Ken Baum gave his talk on the Web Client Software Factory from the Microsoft Patterns and Practices group. If you're an ASP.Net developer you should at least download the bits and take a look. Ken's slide deck can be found on our downloads site.
Attendance (38): This was a great month on attendance. We are very interested in growing the group, so please bring your colleagues. If you blog, please start blogging about the group (if you aren't already).
Announcements
- DevCares Event - DevCares is going to a quarterly meeting schedule. They will meet on February 8th at MAX. I was incorrect on the topic in the last newsletter. The topics will be: "How Hackers Hack, and How to Stop Them" and "Building Office Business Applications using VS 2008".
[https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=123889]
- MSDN Event - February 5th at the Deerfield Towne Center Regal Cinema. The topics will be IIS 7 and Extending ASP.Net 2.0 Application Services.[Http://www.shrinkster.com/tww]
- CinySQL - Next meeting will be January 22nd. The topic will be SQL Functions. Check out http://www.cincysql.org for more information.
- ArcReady Event - ArcReady is back in Cincinnati on March 3rd at 9:00 AM at the Microsoft Mason office. The topic this quarter is "Service Lifecycle Management". [Http://www.shrinkster.com/twv]
- Code Camp 2008 - The third annual Cincinnati - Dayton Code Camp will be on April 19th at the Roberts Centre in Wilmington, OH. This is a new venue for us, but will give us a lot more space. Look for more information on this soon.
2008 Annual Sponsors
We've almost maxed out our 2008 annual sponsorship! So far we have all of our 2007 sponsors continuing to help us out: IBS, SDS and Robert Half. We have two new sponsors for 2008, but I can only mention one at this time: Resurgent Capital Services. Annual sponsors provide financial support for the User Group so that we can continue to operate as a free organization for our members. If you get a chance to thank our sponsors, please do.
We have three honorary annual sponsors which provide some service to the group. MAX Technical Training provides the meeting space every month and has since we were founded! JetBrains provides copies of ReSharper to give away at every meeting. Finally, Server Intellect provides our web hosting.
Next Month - February 19th, 6:00 PM at MAX
You asked for it! Well, one of you did anyway....a topic on comparing various source control applications and best practices in using them.
This will be a very interactive meeting, so bring your questions about source control! We'll have three panel members who between the three of them have experience with VSS, TFS, Harvest, ClearCase, Vault and Subversion.
Speakers: Mike Shields, Justin Kohnen and Nino Benvenuti