Where: Tyler Technologies, Latham, NY
When: Tuesday, May 21st, 2013, 6:30pm
Please note we are meeting a week later than usual!
With the release of several new Windows Platforms, it can be both exciting and overwhelming to get an app from an idea to the Windows Store. In this talk we'll look at some design strategies as well as some common user experience scenarios and patterns that can help with the process of developing your app.
Bio
Richard Nalezynski started his career as a professional video game developer, working on several AAA game projects in the industry. He then became intrigued by improving the lives of lesser-abled people, and began exploring touch- and gesture-based interfaces. He’s worked with major game engines and modern development frameworks, including several Microsoft platforms and technologies.
Richard enjoys providing technical and user experience consultation, participating in community growth and outreach, inspiring entrepreneurs, and helping anyone else along the way.
Where: Tyler Technologies, Latham, NY
When: Tuesday, April 9th, 2013, 6:30pm
Do you ever need to build line of business apps quickly? Would you like to be able to whip up a full web based app in an hour without getting your hands all CRUD-y? Whether it's something quick for your intranet or a full fledged web app, Microsoft Lightswitch is the quickest way to get there. Learn about this new tool that is (probably) already in your toolbox and you, too, can amaze your boss when you put together a polished product in a tenth of the time!
Bio
Michael Phipps will be our presenter. A bio will be coming soon. Or, we will write it for him. :)
Where: Tyler Technologies, Latham, NY
When: Wednesday, March 20th, 2013, 6:30pm
!! Delayed to Wednesday due to the weather !!
Expand your mobile horizons with Windows Phone 8! Developing applications for the phone is extremely similar to building a XAML application for the desktop. In this session, I will demonstrate the fundamentals of Windows Phone development while building a very simple application which covers all of the important points of the new platforms architecture, including the developer tools and device emulator and touch input.
Bio
Former professional cricket player Brian Peek is currently working on his own reality show for MTV. His hobbies include yak racing and creating hip hop music. Taking time off from his reviews of polka music, Brian has become active on Pinterest. Every idiot stunt that David Blaine has performed in the last 10 years is a direct result of losing a series of poker games with Brian at the Circus Circus casino. Later this year, the Food Network will be presenting Brian's latest cooking show, "Hot Lunches with Brian Peek". Once again Brian has made the mistake of letting someone else handle his bio.
Where: Tyler Technologies, Latham, NY
When: Tuesday, February 12th, 2013, 6:30pm
In this session you will learn how to design and build Windows Phone, Silverlight, and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) desktop applications using loosely coupled components that can evolve independently but which can be easily and seamlessly integrated into the overall application. This is an introductory talk that concentrates on the basic concepts required to build a composite application with the Microsoft Patterns and Practices Prism 4.1 framework which includes the boostrapper, regions, modules, view composition, and different techniques for communicating between loosely couple components. Various development patterns and technologies will also be discussed including Inversion of Control (IoC), Dependency Injection (DI), Unity, MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework), commanding, event aggregation, and MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel).
Notes: This topic is very code heavy, and only consists of 2 power point slides.
Bio:
Brian Lagunas is an INETA Community Speaker, co-leader of the Boise .Net Developers User Group (NETDUG), and original author of the Extended WPF Toolkit. He is a multi-recipient of the Microsoft Community Contributor Award and can be found speaking at a variety of user groups and code camps around the nation. His talks always involve some form of XAML, such as WPF or Silverlight, and how to build modular applications with Prism.
Brian currently works at Infragistics as a Product Manager for the award winning NetAdvantage for WPF and Silveright components. This is where he helps build tools that empower developers to quickly and easily build and style dynamic applications with immersive UX and vibrant data visualization in line of business applications, across all XAML platforms. Prior to working at Infragistics he worked in the construction and engineering industry as a senior software engineer and software solution architect where he specialized in enterprise application development. Before geeking out, Brian served his country in the United States Army as an infantryman and later served his local community as a deputy sheriff.
In his spare time he authors courses for Pluralsight, blogs about XAML technologies, and hosts XAML TV. The easiest way to find Brian is on twitter at @BrianLagunas.
Where: Tyler Technologies, Latham, NY
When: Tuesday, January 8th, 2013, 6:30pm
A geographic information system (GIS) integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information. GIS allows us to organize, interpret and visualize data in such a way that relationships, patterns and trends become apparent in forms of maps. The purpose of this presentation is to provide information about the development of GIS software as well as products that incorporate GIS components. First we give an overview of this technology and describe some of the key concepts of a GIS. Then we look into GIS developer resources and available APIs focusing mainly on ESRI’s APIs for developers as well as exploring other options such as Google Maps API and various Open-Source solutions.
Presenter Bio
Kosta Bidoshi is a R&D GIS Engineer at Tyler Technologies in Latham, NY. He has an Undergraduate Degree in Geodetic Science as well as Master’s and Ph.D. degrees focusing in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Digital Mapping. His academic research focus has mainly been in Spatial Databases and Map Visualization. In the last 18 years Kosta has been primarily working on architecture and development of GIS software for various platforms. In the past few years he has been focused on developing web maps and performing GIS analysis on the web primarily using ESRI components. He has also been researching various open source mapping systems and explored various mapping software development options for the next phase of product development at Tyler Technologies.
Where: Tyler Technologies, Latham, NY
When: Monday, November 12th, 2012, 6:30pm
Please note we are meeting on Monday instead of Tuesday this month!
This presentation is a practical overview of many of the best practices that you can apply to your .NET projects today. We will cover a broad range of practices and principles with an emphasis on tools and technologies in four key areas: build automation, continuous integration, automated testing, and code analysis. Since complex problems often require iterative solutions, this presentation looks at an iterative approach to adopting new and better practices. Through a stepwise process we’ll examine key areas to improve, how to get started and continue to grow implementation, and what might motivate folks to stick with .NET best practices.
Presenter Bio
Stephen Ritchie is the author of Pro .NET Best Practices (http://www.apress.com/9781430240235). He has been writing software professionally for over 20 years. He works as a software development consultant at Excella Consulting in the Washington, D.C. area. His passion for following best practices has taught him to appreciate the value of experience, practical know-how, and continuous learning. Stephen is the .NET best practices steward at Excella Consulting, working with .NET project teams to facilitate and sort out the helpful practices from the unhelpful ones, the practicable from the impracticable, and the "sounds good" from the "it really is good" practices and principles.
We have a very exciting event to announce… The .NET Rocks! Road Trip is stopping by TVUG on their cross-country journey! Here are the details:
Where: Tyler Technologies, Latham, NY
When: Tuesday, October 16th, 2012, 6:00-10:00PM
Register Now!
And here's what they have to say…
Building Modern Apps with a Modern Lifecycle
Well, we've done it again! We went and rented a big 37' RV and booked another United States (mostly) Road Trip for the launch of Visual Studio 2012. No charge for admission.
At each stop we will record a live .NET Rocks! show with a guest star, whom we will fly in for the occasion. The guest star for our TVUG appearance will be Mark Miller, Chief Architect, IDE Tools at Developer Express.
Following that, we (Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin) will each do a presentation around building modern applications on the Windows platform. Carl leans toward development and client-side technology and Richard leans toward DevOps and server-side technology.
There will be food, drink, geeking out, and hopefully some alert locals will know of a pub where we can adjourn after the event to continue the conversation.
This take place in addition to our regular October meeting with Jim O'Neil, so we hope to see you at BOTH events!
Windows 8 and the Windows Store represent the single biggest financial opportunity for developers on any platform, ever – but to reap the rewards, you’ll have to build your app and get it into the store! At this meeting, we’ll build a simple Windows 8 application, pulling in capabilities such as the App Bar, notifications, sharing and other features that make Windows 8 applications unique and distinctive. We’ll also cover the certification process, including the Windows Application Certification Kit (WACK), and touch on monetization strategies for your application. No Windows 8 experience required, but if you have Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 , feel free to bring your laptop and follow along.
To get a head-start, sign up for Generation App at http://aka.ms/8in30, and if you’re working on an app now or want to discuss your app ideas 1-on-1, Jim will be holding office hours at Perks Coffee House in Troy on the afternoon of Oct 9th – see http://aka.ms/minimeetup for more info.
Where: Tyler Technologies, Latham, NY
When: Tuesday, October 9th, 2012, 6:30-8:30PM
Presenter Bio
Jim is a Technology Evangelist for Microsoft who covers the Northeast District, namely, New England and upstate New York. He is focused on engaging with the development community in the area through user groups, code camps, BarCamps, Microsoft-sponsored events, etc., and just in general serve as ambassador for Microsoft. Since 2009, Jim has been focusing on software development scenarios using cloud computing and Windows Azure.
Jim joined Microsoft in April 2008 after nearly 12 years working for Sybase in a support and sales consultant role for its developer tools, specifically PowerBuilder and EAServer. Prior to that he worked on various DoD projects at MITRE (Bedford, MA) and BDM International (in McLean, VA, now subsumed by Northrop Grumman). Jim received a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Austin Peay State University and his M.S. in Computer Science from Duke University.
As always, we'll have swag to give away and free pizza & soda!
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