Alabama Tech Events

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Have you ever been frustrated with Visual Studio?  Do you ever find yourself thinking there must be a faster way to do this?  Wouldn’t it be nice if there was some shortcut to automate a lot of your repetitive tasks?  Fortunately, there is an answer to a lot of these questions.  Resharper is a commercial add-in for Visual Studio that is developed by JetBrains.  Come and see how this inexpensive product can dramatically increase your productivity to help you write code like a .NET ninja.  We will go through a comprehensive overview of the major functionality that Resharper has to offer as well as several tidbits of hidden features within Visual Studio.

Food will be provided and drawings will be held for swag at the end of the meeting.

The next meeting will occur on June 6th, June 9th 2009 at 6:30 PM and be held at New Horizons

Update – Meeting Cancelled:

Bad News:
After re-scheduling from last week , we’re going to have to cancel the “May” meeting which was to be held on 2009-06-04 Sorry for the late notice, but Sam’s not going to be able to make his presentation on Thursday.  Events have conspired against him (and therefore us), as they occasionally do for all of us.  I’m open to a purely social
meeting at some place other than DAXKO, so if you’re interested in that speak up.

Good News:
The ACTUAL June presentation will probably be a two-for-one with Sam doing his JavaFX presentation followed potentially by a demo of a real-world Spring app.

Once again, we’re very sorry to drop this on you at the eleventh hour (actually, more like 10:30pm or so)

Have you ever done any graphics programming?  If you have, you fall into one of two camps:  those who programmed graphics before windows (when programming graphics was clunky but a fun), and those who programmed graphics after the advent of windows (when programming was a little clunky and everything ended up looking a lot like, well, a window).

Since its release in December of 2008, Sun has been putting a lot of work into the JavaFX platform and its corresponding language JavaFX Script.  Unlike most graphics development before OR after the advent of windows, JavaFX is a language designed from the ground up for rapid graphics and rich GUI development.  It runs on top of the Java Virtual machine, uses an easy-to-understand declarative syntax, and is pretty fun to play with.

Come to a brief overview of what’s inside of JavaFX, how it’s similar to core Java (and different from Java too), see a demo of some cool applications made with JavaFX and learn what you need to get started with this promising technology.

Our meeting – as always – will be at DAXKO at 6:30 pm. Note that while the Java User Group normally meets on the fourth Thursday of the month, the meeting was delayed to this Thursday June 4th to accommodate another event in town.
Bring a friend and evangelize the meeting among your Java cohorts.

For more information visit the BAJUG site at http://groups.google.com/group/birmingham-jug?pli=1

DAXKO, 2204 Lakeshore Dr, Lakeshore Park Plaza, 4th Floor, Birmingham, AL 35209