 Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Yes, Virginia, there is a PADNUG meeting! I know last weekend's Code Camp still has many heads spinning, but we are now settling back in to the groove. Obviously, mine is!
Join us this evening for a great presentation on debugging ASP.NET applications. I know the majority of us work in ASP.NET, so this should be very useful.
WHAT: |
June PADNUG Meeting |
WHEN: |
Tuesday 06/02/2009 6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium) 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~9:00 p.m. After Words at Gustav's |
WHERE: |
Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower 10260 SW Greenburg Road Suite 600 Portland, OR 97223 |
WHO: |
Prashant Sinha
Prashant Sinha has over more than 11 years of work experience including software development in finite element analysis, telecommunication, investment banking, Check Imaging, Remote Deposit Capture and enterprise services. He has led, consulted and trained developers in software development, performance analysis and production debugging on Microsoft technologies. He has also prepared coursewares on Advanced .NET debugging to conduct debugging workshop. His debugging blog is http://www.debuggingblog.com/
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TOPIC: |
ASP.NET Debugging
A production environment is likely different than the developer's machine. This means that the system's load pattern and timings will be different and it makes reproduction of bugs in test difficult or impossible.
Too often, bugs end up in the, "It works on my machine," unreproducable pile.
The goal of this presentation is to introduce the audience to tools and techniques to determine the root cause of common production debugging issues. The techniques and tools shown in the demos are based on real production issues. We will discuss the issues and debugging steps required for ASP.NET applications hosted on IIS 6/7. We'll also discuss debugging Silverlight applications on a customer machine when no development environment or source code is available.
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 Friday, May 1, 2009
We’ve combined this month’s meeting with Rose City Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN)! Many of you may already be attending the Team System Big Event on Tuesday and we are just going to continue the party for our meeting. Rose City SPIN is a monthly forum for networking, mutual support, and promotion of effective software practices. We exchange practical experiences, ideas, knowledge, wisdom, and war stories about the technical, business, and human facets of software process improvement. The Rose City SPIN serves the software development community of the Portland/Vancouver metro area. Whether you work for a large company or a small one, corporate or self-employed, industrial or academic setting, you are welcome at the Rose City SPIN. WHAT: | May PADNUG and Rose City SPIN Meeting | WHEN: | Tuesday 05/05/2009 6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium and Pacific NW Software Quality Conf. PNSQC) 7:00 p.m. Presentation ~9:00 p.m. After Words at Gustav's | WHERE: | Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower 10260 SW Greenburg Road Suite 600 Portland, OR 97223 | WHO: | Steven Borg Steven Borg, co-founder of Northwest Cadence, is the Visual Studio Team System Practice Lead at Northwest Cadence. In addition to being a Visual Studio Team System MVP, Steve holds several other credentials including MCP, MCSD, MCT and Certified Scrum Master (CSM). Steven has helped hundreds of organizations, both large and small, adopt Team System successfully, improving their software development process, reducing costs, increasing quality and speeding delivery dates. Steven Borg is the Visual Studio Team System Practice Lead at Northwest Cadence, a Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Inner Circle partner focused on helping organizations improve their software development process. He has helped several organizations improve their development process, reducing costs, increasing quality and speeding delivery dates. In addition, he assists the Team System community as a Team System MVP, an author, and a speaker. Visit his blog at NWCadence.com to learn more about process improvement and Team System. | TOPIC: | Metrics for Real Process Improvement Process improvement without adequate metrics is shooting in the dark - you might hit your target, but it's impossible to aim and difficult to determine how close you were to hitting your goal. In this talk we'll look at several candidate metrics that many real world organizations have used to achieve real improvements and get an excellent return on investment in process improvement initiatives. We'll also look at how to collect the right data, including the right steps to identify process changes to collect the right data. | While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible: Aivea Corporation - http://www.aivea.com/ Ascentium - http://www.ascentium.com/ JetBrains - http://www.jetbrains.com/ Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/ Online Business Systems - http://www.obsglobal.com/ ORCS Web - http://www.orcsweb.com/ O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com/ SoftSource Consulting - http://www.sftsrc.com/ SubMain and CodeIt.Right - http://submain.com/codeit.right Looking forward to seeing you all there!
 Monday, April 6, 2009
It’s been about a year and a half since Wayne last joined us to teach more about developing with Scrum management. He’s continuing to refine the Agile processes his team is using and will share some of that experience with us.
WHAT: |
April PADNUG Meeting |
WHEN: |
Tuesday 04/07/2009 6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium) 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~9:00 p.m. After Words at Gustav's |
WHERE: |
Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower 10260 SW Greenburg Road Suite 600 Portland, OR 97223 |
WHO: |
Stuart Celarier Stuart Celarier is Chief Software Architect of Aivea, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Connected Systems. His career spans more than two decades of development, architecture, writing, and training, with a focus on new and emerging technologies. His professional interests include the current and next generations of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), “Oslo” modeling platform, “Dublin” application server extensions, “Geneva” claims framework, .NET Framework 4.0, and Windows Azure. Stuart is co-founder of Portland Code Camp and frequently speaks at .NET user groups, conferences, and community events. He is a member of the Software Association of Oregon’s Development SIG committee. Stuart is an INETA Speaker and has volunteered with INETA since 2003, including co-chairing the community-led Birds-of-a-Feather track at Tech•Ed 2005–2009 and PDC 2005. |
TOPIC: |
WCF Best Practices with Unit Testing Stuart will present a simple, effective strategy for unit testing Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services — as services rather than as objects — and then use unit tests as a means for exploring several best practices programming with WCF and service-orientation. Topics include understanding the relationship of services and objects, test-driven development (TDD) for services, contract-first service development, consuming services defensively, how exceptions and faults work (or don’t), and more. If you have been using WCF to work with services, this session will help you identify areas where you might improve your practices. And if you are just getting started with WCF, this session will help jumpstart your effort. |
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Looking forward to seeing you all there!
 Monday, March 2, 2009
 Sunday, January 4, 2009
 Monday, December 29, 2008
Here we are at the end of 2008! Another great year has passed and it's time to gather together
and remember where we've been and what we've done.
Yes, it's kind of short notice, but we have some out-of-town guests that should be in attendance. Please
come out and make them feel welcome!
What:
Portland Nerd Dinner
Where:
Washington Square Food Court (Second Floor "Food Court"; typically, straight out from Sanrio)
When:
Tuesday, December 30, starting around 6:00 PM (vCal link)
Why:
Wrap up and recount the year of 2008.
Be There and Be Square!
 Thursday, December 4, 2008
 Friday, November 14, 2008
It's Nerd Movie time again!
For those who saw Casino Royale, you know that the Bond franchise has really updated their style. From IMDB:
Daniel Craig reprises his role as Ian Fleming's James Bond in Quantum of Solace, the 22nd feature in the 007 film franchise. Fueled by the betrayal of Vesper, the woman he loved, Bond's determination to track down the mastermind behind the sinister organization that blackmailed her takes him to Haiti, where he finds an unlikely ally in the beautiful and feisty Camille (Olga Kurylenko). The trail quickly leads to the ruthless Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), but with the British Government and the CIA working against him, Bond must kill or be killed on his mission to uncover the truth.
As usual, we'll do this at Cinetopia. The movie starts at 3:15PM. If you are under 21, there are showings at 2:00PM and 4:45PM in the Grand Theater, too, though. If this is right for you and you would like to see your fellow nerds, let us know and we can meet up before or after.
Speaking of meeting up, Vinotopia - the restaurant at the theater - is great to bring your special someone to. Consider making that a part of your afternoon/evening.
Consider buying your tickets and arriving early. I'd imagine that there will be a pretty good turnout for this movie.
What: Portland Nerd Dinner Movie Where: Cinetopia Theaters - 11700 SE 7th St, Vancouver, Washington When: Sunday, November 16, 2008, 3:15PM Showing in Cinetopia's Living Room Theater Why: Bond is Back!
Let any and everyone that might be interested know. And of course...
...Be There and Be Square!
 Thursday, November 6, 2008
Sponsored by
WHAT: November PDXUX.Net Meeting
WHEN: Tuesday 11/11/2008 6:30 p.m. Pizza Dinner (by Microsoft) 7:00 p.m. Presentation
WHERE: North (Map) 1515 NW 19th Ave Portland, OR 97209
For this month's PDXUX meeting we are celebrating the recent release of Silverlight 2 with a launch party hosted by the folks at North.
Our featured presenter is Tim Heuer, who is a Senior Program Manager for Microsoft Silverlight. He helps build the worldwide Silverlight community and is very passionate about the platform and technology in general. Having over 13 years of experience with Microsoft web technologies, Tim is excited about the opportunities that Silverlight brings for developers and designers and wants to ensure that everyone has the best information and tools available to them for success. Tim can be found online at http://timheuer.com/blog.
Along with Tim's presentation, we'll have several demo stations featuring Silverlight locals Erik Mork, Kelly White, and Jason Mauer. Learn more about Silverlight 2 features and how you can utilize them in your own web applications.
We'll also be talking about BizSpark, Microsoft's brand new program for supporting startups, and how you can get involved.
Food, drinks, prizes and more -- don't miss out!
Register now for this event.
 Monday, November 3, 2008
*** Notice: We are meeting on Thursday this week to avoid election conflicts! *** No typo this time . This is a presentation I’ve been looking forward to for quite some time. F# is a fascinating demonstration of what can be built on top of the .NET platform and has now left the Microsoft Research labs to join the mainstream world of .NET programming languages. WHAT: | November PADNUG Meeting | WHEN: | Thursday 11/06/2008 6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium) 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~9:00 p.m. After Words at Gustav's | WHERE: | Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower 10260 SW Greenburg Road Suite 600 Portland, OR 97223 | WHO: | Nick Muhonan Nick Muhonen, a Portland area resident, has been working in and teaching Microsoft .Net technologies for the past 8 years. He currently works for his company, Useable Concepts, as a freelance certified trainer and software architect, helping others reach technical goals and new levels of understanding. | TOPIC: | F# - Functional Fun for Everyone! "A succinct, type-inferred, expressive, efficient functional and object-oriented language for the .NET platform." Nick Muhonen discusses Microsoft’s CAML based language F# including its language and its interactive environment. And of course- demos for the faithful! | While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible: Ascentium - http://www.ascentium.com/ Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/ Online Business Systems - http://www.obsglobal.com/Pages/main.aspx O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com/ Robert Half Technology - http://www.roberthalftechnology.com/ SoftSource Consulting - http://www.sftsrc.com/ SubMain and CodeIt.Right - http://submain.com/codeit.right JetBrains - http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/ Looking forward to seeing you all there!
 Monday, October 6, 2008
We finally got Andrew to come speak to us! Of course, it helps when you ask nicely . WHAT: | October PADNUG Meeting | WHEN: | Tuesday 10/07/2008 (vCal) 6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium) 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~9:00 p.m. After Words at Gustav's | WHERE: | Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower 10260 SW Greenburg Road Suite 600 Portland, OR 97223 | WHO: | Andrew Hay Andrew Hay is a developer, speaker and author with 15 years of industry experience. Andrew started his career programming in Assembly language on a IBM OS/360 Mainframe computer in Chicago and leapt into the online experience in the late 90’s. Over the past five years at Pop Art, Inc, Andrew has been a champion of adding visibility into complex business processes. As Director of Software Development, he specializes in ASP.Net and its adjacent technologies including AJAX and Silverlight. Andrew earned a B.S. in Computer Science from North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. | TOPIC: | Dynamic Data ASP.Net Dynamic Data is a new feature in the Microsoft .Net 3.5 SP1 release. Dynamic Data extends the data models expressed through LINQ to SQL and the Entity Framework into a template-based website in seconds.
In this presentation, I'll start at File, New Project and cruise into how the System.Web.Routing namespace works. The Routing stack has crossed the boundary of the .Net MVC Framework and is finding niches in other technologies like Dynamic Data. From there, I'll tour the data driven site using standard display and edit controls for a variety of data types. Finally, I'll show how to implement specific behaviors, business logic and 3rd party controls that adhere to DRY principle. | While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible: Ascentium - http://www.ascentium.com/ Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/ O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com/ Robert Half Technology - http://www.roberthalftechnology.com/ SoftSource Consulting - http://www.sftsrc.com/ SubMain and CodeIt.Right - http://submain.com/codeit.right JetBrains - http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/ Looking forward to seeing you all there!
 Tuesday, August 26, 2008
It's back-to-school time! Or, as kids nowadays say "bk2skl" (is that right? I'm such a fuddy-duddy). This works as a perfect time to have Nick come teach us more about PLINQ and how it can help us build applications better served by our multi-core processors.
WHAT: |
September PADNUG Meeting |
WHEN: |
Tuesday 09/02/2008 6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium) 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~9:00 p.m. After Words at Gustav's |
WHERE: |
Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower 10260 SW Greenburg Road Suite 600 Portland, OR 97223 |
WHO: |
Nick Muhonan Nick Muhonen, a Portland area resident, has been working in and teaching Microsoft .Net technologies for the past 8 years. He currently works for his company, Useable Concepts, as a freelance certified trainer and software architect, helping others reach technical goals and new levels of understanding. |
TOPIC: |
Asynchronous fun with PLINQ This presentation will discuss the growing importance of the asynchronous programming, particularly focusing on Microsoft’s PLINQ Technology - and of course, demos for the faithful. |
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Looking forward to seeing you all there!
 Friday, August 1, 2008
I was worried that we wouldn’t get to hear from Rick this year since he was not spending his regular, lengthy summer here in the Portland area. Fortunately, the Universe cares about us much more than that and timed his visit perfectly for the August meeting! WHAT: | August PADNUG Meeting | WHEN: | Tuesday 08/05/2008 6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium) 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~9:00 p.m. After Words at Gustav's | WHERE: | Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower 10260 SW Greenburg Road Suite 600 Portland, OR 97223 | WHO: | Rick Strahl | TOPIC: | Using jQuery with ASP.NET jQuery is a compact and powerful JavaScript library that is quickly becoming one of the most popular client-side libraries. jQuery’s appeal lies in its compact implementation and flexible and elegant use of selectors to pick up document elements that can then be manipulated using jQuery’s flexible set of useful functions in a browser-independent way. From AJAX functionality, to easy browser independent DOM manipulation, to simple effects, this compact library provides many ways to make client scripting much easier. Additionally, a vast community of add-in authors have added hundreds of extremely useful and easy to use plug-ins that provide many useful features to common client-side tasks. In this session, I’ll demonstrate a host of features of jQuery as well as demonstrate how you can integrate this powerful client-side library with ASP.NET on the server. We’ll look at how to provide JSON services through ASP.NET in a couple of ways as well as looking into ways that you can integrate existing components and plug-ins as ASP.NET server controls with a little bit of work to provide ASP.NET-style interaction with jQuery. | While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible: Aivea - http://www.aivea.com/ Ascentium - http://www.ascentium.com/ Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/ O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com/ Robert Half Technology - http://www.roberthalftechnology.com/ SubMain and CodeIt.Right - http://submain.com/codeit.right JetBrains - http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/ Looking forward to seeing you all there!
 Monday, July 14, 2008
Posted by Kelly White: WHAT: July PDXUX.Net Meeting WHEN: Tuesday 07/15/2008 6:30 p.m. Pizza 7:00 p.m. Presentation WHERE: Robert Half Technology KOIN Center (Map) 222 SW Columbia Street Portland, OR 97201  WHO: Erik Mork Erik Mork is a speaker, consultant and Silverlight enthusiast in the Portland area. He specializes in Smart Client/RIA application development with Silverlight, ASP.NET AJAX, and other technologies. He's focused on making the web V.Next, and his consulting company can be found at http://www.silverbaylabs.org/. TOPIC: What's new in Silverlight 2 - Beta 2 What's the big deal with Silverlight 2? What's the story with the latest beta release? Is it ready for primetime? Erik tackles these questions by reviewing what Silverlight 2 is and where it's going. If you're new to Silverlight, this is an opportunity to understand it, and if you've already played with Silverlight, it's a chance to further learn about the platform. Applications will be presented for 1) fighting corporate greed and 2) mindhacking with Silverlight. Erik will have the mindhacking source code available for all attendees.
 Tuesday, July 1, 2008
I know you are all probably thinking about the upcoming weekend; I know I am. But with these crazy temperatures lately, what a great time to hide in the air conditioned spaces of the Tigard Microsoft office?
WHAT: |
July PADNUG Meeting |
WHEN: |
Tuesday 07/01/2008 6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium) 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~9:00 p.m. After Words at Gustav's |
WHERE: |
Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower 10260 SW Greenburg Road Suite 600 Portland, OR 97223 |
WHO: |
Stuart Celarier Stuart is a Microsoft MVP on Connected Systems (WCF, WF, and CardSpace) and a software architect at Fiserv. He is active in the professional software community including volunteering with the Software Association of Oregon and INETA. Stuart blogs at http://visualstuart.net. |
TOPIC: |
WF - Why, What, and How? You’ve probably read about Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) somewhere and thought, “Why would I want one of those?” WF represents very powerful concepts in the way we put software together and run it. You probably already deal with workflow concepts all the time, and haven’t separated that part out. WF allows you to organize software that has complex interactions, like compensations, and may execute for a long time, perhaps days or months. Microsoft continues to invest in WF -- this is a key technology to understand and track as the .NET platform evolves. Come wrap your head around what WF really does, and how it does it. |
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Looking forward to seeing you all there!
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