October 2009 Entries
FredNUG is pleased to announce that we have another great speaker lined up for November. On November 18th, we’ll start with pizza and social networking at 6:30 PM. Then, starting at 7 PM, John Baird will present “Building Silverlight LOB Apps.” With so many software development teams trying to make the switch from Winforms to WPF/Silverlight, I’m sure this talk will be very useful and informative. The scheduled agenda is: 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM - Pizza/Social Networking/Announcements 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM...
Thanks to all the attendees who came to my session on Exception Handling and Memory Management at Philly.NET Code Camp. Exception Handling and Memory Management are often overlooked when developing .NET applications. Hopefully, the session brought to light a number of best practices for .NET application development. It was my first time doing a session in the Beginner track. It was a great deal of fun to present the material to an audience filled with enthusiasm about the framework. The slides can...
A big THANKS to everyone who attended my session on Developing WPF Applications with Prism at Philly.NET Code Camp. Hopefully, I provided attendees with at least an introductory knowledge of Prism and how they can start developing modular applications using its extensible framework. The slides can be found HERE. If you experience any problems downloading the slides or code, please let me know...
A big THANKS to everyone who attended my session today at NoVA Code Camp. Hopefully, I provided attendees with at least an introductory knowledge of Unity Application Block, Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control that will allow them to start loosening dependencies in their applications. Please feel free to contact me with any questions. The code samples and slides for both sessions can be found HERE. Also, lately I’ve been experimenting with posting my code via my Windows Live SkyDrive account....
Thanks again to everyone who attended my sessions yesterday at Richmond Code Camp. Attendees in both sessions had some very inquisitive questions and comments which leads me to believe they were already contemplating ways they could utilize the technologies in their own applications. Please feel free to contact me with any questions. The code samples and slides for both sessions can be found here...
Yesterday’s Richmond Code Camp was a very well-executed and quality event for the development community! Attending primarily as a speaker, it was clear to see there had been a great deal of work and thought put into organization of sessions, registration, and logistics. The entire event was run quite smoothly and was over in a flash (probably a result of how organized things were run). It was great to speak with so many folks (speakers and attendees) I’ve grown to know this year from attending other...
Woohoo! I won another Community-Credit prize! If you’re unfamiliar with Community-Credit.com, check it out here and find out how you too can track points you rack-up for making contributions to the development community. My points this month were mostly from speaking at various code camps and user groups in the area, plus tasks associated with running FredNUG. I’m sure this gem will provide some needed stress relief during those intensive sprints in the future. 3rd Place: The Live Action Flying Duck...
After submitting several abstracts for the code camps in the surrounding area, I now have my October planned and what a busy time it will be! Having recently returned from the Raleigh Code Camp, which was a fantastic event(many thanks to the organizers for putting together such a well run event for the developer community), I learned that I’ll also be speaking at the NoVa and Philly.NET Code Camps. So in addition to attending some excellent sessions and catching up with some geek friends, I’ll also...