This month we had a panel discussion on "Software Development as a Career" as our main presentation. Ed Sumerfield, Tim Apke and Jim Holmes were kind enough to sit on the panel and answer questions for the attendees. This is the second panel discussion we have done with the group and I think they go pretty well. As this was an open discussion there are no slides or materials from this month's meeting.
If you attended the meeting and have some feedback please post it to the Meetings board on this meeting's thread.
Attendance (47): Average attendance continues to grow! I would really like to have an average of 50/month at the end of the year. Please keep pestering your co-workers to come and blogging (if you have one) about the group.
Announcements:
- Starting in June our monthly meetings will shift to the Fourth Tuesday of every month (switching nights with CincySQL).
- The last local Heroes Happen Here launch events is being hosted by CincySQL. Topics will include SQL Server 2008 & VS.NET 2008 @ MAX Train on May 27th. http://www.shrinkster.com/vwy
- Regional Conference: devLINK. This two day conference is a cross-discipline event which features tracks for DBAs, Developers, Project Managers, Architects and Business Analysts. The event is August 22nd and 23rd in Murfeesboro, TN (outside of Nashville). http://www.devlink.net.
- Regional Event: CodeStock. This is much like a Day of .NET or Code Camp. The date is Saturday, August 9th. http://www.codestock.org.
- Local Event: CiNPA Technical Fair. Saturday, May 31st at the Cincinnati State Technical College. http://shrinkster.com/y80 (that's a zero).
- Starting in June our monthly meetings will shift to the Fourth Tuesday of every month (switching nights with CincySQL) (yes I know I repeated this...but it's important!)
- Pluralsight and Microsoft are putting on a half-day presentation on the "Next Web Roadshow". There will be topics on WPF, Silverlight and ASP.NET. Find out more and register at http://shrinkster.com/ycd.
- Save the date of Wednesday, July 9th from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM. The Dayton .NET Developers Group and CINNUG are hosting an Open Spaces event at MAX Training in Mason. Look for more information to come on this.
Next Month:
CINNUG: Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC (Tuesday, June 24th)
Are you finally tired of trying to maintain state in your web forms? The event model and page lifecycle finally pushed you too far? Fear not, ASP.Net MVC is on its way. In this talk we'll investigate getting started with the MVC Framework, how it differs from Web Forms, and all with an eye towards TDD.
Presented by: Tim Wingfield
Tim has been involved in web design and development for over 10 years. For the last three years Tim has been a developer with the Business Solutions Group at Quick Solutions Inc. in Columbus, OH. Tim has a wide range of knowledge in .Net but focuses on the user interface and the user experience in ASP.Net applications. He has been involved with many successful projects for clients in health care, government, and consumer services, among others. In what time is left over, Tim enjoys coaching his sons' hockey teams and playing a little hockey himself.
The CINNUG meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 24th at 6:00 PM at MAX Technical Training in Mason, OH.