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Admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:16:16 GMT

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F# Firestarter

Admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:02:45 GMT

In Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft will include a functional programming language, F#, as a first class citizen in the .NET Framework and Visual Studio ecosystem.

Currently, there's not an F# community in Nashville; after the firestarter event there will be.

When: Saturday, November 14th from 9am to 3pm

Where:

Microsoft Offices in Cool Springs
2555 Meridian Blvd Ste 300,
Franklin, TN

Topics to be covered

--The case for Functional Programming
--Fundamentals of Functional Programming
--F# Language Fundamentals
--Getting an F# Development Environment
--Pair Programming and Hands-On Code Exercises

Come with an open mind and a laptop. Be prepared to learn, share, and chat. No prior knowledge or experience with F# is expected.

Please RSVP at: http://fsharpfirestarter.eventbrite.com

Reminder: No Web Developer Group Tonight

Admin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:19:07 GMT

Normally the Web Developer Group meets one week after the .NET User Group, however there is no Web Developer Group meeting this month. Please be sure to come out in November for the .NET User Group officer elections.

2010 Officer Nominations Tonight!

Admin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:33:13 GMT

Nominations for user group officers begin at tonight's meeting. In preparation, here are some short descriptions of the responsibilities of the three elected offices. Elections will be held at the November meeting.

President – Manages the meeting schedule and arranges for speakers. This involves working with the INETA organization, Microsoft, and other avenues of getting sponsors.

Vice-President – Manages sponsor relationships. Sponsorship is either in the form of money or products/giveaways. Many relationships are already established so it is just a matter of keeping up with them, generally via email.

Secretary – Secretary schedules officer's meetings, takes notes and sends out meeting minutes to the leadership group. The secretary also coordinates name badges and surveys at meetings.

The following positions are appointed by the elected leadership.

Treasurer – Manages the group’s checking account, makes needed purchases, invoices sponsors.

Community Coordinator – New for 2010. This person will help with newsletters, and manage our profiles on assorted social networking sites (Facebook, LinkedIn, …)

It is important to point out that this is a leadership TEAM. We help each other out so no one gets too overwhelmed. So… if you have both a passion for the community and a bit of free time available each month, we’d love for you to join our leadership team.

If you are still reading, here’s how to get in. Show up this tonight. Either arrange for someone to nominate you, or simply nominate yourself. That’s all there is to it!

Parallel Computing with Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4

Admin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:30:35 GMT

I'm very happy to announce that later this month Nashville will be hosting Stephen Toub, Senior Program Manager Lead for the Parallel Computing Platform at Microsoft.

When: Monday, Oct. 26th; Food @ 6pm; Presentation @ 6:30pm
Where: Microsoft
Presentation: Parallel Computing with Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET
Framework 4
RSVP: http://nashparalleldotnet.eventbrite.com/

Please RSVP so that we can ensure we order the correct amount of food.

About Parallel Computing:

In 1965, Gordon Moore famously predicted what is now known as Moore’s Law,
an observation predicting that the number of transistors placed on an
integrated circuit would double every 18 to 24 months, which roughly
translates to increases in clock speed and microprocessor power in the same
time period. This growth in processing power and in commodity hardware,
along with emergence of the GUI, the Internet, mobile devices, and software
services, has transformed information management and personal productivity.
Each wave of new technologies has made computing more personal, social, and
mobile. Personal computing has fundamentally changed the way we work, the
way we connect, the way we learn, and the way we conduct business.

Future improvements in hardware processing power are proceeding on a new
model. Instead of deriving processing power from scaling clock speed, which
eventually increases power usage and heat emission to unmanageable levels,
chip manufacturers have begun to increase overall processing power by adding
additional CPUs, or “cores” to the microprocessor package.

With the .NET Framework today, correctly introducing concurrency and
parallelism into libraries and applications is difficult, time consuming,
and error-prone. However, as the hardware industry shifts towards multi-core
and manycore processors, the key to high-performance applications is
parallelism. The .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010 offer solutions to
help make coding, debugging, and profiling concurrent applications
significantly easier. In this talk, we’ll examine Parallel LINQ-to-Objects
(PLINQ), the Task Parallel Library (TPL), new coordination and
synchronization types, and Visual Studio tooling support in order to provide
a look at the next generation of parallel programming with .NET.

About Stephen Toub:

Stephen Toub is a Senior Program Manager Lead on the Parallel Computing
Platform team at Microsoft, where he spends his days focusing on the next
generation of programming models for concurrency. Stephen is also a
Contributing Editor for MSDN® Magazine, for which he writes the .NET Matters
column, and he’s an avid speaker at conferences like TechEd and
DevConnections. Prior to working on the Parallel Computing Platform, Stephen
designed and built enterprise applications for companies such as GE,
McGraw-Hill, BankOne, and JetBlue. He was a developer for Microsoft Outlook
as well as for the Microsoft Office Solution Accelerators. Stephen holds
degrees in computer science from Harvard University and New York University.

Directions to Microsoft:

Microsoft
2555 Meridian Blvd, Suite 300
Franklin, TN 37067

October Meeting Info

Admin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:23:14 GMT

Effective Interface Design

Building a user friendly application is more than just the layout of your forms. It is a combination of how data is organized, captured and displayed. Conveying information to the user without making them think. This session will discuss some practical design principles that you can use to apply to your user interfaces. Please note this is not a code centric presentation.

When: Thursday, October 15th; Food @ 6pm; Presentation @ 6:30pm

Where: Vaco

Speaker: John Kellar, Microsoft MVP

About John Kellar:

John Kellar is the Director of Software Development and Consulting with Useful Devices. In addition to being Founder and Chairman of the devLink Technical Conference, he is a member of the Nashville .NET User Group Board of Directors and a speaker at technical events. John has worked on solutions in several markets including healthcare, government, financial services and manufacturing. John has also been recognized as a Microsoft MVP in Visual C#.

Getting to Vaco:

VACO, LLC
Highwoods Plaza I (Signage out front says Aspect - Cogent)
Suite 460 (4th floor)
5410 Maryland Way
Brentwood, TN 37027
(615) 324-8226

Call for Speakers

Admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:04:46 GMT

Yes, you read the title correctly. We are looking for speakers.

We are planning to have a round of lightning talks for our November meeting (pencil in 11/12). This means we want YOU to speak.

Here's how it works. You send us a submission for a 10 minute talk on the topic of your choosing (your favorite framework, a demo of a cool development product, things you think all developers should know, why you are the best developer in Nashville, etc), and we will pick the most interesting 6 talks from the group. Then, during our November meeting, we will give each selected presenter 10 minutes in front of the group to speak.

If you have an idea, don't be shy. Just shoot an email to me (evan at evanhoff dot com) with a quick note including a title for your talk and a couple of sentences describing the content.

.NET Geek Dinner Tonight

Admin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:14:56 GMT

After some very last minute planning, I'm happy to announce that we will be having a .NET Geek Dinner tonight. This was planned very last minute, so I apologize in advance to those who need more notice. Brian Prince, Architect Evangelist for Microsoft, will be in town, and this is your chance to get together with Brian and your fellow .NET geeks here in Nashville. This is strictly a social event, so there will not be any type of presentation. When: Today, Monday the 28th Where: 7pm @ Boscos in Cool Springs What: Food, Beer, and Conversation Hope to see you there! Evan About Brian H. Prince: Website: http://www.brianhprince.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/brianhprince About Boscos: Website: http://www.boscosbeer.com/ Location: http://boscosbeer.com/coolsprings/story/

Web Developer Group September Meeting (9/24)

Admin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:31:48 GMT

Join us at this month's Web Developer Group meeting for a presentation on Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC & jQuery. We'll be providing dinner catered by Chicken Nick's and give out prizes at the end of the evening.

Speaker: Elijah Manor
Elijah is a software developer a Sommet Group. His blog, Web Dev .NET, can be found at http://elijahmanor.com/.

Topic: Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC & jQuery
jQuery is a great JavaScript framework and complements ASP.NET MVC greatly. We will explore how to integrate jQuery into Visual Studio for intellisense, examine some impressive jQuery Plugins, and then review a handful of helpful browser tools and bookmarklets

Date: September 24th
Food served at 6pm. Presentation starts at 6:30pm.

Where:
VACO, LLC
Highwoods Plaza I (Signage out front says Aspect - Cogent)
Suite 460 (4th floor)
5410 Maryland Way
Brentwood, TN 37027
(615) 324-822

September Meeting Reminder

Admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:35:46 GMT

Topic: Complex Event Processing and SQL Server StreamInsight
Date: Thursday, Sept 17th
Time: Food @ 6pm; Presentation @ 6:30pm
Location: Vaco (Additional Info Below)
Speaker: Evan Hoff

One of the most exciting new features in SQL Server 2008 R2 is Microsoft's new Complex Event Processing (CEP) engine. In this talk we will look at example usages for CEP in enterprise applications, an overview of Microsoft's CEP engine, and the basics of using it with your application.

At the end of this talk, you should have a high level understanding of both CEP and StreamInsight.

http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/R2-complex-event.aspx

Getting to Vaco:

VACO, LLC
Highwoods Plaza I (Signage out front says Aspect - Cogent)
Suite 460 (4th floor)
5410 Maryland Way
Brentwood, TN 37027
(615) 324-8226