Meeting Information: Lessons Learned as a Polyglot Programmer We have entered the age of polyglot programming. It is no longer sufficient to know only C#, JavaScript, and SQL. Even if this wasn't the case, understanding the motivations and idioms of other languages will make you better in the language...
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Lessons Learned as a Polyglot Programmer
Monday, January 29 2018 - Meetings
Not Hotdog: Android Things and Visual Studio/Xamarin
Tuesday, January 02 2018 - Meetings
Meeting Information: Not Hotdog: Android Things and Visual Studio/Xamarin We will cover the new platform announced by Google, called Android Things. Android Things lets you build Android apps that run on devices like a Raspberry Pi using all of the great tools already available and familiar to Android...
Intermediate Aurelia: Taking Your SPA to the Next Level
Wednesday, November 22 2017 - Meetings
Meeting Information: Intermediate Aurelia: Taking Your SPA to the Next Level Getting your app running with the basic data-bindings in place is only the first step. Aurelia provides the tools to create an experience your users will love, rather than just tolerate. Build a great data entry experience with...
Pursuing Quality
Monday, October 16 2017 - Meetings
Meeting Information: Pursuing Quality Quality is hard to define and even harder to achieve. Chris has spent the last 5 years working as a developer in a Quality role. This talk includes a philosophy on quality, lessons learned, tools, and techniques that can help you define and achieve quality in your...
Lessons Learned from Teaching at a Coding Bootcamp
Sunday, October 01 2017 - Meetings
Meeting Information: Lessons Learned from Teaching at a Coding Bootcamp If you have ever considered teaching at a coding bootcamp, pondered starting one, or have wondered if hiring a graduate is a good idea, come for the discussion and bring your questions. For the last year and a half I've taught at...
Creating an Alexa Skill with AWS Lambda
Tuesday, September 05 2017 - Meetings
Meeting Information: Creating an Alexa Skill with AWS Lambda Amazon's Alexa platform is taking the world by storm, helping empower smart homes around the world. But what many developers may not realize is that this is not a closed platform, in fact it has a thriving marketplace for programs, or Skills...
Execute Order 66 - Mixed Reality for .NET Developers
Thursday, July 27 2017 - Meetings
Meeting Information: Execute Order 66 - Mixed Reality for .NET Developers Powerful Augmented, Mixed and Virtual reality devices like HoloLens make science fiction movie technology become reality for consumers. This session will talk about Microsoft Mixed Reality platform and the challenges that AR and...
A Tale of Two Clouds: Building an App Across AWS and Azure
Saturday, July 01 2017 - Meetings
Meeting Information: A Tale of Two Clouds: Building an App Across AWS and Azure Today's enterprise cloud consumers have a difficult decision to make when deciding where to deploy their application workloads: AWS, Azure or both? Both platforms share many similar services but have critical differences...
Practical Functional Programming
Tuesday, May 30 2017 - Meetings
Meeting Information: Practical Functional Programming Bring your laptop for this hands-on training! Functional Programming is the heart of many exciting new technologies including big data, microservices, the cloud, and a surprising number of familiar libraries. If you write C# or JavaScript code you...
Exception Driven Development
Wednesday, April 26 2017 - Meetings
Meeting Information: Exception Driven Development If customer facing issues are your top priority, then you already adhere to the primary principle of Exception Driven Development. It's a pretty simple concept: Collect application data, especially regarding errors and crashes, and then focus on fixing...
