June .NET User Group Meeting

When:
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 5:45 PM – 8:30 PM

Where:
Louisiana Technology Park Room 301, 7117 Florida Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA 70806 (map)

Sponsored By:

At Sponsor

Main Presentation:

New Features of Entity Framework 5

- Brian Sullivan (Falcon Applications)
Coming Soon.

Brian Sullivan is a developer analyst for Falcon Applications, LLC in Shreveport, LA. He got his start in programming maintaining legacy mainframe applications in COBOL at a large trucking company, but quickly realized he needed to find a more productive environment in order to stay sane. He jumped at the opportunity to help transition some of those COBOL applications to .NET, and he hasn’t looked back since. He has been working with Microsoft technologies for about 5 years, and is interested in increasing the exposure of agile techniques and methodologies in the Microsoft developer community. He currently runs the Shreveport .NET User Group and speaks frequently at local user groups and regional conferences. Brian is a graduate of Harding University in Searcy, AR.

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Agenda
5:45 pm – 6:15 pm: General Introduction/Food and Drinks
6:15 pm – 7:30 pm: Presentations
7:30 pm – until: Open forum for questions

The .NET User Group and the SQL User Groups have graciously accepted an offer by the Louisiana Technology Park to host the meetings there.

Louisiana Technology Park (map)
7117 Florida Boulevard
Baton Rouge, LA 70806
Phone: 225-218-1100

May SQL Server User Group Meeting

When:
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 5:45 PM – 8:30 PM

Where:
Louisiana Technology Park Room 301,
7117 Florida Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA 70806 (map)

Sponsored By:

At Antares, Our Vision is to be a true partner for our clients by offering superior quality technology consulting and custom software solutions. We are equally committed to creating a rewarding and nurturing workplace where our staff can grow personally and professionally.

Main Presentation:

Why Data Warehousing

- Kristen Reeves (Geocent)
This presentation will serve as an introduction into the world of Data Warehousing.  We will start by covering the key characteristics and concepts of a Data Warehouse as well as go over the differences between a Warehouse and transactional Database Management System.  We will then go into the internal design and processes involved in building an efficient Data Warehouse.  We will end by discussing why Data Warehouses are useful to a business and how a business can leverage the key information stored to drive future business decisions.

Kristen Reeves – After graduating from Southeastern Louisiana University with a B.S in Computer Science and an MBA (Information Systems concentration), I went straight into the Data Warehousing field.  For five years I worked with Revenue Solutions, Inc. where we provided data warehousing solutions to revenue agencies. Within this time I provided consulting to the Massachusetts Department of Revenue located in Boston, MA as well as the Georgia Department of Revenue located in Atlanta, GA.  I recently became employed by Geocent, where I am providing  database development skills.

TDD with NCrunch

- Elexis Poindexter (Antares Technology Solutions)
NCrunch is a tool for running automated tests continuously in parallel.  Developers who practice test driven development will find NCrunch increases efficiency and streamlines the “Red, Green, Refactor” process.   Elexis will demonstrate NCrunch’s features and best practices.

Elexis Poindexter is a software developer at Antares Technology Solutions where he specializes in ASP.NET Web Development.

Agenda
5:45 pm – 6:15 pm: General Introduction/Food and Drinks
6:15 pm – 7:30 pm: Presentations
7:30 pm – until: Open forum for questions

The .NET User Group and the SQL User Groups have graciously accepted an offer by the Louisiana Technology Park to host the meetings there.

Louisiana Technology Park (map)
7117 Florida Boulevard
Baton Rouge, LA 70806
Phone: 225-218-1100

May .NET User Group Meeting

When:
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 5:45 PM – 8:30 PM

Where:
Louisiana Technology Park Room 301, 7117 Florida Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA 70806 (map)

Sponsored By:

At Antares, Our Vision is to be a true partner for our clients by offering superior quality technology consulting and custom software solutions. We are equally committed to creating a rewarding and nurturing workplace where our staff can grow personally and professionally.

Main Presentation:

All of jQuery

- George Mauer (Surge Consulting)
Are you using jQuery to its maximum? Do you know about $.extend? $.fn.toggle? How to make your own plugin? Have you really dug down into all that it offers? This session is focused on getting developers using jQuery to its full extent. A speedy intermediate level talk it covers the many surprising things you can do once you really explore this elegant library. This talk has been given at Houston Techfest and GNO.Net.

George Mauer is a software developer, speaker, entrepreneur, writer, and comedian with an interest in the various techniques that can make software simple, extensible, and communicative. He is the owner of Humble Pi Software and currently a senior developer with Surge Consulting. He co-hosts the weekly Virtual Brownbag and is a regular participant in the New Orleans .Net, Ruby, Php, and general developers groups.  He speaks regularly on C#, Javascript, MVC, Mercurial, and Agile at usergroups, conferences, and to his cat.

TDD with NCrunch

- Elexis Poindexter (Antares Technology Solutions)
NCrunch is a tool for running automated tests continuously in parallel.  Developers who practice test driven development will find NCrunch increases efficiency and streamlines the “Red, Green, Refactor” process.   Elexis will demonstrate NCrunch’s features and best practices.

Elexis Poindexter is a software developer at Antares Technology Solutions where he specializes in ASP.NET Web Development.

Agenda
5:45 pm – 6:15 pm: General Introduction/Food and Drinks
6:15 pm – 7:30 pm: Presentations
7:30 pm – until: Open forum for questions

The .NET User Group and the SQL User Groups have graciously accepted an offer by the Louisiana Technology Park to host the meetings there.

Louisiana Technology Park (map)
7117 Florida Boulevard
Baton Rouge, LA 70806
Phone: 225-218-1100

April .NET User Group Meeting

When:
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 5:45 PM – 8:30 PM

Where:
Louisiana Technology Park Room 301, 7117 Florida Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA 70806 (map)
This month (April 11th) BRDNUG has moved to the Louisiana Technology Park

Sponsored By:

At Geocent, we strive to be an invaluable part of our client’s organizations, advancing them beyond their expectations. Geocent’s employees are passionate about what they do. This passion translates into consistent results and strong and long-lasting partnerships between Geocent and our clients. We are an award winning small business providing technology and engineering solutions that help our clients improve their performance and achieve their goals. We have steadily earned the trust of our clients since 1992 through experience, innovation, commitment, and reliability. We are guided by a clear mission and strong core values, and are committed to cultivating a creative and diverse working environment focusing on high employee and client satisfaction. Our clients include Federal, State, and Local government agencies, as well as large and mid-size commercial organizations.

Main Presentation:

HTML5 and MVC3

- Dale Kirby (Geocent)
This presentation will offer an introduction to some of the key concepts of both HTML5 and MVC3. Both HTML5 and MVC3 are starting to be adopted more and more for professional business systems. Both platforms offer clean and robust ways to deliver solutions that work, and with the increased adoption developers will want to leverage these tools in their software. Dale will show examples of both HTML5 and MVC3 features with code samples and discuss the advantages and usefulness of some of the interesting aspects of each technology.

Dale Kirby is an seasoned business systems architect with 12 years of experience in the design, implementation and rollout of major technology initiatives. He has played a principal role in creating complex solutions for businesses and organizations including professional sports, insurance underwriting, maritime industry, manufacturing, homeland security, emergency management and disaster mitigation.

Dale has worked throughout a broad spectrum of system environments with various architectures and software stacks. His cross-platform abilities are instrumental in bringing together diverse resources and creating robust solutions. Some of his focus areas include Microsoft .NET, ESRI ArcGIS, ASP.NET web applications and services, SharePoint, and others.

Windows Embedded Overview

- Bruce Burge (St. James Technologies)
Briefly we will cover the benefits of required resource reduction, customization options and configuration, version comparisons (MS vs layman) and close with when you would use it, and the hassles of liscening the product.

Bruce Burge. For the last eleven years I’ve worked as a software developer, and consultant in a wide range of businesses, primarily focusing on small businesses and startups. Currently I am working at St. James Technologies where I serve primarily as a software developer, I also spend a fair amount of time researching, and testing new technologies ranging from ORMs to Operating Systems. As well as serving as forklift operator, and grill chef as needed. More information can be found at www.bruceburge.com

Agenda
5:45 pm – 6:15 pm: General Introduction/Food and Drinks
6:15 pm – 7:30 pm: Presentations
7:30 pm – until: Open forum for questions

The .NET User Group and the SQL User Groups have graciously accepted an offer by the Louisiana Technology Park to host the meetings there.

Louisiana Technology Park (map)
7117 Florida Boulevard
Baton Rouge, LA 70806
Phone: 225-218-1100

March .NET User Group Meeting

When:
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 5:45 PM – 8:30 PM

Where:
LSU – Tureaud Hall Room 103, Baton Rouge, LA 70803. map
Next month (April 11th) BRDNUG will be moving to the Louisiana Technology Park

Sponsored By:

Providence Engineering. We are a team of engineers and scientists that is guided by a vision of tomorrow. Our staff has a long history of providing cost effective and technically sound solutions to our clients with a personal touch. Our professionalism, technical abilities, and commitment to quality allow us to serve our clients with a high degree of expertise and experience in the various disciplines of engineering and environmental sciences.

Main Presentation:

What Software Developers can Learn from Forrest Gump

- Keith Elder (Microsoft MVP)
In this session we’ll take a break from the mind-melting technology deep-dives and focus on the other skills developers need commonly referred to as “Soft Skills”. We’ll use one of the greatest characters ever to grace the silver screen, Forrest Gump, as the back drop to this talk. There are many things we can learn from Forrest like how to communicate simpler to humans as well as great life lessons we often forget.  After attending this session you’ll walk away with a set of tips, guidelines and principles such as how to better communicate with non-developers based on scientific study, the value of providing value, how to make those around you comfortable, and how to leverage techniques in conversation used by successful salesmen.

Keith Elder is the co-host of the popular online technology podcast Deep Fried Bytes. He is also a Director of Software Engineering at Quicken Loans, the nation’s largest online mortgage lender based in Detroit, MI and is the founder of the Hattiesburg, MS .Net User Group called Hub City NUG. Keith is an experienced technologist, systems administrator, software engineer, speaker, trainer and all around geek.

As an experienced educator, trainer and speaker he has logged thousands of hours in front of the classroom teaching students of varying ages from the 6th grade to the college level. He has trained countless developers from various business sectors ranging from top auto manufactures, fortune 500 companies and Universities.

As a Microsoft MVP he speaks throughout the United States at major technical conferences, Code Camps, and .Net User Groups. Keith’s ability to explain complex topics with a friendly common sense southern attitude make him a highly regarded speaker at technical conferences. You can read more about Keith’s interests, hobbies, rants and raves on his blog at http://keithelder.net/.

Lightning Round:

None

Agenda
5:45 pm – 6:15 pm: General Introduction/Food and Drinks
6:15 pm – 7:30 pm: Presentations
7:30 pm – until: Open forum for questions

Louisiana Technology Park (map)
7117 Florida Boulevard
Baton Rouge, LA 70806
Phone: 225-218-1100