Hey Folks!
Our first social gathering was a success! We had several members arriving early to socialize with fellow members before the meeting.
We had a good turn-out this month. David Giard gave us a great introduction to Microsoft's Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF). He also gave us a crash course on the differences between MEF and Dependency Injection.
Nino Benvenuti groked on Mercurial distributed source code.
The CINNUG team
What’s in this Newsletter?
• February CINNUG
• February CinArc
• March BitSlingers
• TechNet and MSDN Events
• Our sponsors – they pay for the pizza
February CINNUG – Python 101 for the .Net Developer by Sarah Dutkiewicz
Tuesday, February 23rd 6:00PM (Social time starts at 5:30PM) at MAX Technical Training in Mason, OH
The first part of the session will cover the basics of Python - its history, how its data structures compare to the those we're familiar with in the primary .NET languages, its strong and weak points, who's using it, and why you as a developer - both generally speaking and as a .NET developer - should care about Python.
The second part of the session will get into the demos - starting with some basic Python scripts and getting into IronPython scripts, if time allows.
February CinArc
Thursday, February 18th - 6:00PM at MAX Technical Training in Mason, OH
This CinArc we are breaking from the norm and will have a guest speaker. Mark Harris from Microsoft will talk to us about how Microsoft ships software. The first portion of the evening Mark will present the flow of development at Microsoft and, after pizza, we'll start with open discussion.
As usual, pizza will be provided at no charge thanks to our sponsors !
March Bitslingers
Monday, March 1st - 6:00PM at Panera Bread on Mason Montgomery in Mason, OH
What is Bitsligners? This is an informal meetup of people interested in learning from one another. Bring your laptop and pair up with someone to work on an open source project, learn a new technique, or even dabble in a new language. There is no agenda or specific topic, just an time set aside for people to pair.
The meetup officially kicks off at 6:00 PM, but lasts until the last pair breaks up, or they kick us out. Feel free to come and join us for as long, or as short, of a time as you want to.
NOTE: There will be no food provided, but hey, we're at Panera.
TechNet and MSDN Events
March 2, 2010 – Microsoft Offices – Mason, OH
1. Windows Azure, Hyper-V and Windows 7 Deployment presented by TechNet Events - 8:30AM to 12:00PM. Register information.
2. Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0 & SharePoint Development presented by MSDN Events - 1:00PM to 4:30PM. Register information.
Join your local MSDN Events team for a lively tour of our latest version of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. We’ll start with an overview the IDE and explore how you can use the latest features to develop great applications in a flash. Next, we’ll look at the newest changes to the .NET Framework and how you can leverage them today. Finally, we end the day by looking at the new tools in Visual Studio that will supercharge your SharePoint development.