Steel City SQL August Meeting
Join us on Tuesday the 25th at New Horizons Computer Learning Center for the August meeting of Steel City SQL featuring Dean Richards, Senior DBA at Confio Software, presenting on Wait-Time Based SQL Server Performance Management. Using Wait Time Analysis and Wait Types is a newer method for tuning SQL Server instances. As a result, there is often confusion on exactly what the data means. The issue typically centers around the fact the wait time data is analyzed at the wrong level or the collected wait time data is not detailed enough. This presentation will focus on these problems and review several real-life case studies of using SQL Server Wait Type data coupled with Wait-Time based performance analysis to solve the most difficult performance related issues.
TechMixer University Call For Speakers
TechMixer University is ON! The date has been set, mark your calendars for Tuesday October 13, 2009. This year TMU will be held at the Cahaba Grand on Highway 280, close to the Interstate 459 interchange.
General registration will open soon, but we are pleased to announce our Call for Speakers is now open. If you have an interest in presenting a session, please download our speaker submission form (right click and “Save Target As”). Once filled out please e-mail us the form at tmuspeaker@gmail.com. The form is in DOCX, however if you need a text or other format please e-mail us at the same address.
We are looking for speakers in all areas, including .Net, Databases (SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL), Open Source Development (Ruby, Java, PSP, etc), Project Management, Sharepoint, Hardware, and more.
The call for speakers will close on September 20th, last year TMU had over 400 attendees and we expect a big growth this year so don’t hesitate, this is a great opportunity.
If your business is interested in sponsoring this event, please e-mail us and we’ll contact you with details. We limit the number of sponsors, so if you want to be one of the few to get in front of a large crowd please get in touch with us soon.
Update: Due to requests from interested speakers who did not get word until late, we have elected to extend the deadline for speaker submissions. Our new deadline will be Monday, September 28th at midnight. Spread the word, and don’t forget to register at http://www.techmixeruniversity.com
BSDA – REALBasic for August 13, 2009
This month Dennis Wynn will present on REALBasic. He will be coding in REALBasic with the intention of being able to distribute this application across multiple platforms. REALBasic will allow for the same application to run under Windows, Linux, and/or MAC OS with little to no modifications.
Dennis will explore the ability to tie hardware to software through some simple serial ports. He will use a serial base barcode scanner to read in product barcodes for part verification. Once the part has been validated, a PASS/FAIL signal will be sent to the PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) to perform further part processing. In his example, the signal will simply turn on a GREEN/RED LED to indicate the status of the product.
As usual the meeting will take place at New Horizons in Homewood, at 6:30 pm.
Rubyham Lunch Monday August 10th 2009
The next RubyHam meeting will be on Monday, Aug. 10 at SHIFTworkspace at 11:30am. Presentations will start at 12 noon.
SHIFTworkspace is located at 2308 2nd Ave N.
Kevin Russell will be presenting on acts_as_solr which provides full-text search for Rails.
Ben Wyrosdick will also be presenting fluffy, a gem which provides easy access to Amazon S3.
If you have anything you wish to present, please email the group.
Bring your lunch. There are a couple of spots nearby including the Urban Standard.
Just a few seats left for the BSDA LINQ Bootcamp July 25th and 26th Plus Special Guest Presenter
Time is running out! Tomorrow is the big day for the Birmingham Software Developers Association’s LINQ Bootcamp. There are only a few seats left!
During this two day event BSDA members will present chapters from the book “Programming Microsoft LINQ” from MS Press.
A reminder, 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, only a few seats remain so be sure to sign up quickly 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 7/24/09 Chapters 1 to 6 and 8 to 13 have been volunteered for, chapters 7, and 14 to 17 are still open to potential presenters.
More Update! We are proud to have a special guest presenter. Jim Wooley, Microsoft MVP and co-author of LINQ In Action will be present and has volunteered to give two chapters.
Sponsors
Steel City SQL July Meeting
Join us on Tuesday the 21st at New Horizons Computer Learning Center for our July meeting. This meeting will feature Kevin Boles, SQL Server MVP of Indicium Resorces, presenting on SQL Server Service Broker. Service Broker is the built-in asynchronous messaging subsystem provided with SQL Server. We will examine new terminology as well as get a grounding in how we can setup and use Service Broker for messaging applications. We live in an increasingly interconnected world and having a system that can handle intermittent connections and asynchronous processing can solve many business problems. And if MySpace can use it to pass hundreds of millions of messages around their system per day, it can probably do whatever you need it to do as well!
Kevin is a SQL Server guru, working exclusively with the product since version 6.5. With over fifteen years of IT industry experience, he holds every SQL Server certification including MCT and MVP. Kevin has been a very successful independent consultant for the past ten years.
As usual the meeting will begin at 6:00pm with a thirty minute networking session with Kevin’s presentation beginning at 6:30pm. 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 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 7/15/09 Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12 and 13 have been volunteered for, chapters 7, 8, 11, and 14 to 17 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.
