fluent NHibernate Project
James Gregory also has a great article Introducing the Fluent NHibernate
Don't forget that Jeffry Palermo is speaking tonight at a special Nwa .NET User Group meeting. He will be speaking about TDD, DI, and Soc with ASP .NET MVC.
Description: Spelled out, it is test-driven development, dependency injection, and separation of concerns with Active Server Pages .Net Model View Controller. This talk will dive into how to design a presentation layer using ASP.NET MVC. In today's industry, TDD, DI, and SoC are proven concepts that lead to more maintainable applications. Along with demonstrating how to use these techniques with ASP.NET MVC, we will discuss just what concerns should be separated. This talk provides a unique perspective on separation of concerns and uses TDD and DI to make it happen. MvcContrib is used in all the demos.
Presenter: Jeffrey Palermo is a software management consultant and the CTO of Headspring Systems in Austin, TX. Jeffrey specializes in Agile coaching and helps companies double the productivity of software teams. Jeffrey is an MCSD.Net , Microsoft MVP, Certified Scrummaster, Austin .Net User Group leader, AgileAustin board member, INETA speaker, INETA Membership Mentor, Christian, husband, father, motorcyclist, Eagle Scout, U.S. Army Veteran, and Texas A&M University graduate.
Subscribe to Jeffrey’s blog feed here: http://feeds.jeffreypalermo.com/jeffreplaermo
When: August 14, 2008 5:30 PM - 5:45 PM - Welcome and News, Sign-in and Food 5:45 PM - 6:00 PM - Lighting Presentation 6:00 PM - 6:10 PM - Intermission – Presenter switch over 6:10 PM – 7:30 PM – Main Presentation 7:30 PM – 8:00 PM – Closing and Prize give-a-ways
Where: The Jones Center 922 East Emma Avenue Springdale, AR 72764 Room 113
NetMeeting URL: http://snipr.com/3a3sz
Microsoft has released the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 this week to Microsoft Downloads only a few days after releasing SQL Server 2008.
Two of the main features added in the .NET Framework service is pack is the ADO.NET Data Services and the ADO.NET Entity Framework. Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 comes with a better WPF designer, a rich entity designer and full compatibility with SQL Server 2008 that was released a few days ago.
Thanks to by buddy John Oswalt for keeping me in the loop.
This month the Northwest Arkansas Association of IT Professionals is having a Meet N’ Greet at Johnny Carino’s in Rogers [MAP]. This is a networking social even so be sure to bring plenty of business cards. The AITP is also in the process of doing AITP NWA Officers elections.
If you would like to be considered for a position contact Cindy Ragan. We will vote by email to ensure we get a majority of the membership voting in the election. Only NWA AITP members can vote in an election.
The Association of Technology Professionals is a comprised of career minded individuals who seek to expand their potential — employers, employees, managers, programmers and many others. Meeting Information: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 6:00 PM Johnny Carino’s [MAP] 535 N 46th Street Rogers, AR