Presentations

Feb 2010 - Python 101

MikeWo — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:22:58 GMT

Python 101 for the .NET Developer: 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. By the end of this session, you'll have an idea of what Python is, why you should know it as a developer and specifically as a .NET developer, and how to get setup and write a basic app in both Python and IronPython.

Presented by: Sarah Dutkiewicz
Sarah Dutkiewicz is a self-admitted programming language addict, having done work in PHP, Visual Basic, FoxPro, VBA, VB.NET, JavaScript, and C#. Outside of the office, she's been tinkering with Python and IronPython since January 2007, having presented on Python and IronPython at events such as the Cleveland Day of .NET, Software Freedom Day - Cleveland 2008, and notably PyCon 2009. She also served as the publicity lead for the 2009 PyOhio, a two day conference on all things Python. In addition to this technical blog at http://www.codinggeekette.com, Sarah maintains a community site at http://www.clevelandtechevents.com/. She is a Microsoft MVP in Visual C#.

Jan 2010 - Intro to DVCS with Mercurial with Nino

MikeWo — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:12:06 GMT

Nino covered distributed source control with Mercurial.

Jan 2010 - MEF by David Giard

MikeWo — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:47:03 GMT

Microsoft Managed Extensibility (MEF) framework allows developers to create applications consisting of composable parts. Composable parts provide the flexibility to change and add parts at runtime. You can use MEF to create more flexible and extensible applications. In this session, we will review the MEF tool set, build an extensible application and extend that application using MEF.

Speakers

David Giard has been developing solutions using Microsoft technologies since 1993. In the past, he has spoken at Day of .Net, CodeStock, Microsoft DevCares, Microsoft ArcReady, Dot Net University, X Conference and numerous user groups around the Midwest. He is a recovering certification addict and holds an MCTS, MCSD, MCSE, and MCDBA, as well as a BS and an MBA. He is the host and producer of the moderately popular online TV show Technology and Friends, which you can find at www.TechnologyAndFriends.com. He is an officer of the Great Lakes Area .Net User Group. You can read his latest thoughts at www.DavidGiard.com.

Parallel Tour 2009 - Stephen Toub

MikeWo — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:19:09 GMT

With the .NET Framework today, correctly introducing concurrency and parallelism into libraries and applications is difficult, time consuming, and error-prone. However, as the hardware industry shifts towards multi-core and manycore processors, the key to high-performance applications is parallelism. The .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010 offer solutions to help make coding, debugging, and profiling concurrent applications significantly easier. In this talk, we’ll examine Parallel LINQ-to-Objects (PLINQ), the Task Parallel Library (TPL), new coordination and synchronization types, and Visual Studio tooling support in order to provide a look at the next generation of parallel programming with .NET.

Stephen Toub is a Senior Program Manager Lead on the Parallel Computing Platform team at Microsoft, where he spends his days focusing on the next generation of programming models and runtimes for concurrency, parallelism, and asynchrony. Stephen is also a Contributing Editor for MSDN® Magazine, for which he writes the .NET Matters column, and he’s an avid speaker at conferences like PDC, TechEd, and DevConnections. Prior to working on the Parallel Computing Platform, Stephen designed and built enterprise applications for companies such as GE, McGraw-Hill, BankOne, and JetBlue. He was a developer for Microsoft Outlook as well as for the Microsoft Office Solution Accelerators.

Agent Service Pattern - John Galioto

MikeWo — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:55:36 GMT

John Galioto gave a short grok talk on the Agent Service Pattern in April 2009.

March 2009 - Alan Stevens - Coding in Public

MikeWo — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:41:03 GMT

Alan Stevens gave an excellent talk about how to go beyond the "advanced beginner" point in your skills. The link will take you to his SlideShare account site, but if you want to see a recorded version of the talk check out http://vimeo.com/3898804. This was a recording taken at the Central Ohio .NET User Group two nights after our meeting.

March 2009 - Chris Poteet on UX Design

MikeWo — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:28:49 GMT

Chris Poteet came to CINNUG to give a grok talk on User Experience (UX) for developers.

Feb 2009 - Scott Walker - Production Debugging

MikeWo — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:29:26 GMT

This session explores tools and techniques to resolve software defects occurring in production environments in the most efficient and least disruptive fashion. We will cover the basics of using tools such as WinDBG, SOS and ADPLUS (amongst others) to explore some common types of application defects such as crashes and memory leaks. We will also briefly touch upon some tools and processes for streamlining your internal debugging process.

Presented by: Scott Walker

Scott Walker is a Team Lead with TDCI Inc. Scott is currently leading two teams at TDCI. One responsible for the development of the BuyDesign Channel Sales quoting solution, and the other responsible for third level customer support activities. He has been working with .NET since the first release candidate version and has been involved in development of enterprise level web and desktop applications for the law enforcement, banking, and manufacturing industries. He is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD.NET).

October 2008 - Matt Casto Silverlight Talk

skimedic — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:09:46 GMT

October 2008 - Visitor Pattern Grok Talk

skimedic — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:07:37 GMT

Sept 2008 - Intro to PLINQ - Mike Wood

MikeWo — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:28:58 GMT

Doing More with Less (PLINQ)

Have you ever wanted to code less and get more work done? Wouldn't it be cool if the tools we used just understood what we wanted to do and then adapted to the runtime environment to get the work done as efficiently as possible? With the increase in the number of cores on a processor it is becoming more important to take advantage of the available resources; however, coding for the various runtime scenarios can be quite painful. Tools like Parallel LINQ (PLINQ) can let developers provide the declarative instructions for an operation and the tool can determine how best to use the available processor cores. Come see an introduction to PLINQ and see how you can get more work done with less code.

Sept2008- Adding Maps To Your Apps by Narayana Yeluru

MikeWo — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:27:02 GMT

Narayana gave a grok talk on adding both Google Maps and MS Virtual Earth to your applications. His download materials includes the demo code, his presentation and a read me file indicating where you can get your own API keys to try out these cool services.

August-2008 Code Analysis by Jim Holmes

MikeWo — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:19:16 GMT

In August 2008 Jim Holmes gave a "grok talk" on Code Analysis. He described a few code metrics and demonstrated a few tools that can help gather those metrics. The slide deck has resources and URLs for the tools embedded in it.

April 2008 - What is LINQ and why you would use it

MikeWo — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:17:44 GMT

This came from our Heroes Happen Here Community Launch event for Visual Studio 2008. Stefan Kyntchev presnted this talk that was touted by many as the best introduction to LINQ they had heard!

April 2008 Dan Hounshell and What's New in ASP.NET 3.5

MikeWo — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:14:36 GMT

This came from our Community Heroes Happen Here Launch event. Dan Hounshell presented "What's New in ASP.NET 3.5"