Sam Abraham

My upcoming Talk: Introducing PRISM/MEF for the Agile Developer - February 2012

Sam Abraham — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:35:01 GMT

I would like to share that I will be speaking at the Deerfield Beach Coders Café on February 7^th, 2012 6:30 PM on concepts behind PRISM and MEF including IoC Containers, Composition, Dependency Injection, Loose-coupling and Inheritance. We will be also adding a little Agile spin to the talk focusing on the importance and ideal use of the underlying design patterns in an Agile software shop.

I am also scheduled to present a similar topic at the upcoming South Florida Code Camp taking place on Saturday February 18th, 2012.

Look forward to meeting everyone either at Deerfield Beach or South Florida Code Camp.

More information on the upcoming events can be found at:

http://www.fladotnet.com/Reg.aspx?EventID=530

http://www.fladotnet.com/codecamp/

Below is the abstract and speaker bio:

Introducing PRISM and MEF for the Agile Software Developer with Sam Abraham

Join us as we highlight some increasingly popular design concepts that may come to good use when taking an incremental approach to delivering functional code. In particular we will be introducing PRISM and MEF, both provided as open source frameworks by the Microsoft Patterns and Practices Team (http://compositewpf.codeplex.com/), as an example of how concepts such as IoC, Dependency Injection and Composition come into play with parallel and incremental software development.

Speakers:

Sam Abraham is a Microsoft Certified Professional, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS ASP.Net 3.5, 4.0 and Silverlight 4), Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) striving to leverage proven technology solutions to produce cost-effective, quality software that meets customer needs, timelines and budgets. Sam is currently a member of the Software Engineering Team at SISCO Corp., the leader in maritime security solutions with customers including Princess, Carnival, and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines as well as the US Coast Guard.

Upcoming IASA Architect Talk at the WPB Developers Group - 1/24 - 7:00 PM

Sam Abraham — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:44:35 GMT

The West Palm Beach Developer Group is off to a good start in 2012 with our special IASA Architecture event on January 24^th, 7:00 PM.

Microsoft’s Architect Wayne Filin-Matthews will be our speaker on Enterprise Software and Infrastructure Architecture Best Practices. This topic is unique in value as most content will be a reflection of Wayne’s personal experience having successfully helped a multitude of customers with his acquired tacit knowledge of Architecture.

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

South Florida Stony Brook Alumni & Friends Reception 2011

Sam Abraham — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:10:26 GMT

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/

WPB .Net User Group 11/29 Meeting - Kinect SDK with Joe Healy - New Meeting Location

Sam Abraham — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:04:17 GMT

We are excited to share great news and updates regarding the West Palm Beach .Net User Group. Our upcoming meeting will feature Joe Healy from Microsoft as speaker for the November 29^th, 2011 6:30 PM meeting.

He will be covering the Kinect SDK and answering all our questions regarding the latest Windows Phone 7 Release. We will be also raffling many valuable items as part of our usual free raffle and hope each of our members leaves with a freebie.

We are also honored to share that we will be hosting our special meeting at a new location:

PC Professor

6080 Okeechobee Blvd.,

#200 West Palm Beach, FL 33417
Phone: 561-684-3333.

This is right by the Florida Turnpike entrance on Okeechobee Blvd.

PC Professor will be also providing our free pizza/soda and some additional surprise items for this meeting to mark the debut of our meetings at their location!

We would like to use this opportunity to thank our current host, CompTec, for its generous support and for hosting us for the past 2 years and look forward to their continued support and sponsorship.

A lot of work and effort is put into hosting a meeting that we hope translates into added value and benefit for our membership. We always welcome your feedback and participation as we strive to continuously improve the group.

Special thanks to our group member, Zack Weiner, for helping us find this new location.

For more details and to register please visit: http://www.fladotnet.com/Reg.aspx?EventID=536

Hope to see you all there.

--Sam Abraham & Venkat Subramanian

Site Directors – West Palm Beach .Net User Group

All in a Day's Work: Unblocking Multiple Downloaded Files with a Single Command

Sam Abraham — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:02:18 GMT

Files downloaded using Internet Explorer retain Internet Zone permission level and hence are “Blocked” by default on Windows 7 machines. Honestly, while an added overhead for developers; I really appreciate this feature as it provides a good protection layer for casual web users.

My workaround is to simply unblock the downloaded zip file (if download was a zip file) which, in turn, unblocks the files stored within.

Today however, I was left with a situation where I had to “Open” and “Copy” the content rather than “Save” a zip file. That of course left me with a few dozen files I have to manually unblock.

A few minutes of internet search lead me to the link below which worked like a charm:

1-Download streams.exe from SystInternals - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897440.aspx

2-Go to command prompt (cmd.exe)

3-Navigate to where you have streams.exe installed

4-Use command line switches: streams.exe –s –d “<folder path>”

This removed the Internet Zone restrictions from all files under “<folder path>” and its subfolders as well. [Deleted :Zone.Identifier:$DATA]

References:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/itproxpsp/thread/806f0104-1caa-4a66-b504-7a681d1ccb33/

West Palm Beach .Net User Group July 2011 Meeting Recap

Sam Abraham — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:55:00 GMT

Shervin Shakibi, Microsoft Regional Director, was our speaker at the West Palm Beach .Net User Group July 2011 meeting. Shervin’s talk was demo-centric where he showcased the power of HTML 5 by example. Issues discussed at the meeting included suggestions on mitigating security concerns with HTML 5 source code accessibility as well as the status and timeline for HTML 5 readiness. Shervin’s much anticipated talk brought us over 25 members who filled our CompTec meeting room.

We appreciate Shervin’s commitment to sharing his knowledge with the technical community and we look forward to him visiting us again in the near future.

Our next meeting will be taking place on Tuesday August 23^rd, 2011 at 6:30 PM. Ritesh Pahwa, PMP, will be covering Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010: new features, implementation concerns and upgrade considerations. We will continue with our tradition of providing free food brought to us by Sherlock Technology as well as holding our free raffle with every member leaving with some gift item. Hope you can make it!

Below are some photos of our July meeting with Shervin.

--Sam Abraham

Site Director – West Palm Beach .Net User Group

http://www.fladotnet.com

Partial view of our meeting room. Event attracted more than 25 attendees.

Shervin wearing his HTML 5 shirt.

Joe Homnick, Microsoft Regional Director was in attendance at the event.

Dave Noderer, Microsoft MVP and fladotnet.com founder was also in attendance at the event.

West Palm Beach .Net User Group 2011 Update

Sam Abraham — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:06:30 GMT

In the past few months, we at the West Palm Beach .Net User Group have been busy soliciting your feedback on topics you would like covered at our upcoming meetings. We have also been encouraging our members to step up and share on the projects they work on and the technologies they use. The result is the schedule below which we hope brings a good variety of today’s hottest topics. We look forward to seeing you at our meetings and to receiving your feedback as we continuously strive to improve the group.

Our upcoming July 26^th meeting features Shervin Shakibi on HTML 5. This meeting presents a good opportunity to get heads up on this new technology which is quickly capturing developers’ interest and market share.

For August, Ritesh Pahwa covers TFS 2010. There have been multiple questions on the new features introduced in TFS 2010 as well as on the upgrade process from older TFS editions. Ritesh, who managed the successful upgrade to TFS 2010 for Palm Beach County earlier this year, will be answering all our questions and sharing tips on leveraging the latest features in TFS 2010.

September brings our own Amir Liberman to share on his CodePlex LINQ Extensions Library and answer all our tough LINQ questions.

Other topics generating a big buzz today are Windows Phone 7 and the Kinect SDK. We are very privileged to have our esteemed Microsoft Developer Evangelist, Joe Healy, traveling all the way from Tampa to share with us the latest on Windows Phone 7 in October and Kinect in November. Joe’s back-to-back appearance at our group is bound to finish our year on a strong technical note.

Plans are already underway for 2012. Our focus continues on bringing you the latest technologies presented by a diverse group of speakers, but we also hope to kick it up a bit to increase your participation in “YOUR” group. We are recruiting new volunteers with the goal of bringing you value-added services and special events in addition to the regular FREE monthly meetings. Stay tuned for more announcements as plans get finalized.

Look forward to meeting and chatting with you at our upcoming meetings. Should you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact me via my blog, www.geekswithblogs.net/wildturtle

Sam Abraham

Site Director - West Palm Beach .Net User Group

http://www.fladotnet.com/

IASA South East Florida Chapter Meeting Recap - June 2011

Sam Abraham — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 02:25:21 GMT

Erik Russell and Giles Marino were our speakers for the June 2011 IASA South East Florida Chapter meeting.

Attendees filled all available seats at the Microsoft office conference room where the event was held. This highlights the high interest in Enterprise Architecture as a career track and chartered project role. Also in attendance were our Board of Directors and Alex Funkhouser, President, Sherlock Technology.

Rainer Habermann, Chapter President, kicked off the meeting by introducing our speakers and Board of Directors.

Alex Funkhouser, President of South Florida’s staffing firm Sherlock Technology spoke briefly about available Software Architect positions in the area. Alex also congratulated and presented this week’s Sherlock Raffle winner with $500 in cash.

Our speakers Giles and Erik then proceeded with their talk. Erik presented a business case in the government sector where Enterprise Architecture helped a government entity cut costs and streamline its various business operations. Technologies leveraged in Erik’s demonstrated project were Java-based.

Giles then followed with a thorough demonstration of the Architecture patterns he used to migrate a complete backend system for an insurance company to the .Net Platform.

Audience was very engaged with our speakers as evidenced by the large number of follow-up questions asked at the end of the talk.

We greatly enjoyed Giles and Erik’s talk and look forward to having them share with us more of their adventures as Enterprise Architects in the near future.

Below are some photos of the event.

Sam Abraham

Secretary- IASA South East Florida Chapter.

http://www.iasaglobal.org/iasa/South_East_Florida.asp

Chapter President - Rainer Habermann kicks off our meeting.

Sherlock Technology President Alex Funkhouser holding Sherlock's weekly cash prize.

Alex shares available Software Architect opportunities with our members

Erik Russell addressing our membership

Giles Marino sharing his architecture experience in the insurance industry

In this photo: Dave Noderer, Rainer Habermann, Quent Herschelman and Alex Funkhouser.

Event attracted a large audience and filled the Microsoft conference room where it was held

All in a Day's Work: The Silverlight Navigation Framework

Sam Abraham — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:47:49 GMT

The Silverlight Navigation Framework offers great value when looking to map longer XAML page URLs to much shorter, friendlier and memorable ones. This feature is similar in nature to the ASP.NET MVC Routing engine. For instance, the following is a quick sample on how to leverage the Navigation Framework. For this to work, I had to:

1-Add reference to System.Windows.Controls.Navigation.dll in my Silverlight project

2-Add the following declaration in my App.xaml page:
xmlns:nav="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Navigation;assembly=System.Windows.Controls.Navigation"

I was then able to leverage URI mapping in App.xaml as following:

<Application.Resources>
    <nav:UriMapper x:Key="uriMapper">
	<nav:UriMapping Uri="/{ParamVal}"
		MappedUri="/Site1/TestPage.xaml?Param={ParamVal}" />
   </nav:UriMapper>
</Application.Resources>

The above example will be mapping the base URL of a site to the path /Site1/TestPage.xaml and will pass the parameter value supplied in the simplified URL to the more complex mapped URL.

That simple! J

WPB .Net User Group May 2011 Meeting With Scott Klein

Sam Abraham — Wed, 25 May 2011 15:25:42 GMT

Scott Klein, co-founder of Blue Syntax Consulting and SQL MVP, was our speaker at the West Palm Beach .Net User Group May meeting. Scott spoke and demonstrated code on Azure’s AppFabric. We would like to thank Scott for making time to share with us despite his busy schedule.

We would also like to thank our sponsors: CompTec for hosting our meeting and Sherlock Technology for the free pizza/soda. Below please find a few photos of the event.