Meetings


Mono, MonoTouch, and MonoDroid

Meeting Information: Topic: Mono, MonoTouch, and MonoDroid Mono is an open-source, cross-platform implementation of the .NET framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Infrastructure. With Mono, users can run applications written and compiled in Visual Studio.NET on Windows...

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Journey to Fluent NHibernate

Meeting Information: Topic: Journey to Fluent NHibernate NHibernate has always been preferred ORM tool for DDD community in .NET land. However one area of NHibernate where people struggled most is its xml base configuration. This is where Fluent NHibernate was born giving Fluent, XML-less, compile safe...

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The CAP Theorem and its Implications

Meeting Information: Topic: The CAP Theorem and its Implications In 2000, Eric Brewer proposed the CAP Conjecture. It was proven in 2002 by a group at MIT, and is henceforth known as the CAP Theorem. The CAP Theorem states that any subsystem can have only two of these three attributes: Consistency Accessibility...

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Things You Can Do with the Dynamic Language Runtime

This Month's Topic: Things You Can Do with the Dynamic Language Runtime The Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) came out in version 1.0 with the release of .NET 4 but most developers don't know it is there and, if they do, don't know what you can do with it. In this talk we will discuss what the DLR is and...

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Distributed Source Control with Git

This Month's Topic: Distributed Source Control with Git Always checking out the newest shiny thing?? Distributed version control (DVCS) is spreading like wildfire across the .NET ecosystem but is really all that beneficial or is it just hype?? Having worn a tarnish into this tool using it for the past...

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Inversion Of Control In Action

This Month's Topic: Inversion of Control in Action Join Matt Hinze to talk about inversion of control, object-oriented principles, software architecture and how to develop quality software very quickly. In this intermediate to advanced level talk, Matt will present the basics of IOC in C# and dive deep...

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More Vroom Vroom Makes your Silverlight Zoom Zoom: Model View ViewModels for Silverlight and WPF Applications

This Month's Topic: More Vroom Vroom Makes your Silverlight Zoom Zoom: Model View ViewModels for Silverlight and WPF Applications As a follow up to Dependency Injection with Silverlight, this talk focuses on the advanced data binding and application modeling options that are available so that you can...

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Event Driven Architecture

This Month's Topic: Event Driven Architecture In this presentation, I will explain event driven architecture, describe the different types of events, demonstrate how events can be related and orchestrated, and provide a basic understanding of how this method can drive the architecture of enterprise systems...

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Dynamic Features of C# 4 with Aaron Erickson

This Month's Topic: Dynamic Features of C# 4 Do you remember when generics were introduced in the .NET runtime 2.0? That was the the biggest new feature in that version of the framework and it's almost 5 years old. Time for a new runtime release with new and exciting features. In this talk, we focus...

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Get $(ready).with(Rachel Appel);

This Month's Topic: Get $(ready).with(Rachel Appel); jQuery aims to redefine the way we write JavaScript, and now with support built into Microsoft Visual Studio, you can more easily write client-side scripts than ever before. In this session, you will learn the basics of jQuery starting with downloading...

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