ArcSig meetings 2009

Invitation for ArcSig Meeting 11/17/2009

Rainer — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:03:21 GMT

The November meeting will be on 11/17/2009 - 6:30 PM at Microsoft Ft. Lauderdale:

Scott Klein, MVP SQL Server presents:

Entity Framework 4.0

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Free pizza and softdrinks!

Posted: Rainer Habermann

ArcSig Meeting 08/18/2009

Rainer — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:14:30 GMT

ArcSig meeting 08/18/2009 - 6:30 PM Ft. Lauderdale at Microsoft

All (!) seats were taken after free pizza and refreshing soft drinks. 43 Users came to our August meeting to hear Jesus Rodriguez's excellent presentation "From SOA to WOA". Despite being one of the latest acronyms in the never ending distributed programming dictionary, Web Oriented Architectures (WOA) represents one of the most important architecture styles in service orientation. In a nutshell, WOA incorporates the principles of the Web and Representational State Transfer (REST) into Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) to achieve high levels of performance, availability and scalability.

Jesus Rodriguez is the Chief Architect of Tellago, Inc. He is also a Microsoft BizTalk Server MVP, an Oracle ACE and one of a few Architects worldwide to be a member of the Microsoft Connected Systems Advisor team. As a member, Jesus has been selected to participate in a variety of Software Design Reviews with Microsoft's Product Teams including Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation and BizTalk Server.

Jesus is a prolific blogger on all subjects related to integration and has a true passion for technology. You can gain valuable insight on leading edge technologies through his blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/gsusx.

After the presentation we "raffled" a substantial amount of Microsoft Books to the participants and had time for a Q&A session and some great discussions and socializing.

Thank you very much Jesus for your presentation, and Jeff for hosting!

Mark your calendar for the September meeting with Jeff Barnes, Windows 7 for Architects and Developers! Sign up on Fladotnet.com!

Posted: Rainer Habermann

Invitation for ArcSig Meeting 08/18/2009

Rainer — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:14:45 GMT

The August meeting will be on 08/18/2009 - 6:30 PM at Microsoft Ft. Lauderdale:

Jesus Rodriguez, Chief Architect at http://www.tellago.com/

Web Oriented Architectures (REST) and how they enhance traditonal SOA's

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Learn more about Jesus and his activities at http://weblogs.asp.net/gsusx/

Posted: Rainer Habermann

ArcSig Meeting 07/21/2009

Rainer — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:08:49 GMT

ArcSig Meeting 07/21/2009 Ft. Lauderdale at Global Response

Don Demsak, Senior Solution Architect at Tellago, gave us an excellent presentation about Architecting Web Applications using ASP.Net Webforms with jQuery and WCF. Don showed us how to avoid some of the architectural pitfalls when moving from a pure server side transformation model to a more client side friendly transformation model.

Furthermore, we got important information about how to redesign ASMX web services to WCF web services and how to utilize jQuery and WCF. User group members had the opportunity to get answers from Don for actual problems they encountered regarding WCF and jQuery.

To learn more about Don and the topic go to www.donxml.com

Thank you very much to the Shooster Family, the owners of Global Response, for hosting our meeting!

Posted: Rainer Habermann

Invitation for ArcSig Meeting 07/21/2009

Rainer — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:17:55 GMT

The July meeting will be on 07/21/2009 - 6:30 PM Global Response, Margate:

Don Demsak, Senior Solutions Architect at http://www.tellago.com/

Architecting Web Applications using ASP.Net WebForms with jQuery and WCF

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Learn more about Don and his activities at http://donxml.com

Posted: Rainer Habermann

ArcSig Meeting 05/19/2009

Rainer — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:37:07 GMT

ArcSig Meeting 05/19/2009 Microsoft Ft. Lauderdale

Jeff Barnes gave a excellent presententation about .NET RIA Services - Building Data-Driven Applications with Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft ASP.NET. Great participation, almost all seats were taken. Jeff gave us a great insight into the next Silverlight version with code examples and programmatic features. Thank you very much for the great presentation Jeff, we are looking forward to your next one!

Find more information about Jeff and .NET RIA services at: http://blogs.msdn.com/jbarnes/

Posted: Rainer Habermann

Invitation for ArcSig Meeting 06/16/2009

Rainer — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:40:55 GMT

The June meeting will be on 06/16/2009 6:30 PM Microsoft Office Ft. Lauderdale:

Telmo Sampaio, CTO of Blue Dasher Technologies: SQL 2008 Beyond Relational

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Participate in an architecture review showcasing the use of SQL Server 2008 Spatial features and the filestream data type together with WCF services, Virtual Earth and jQuery. The session will focus on a pre-defined solution architecture using SQL Server 2005 with pure relational data and after a brief introduction of new features in SQL Server 2008, changes will be presented and discussed with the group, culminating in a new architecture.

Learn more about Telmo and Blue Dasher Technologies at http://bluedashertech.com/

Posted: Rainer Habermann

IE 8 in Windows 7 slows down through third party Add-Ons

Rainer — Mon, 18 May 2009 05:30:04 GMT

Some third party add-ons can cause a miserable performance running Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7. On my machine the Java Plug-In SSV helper caused a delay of several seconds before a web page was displayed. I disabled the add-on and everything was again speedy and smooth. If you experience a slow performance of IE8 disable one add-on after another to find out which add-on makes your day miserable (in the menubar select: tools-manage add-ons). I wonder if Microsoft can integrate a function checking on add-ons which suck the life out of IE 8 and might cause a bad reputation for this great browser.

Posted: Rainer Habermann

Invitation for ArcSig Meeting 05/19/2009

Rainer — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:14:05 GMT

This month ArcSig meeting on 05/19/2009 6:30PM Microsoft Office Ft. Lauderdale:

Jeff Barnes: NET RIA Services - Building Data-Driven Applications with Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft ASP.NET.

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Jeff Barnes is the Microsoft Architect Evangelist for the Gulf States District where he engages with the local Architect community to help solve tough business problems with leading-edge technology. Jeff has been with Microsoft for over 8 years and has spent over 6 ½ years of those years as an architect in the Microsoft Consulting Services organization working with large enterprise customers throughout North America.Prior to Microsoft, Jeff worked for several large insurance, manufacturing, and retail companies in South Florida. Jeff has a passion around the discipline and challenges of software engineering, recognizing that architecture has as much of a social context as a technical one. He especially enjoys the freedom and flexibility that .NET brings to the table in order solve the next generation of tough technical challenges.

ArcSig 04/21/2009

Rainer — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:35:28 GMT

ArcSig Meeting Microsoft Ft. Lauderdale 04/21/2009

Oleg Sych presented a great session about Code Generation with T4 and Visual Studio.

Oleg Sych introduced the Template Transformation Toolkit (T4) - one of the best-hidden new features of Visual Studio 2008. T4 allows you to use simple ASP.NET-like template syntax to generate application source code, configuration files, stored procedures and more. This session provided an overview of code generation, describes T4 template syntax and shows how to create a template for generating CRUD stored procedures.

Oleg is a Senior Lead Consultant for http://www.catapultsystems.com . He has been working as a professional software engineer since 1993, building distributed enterprise applications since 2000 and working with .NET technologies since 2002. Oleg holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science, MCSD and MCPD Enterprise certifications. His professional interests include framework design and enterprise application architecture. In his spare time, Oleg writes and speaks about code generation. Check out his blog at http://www.olegsych.com for in-depth coverage of Text Templates in Visual Studio.

Thank you very much Oleg, for coming all the way from Tampa for this presentation!

Posted: Rainer Habermann