A few new things have cropped up since our May Recap newsletter that I wanted to share prior to the June meeting.
June Special Event: XNA & Robotic Studio with Bill Steele! (Thursday, June 19th)
If you like to tinker with electronics or are interested in learning how you can code games for your PC, Xbox 360 or Zune then you won't want to miss the CINNUG Special Event this month! Bill Steele from Microsoft will be giving us an introduction on XNA and Robotics Studio. This special event is for the hobbyist in all of us and while it most likely won't lead you to that break through answer at work it will be a lot of fun! There will be two presentations with food (yes, pizza) served between them.
Since this will occur before our next meeting please help me spread the word by forwarding this information on to your co-workers and friends who may be interested.
The June Special Event will be held on Thursday, June 19th at 6:00 PM at MAX Technical Training in Mason, OH.
Other Announcements:
- Please remember that starting in June our monthly meetings will shift to the Fourth Tuesday of every month (switching nights with CincySQL).
- Would you like to give to charities but don't have the cash? What about sharing your coding or design skills instead? Check out the Ann Arbor Give Camp! On July 11th-13th developers from around the Heartland district will be coding to help charities.
- Speaking of giving to charity. Do you have some older hardware that you want to get rid of? Stacey at MAX Train has been working with a charity to get computers to needy kids locally as well as to class rooms in 3rd world countries. If you have some old hardware you'd like to donate be sure to talk to Stacey the next time you're at MAX.
- devLINK bus! If you are interested in going to devLINK, but don't feel like driving there is a bus-share being organized by Amanda Laucher. Let me know at admin@cinnug.org if you are interested and I'll get your name to Amanda.
- 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.
- Starting with the July CinArc meeting the SIG will meet monthly on the second Tuesday of every month! Thanks to MAX Technical Training for again providing us a space and night to meet. Next time you're in MAX be sure to thank Stacey for her time.
- The Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) has opened registration! This is a huge conference out in LA that is only held when Microsoft has big announcements to make. http://www.microsoftpdc.com
June Meeting:
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 June CINNUG meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 24th at 6:00 PM at MAX Technical Training in Mason, OH.