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VAN Meeting with Ryan Svihla on the Castle Project
Ryan will be doing a two part series on the Castle Project. Mark your calendar for some Castle Project fun. Ryan Svihla has been working as a C# developer Farm Bureau Bank in San Antonio since September 2007. Before that he worked as a Consultant in Lincoln, NE for 3 years, where he had working experience with Php, some Perl, Python and of course C#. Attempting Agile since early 2008 as an eager student with a focus on making programming more useful and relevant for the end user. IoC and Dip through...
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Posted On Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:23 PM | Feedback (0) |

TechEd INETA Mini-Summit
Attention User Group Leaders, INETA Volunteers, and Speakers! INETA would like to invite you to join us for a Mini-Summit on Monday June 2nd, 2008 at the Orlando Convention Center. We're going to be holding a somewhat informal gathering from 3-7 PM to provide user group leaders and chance to network, meet the new board members, and spend some quality time talking with us about community.... Read full article...
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Posted On Saturday, May 17, 2008 9:53 AM | Feedback (0) |

Agile Requirements: User Stories
Recently, Zach Young, a colleague of mine, and I started working on a project with the goal to lean several new things. I had the idea for the application, a simple web application that would displayed the post from registered RSS feeds sorted by publish date. Which sounds pretty simple, but it became more clear the more we talked about it that we need requirements. It is the same problem that is apparent in any software project. I am for this instance play the role of the customer, and I have a...
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Posted On Saturday, March 29, 2008 4:50 PM | Feedback (1) |

Building Web Apps without Web Forms
Chris Tavares wrote a great article no creating applications with the ASP .NET MVC Framework in the March Issue of the MSDN Magazine. Chris does a great job of grounding the reader with an understanding of the Model View Controller design pattern. The article also comes with a download code sample to help you get started. This is the future of web development get a jump start with the article on Building Web Apps without Web Forms. Technorati Tags: MSDN Magazine,ASP .NET,MVC,ASP .NET MVC...
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Posted On Tuesday, March 25, 2008 8:59 PM | Feedback (0) |

Refactor: Visual Studio Extract Interface
I recently learned about a very cool option in Visual Studio, the ability to extract an Interface from an existing class. This has made me much more comfortable in trying to adhere to a principle of not creating unnecessary code. I often found myself thinking I should create an interface first before creating the concrete implementation even for objects that I didn't have any current plans for extending. This post will show you step by step how to extract an interface from an existing class, so keeping...
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Posted On Wednesday, February 27, 2008 7:56 PM | Feedback (0) |

Community Leader Summit
This weekend I attended an awesome event in Dallas, TX, the Community Leader Summit. Soon to become CommunityCamp. Thanks Caleb for organizing this event. There were user groups there represented by a huge cross section of the user community. Everything from .NET to Podcasting, and Joomla. It was very interesting to see that even though our groups are focused on different technologies that we all struggle with the same things. And it was great to see how other groups has solved them. I am sure the...
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Posted On Monday, February 11, 2008 7:01 PM | Feedback (0) |

Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo Presents at Nwa .NET User Group
One of my colleagues at Tyson Foods arranged to have Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo give a Nothin' But Dot Net Training class. I saw the opportunity to have him present at our use group since the training was the same week as our meeting. Jean-Paul was gracious enough to agree to present on Generics: They're no just for collections. He has also agreed to help me launch a Podcast I have been wanting to start called Let's Talk Code!. Thanks, JP for helping get this started. Generics: They’re not just for collectionsIn...
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Posted On Saturday, February 02, 2008 9:28 PM | Feedback (0) |

Presenting Model View Presenter Design Patterns In Tulsa, OK Feb 25
I just finished talking with David Walker of the Tulsa .NET User Group and confirmed I will be presenting to them on February 25. I will be giving a presentation on the Model View Presenter Design Pattern. I am very excited to be able to present in Tulsa. Since the Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group formed because a member from Tulsa moved to Northwest Arkansas it feels good that we can complete the circle. If you live in the Tulsa, OK area please check out you local user group Tulsa .NET User Group....
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Posted On Thursday, January 31, 2008 6:00 PM | Feedback (0) |

MSDN Express Event Feb 27, 2008 Rogers, AR
I am proud to announce that the date has been set for the next MSDN Express event in Northwest Arkansas. The MSDN Express events are designed to deliver high quality MSDN like topics and training to a smaller venue and as always free. I would like to personally than Zain Naboulsi (Microsoft Evangelist), Randy Walker (INETA Membership Mentor), and Rob Farinholt (New Horizons) for their hard work and help organizing these events. I am currently working with Zain to get the sessions. So, mark you calendars...
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Posted On Tuesday, January 29, 2008 7:32 PM | Feedback (0) |

MSDN Express Event Feb 27, 2008 Rogers, AR
I am proud to announce that the date has been set for the next MSDN Express event in Northwest Arkansas. The MSDN Express events are designed to deliver high quality MSDN like topics and training to a smaller venue and as always free. I would like to personally than Zain Naboulsi (Microsoft Evangelist), Randy Walker (INETA Membership Mentor), and Rob Farinholt (New Horizons) for their hard work and help organizing these events. I am currently working with Zain to get the sessions. So, mark you calendars...
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Posted On Tuesday, January 29, 2008 7:31 PM | Feedback (0) |

GeeksWithBlogs Jeff Julian interview
Jeff Julian from GeeksWithBlogs interviewed myself and Zach Young about our efforts in the We Are Microsoft - Charity Challenge Weekend. Our project was to help the Texas Discovery Garden build a brand new web site to teach people effective ways to restore, conserve and preserve nature in the urban environment through the use of native and adapted plants that illustrate the interrelationship of Butterflies, Bugs and Botany. Texas Discovery Gardens had a web site in the past that was approximately...
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Posted On Monday, January 21, 2008 7:27 PM | Feedback (1) |

Try Visual Studio 2008 on a Pre-Installed Virtual PC
If you haven't made the jump to Visual Studio 2008 cause you don't have the bits, give a virtual PC a test drive. Microsoft is offering pre built virtual PC with several Visual Studio configurations. These are a perfect way to get a look at Visual Studio 2008 and not have to install it on your local machine. This can also be great for creating presentations. Check out the full listing of Virtual PC Microsoft has made available pre installed with Visual Studio 2008 here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/...
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Posted On Sunday, January 06, 2008 1:08 AM | Feedback (0) |

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