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August Meeting - UI is Communication
You are a developer working on a project that needs a good
user interface to be successful. But there’s a problem: you aren’t an
experienced UI designer and nobody else on your team is either. You are doing
the best you can, but you know could do better. If only you knew more about UI
design to help your team make better decisions…
If this sounds familiar, come to our August 12th meeting
where Everett McKay will present UI is Communication. In this talk, Everett will
present the fundamentals of UI design from the point of view of effective
communication. UI design is ultimately all about communicating to users, both in
terms of what you say and how you say it. If you can explain how to perform a
task to someone in person in a way that’s clear and concise, you can apply those
same communication techniques to present the task to users using the language of
UI. This talk will help you apply UI design skills that you didn’t know you had.
The talk will focus on UI design principles, process, and
techniques. There will be several practical examples where you can apply what
you have learned to real UI design problems.
BIO:
Everett McKay is the principal of
UX
Design Edge, a user experience design consulting and training firm
specializing in helping non-designers based in St. Albans, Vermont.
Previously, Everett was a program manager at Microsoft for
nearly 10 years. He was on the Windows 7 and Windows Vista teams, and was
responsible for managing, writing, and driving the
Windows
User Experience Interaction Guidelines. This role enabled Everett to
develop expertise across a wide range of user experience specialties and act as
an in-house consultant to help teams across the company do their best work.
IronRuby and .Net - an Introduction
Where: Versa Trans Solution, Latham, NY
When: Tuesday, July 13th, 2010, 6:30-9PM
Who: Mark Menard, CTO, Vita Rara, Inc.
Overview
A big feature of the .Net 4.0 release is the new Dynamic Language Runtime, which has given .Net developers additional language options above the standard C#/VB.Net debate. One such option is IronRuby, a .Net implementation of Ruby that has the development world abuzz.
In this session, Mark Menard gives us an overview of Ruby, covering what differentiates it from other dynamic and static languages, basic language constructs, and features. We are also introduced to IronRuby, the implementation of Ruby that runs on the CLR and interoperates with other .NET languages. Finally, we'll take a look at using the Ruby on Rails Framework in .Net using IronRuby.
BIO
Mark Menard is the founder and president of Enable Labs, a boutique consulting firm located in Troy, NY. Enable Labs, which was founded in 2004, specializes in custom web development using Ruby on Rails, and the development and support of our fraternal membership management system MORI.
Mark is an extremely active member of the technology community in the Tech Valley region. He has been an invited guest speaker at technology events, having spoken at Tech Valley Code Camp, Tech Valley Ruby Brigade, Capital District Java Developers Network, GoRuCo and other groups and conferences on a broad range of software development and technology topics.
June Meeting - Windows Phone 7 Development in Silverlight
Where: Versa Trans Solution, Latham, NY
When: Tuesday, June 15th, 2010, 6:30-9PM
Who: Andy Beaulieu, Silverlight MVP
Overview
This session will show how we can develop applications for the upcoming Windows Phone 7 devices using Silverlight. We'll look at using multitargeting to create both a Web and Phone solution using a single code base. We'll also talk about the Windows Phone device capabilities and Microsoft's Marketplace.
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Andy Beaulieu is a professional software developer and trainer with over 15 years of experience building applications for Windows and the Web. Located in Syracuse, New York, he is well versed in many Microsoft technologies including Silverlight, ASP.NET, ADO.NET and WindowsForms. Andy has been awarded a Microsoft MVP Award for Silverlight, and is a member of the WPF and Silverlight Insiders group.
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Where: New Horizons - Albany, NY
When: Saturday, May 15, 2010, 9AM-4:30PM
Who: Jim O'Neil and Chris Bowen - Microsoft; Brian Peek, MVP; Griff Townsend, MCSE, MCP.Net; others
What will you do with Visual Studio 2010?
No matter if you're developing for the Web, Desktop, Mobile device, or gaming console, Visual Studio 2010 unleashes a world of flexibility at your fingertips. Discover how Visual Studio 2010 can help unleash your creativity by taking it for a spin with developers from around the area. Launch and Learn 2010 is a set of hands on workshops intermingled with brief sessions on Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 enchancements that will make your applications more robust, more stable, and more scalable.
Attendees are given access to a huge amount of hands on workshops and technology introductions at their fingertips. Microsoft evangelists, technology MVPs, and trainers will help guide you as you learn your way, at your pace. Work in a protected, virtual environment that you can take home with you.
Along with the workshops will be a number of brief introductory sessions to highlight the new features of Visual Studio 2010, .Net 4.0, and Silverlight 4. Take some time to talk with other developers from all around the Northeast to expand your social network, too.
Oh yeah, we'll also have some swag to give away and a free lunch. Make sure you come by!
Visit http://www.launchandlearn.net to register today!
Generics & Functional Programming
Where: Versa
Trans Solution, Latham, NY
When: Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 6:30-9PM
Who: Rik Bardof, Senior Software Developer, Xclaim Software
Overview
Generics in .Net allow developers to define
type-safe classes and data structures that will work with a broad range
of types. Building generic objects results in significant performance
boost and higher quality code through the reuse of processing
algorithms without needing type-specific code. Functional programming
in .Net also provides the potential for code reuse, reduced bugs, and
increase robustness. In this session we will combine the two
technologies to demonstrate how we as developers can expand our
solution engineering tool set.
Bio:
Rik Bardrof
is a senior software
developer for Xclaim Software, located in Central New York. He has a
widely varied background in computer science with experience ranging
from systems maintenance through application development (lot’s of
stuff in between). Currently he’s practicing agile development in a
.Net shop which focuses heavily on Domain Driven Design, Test Driven
Design, and integration of Open Source tools.
Dallas: Microsoft's Data Marketplace
Where: Versa
Trans Solution, Latham, NY
When: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 6:30-9PM
Who: Jim o'Neil, Microsoft Technical Evangelist
Overview
At
PDC 2009, Microsoft announced "Dallas", a Data-as-a-Service offering
that leverages the Windows Azure cloud computing platform. "Dallas"
makes well-known and vetted public and commercial data sets from
entities such as the Associated Press and Data.gov available to the
development and data analysis communities. This session explores
getting started with "Dallas" and accessing its data sets
programmatically and via Excel 2010's PowerPivot feature.
Bio
Jim
is one of the Microsoft Developer Evangelists in the Northeast
District. He joined Microsoft in April 2008 after 12 years working with
developer tools and application server technology as a support
engineer, evangelist, and principal sales consultant at Sybase. Jim
holds an MCPD and is 1/2 of the team that presents the quarterly
Northeast Roadshow providing information on the latest Microsoft
technologies to the developer communities in New England and upstate
New York