The 2008 Membership Drive ends this month and you have three oportunities to
pick up chances to win! Come to the special event, CinARC and CINNUG meetings to get chances. Don't forget to bring
a friend and have them indicate they brought you when they sign in. It gets you more chances to win!
The drawing will be held at the end of the CINNUG meeting on the 25th. You
must be present to win.
Giveaways this year:
And the big winner will get a 1 year Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite
with MSDN Premium Subscription. Yep, that's right, the big prize is a
year's subscription to the highest level of MSDN you can get worth $10,939 MSRP!
Now that's a cool prize to get just for coming to some meetings.
Special Event (Monday, November 17th at MAX Technical
Training in Mason 6:00 PM)
The phrase “drive quality upstream” has been abused so badly by ALM software
vendors that it has to be relegated to the platitude junk pile along with such
all time favorites as “work smarter not harder,” “think outside the box,” and
“synergistic leveraging of code reuse.” Before we drive quality anywhere,
we need to give quality a seat at the table. VSTS Rosario release will do this
by automatically gathering critical information about the project and code and
making that data available when, where and to whom it is needed. During this
discussion we will examine how Rosario impacts quality across the application
lifecycle by:
- Allowing testers to provide developers with details about what the code did
instead of just providing the details about what the tester did.
- Allowing development leads and architects to visualize and understand their
current code (not the code they wish they had, but the code they really have) so
that they can minimize the impact of changes; and
- Allowing developers to understand the impact of their changes in terms of
affected tests, concurrency and bounds checking.
The Rosario release of VSTS will bring all project stakeholders together to
allow richer information to be shared across every role to make software quality
accessible and achievable.
Presented by Mark Mydland
Mark Mydland is a Group Manager for the Visual Studio Team Edition for Software
Testers product at Microsoft. In the past 12 years, Mark has worked as a
developer and consultant across a wide variety of applications and industries.
Mark first joined Microsoft in 2001 working as a member of the Natural
Interactive Services Division (NISD). During his time in that group, Mark
was the development manager for a team focused on analytics for assessing the
efficacy of natural language interpreters with a particular emphasis on driving
authoring simplification and relevance quality for user assistance. Based
on this work, Mark filed numerous patents and coauthored a paper for the SIGIR
journal. In 2004, Mark left Microsoft to work as a Director of Development
at Getty Images where he led a change in process from a traditional waterfall
methodology to a scrum-based agile approach which brought the release frequency
from 12-18 months down to 1 month. Since Getty made extensive use of VSTS,
it seemed a natural fit for Mark to join VSTS on his return to Microsoft in
2006. Mark received his B.S. from West Point in 1991. He has also
held positions with USWeb/marchFirst and Andersen Consulting/Accenture.
The Mark Mydland tour meeting will be held on Monday, November 17th at 6:00 PM at
MAX Technical Training
in Mason, OH.
CinARC Meeting (Thursday, November 20th)
Please Note the new Day - Third Thursday of Every Month
starting in November
Come join this new special interest group as we discuss topics related to
software architecture. This meeting is run using the fishbowl technique
where the attendees are encouraged to share their thoughts with everyone while
keeping the meeting from becoming a free for all. :) What topic will we
cover? Well, that's up to the attendees! Here are some topics
that will be considered for the evening's discussions:
- Identity Management
- Architecting for a Virtual environment
- ORM is for CRUD ONLY
- Making outsourcing work
- Does authorization belong in the domain model
- When and how to push back on a feature
- Architect as a leader
- Leveraging the cloud
If you have a strong opinion about any of these topics, have a topic you'd like
to suggest, or want to learn more about the topics then make sure you swing by
the meeting.
The CinARC meeting will be held on Thursday, November 20th at 6:00 PM at
MAX Technical Training
in Mason, OH.
CINNUG: RESTing on the Web with WCF (Tuesday, Novmeber 25th)
.Net 3.5 ushered in a new Web Programming Model for Wcf which extended the library to support REST, Json, and Syndication. This session will dive into what this new model has to offer and how you can use it to extend the reach and scalability of your applications.
Presented by: Dan Rigsby
Dan Rigsby is a Lead Software Engineer for
Interactive Intelligence in Indianapolis,
Indiana where he has been since March of 2000. Dan has been an avid .Net
developer since late 2001 starting with ASP.Net, but today concentrates on SOA,
Wcf, smart client applications, and a host of other areas. Dan is very active in
the community as a developer, speaker, blogger, officer at
IndyNDA, and 5 star moderator on the MSDN
forums for Wcf. He is always eager to help out others when he can and has been
awarded the Microsoft MVP award for his work with Connected Systems in Wcf.
As a
certified ScrumMaster, Dan has been involved in
agile techniques and project management. Read more about Dan and development
adventures at
http://www.danrigsby.com/ or connect with him on
Twitter or
Facebook.
Grok Talk:
The Grok talk will be given by Mike Levy. He'll be recapping some
information that was announced at last month's Professional Developer Conference
(PDC).
The CINNUG meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 25th at 6:00 PM at
MAX Technical Training in Mason, OH.