Recent IndyNDA Meetings

Your Spark Razored my NHaml: A Comparison of Popular ASP.NET MVC View Engines

Mon, 07 May 2012 12:48:00 GMT

Thursday, May 10th:

Your Spark Razored my NHaml: A Comparison of Popular ASP.NET MVC View Engines

Presented by Jay Harris

IndyNDA at Wiley Publishing

Join us for the 136th IndyNDA Monthly Meeting on May 10 at Wiley Publishing, 10475 Crosspoint Blvd, Indianapolis, IN 46256. This month, we explore MVC View Engines.

If you've worked with ASP.NET MVC, you've likely worked with the WebFormsViewEngine, and have felt like you've stepped back 10 years into Classic ASP 3.0. But one of the powers of ASP.NET MVC is its flexibility to use other View Engines, allowing you to to keep the same Model and Controller while using code in your Views that doesn't bring back scary memories of COM. Spark, Razor, and NHaml are all View Engines that have each made a statement in ASP.NET MVC. Let's see what they are all about, how they compare, and how they stack up to the WebForms engine.

About Jay Harris:

Jay is a code wrangler, software consultant, and president of Arana Software. He has been developing on the web for over 15 years, since the Blink tag lured him away from Visual Basic 3 in 1995. With a career focus on user experience, he has a passion for practices that improve quality and usability, and is an expert in continuous integration and in performance analysis and optimization. Jay is also an active contributor and speaker in the developer community, a Microsoft MVP in C#, ASPInsider, INETA Mentor, and an organizer of many conferences and user groups in the Ann Arbor area.

Originally from Rochester, New York, he and his wife, Amy, have lived in Michigan since 2003. They like Michigan, but still consider themselves tourists, and probably always will.

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What Does It Take To Start Earning My Millions With Windows Phone?

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:14:00 GMT

135th IndyNDA Monthly Meeting on April 12

Presented by Dave Bost

Join us for the 135th IndyNDA Monthly Meeting on April 12 at Wiley Publishing, 10475 Crosspoint Blvd, Indianapolis, IN 46256. This month, we explore Windows Phone apps.

Get ready to roll up your sleeves and get building Windows Phone apps! Join Windows Phone Evangelist, Dave Bost, as he lays out the path to you becoming a Windows Phone Rock Star! Dave will walk you through the fundamentals of the Windows Phone SDK, the Windows Phone Tools for Visual Studio and Expression Blend, as well as highlighting various resources and toolkits.

Come prepared with your own laptop and a fully-charged battery as we will get our hands dirty by walking through an instructor-led lab to provide you the insight in what it takes to build Windows Phone apps. We’ll see who can get their app submitted to the Windows Phone Marketplace by the end of the night! After this session, you’ll be well on your way to Windows Phone Rock Star status and collecting your millions! To participate in hands-on lab portion, bring a laptop with the developer tools and training kit pre-installed.

Dev tools: http://create.msdn.com/en-us/home/getting_started

Training kit: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/WindowsPhoneTrainingCourse

About Dave Bost

Dave Bost is a Technical Evangelist in Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) Division. In this role, Dave works with the broad developer community to help them succeed on the Microsoft Platform. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was a Software Developer and Solution Architect working with many Fortune 500 companies as a technical mentor and consultant. Dave started his technical passion when he wrote his first assembly-language program out of a Commodore-64 manual that produced a hot-air balloon to sail across his Commodore 1701 Video Monitor. From there, he was hooked on creating something from nothing with software. More recently, Dave’s passion and drive falls into helping other’s succeed in building apps for the Windows Phone Platform. You can contact Dave at http://davebost.com , listen to him on the Thirsty Developer Podcast, or follow him at http://twitter.com/davebost .

Introducing SharePoint Development for .NET Developers

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 02:20:00 GMT

Introducing SharePoint Development for .NET Developers

While its very true that SharePoint’s development model is firmly rooted in the .NET development world, at the same time SharePoint can be appear to be a completely alien beast to even the most experienced of .NET developers. In this session, John will introduce the fundamental practices that a .NET developer should understand about SharePoint and needs to follow when building custom solutions for the platform, whether its creating web parts or building complex workflows and Line of Business applications for deployment within a SharePoint farm.

About John Ferringer:

John Ferringer is a SharePoint IT Professional with over seven years of experience administering and supporting SharePoint technologies and has spent over thirteen years working in the information technology consulting industry. He has worked with Microsoft Online Services (MSO) and the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) since its initial Beta release, and is a Microsoft Delta Force Ranger for Office 365. John co-authored the "SharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery Guide" in September, 2010 (http://tinyurl.com/SPDR2010book) and the “SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide” in January, 2009 (http://www.tinyurl.com/SPDRbook). He is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) and a Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) for several Microsoft server products and platforms, including SharePoint 2007 and 2010, System Center Operations Manager 2007, and Hyper-V Server. He can be found online at http://www.MyCentralAdmin.com and on Twitter as @ferringer.

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Thursday, February 9th: 133rd Meeting

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:34:00 GMT

Testing Code From The Pit Of Despair

Presented by Phil Japikse

Michael Feathers defines Legacy Code as any code that doesn’t have automated tests, and you agree that automated tests are an important facet of successful software development. Then it happens – you get your next assignment, and it’s your worst nightmare! You have to maintain and enhance a large application that has no tests in place, and there are parts that are just plain scary. Where do you start? Traditional Test Driven Development techniques don’t typically work, since they focus on an inside-out development paradigm.

I will show you the patterns and practices that will help you turn the scary big ball of mud into a tested code base.

About Phil Japikse

An international speaker, Microsoft MVP, and a passionate member of the developer community, Phil Japikse has been working with .Net since the first betas, developing software for over 20 years, and heavily involved in the agile community since 2005. Phil works as the Patterns and Practices Evangelist for Telerik (www.telerik.com), serves as the Lead Director for the Cincinnati .Net User’s Group and the Cincinnati Software Architect Group, as well as founder and president of Agile Conferences, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to advancing agile in all aspects of software development. In his spare time, Phil works part-time as a Firefighter/Paramedic, serves as Cub Master for his son’s Cub Scout Pack, and volunteers for the National Ski Patrol. You can follow Phil on twitter via www.twitter.com/skimedic and read his blog at www.skimedic.com/blog.

Thursday, January 12th: 132nd Meeting

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:45:00 GMT

Technical Screening: This Is How We Do It

A Panel Discussion featuring Dale Brubaker, Dave Fancher, and Ed Herceg

Moderated by Mark Huebner

IndyNDA at Parkwood East, Building Nine, 96th & College Join us for the 132nd IndyNDA Monthly Meeting on Thursday, January 12 in Parkwood East, Buiilding Nine at 900 E. 96th Street on the second floor. We will meet here in January and February, and return to Wiley (Wrox).

Join us for a panel discussion on Technical Screening. with audience participation encouraged. Some say companies and recruiting firms are using tests based on incorrect assumptions on how developers do their work. C# and jQuery and JavaScript and VB and the .NET framework continue to offer new capabilities. The complexity has generally not been a problem for you because you make liberal use of Intellisense, online help, books online, reference books, Google searches, and technical online forums. You know how to quickly find information when you can’t remember specific syntax. So, can you pass that technical screening test? Should you need to be tested? Let's find out.

Moderator:

Mark Huebner

Panelists will include:

Ed Herceg

Robert Half Technology

Dale Brubaker

Interactive Intelligence

Dave Fancher

Aprimo, Inc. (Teradata)

About the moderator

Mark Huebner has a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University and over 20 years of experience as a programmer/analyst designing and developing business, scientific, engineering, environmental, medical, defense, and real-time/embedded applications. He has done work for companies/government agencies such as Bostwick Laboratories, PSNC Energy (SCANA), U.S. Air Force, Science Applications International, EPA, General Dynamics, General Electric, and Cutler-Hammer. Mr. Huebner has focused his career on C# and related Microsoft .NET software technology since 2002 and has been a C# developer since 2006.

About the panelists

Dale Brubaker is a Software Engineer at Interactive Intelligence. He is an experienced software developer with broad and deep background using software to add efficiency and effectiveness to a wide range of business processes. Dale most enjoys developing software that enhances organizational productivity.

Ed Herceg a Senior Technical Recruiter with Robert Half Technology. He specializes in the recruiting and placing of .NET developers for RHT. If you have a solid development background in VB, ASP, C#, Java, Oracle or SQL, you should know each other.

Dave Fancher is a Principal Software Engineer at Aprimo in Indianapolis, Indiana. He has been building software with C# and the .NET Framework since version 1.1 and is active with both the IndyNDA and Indy TFS user groups. Most recently he has been focusing on getting the most out of Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation System. When not writing code Dave enjoys spending time with his family, photography, and gaming on on his Xbox 360.

Thursday, December 8th: 131st Meeting

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:21:00 GMT

Punch Up Your Web App With Knockout

Presented by Chad Campbell

Technological platforms are constantly changing. However, one thing continues to grow: customers want their apps to have a better experience. This session will show how you one way you can help meet those demands, while at the same time keeping your underlying data-model clean.

About Chad Campbell

Chad Campbell is a 5-time Microsoft MVP and founder of Ecofic. He has been developing enterprise-level web applications with a wide variety of technologies since 1999. He holds MCSD and MCTS certifications. In addition, Chad has a BS degree from Purdue University where he focused his studies on computer science and minored in psychology. In his spare time, he works on his pet project: www.divotdog.com.

Thursday, November 10th: 130th Meeting

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:44:00 GMT

Metro style: HTML5 or XAML? -At New Location!

Presented by Joel Dart and Aaron King

IndyNDA at Wiley Publishing's Wrox Press

Join us for the 130th IndyNDA Monthly Meeting on November 11 at 10475 Crosspoint Blvd, Indianapolis, IN 46256. Wrox and Wiley have been friends of IndyNDA for years, and have invited us to use their meeting space. This month, we explore Metro-style app development.

Windows 8 introduces a new development platform for creating Metro style apps. Joel Dart, JavaScript SIG Leader, will in rapid time build a great Metro app using HTML 5 and JavaScript. Aaron King will build that same app using XAML and C#. You'll learn by example how to take advantage of Windows 8 and Metro style applications. Code will be provided.

About Aaron

Aaron King is an application architect specializing in enterprise web applications and very large databases. He has helped several successful startups move to the software plus services model. Aaron is also a community leader and active in IndyNDA, and Indy PASS.

@trendoid

http://www.aaronstanleyking.com

About Joel

Joel Dart is a .Net developer in Indianapolis working at DyKnow and Remember.com. He works primarily on the front end of web-connected apps using WinForms, WPF, and now the web stack (HTML, CSS, JavaScript). Joel runs the JavaScript SIG at IndyNDA each month.

@joeldart

No Meeting this Month- Sign up for GiveCamp

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:26:00 GMT

Indy GiveCamp Oct 14-16

Lets focus on Indy's non-profit community this month

Our next meeting of IndyNDA is Windows 8 with Jeff Brand on Thursday, November 10th.

Yes, November. With Indy GiveCamp happening on Friday at 4:00pm until Sunday at 3:00pm, we are going to focus on giving back to local charities and non-profits rather than hold our usual monthly meeting.

Not signed up yet for Indy GiveCamp? There is still time, and we need a dozen more developers, designers, and DBAs to join the forty of us that will be building apps and websites for seven non-profit organizations. Join us. Review the expectations at IndyGiveCamp, and then sign up. Dozens of GiveCamps have been held nationwide, and a common thread among participants is this: When can we do this again?

Thursday, September 8th: 129th Meeting

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 01:03:00 GMT

Web Application Performance Testing

Presented (via recording) by Steve Smith

The presentation features fundamentals of defining performance goals and measuring performance metrics. The examples make use of Visual Studio 2010 and its extensive support for Web Performance Tests and Load Tests.

About Steve Smith

Steve is a Senior Architect with The Code Project, a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP, and founder of NimblePros consulting.

Thursday, August 11th: 128th Meeting

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:53:00 GMT

What's New in Silverlight 5

Presented by Damon Payne

Silverlight is not dead! Contrary to what you might be hearing Microsoft is still making big investments across the XAML development stack and that includes Silverlight. Come check out a survey of what's new in Silverlight 5. Examples from real-world Silverlight 5 business applications will be included, going far beyond the usual demos. We will also discuss silverlight's place in the developer ecosystem.

About Damon Payne

Damon Payne is a life-long geek, Microsoft MVP, father, husband, audio/video nut, atheist, philosopher, wine drinker, and short order cook who lives in the unexplored swamps near Milwaukee. Damon works mostly in the areas of Smart Client software (including Silverlight, mobile devices, and WPF), visual tools, and Solution Architecture; he also does web programming and has professional interests in parallel programming, agile processes, and requirements gathering. Damon is currently the Principal Software Architect at Big Hammer Data. You can find steady updates and detailed articles at www.damonpayne.com.