BSDA Presents LINQ Bootcamp
- Programming Microsoft LINQ
The Birmingham Software Developers Association is proud to present LINQ Bootcamp. During this two day event BSDA members will present chapters from the book “Programming Microsoft LINQ” from MS Press.
The bootcamp will take place the weekend of July 25th and 26th, 2009. Both days will start at 9 am and go until approximately 5 pm. The folks at New Horizons Training are kind enough to host the event, and the BSDA wants to thank them. Just click on the link above to get directions.
The best thing about the event is it’s cost: zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. $0. Nuthin. Absolutely free!
All who volunteer to present will get a free copy of the book, courtesy of Microsoft. In addition, we have a limited number of books available to attendees. These will be given on a first come first serve basis in the order in which registrations are received. Any not distributed by 9 am on Sat July 25th will be given to attendees on first present basis.
To register, please go to http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=139378 and sign up. For more information please e-mail us at BhamSoftwareDevAssoc@live.com . Attendance is limited for this event, so be sure to sign up promptly to reserve your space.
Currently the club plans on sponsoring lunch, however if your organization would like to provide lunch on either day and get your name in front of a group of dedicated programmers, please e-mail us at the BhamSoftwareDevAssoc@live.com address.
Update: as of 7/12/09 Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 have been volunteered for, other chapters are still open to potential presenters.
Sponsors
LANUG Meeting 7/28/2009 – Ryan Duclos Can you control your Reports?
LANUG Meeting – Tuesday, July 28, 2009 6:00 PM
Speaker: Ryan Duclos http://rduclos.wordpress.com
Ryan Duclos is a Technical Consultant for Perficient, Inc. (PRFT) on Microsoft Technologies. He lives in LA (Lower Alabama)! He loves spending time with his family, as well as being a Community Influencer. Ryan can be found at regional events as a Speaker/Attendee. Ryan has been working with Microsoft Technologies since 2000. Ryan organizes and attends area User Groups events on a regular basis, and speaks primarily on SQL topics.
Topic: Can you control your Reports? (SQL Server Reporting Services)
Having trouble or trying to figure out how you can navigate to your reports through your application, without creating a complete dashboard? This session will show you how to navigate and control your reports through your application using links.
Location: Mobile Information Technology (MIT) 651 Church St Mobile, AL 36602
Sponsor: Software Technology, Inc. http://www.sti-k12.com/
Please RSVP to rduclos@gmail.com if you plan on attending.
RubyHam Lunch, Monday July 13th
The next RubyHam lunch meeting is at the Cocina Superior, Monday, July 13 at 11:30am til 1:00pm or so.
Please RSVP to by 10:00 am before, so we know how many people to expect. Cocina can accommodate tables of up to 10 people without prior notice.
Cocina Superior 587 Brookwood Village in Homewood http://www.thecocinasuperior.com
205-259-1980
Map to Superior: http://www.thecocinasuperior.com/location.html
Brookwood Village is in Homewood, located between Highway 280 and Highway 31, it’s next door to Brookwood Hospital. Cocina Superior is located in the outdoor shopping area (not inside the mall). It’s near the restaurant Brio. You can park along the street that runs between the restaurant and the mall, or park in the parking garage entrance just past the restaurant.
Introduction to NHibernate at the next BUG.NET Meeting
What is NHibernate? How can it make you more productive? Come find out as Adam Aldrich shows you how NHibernate can help you query and persist data to the database more efficently and increase your development time for projects. This will include Introduction to NHibernate and a demo showing how to use NHibernate in an ASP.NET Web project.
TEK Systems will be hosting this meeting and providing food for the evening. We’ll do something different from pizza this meeting…what it is will just remain a surprise!
In addition to food there will be prizes as well. The meeting will take place on Tuesday July 14, 2009 beginning at 6:30 pm. As usual the meeting will be held at the New Horizons Training Center in Homewood.
BSDA Meeting for July 9th 2009 – Intro to WCF
At the next BSDA Meeting, taking place July 9th 2009 Jeff Barnes, MVP will present Introduction to WCF. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a major advancement within the Microsoft .NET platform that allows for easily exposing units of functionality as services that are accessible via a broad spectrum of communication protocols. WCF has been built from the ground up around a highly flexible and extensible model that allows developers to concentrate on business problems rather than the details of communication plumbing. Write your business logic once and simply expose it over the necessary protocols via configuration without changing a line of code! If this sounds interesting, please join me for a crash course in the fundamental concepts of WCF. This session is packed with material and strives to significantly reduce the learning curve for those that are new to the technology by providing an introduction to essential features and capabilities of the WCF platform.
LINQ Bootcamp
At the meeting we will also discuss the upcoming LINQ Bootcamp on July 25th and 26th. To register for this great event please go to http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=139378 . Seating is limited to this free event. We still need volunteers for presenting, currently more than half the chapters are still available. Your participation is needed to make this event a success so be ready to pick out a chapter when you arrive, first come first serve. You can also e-mail us at BhamSoftwareDevAssoc@live.com to volunteer or get more info.
Update: as of 7/6/09 Chapters 3, 9, 10, 11, and 12 have been volunteered for, other chapters are still open to potential presenters. All presenters will get a free copy of the book.
Bio
Jeff Barnes is a passionate software developer and advocate of the Microsoft .NET platform. He has an intense conviction that developers should always strive to better themselves and avoid the trap of becoming complacent with their skills. His enthusiasm is deeply rooted in engineering solutions for the unique challenges often found within the realm of distributed systems. This passion has driven him to become involved with the developer community in order to evangelize the benefits of .NET. Jeff currently works as a Software Engineer for DAXKO, a leading provider of operations and financial management solutions for member-centric nonprofits. He is also a Microsoft MVP for Connected Systems.
Meeting Logistics
This meeting will occur on July 9, 2009. As usual we will have meet and greet from 6:30 to 7:00 and the presentation from 7:00 to 8:00. Our meeting, as well as the LINQ Bootcamp, will take place at the New Horizons Training Center in Homewood. A big thanks to them for the use of the facility.
Alabama Bloggers Meetup Thursday June 18th
Alabama Bloggers will be having a meeting on Thursday, June 18th, at 11:30am. It will be at Jason’s Deli at Brookwood Mall.
For more info you can visit the Alabama Bloggers website at http://www.alabamabloggers.com/2009/06/reminder-birmingham-meet-up-this.html or e-mail Rachel at rachel@alabamabloggers.com.
Steel City SQL June Meeting
Join us on Tuesday the 16th at New Horizons Computer Learning Center for our June meeting. The June meeting will feature Morgan Smith, Senior BI Architect at Teksouth Corporation, presenting on Migrating SSIS Packages Between Environments. When you have 2 or more environments (Dev & Prod), migrating your SSIS packages between them can be time consuming and tedious. As you add more connections and variables into your packages, the transition just gets worse. This session will show you a few ways to make your migrations faster and easier.
Morgan Smith is the Senior BI Architect at Teksouth Corporation. He has almost 20 years of experience in relational database systems encompassing DB2, Sybase and of course Microsoft SQL Server. In 1996, he became a Microsoft Certified Engineer and a Microsoft Certified Instructor after the introduction of Microsoft SQL Server 6.0 and later became a Microsoft Certified Database Administrator. Morgan began using and teaching Microsoft BI tools when Microsoft first released OLAP Services 7.0. For several years, he taught SQL and BI classes all over the United States and Canada. Since 2002, Morgan has worked and consulted full-time on SQL and BI projects. Today, at Teksouth Corporation, he designs, develops and implements custom database and BI systems and infrastructures using Microsoft technologies.
As usual the meeting will begin at 6:00pm with a thirty minute networking session with Morgan’s presentation beginning at 6:30pm. Food and beverages for this month’s meeting will be sponsored by Teksouth. If you plan on attending this month’s meeting let us know by sending us an RSVP so we can get an accurate headcount for the food. Hope to see you there.
BSDA – Database Tools for the Developer
As a developer you often need to make changes to a database structure. How do you keep your changes in sync with production? How do you roll them over? Test data is also a headache, how do you generate enough test data to give your hot new app a good workout? Perhaps you want to pull your test data from your production system, how do you do that quickly and easily?
Fortunately you have all the tools you need, built right into Visual Studio. Come join Robert Cain as he shows you these database tools that will make your life as a developer easier.
We’ll also be doing more planning around the LINQ Bootcamp, coming up at the end of July. Meeting will start at 6:30 pm on Thursday, June 11th, at our usual New Horizons location.
BSUG – Available Web Services
This month we are happy to be continuing our meetings at New Horizons and to have Lori Gowin speaking to us.
Lori Gowin will discuss the web services available in SharePoint. The discussion will include which web services are included with WSS and which are specific to MOSS. The web services will be detailed in function and methods. Lori will demonstrate how to utilize some of these web services with InfoPath to create no-code solutions that can be implemented.
1. Learn what web services are available in the specific versions of SharePoint.
2. Be introduced to what each web service provides.
3. Learn how to utilize web services with InfoPath.
We are once again on the lookout for new food sponsors for our meetings. If you or your company would be interested in sponsoring our meeting, please contact:
Cathy Dew at cdew@askcts.com
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Social Networking Starts at 6:00
Presentation Starts at 6:30
New Horizons
601 Beacon Pkwy W
Birmingham, AL 35209
(205) 942-2522
Please use the following link to register to attend.
