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--- In ChicagoAltNet@yahoogroups.com, <ibtooib4@...> wrote:
>
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>
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Dynamic C# and a New World of Possibilities

6:00 pm
Pizza and networking time

6:30 pm

Yes you have heard it right. We are having our December 2009 meeting. And, to say goodbye to 2009 and think about what 2010 will bring us, we will take a look at a new CLR 4.0 feature that is likely to significantly change the way we code in C#.

Do you remember when generics were introduced in the .NET runtime 2.0? That was the the biggest new feature in that version of the framework and it's almost 5 years old. Time for a new runtime release with new and exciting features.

In this talk, we focus on the only new feature in C# 4 that really matters — the dynamic keyword. There are some new, amazing possibilities that, previously, were only elegantly achievable with dynamic languages like JavaScript and Ruby. We will touch on ways that using dynamic can change the way that you code, including things like a true ActiveRecord pattern, Expando objects, and more.

Aaron Erickson is a software developer/technology writer/agilist based out of Chicago, IL. His life's work is to help convert the human intellectual capital into results for companies that empower both the knowledge workers who produce software, and the people for whom that software is designed to serve. He frequently speaks at events such as TechEd, VSLive, and .NET user groups - with a goal of furthering the exchange of ideas - be they technology contributions - or observations about the technology consulting business.

He is the author of the book, The Nomadic Developer, a career guide for technology consultants. In his spare time he likes to buy random ingredients at the store and have "iron chef" night with his wife, play video games with his kids, and occasionally, log on to World of Warcraft where he has a level 80 Rogue named EffSharper on the Bloodscalp server.

 

Where you see the 8th in the message below, please read 9th - that's the same usual meeting day: 2nd Wednesday of the month.
Aaron would be speaking on December 9th (still to be confirmed)

Sorry for the confusion.

______________________________________
Sergio Pereira

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Sergio Pereira <sergioafp@gmail.com> wrote:

I know I've said that we would probably not have a December meeting (and that might even be the case) but I was talking to Aaron Erickson and apparently he will be in town on that week (he's local but he has been traveling a lot).
He has a C# 4.0 talk that I've heard from many of you that would be something of interest. He wants to present on the 8th so I'll make the proper announcement once that is confirmed.

By the way, as usual, if any of you wants to talk to our group just send a message. Our calendar is entirely open at this point.

Cheers.
______________________________________
Sergio Pereira

We're an agile software consultancy in Chicago (566 W. Adams) looking for some
excellent .NET developers to join our team.  Most of our current projects are
Ruby or Java, but .NET is our next up-and-coming competency.  If you're someone
who has significant Agile/.NET experience and would be interested in leading
that charge, or participate as an eager agilista, please contact
dave@....

Obtiva is a learning organization founded in the values and principles of the
Agile Manifesto*.  We thrive on growing great minds in the field of software
development.  We're trying to raise the bar for what great software means to
Chicago enterprises and entrepreneurs.  We're a small company that grew in 2009
and are ramping up to grow rapidly in 2010, while maintaining our geek-friendly
culture.*

Best,

Dave Hoover
//obtiva:  Agility applied. Software delivered.

* http://agilemanifesto.org
* Sampling of our geekiness: http://twitter.com/geekfest

Get Comfy With CouchDB

6:00 pm
Pizza and networking time

6:30 pm

Couchdb is one of the more mature schema-less map/reduce object dbs out there. In this talk we'll cover the basics of what CouchDB is, and why it's cool, and then we'll run through a sample application. The application will show off LINQ to Couch, basic persistance, views and full-text search with CouchDB-Lucene.

Alex Pedenko has been in software development for about 13 years, starting off on Borland Delphi, then spending about 4 years in Java and finally making the switch to .net around '03

Currently, he is the director of software architecture and chief architect at a healthcare services company. He has used that role as an opportunity to inject some modern ideas into an otherwise lagging industry, moving the company from a classic "giant web-app strapped to an even more giant db", to a distributed, service-oriented environment utilizing RESTful services, and rich-client applications.

Alex is also involved in a number of Open Source projects like Bistro and NDjango, and the .net side of CouchDB via Divan and LoveSeat

I received this open invitation for an event and I thought at least
some people in our group might be interested.

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An Evening in the Cloud with David Chappell and Cumulux

Join cloud experts David Chappell, Paddy Srinivasan for an evening
diving into Windows Azure™ – Microsoft’s platform for building and
deploying cloud based applications.  David will talk about the Cloud
Computing environments available today, specifically focusing on
Windows Azure™, while Paddy will provide many demonstrations of
Windows Azure™ including:

·         The fundamentals of building and deploying applications to
Windows Azure™
·         When to use Windows Azure™ Table and Blob storage vs. SQL
Azure Database
·         How to reuse your existing SQL Server skills and programming
approaches with SQL Azure
·         How to expose data SQL Azure in a RESTful manner using
Windows Azure™ + ADO.NET Data Services
·         How to connect on-premise and cloud applications using .NET Services

And much more!

No prior knowledge of cloud computing or experience using Windows
Azure™ is required, and this *free* event is open to the public.


Date & Time
Monday, September 21, 2009
6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Location
Microsoft Office
200 East Randolph Drive
Suite 200
Chicago, IL 60601

Registration Options
By web –
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032425433&Culture=en\
-US
By phone – 1-877-673-8368 and reference Event ID: 1032425433

Pizza and refreshments will be provided.

We hope you’ll join us!

Here's my comment on it:

http://www.blogcoward.com/archive/2009/08/25/Till-Next-Time.aspx

jdn

--- In ChicagoAltNet@yahoogroups.com, Sergio Pereira <sergioafp@...> wrote:
>
> Looks like yahoo groups' cookie monster ate my message, so here it goes again:
>
> > Hey, Derik.
> >
> > We wish you all the happiness and success in Raleigh. Thanks for your
> > instrumental role in getting our little group off the ground.
> >
> > Hope we can have you back for a visit or to present something to us
> > sometime down the line.
> >
> > All the best.
> > ______________________________________
> > Sergio Pereira
>

Looks like yahoo groups' cookie monster ate my message, so here it goes again:

> Hey, Derik.
>
> We wish you all the happiness and success in Raleigh. Thanks for your
> instrumental role in getting our little group off the ground.
>
> Hope we can have you back for a visit or to present something to us
> sometime down the line.
>
> All the best.
> ______________________________________
> Sergio Pereira

Hi folks,
You can register already.
http://chicagoalt.net/event/September2009Meeting-Top10ThingsinRubythatEveryNETDe\
veloperNeedstoKnow

Thanks
______________________________________
Sergio Pereira

All,

As some of you may know my family and I are about to embark on a new adventure
and will be moving down to Raleigh NC this week.  I had a great time getting to
meet everyone and attend the great meetings we have had over the past couple of
years.

I do not want to say good-bye, but instead I will simply say 'till next time'.

Thanks again for all the friendships and all the fun times.

Derik

Topic

Jeremy Miller will be talking about Screen Activation Lifecycle.  On his blog he
posted the following about the talk:

I will be presenting some preliminary material from my "Presentation Patterns"
book on Virtual ALT.NET during the first two weeks of August.  For August 5th
I'm going to talk about what I call the "Screen Activation Lifecycle."  Think of
an application like Visual Studio that is constantly loading and destroying
screens.  How can we activate a new screen and synchronize the application shell
to reflect the options for the new screen?  How do you locate and activate an
existing screen for a requested subject instead of opening a duplicate screen? 
How do you remember state to do web browser type navigation?  And oh yeah, how
can you do this in a way that enables you to easily add all new screens later
(OCP baby!)?  To start some answers going, I'd like to present some reocurring
design patterns I've found useful for these problems.  I'll definitely be
talking about a "Tabbed MDI" application shell for the first talk and maybe a
web browser style shell (depends on how I do in prepping).  I'll also touch on
"View First" vs "Presenter/ViewModel First."

I'm really hoping for some feedback on the material here and I'd love to have
any and all criticism or suggestions.  I've got 5 days to prepare as well, so if
there's anything in specific about this topic that you're interested, please
drop me a comment and I'll see what I can do.  I'm thinking that the second week
of August to talk about Separated Presentation patterns.  There's an almost
infinite store of good content on these patterns and the important differences
between them, but not many developers have a strong understanding of these
differences.  I think I'm going to give up and go with MVVM in my nomenclature. 
I do think it just MS's renaming of Presentation Model, but I think far more
people are familiar with the term MVVM and well, that matters.

Who is Jeremy Miller?
Jeremy is the Chief Software Architect at Dovetail Software, the coolest shop in
all of Austin. Jeremy is also the author of the open source StructureMap tool
for Dependency Injection with .Net and the forthcoming StoryTeller tool for
supercharged acceptance testing in .Net. Jeremy is also the author of the
Patterns in Practice column in MSDN Magazine. Jeremy's thoughts on just about
everything software related can be found on his weblog The Shade Tree Developer
part of the popular CodeBetter site. Jeremy is a Microsoft MVP for C#, and very
active within the ALT.NET community.

What is VAN?
Virtual ALT.NET (VAN) is the online gathering place of the ALT.NET community.
Through conversations, presentations, pair programming and dojos, we strive to
improve, explore, and challenge the way we create software. Using net
conferencing technology such as Skype and LiveMeeting, we hold regular meetings,
open to anyone, usually taking the form of a presentation or an Open Space
Technology-style conversation.

Please see the Calendar to find a VAN group that meets at a time convenient to
you, and feel welcome to join a meeting. Past sessions can be found on the
Recording page.

To stay informed about VAN activities, you can subscribe to the Virtual ALT.NET
Google Group and follow the Virtual ALT.NET blog.

Meeting Details
Times below are Central Daylight Time
Start Time: Wed, August 5, 2009 8:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
End Time: Wed, August 5, 2009 10:00 PM UTC/GMT -5 hours
Attendee URL: Attend the meeting (Live Meeting)

www.virtualaltnet.com

August's meeting registration is open.

http://altnetchicago.eventbrite.com/
______________________________________
Sergio Pereira