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Hey Folks!

It’s election time!  Nominees will be announced at the next CINNUG meeting.  We will also vote for the new directors. 

Elections will also be held at the next CINNUG meeting, October 26^th.   

• Eligibility to vote/be elected:
  
• Attended 3+ of last 6 meetings (including October)

In addition to director nominations, Marcus King will be here to give us an introduction to Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP).  Marcus King is a Software Engineer for http://mycontent.com, a web startup company.

Suganthi Giridharan will give a grok on creating animation using Expression Blend. 

The CINNUG team

What's in this Newsletter?

• October CinArc - 10/21/10
• October CINNUG - 10/26/10
• November BitSlingers - 11/01/10
• Southwest Ohio Give Camp - 10/22/10 - 10/24/10
• NWA Code Camp - 10/23/10
• 2010 Dog Food Conference - 11/04/10 & 11/05/10
• Microsoft Certified Career Conference - 11/18/10
• Our sponsors - they pay for the pizza

UPCOMING MEETINGS:

October CinArc
Thursday, October 21^st - 6:00PM - MAX Technical Training - Mason, OH 

Come join this new special interest group as we discuss topics related to software architecture. 

This meeting is run using an open discussion or open 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!

As usual, pizza will be provided at no charge thanks to our sponsors!

October CINNUG - Introduction to Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) by Marcus King
Tuesday, October 26^th - 6:00PM; Social Time - 5:30PM - MAX Technical Training - Mason, OH

Marcus King will discuss Aspect-Oriented Programming. 

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) is an approach to software development that goes further in the direction of separation of concerns. Separation of concerns is one of the most important rules in software development. It states that the same concern should be solved in a single unit of code. This is also called modularization.

Some concerns cannot be implemented successfully using a pure procedural or object-oriented programming. An example is code security. If you want to secure objects and methods, you have to modify the code of each method. That's why security is said to be a crosscutting concern, because it crosscuts the unit of modularization of the programming paradigm, in this case the class.

An aspect is a concern that cross-cuts many classes and/or methods. So AOP is a technique that allows you to address issues that cross-cuts objects. AOP is frequently used to implement caching, tracing, security or failure injections.

Suganthi Giridharan will give a grok on creating animation using Expression Blend.  She will show some practical examples of animations that can be used in business applications to provide better user experience.

November BitSlingers
Monday, November 1^st - 6:00PM- Panera Bread - Mason Montgomery - Mason, OH

What is BitSlingers?

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 a time set aside for people to pair.

The meetup officially kicks off at 6:00PM, 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.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Southwest Ohio Give Camp
Friday, October 22^nd thru Sunday, October 24^th - Miami VOALC - West Chester, OH

Give Camp is a weekend-long event where software developers, designers, and database administrators donate their time to create custom software for non-profit organizations. The only limitation is that the project should be scoped to be able to be completed in a weekend.

If you are a developer/designer/project manager looking to make a difference and use your skills to assist others, this is the place to be October 22, 23, 24, 2010! Please visit the Volunteer section to get signed up!

NWA Code Camp
Saturday, October 23^rd - 8:00AM to 5:30PM - Tyson World Headquarters - Springdale, AR

This year the Northwest Arkansas Code Camp is aligning this event with the Tyson Development Conference, a 2 day internal conference for Tyson Foods. 

Tyson is sponsoring this event by providing the venue and keeping some speakers from their conference another night so they can present at this event.

This year we will celebrate the growth of our community with the addition of new tracks for Project Managers, Designers, and more.

2010 Dog Food Conference
Thursday, November 18^th & Friday, November 19^th - Microsoft Office - Columbus, OH

This is a local conference by community IT professionals showcasing Microsoft technologies.

There will speakers will be from MS Gold Certified Partners, MS MVPs, IT authors, community leads, and MS Corp subject matter experts.

There will be designated areas for hardware demos from HP, Polycom, Dell and Windows Phone 7. 

Agenda and schedule for hardware demos at download agenda links.

Register now at http://www.dogfoodcon.com/dogfood/registrationForm.html.

Microsoft Certified Career Conference
Thursday, November 18^th - Virtual Event

On November 18^th, jump-start, re-start, or catalyze your career at the Microsoft Certified Career Conference.

The Microsoft Career Conference is a virtual event for anyone where you can meet potential employers, hone your technical knowledge, acquire job-seeking skills, network with fellow professionals, and glean career advice from real-life experts in the field.

Highlights include:

• Career Fair - Meet employers seeking technically skilled professionals
• "Soft Skills" sessions - Learn resume-writing secrets, interviewing tips, marketing yourself in a digital world, and more
• Technical sessions for IT Professionals, Developers, and Office power users based on Microsoft Official Courses, delivered by MCTs and courseware authors
• People and Technology - How new and upcoming technologies present career challenges-and opportunities
• Exam review sessions - Prepare for your MCP and MOS certification exams
• And more-join our Facebook event page for agenda and speaker updates as they happen