Hello Everyone -
Direct Supply has been graciously hosting and sponsoring our group for well over a year now, and we are very appreicative. Due to a variety of reasons that have asked that all guests not arrive more than 30 minutes prior to the meeting. If you are coming to the Architecture SIG before hand, this especially applies to you. It is disruptive to have many people there early while people are still working. They have also asked that I announce that they will be closing the gates at 7:30 PM as well so that their security staff can go on about their regular business, so please be there before that or you may not be able to get into the building.
Also, I wanted to remind you that Direct Supply has always been very accomodating to our group. It goes without saying that we should remember to show their staff and property the highest respect. They don't have to host us, but they choose to. Please keep that in mind while you are on their campus.
Thank you.
Scott Isaacs
President, WI .NET Users Group |
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Register for Meetings Here...
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The primary means for members of the WI .NET Users Group to interact with each other is through our monthly meetings. We meet in the Milwaukee area to try and make it as easy as possible for people to participate in our meetings. We will make every attempt to promptly include presentations and example code from our meetings on this site as soon after the meeting as possible. Visit the Resources tab, then click on Presentation Downloads where you will find all of the presentations and code conveniently located in one location for your use. To register for upcoming events, all you need to do is register on our site, then once logged in, visit the meetings tab and click register directly below the meeting(s) you wish to register for. To un-register, repeat this process and you will see an un-register link to click on. By registering in advance for our meetings, you help us prepare the right amount of refreshments, the right facilities size, the equipment, and ensure the right number of raffle prizes and sponsors. Thank you for helping us make the WI .NET Users Group as valuable for all of us as possible. If you have ideas, suggestions, criticism, or praise for any particular meetings, please let us know by using the contact form on the home page of this site. Thank you! |
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Upcoming Meetings and Events
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June 2010 - Multi-Touch and the User Experience
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Tuesday, Jun 8, 2010 at 07:00 PM
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We've come a long way since the DOS command prompts when they were the most popular way to interact with your computer... Once the mouse went mainstream in the 1980s, we started interacting with our computers in a whole new way. I believe that multi-touch is the next big step in our user experience with machines. Microsoft has given us development tools and libraries to build engaging user experiences for our applications. Manufacturers are shipping devices with multi-touch features built-in. For my presentation, I'm going to talk about the touch interfaces on Windows platforms including Windows 7, Windows Phone, Zune HD, and .NET Micro Framework. I'll show you how to write code to access the touch events in your .NET applications.
About Travis Feirtag
Travis is a senior .NET consultant working in the MidWest for over ten years. He lives with his wife and four kids in Lake Mills, WI. He is known online as: http://therobotgeek.net. When he's not spending time with his family, he enjoys writing code, tech articles, blogging, robotics and multi-touch projects.
Meeting Sponsors
Kforce Technology Staffing
Direct Supply Inc
Event Location
Direct Supply Inc
6663 N Industrial Road
Milwaukee, WI 53223
Map & Directions
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January 2010 - NSlim and FitNesse: The Robot Killer
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Tuesday, Jan 12, 2010 at 07:00 PM
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One of the keystones of the Agile Methods is automated testing. In Agile Projects requirements are expressed as executable tests. These tests are written in a high level language that is easily understood by business analysts and stakeholders. The tests are written by collaboration between the business analysts, QA, and the developers. These tests are accumulated on an intranet site and can be run by any project stakeholder at any time. The number of tests passing gives a clear indication of what is working, what isn't working, and how much progress the team is making on a day to day basis.
In this talk the speaker demonstrates FitNesse, an open source tool for organizing, expressing and executing acceptance tests. He describes the process for writing and executing these tests, and discusses the experiences of teams that are using this approach.
About Robert C. Martin
Robert C. Martin has been a software professional since 1970. In the last 35 years, he has worked in various capacities on literally hundreds of software projects. He has authored "landmark" books on Agile Programming, Extreme Programming, UML, Object-Oriented Programming, and C++ Programming. He has published dozens of articles in various trade journals. Today, He is one of the software industry's leading authorities on Agile software development and is a regular speaker at international conferences and trade shows. He is a former editor of the C++ Report and currently writes a monthly Craftsman column for Software Development magazine.
Mr. Martin is the founder, CEO, and president of Object Mentor Incorporated. Object Mentor is a sister company to Object Mentor International. Like OMI, Object Mentor is comprised of highly experienced software professionals who provide process improvement consulting, object-oriented software design consulting , training, and development services to major corporations around the world
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February 2010 - Succeeding With Agile & TFS 2010
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Tuesday, Feb 23, 2010 at 07:00 PM
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Update: Download presentation materials here.
Note: Special night, Feb 23.
Making the transition to Agile can be challenging for even the most seasoned organization. Having good leadership and the right tools can make all the difference. Drawing on nearly two decades of experience Chad will be walking us through methods that can be used to avoid common pitfalls and using Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 as an Agile platform. In this highly interactive session, Chad will demonstrate some of the new features of TFS 2010 as they relate to Agile estimation, planning, execution and measurement. If your organization is considering a migration to Agile or the TFS 2010 platform, you are encouraged to attend.
About Chad Albrecht
Currently the ALM Practice Director at Centare Group, Chad has built numerous successful companies and software development teams over his 17 year career. With extensive experience as both an executive and consultant, Chad is a strong believer in Agile SDLC techniques and the Kaizen corporate culture.
Date / Time
February 23, 2010, 7PM
Meeting Sponsors
Centare Group, Ltd.
Direct Supply Inc
Event Location
Direct Supply Inc
6663 N Industrial Road
Milwaukee, WI 53223
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March 2010 - BI: From Database to Warehouse to OLAP to Excel with SQL Server 2008 & Excel 2007
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Tuesday, Mar 9, 2010 at 07:00 PM
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Update: Download presentation materials here.
Business Intelligence (BI) has become increasingly important in today's marketplace, from the smallest businesses up to the largest firms. Understanding what makes good BI starts with proper foundations. Those foundations are best understood by asking "What is BI?", working through a few common approaches and finishing by diving into building a real BI solution. We'll use Microsoft technologies to build many of the common BI foundational components including a warehouse, an ETL process, an OLAP database with dimensions and a cube and Excel Pivot Tables. Another important foundation of a successful BI project is the organization of the project collateral during the development lifecycle. This session will cover the usage of Visual Studio 2008, building up all of the BI collateral into one VS2008 solution.
About Christopher J. Barwick
Chris is the Enterprise Data Analytics Team Lead for Big Hammer, a division of Edgenet. There he manages data for Fortune 500 clients and oversees many multi-terabyte projects in SQL 2005, SQL 2008 and SQL 2008 R2.
Because of these high profile projects and his passion for digging into new technologies, he is often engaged in early adopter programs with Microsoft. From a recent deep dive training at Microsoft on StreamInsight, a new product in SQL Server 2008 R2, to being an early adopter of the very first beta of the .NET Framework, Chris went on to start and run the largest F# Forum site hubfs.net. Microsoft's F# Developer Center on MSDN actually uses his site for their forums! Chris also has interests in WCF, F#, C#, XAML Workflows and WPF, especially in the new and upcoming VS2010. When not digging into new Microsoft Technologies, he spends time teaching Unsupervised Machine Learning algorithms to his Jack Russell Terrier "Elsa".
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April 2010 - Re-MIX, MIX redux, or just plain MIXed Up
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Tuesday, Apr 13, 2010 at 07:00 PM
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Did you miss the Microsoft MIX 2010 conference? Well let's have a fun chat about MIX. With so much stuff covered in those 72 hours, it's just impossible to try and cover it all in less than 2 hours. If you're looking for slides then this isn't the session for you. We are going to take a technology tour for a few of the technologies that were making all the buzz on the floors of the MIX conference.
As if that wasn't good enough, Clark has a Zune HD to give away.
 Clark Sell
Name a role in the software industry, and Clark has probably played it. He started as a Y2K tester and has since worked as a developer, lead, "build monkey," solutions architect and product manager. His professional sweet spot however, lies in designing and building software solutions that make life easier – there's no chance for boredom and constant opportunities for growth. Clark is MCSD certified and received top Microsoft honors with the Circle of Excellence Award. He's a graduate of Western Illinois University and before joining Microsoft in 2005, he served as a solutions architect at Allstate Insurance Company. As a senior developer evangelist and Visual Studio team system ranger, Clark brings a good dose of humor and a zest for life to the podium. You can hear Clark's technical musings on "The Smackdown" at DeveloperSmackdown.com and The Thirsty Developer podcast – or find him getting grease under his nails in the garage. Clark's a muscle car fanatic who's currently finishing a body-off restoration of his 1970 Chevrolet Camaro. His website is csell.net.
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May 2010 - Windows Phone 7 Development
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 07:00 PM
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Windows Phone 7 has been announced and the buzz is overwhelmingly positive. Stay in your familiar Visual Studio world and learn how to Build, Deploy, and Monetize Windows Phone 7 applications using Silverlight.
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, WPF, and Windows Phone 7) , 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.
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