Sam Abraham

Rich Dudley from ComponentOne was our May 2012 speaker at the West Palm Beach Dev Group. Rich shared with us his excellent presentation from VSLive on jQuery and HTML5. This event was a great success and witnessed one of our larger member turnouts this year.

Rich graciously posted his slides and sample code on his blog: http://our.componentone.com/2012/05/22/recap-west-palm-beach-dnug-may-2012/.

May also marked our first meeting at PC Professor’s brand new building, only a few steps away from their former location. The move presents our group with a much larger meeting room to help us accommodate more attendees as we grow and expand.

Our next meeting is scheduled for June 26^th at 6:30 PM. Linxter’s CEO and Microsoft MVP, Jason Milgram will be sharing with us on how he leveraged Azure to build a private multi-platform mobile social network.

Hope to see you all there!

--Sam

Below are some photos of our May event.

 

 

 

I had the pleasure of visiting and speaking at the 2012 Carolina Code Camp. A big thank you for the warm welcome to the volunteer leadership team: Mark Wilson, Bill Jones, Syl Walker, Brian Gough and many others whose name I don’t remember at this time due my exhausted brain circuits after the long 12 hour long drive to and from North Carolina.

With several hundred registrants and many on the waiting list, the event was a great success with what I was told by the organizing team to be a record turnout. All presented content was top notch with many hands-on lab sessions complementing the theory and demos presented at the regular breakout sessions.

I shared on The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) and how it helps teams become more Agile. Audience participation and positive feedback on my first visit to the Carolinas was flattering and much appreciated.

I have also gotten a chance to personally meet with many of the local speakers, community leaders and Microsoft Evangelists in the area and got many promises from them to visit our user groups down in Florida to share with us their knowledge in the near future.

In conclusion, I would like to thank everybody in Carolina Code Camp for the kind welcome and true southern hospitality.

Many Thanks

--Sam

I wanted to share with everyone kind enough to read my blog posts that I just got a very flattering package from INETA. In it was a letter from Chris Woodruff letting me know that I was a recipient of The INETA Community Champion Award for 2012. Such award is a big honor that I much appreciate. I wanted however to share that while this award carries my name on it, that is only because there is no room on it to include the countless number of people who helped to earn it.

Many thanks to our community leaders, user group coordinators, speakers, and first and foremost our group members. Your strong and passionate participation in the local technical community is what keeps us going. A big thank you is also due to the Volunteer INETA Board of Directors  and INETA volunteers who are working tirelessly to help support and promote our user groups.

 

Many thanks to all!

--Sam

 

Our West Palm Beach Developer Group March 2012 meeting featured Herve Roggero, Azure MVP and co-founder of Pyn Logic.  Herve covered multiple case studies on migrating existing application to SQL Azure.  This event was quiet popular filling-in our meeting room. We would like to thank PC Professor for hosting our meeting and Sherlock Technology for sponsoring our free food.

Our April 24th, 2012 meeting will feature Will Tartak who will be demonstrating how he used ServiceStack.net to quickly develop Windows Phone and Android applications. For more information and to register, please visit: http://www.fladotnet.com/Reg.aspx?EventID=585

Below are some photos of our March event:

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Zack Weiner from Arrow Consulting was our speaker for our February 2012 meeting. Our February meeting also celebrated INETA’s tenth birthday. We started off the meeting sharing on INETA, its history and the vital service it offers to the technical community worldwide. Zack then skillfully covered the new features in Silverlight 5 in a very interactive session.

We look forward to seeing you in March, where we will be covering Migrating Application in Azure with Herve Roggero. Below, please find some photos of our February event.

Happy Birthday INETA!

Sam Abraham

Site Director- FlaDotNet, West Palm Beach Developer Group

 

Some of our early arriving group members

 

Thank you PC Professor for hosting our meeting

I would like to share that I will be speaking at the Deerfield Beach Coders Café on February 7th, 2012 6:30 PM and South Florida Code Camp on February 18th, 2012; on concepts behind PRISM and MEF including IoC Containers, Composition, Dependency Injection, Loose-coupling and Inheritance. More details in this blog post.

The West Palm Beach Developer Group is off to a good start in 2012 with our special IASA Architecture event on January 24th, 7:00 PM. Microsoft’s Architect Wayne Filin-Matthews will be our speaker on Enterprise Software and Infrastructure Architecture Best Practices. To register for this FREE event please visit: http://www.fladotnet.com/Reg.aspx?EventID=537 Read full blog post at: http://content.iasahome.org/blog/?p=242

It’s official, we are kicking off a local South Florida Chapter for Stony Brook alumni and friends in the area to keep in touch.  Our first networking event will be taking place at Champps, Ft Lauderdale on November 17th, 6:00-8:00 PM. Admission is free and open for everyone, whether or not they are Stony Brook Alums. The team at Champps is offering us great specials (Happy hour deals, half-price appetizers,etc.) that we can choose to enjoy while we network and catch up. (Event Announcement: http://alumniandfriends.stonybrook.edu/page.aspx?pid=299&cid=1&ceid=171&cerid=0&cdt=11%2f17%2f2011)

I look forward to share and revive my college experience which I believe was the starting line of my ongoing life journey. It would be also great to hear others’ take as they reflect on their experiences throughout their college years.

I invite anyone interested in keeping in touch with friends and alums of Stony Brook to join our LinkedIn or Facebook groups.

 

The Stony Brook Alumni Association – South Florida Chapter LinkedIn Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3665306&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr

The Stony Brook Alumni Association – South Florida Chapter Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/114760941910314/

The West Palm Beach .Net User Group meeting on 11/29 6:30 PM will feature Joe Healy sharing on Kinect SDK and WP7. We will be meeting at a new Location: PC Professor 6080 Okeechobee Blvd., #200 West Palm Beach, FL 33417 Phone: 561-684-3333.

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