Hello Everyone -
Direct Supply has been graciously hosting and sponsoring our group for quite some time now, and we are very appreicative. Due to a variety of reasons they have asked that all guests not arrive more than 30 minutes prior to the meeting. 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
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Upcoming Meetings and Events
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May 2013 (SPECIAL NIGHT) - Game Development on Windows 8
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 07:00 PM
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It's time again to dig into Windows 8 App building. This time, we'll help to scratch that secret itch we all have to build games (and get rich doing it). Adam and Clark will be talking about game creation on Windows 8 in general, and a tool called Scirra Construct 2 in specifics (get your free copy at www.scirra.com). We'll give an overview of the tool, and then dig into some specific topics that you might run into creating a "snack-sized" game for Windows 8. We'll discuss stuff like sprite collision, path finding, turret style behaviors and more – don't worry, Scirra makes it all really easy. By the end of the night you'll see just how easy it is to build a game for yourself, and then get it published to the Windows 8 Store.
Also, don't forget that we're still giving away that Surface to someone who has created a new app, or made a significant update to an existing app. You must be present to win – bring us your apps!
About Adam Hoffman
Adam is an Evangelist for Windows Azure, working for Microsoft. By day, you can likely find him somewhere in the midwest, driving to yet another whiteboarding/deep-thinking session, ready to figure out how the cloud can save your family from certain doom, and make you rich and successful in the process. Before he started evangelizing, Adam was a Senior Developer Lead for Microsoft in Redmond, working on Office 365, BPOS, and Office Live. He misses Redmond, and the excitement of the mother ship, but the call of bitter cold and lots of snow in Chicago was too much for him, and he had to return. Lucky for you! When he's not evangelizing, he likes to spend time with his wife and kids, telling them how the cloud will benefit them as well.
About 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.
Date / Time
May 7, 2013, 7PM SPECIAL NIGHT!!!
Meeting Sponsors
SafeNet Consulting
Event Location
SafeNet Milwaukee
10700 Research Drive
Wauwatosa, WI 53226
The conference room is in the lower level of building.
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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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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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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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August 2010 - Stupid Web Tricks, Part 1
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Tuesday, Aug 10, 2010 at 07:00 PM
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Larry Clarkin will show you 4 things that you can quickly add to any website to make it more interesting or easier to maintain. We will look at: Web Slices, Microformats, WCF Data Services and some AJAX.
About Larry Clarkin
Larry Clarkin joined Microsoft in early 2007, bringing with him 15+ years of experience in both application development and architecture. He has worked in a variety of industries, including telecommunications, manufacturing, distribution, insurance, and financial services. Larry has a passion for technology and how it can be applied to solve business and social issues. Larry is very community-focused and is a frequent participant and presenter at Microsoft and non-Microsoft user groups. In his spare time Larry enjoys reading, baseball, technology, and spending time with his wife Jodie and their 3 sons. You can follow Larry's adventures at his blog, http://eraserandcrowbar.com or join him on XBOX Live, Gamertag: Bottom9th.
Meeting Sponsors
Direct Supply Inc
Event Location
Direct Supply Inc
6663 N Industrial Road
Milwaukee, WI 53223
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September 2010 - Application Instrumentation with WMI
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Tuesday, Sep 14, 2010 at 07:00 PM
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WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) is most commonly used to query for hard drives, find out what services are running, and other basic Windows functions. But, did you know that you can make your own objects queryable in WMI as well, as well as send custom events? We'll go over how to query machine state with WMI, and then how to instrument your own applications with WMI as well. Finally, I'll show how to make a custom MMC plugin powered with WMI.
About Nick Schweitzer
Nick Schweitzer is a Milwaukee Area Software Consultant with more than 12 years of experience. He is a Senior Consultant at SpiderLogic in Milwaukee and has worked with clients ranging from medium size firms, to Fortune 500 companies. He sometimes blogs at The Coding Monkey and is active on Twitter (@NickSchweitzer).
Meeting Sponsors
SpiderLogic
Direct Supply Inc
Event Location
Direct Supply Inc
6663 N Industrial Road
Milwaukee, WI 53223
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October 2010 - Agile Modeling with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
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Tuesday, Oct 12, 2010 at 07:00 PM
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We will start with a quick discussion of the history of UML, agile development, and modeling tools in the Microsoft world. Then we will cover the basics of UML modeling with VS 2010, covering class, layer, dependency graph, and sequence diagrams. Finally, we will talk about establishing an agile modeling and development workflow with forward and reverse engineering using the Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack.
About Gary Pedretti
Gary Pedretti taught himself to program on a TI-99/4A in grade school when he endeavored to recreate his favorite video game, Centipede, in TI Extended BASIC. Somewhere later in life he realized he would have had more success with a compiled, not interpreted language. In his teenage years he was saddled with an Amiga Persecution Complex. Gary now has over ten years experience in enterprise-level IT focusing primarily on Microsoft technologies. His specialties are application architecture, SOA, WCF, C#, middle-tier development, data-tier development, and database administration. He is an MCPD: Enterprise Application Developer 2.0/ASP.NET Developer 3.5/Web Developer 4.0, MCDBA 2000, and a Certified Scrum Master. His hobbies and interests include home theater, record collecting, fine dining, and writing about himself in the third person. He blogs at Blog.GaryPedretti.com.
Date / Time
October 12, 2010, 7PM
Meeting Sponsors
Robert W. Baird & Co
Direct Supply Inc
Event Location
Direct Supply Inc
6663 N Industrial Road
Milwaukee, WI 53223
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November 2010 - What's New in WCF 4
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Tuesday, Nov 9, 2010 at 07:00 PM
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WCF 4.0 is the third iteration of WCF and like any Microsoft product, the third iteration is the one that finally becomes usable by everyone. We’ll dig into how the configuration model was tightened up and the enhancements that make REST great. We’ll then dive into two features that were in and out during the WCF 3.0 CTP days: Discovery and Routing.
About Scott Seely
Scott Seely is the author of several books on Web Services and an instructor for Pluralsight. He is a Microsoft Regional Director. Right now, he is working on Essential Windows Communication Foundation, 2nd Edition for Addison Wesley.
Date / Time
November 9, 2010, 7PM
Meeting Sponsors
Robert Half Technology
Direct Supply Inc
Event Location
Direct Supply Inc
6663 N Industrial Road
Milwaukee, WI 53223
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October 2011 - The //BUILD Conference Happened, now what?
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Tuesday, Oct 11, 2011 at 07:00 PM
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Microsoft has shown us a glimpse of the Windows 8 platform and the future of application development. What does that mean for us as .NET developers: are Silverlight and WPF dead? What is WinRT? Do I have to learn HTML 5 and C++? Please join us for a discussion of these topics and a healthy amount of Windows 8 development examples.
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.
Date / Time
October 11, 2011, 7PM
Meeting Sponsors
Direct Supply Inc
Event Location
Direct Supply Inc
6663 N Industrial Road
Milwaukee, WI 53223
Map & Directions
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