Zachariah Young

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VAN: An evening of Questions and Sharing of group opinions regarding DDD pragmatic concepts facilitated by David Laribee July 22, 2009

zpyoung.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (zachariahyoung) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:13:52 -1200

Topic

In the spirit of Open Spaces we will be bringing in David Laribee to facilitate a discussion of opinions on Domain Driven Design.

Who is Dave?

He is a coach for the product development team at VersionOne. He has 12 years experience designing and developing enterprise applications and coaching Agile teams. David has worked on internal IT, product development, consulting, and rapid prototyping teams across a wide variety of industries. David is a frequent speaker at local and national developer events. He was awarded a Microsoft Architecture MVP for 2007 and 2008 and writes about Agile and Lean methods, coaching, and software design on the CodeBetter blog network.

Meeting Details

Times below are Central Daylight Time
Start Time: Wed, July 22, 2009 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
End Time: Wed, July 22, 2009 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
Attendee URL: Attend the meeting (Live Meeting)

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VAN: Jean-Paul Sylvain Boodhoo in Town for July 15

zpyoung.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (zachariahyoung) — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:21:00 -1200

Lets discuss elements of our jobs...environments..and even personalities which can prevent us from achieving levels of productivity that we strive for but all to often fail to meet. I hope to offer suggestions that can remove the brakes and add the much needed nitrous oxide that can propel us forward.

JP is an independent consultant that spends most of my days helping teams realize success throught the adoption and applicaiton of pragmatic development practices.

JP has a passion for sharing information with the development community which he does primarily through training and secondarily with my blog.

When not developing he can be found relaxing with his amazing wife and his four beautiful kids.

Central Daylight Time

Start Time: Wed, July 15, 2009 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours

End Time: Wed, July 15, 2009 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours

Attendee URL: http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet (Live Meeting)

Virtual ALT.NET (VAN) is the online gathering place of the ALT.NET community. Through conversations, presentations, pair programming and dojos, we strive to improve, explore, and challenge the way we create software. Using net conferencing technology such as Skype and LiveMeeting, we hold regular meetings, open to anyone, usually taking the form of a presentation or an Open Space Technology-style conversation.

Please see the Calendar to find a VAN group that meets at a time convenient to you, and feel welcome to join a meeting. Past sessions can be found on the Recording page.

To stay informed about VAN activities, you can subscribe to the Virtual ALT.NET Google Group and follow the Virtual ALT.NET blog.

VAN: Jean-Paul Sylvain Boodhoo in Town for July 15

zpyoung.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (zachariahyoung) — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:20:07 -1200

JP is an independent consultant that spends most of my days helping teams realize success throught the adoption and applicaiton of pragmatic development practices.

JP has a passion for sharing information with the development community which he does primarily through training and secondarily with my blog.

When not developing he can be found relaxing with my amazing wife and our four beautiful kids.

Central Daylight Time

Start Time: Web, July 15, 2009 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours

End Time: Web, July 15, 2009 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours

Attendee URL: http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet (Live Meeting)

Please see the Calendar to find a VAN group that meets at a time convenient to you, and feel welcome to join a meeting. Past sessions can be found on the Recording page.

To stay informed about VAN activities, you can subscribe to the Virtual ALT.NET Google Group and follow the Virtual ALT.NET blog.

VAN: Web Development using Castle with Ryan Svihla

zpyoung.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (zachariahyoung) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:08:00 -1200

Please see the Calendar to find a VAN group that meets at a time convenient to you, and feel welcome to join a meeting. Past sessions can be found on the Recording page.

To stay informed about VAN activities, you can subscribe to the Virtual ALT.NET Google Group and follow the Virtual ALT.NET blog.

Ryan Svihla has been working as a C# developer Farm Bureau Bank in San Antonio since September 2007. Before that he worked as a Consultant in Lincoln, NE for 3 years, where he had working experience with Php, some Perl, Python and of course C#. Attempting Agile since early 2008 as an eager student with a focus on making programming more useful and relevant for the end user.

Have a look at the first popular MVC .Net based web framework. Also will be covering persistence with ActiveRecord, and view templates using Brail. Bonus, will demo a plug-in framework for building CMS like applications.

Central Daylight Time

Start Time: Web, July 8, 2009 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours

End Time: Web, July 8, 2009 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours

Attendee URL: http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet (Live Meeting)

This is for Randy Walker

zpyoung.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (zachariahyoung) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:28:52 -1200

Give VAN some BUZZ

zpyoung.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (zachariahyoung) — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:45:52 -1200

Ok everybody, I want to ask everyone to create a little BUZZ for VAN. Starting Sunday I want everyone to do something to get the word about what we are doing with VAN. There are still thousands of people who have never heard of Virtual ALT.NET.

I feel the best way get to the word out is by word of mouth. The following list is just some examples of what you could do. You might choose to do all of them, or just one. Maybe you have other ways. Be sure to include Virtual ALT.NET in your message. Also create a Google Alert and let’s see what happens this week.

Write a blog about what is Virtual ALT.NET
Write a blog about Virtual ALT.NET becoming an INETA usergroup.
Write a blog about an upcoming event.
Write a blog about a past event you attended.
Send a tweet to your friends inventing them to attend the next meeting.
Tweet about the next meeting.
Tweet about us being a new INETA group.
Tweet, Tweet, Tweet, Tweet, Tweet anything about Virtual ALT.NET.
Start a discussion on you favorite email group about Virtual ALT.NET.
. Start a discussion on you favorite Facebook group about Virtual ALT.NET.
. Start a discussion on you favorite Linkedin group about Virtual ALT.NET
Send out an email to your local user group.
Tell someone at work about Virtual ATL.NET

What other ways can we use to get the word out about Virtual ALT.NET?

Virtual ALT.NET is an official INETA user group

zpyoung.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (zachariahyoung) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:12:40 -1200

On May 21th INETA approved Virtual ALT.NET as an official INETA user group. INETA provides structured, peer-based organizational, educational, and promotional support to the growing worldwide community of Microsoft® .NET user groups. At first I was thinking that I would not register VAN as a group with INETA. But after talking with a few people I respect in the community I was encouraged to register VAN with INETA. With this recognition we will be able benefit from a few of the following items.

We will be able to request INETA speakers to speak to our different VAN groups. Since the current speaker bureau for North America does have a lot ALT.NET speakers currently, I'm hoping we can bridge the gap between North America INETA and the other INETA groups to bring in different speakers cross the global.

Currently I'm using the LiveMeeting account that was provide to our local user group. By having our own I will be able to let others have access to our own livemeeting account. One of the task that I have been doing is posting the recordings, by having our own I could delegete this task to others in VAN leadership.

The website that we have created is currently hosted on my personal account at godaddy. One of the benefits of being an INETA user group is being able to take advange of some the free web hosting offer to user groups. Now that we are an official INETA user group I plan on moving the site to one of hosting providers that offer free hosting to use groups. With this I would be able to also delegete the website constructions to others.

The overhead for maintain our VAN groups is almost at zero cost. But we have had a few expenses, one is the domain name that I purchased. This was only $10.00 but I would like to be refunded at some point and also be able to pay for the domain in the future. With INETA recognition we can request funds to pay for this and other needs we might have. I have also thought about have a graphic designer create a really cool logo.

VAN Meeting with Ryan Svihla on the Castle Project

zpyoung.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (zachariahyoung) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:23:52 -1200

Ryan will be doing a two part series on the Castle Project. Mark your calendar for some Castle Project fun.

IoC and Dip through Castle Windsor

Ever wonder what acronyms like IoC and Dip mean? If you know what they mean do you wonder why anyone would use them in code? This talk aims to deal primarily with those two questions through the use of Castle Windsor IoC container. Intermediate level C# material with a couple of more advanced demos at the end for fun and pleasure.

Central Daylight Time

Start Time: Web, July 1, 2009 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours

End Time: Web, July 1, 2009 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours

Attendee URL: http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet (Live Meeting)

Web Development with Castle Monorail, Active Record and Brail view engine

Central Daylight Time

Start Time: Web, July 8, 2009 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours

End Time: Web, July 8, 2009 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours

Attendee URL: http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet (Live Meeting)

Introduction to DDD with Steve Bohlen on June 10

zpyoung.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (zachariahyoung) — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:10:00 -1200

This session will introduce the concepts, approaches, and
considerations that DDD brings to the table. We will define the
concepts, understand the terminology, and explore the role that DDD
plays in developing a software solution. In the follow-on discussion,
we will be able to discuss issues such as "when is DDD appropriate for
a software solution?" and "is it possible to use just *some* of the
DDD concepts effectively without applying them all at once?".

Central Standard Time (CST)

Start Time: Web, June 10, 2009 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours

End Time: Web, June 10, 2009 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours

Attendee URL: http://snipr.com/virtualaltnet (Live Meeting)

Find more details at virtualaltnet.com

LiveMeeting Training at Community Clips

zpyoung.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (zachariahyoung) — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:06:41 -1200

Just read this blog post from Julie Yack. Which sent me to this blog post by John McClelland. From this I learned, that Microsoft has a site called Community Clips. This site host videos training for Microsoft Office products.

The following 16 videos, available today on Community Clips, will help improve your overall experience with Live Meeting as you connect more often with us and your customers online.

1. How to use WebCam Video in a meeting

2. How to share your desktop in a meeting

3. Troubleshoot : Live Meeting 2007 Add-In toolbar doesn't show up in Outlook

4. Meeting Attendee : How to Join a Meeting

5. Meeting Presenter: How to manage Q & A feature

6. How to upload content in a meeting

7. Join Meeting Error : The meeting has not started yet OR The meeting has ended

8. Join Meeting Error : Unable to download or Page could not be opened or displayed

9. Steps to install the latest Windows Console for Live Meeting 2007

10. Meeting Presenter: How to use chat feature

11. Meeting Attendee: How to use handout feature

12. How to use Shared Notes feature in a meeting