Our Spring 2010 Code Camp will be held this Saturday, 3/27 at the Microsoft Northeast Office in Waltham, MA. A session list and registration are availableat http://tinyurl.com/ycylbcy. Please register so we know how much pizza to buy for lunch. See you Saturday!
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Boston Beer Works
112 Canal Street
Boston, MA 02114 USA
Same as always, we meet up stairs at the bar beside the pool tables - then
grab a table if we need to. Its at Boston Beer Works on Canal Street close
to the TD Garden. If you don’t know me - here’s a picture of me. I’ll be
the one at the bar reading MSDN magazine or some Windows Azure book and
drinking a coke.
Contact Jason Haley w/ questions: jason@jasonhaley.com
The person who volunteered to lead the MVC discussion from 5-6 pm tomorrow is ill and can not make the meeting.
We are looking for someone to volunteer and lead the discussion. You don’t need to be an MVC expert, just lead the discussion.
If you can help out please contact Chris Pels at chris.pels@bostondotnet.org before 5 pm today, Tue 3/9.
Thanks
GiveCamp is a weekend, coding “marathon” at which small teams of developers, designers, and other technologists work on customer software solutions for non-profit organizations. This is a community driven and executed event, technology-agnostic, serving the entire New England region.
Get all the details at http://newenglandgivecamp.org.
If you are going to TechEd 2010 in New Orleans in June there will be Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions organized by INETA and volunteers from the community. These are open discussions on any technology topic (including non-Microsoft) led by a volunteer from the developer community.
Abstract submission is now open using the BOF page on the TechEd site. Take a look and check it out.
Our upcoming March monthly meeting will be held on Wednesday 3/10/2010 at the Microsoft Waltham MA office. The meeting will feature two sessions, a discussion group on ASP.NET MVC 2 and a presentation on F#.
SESSION 1: ASP.NET MVC 2
5:00-6:00 pm
Discussion Leader: Bob Goodearl
ASP.NET MVC 2 which will be inlcuded in the upcoming Visual Studio 2010 (April 12th release) builds on the initial version and provides some exciting new functionality. This session will be a discussion where everyone is invited to share their experiences with ASP.NET MVC. You are encouraged to bring your laptop with and MVC related work you would like to share with the group. This will be informal, you don’t have to prepare just show your code.
Visit the MVC site.
About Bob Goodearl
Bob is President of RGood Software, is a software consultant with more than 28 years of experience as software architect, designer, and developer. He is platform “agnostic,” and his first concern is solving his client’s business problem.
In the past four years Bob has led the RGood Software team in delivering architecture, developing and deploying several .NET applications, including both client side and dynamic ASP.NET Web Applications using C# and SQL Server 2000. He is a member of the Boston Dot NET User Group and shares his .NET expertise as one of the leaders of the development of bostondotnet.org, a key resource for the New England .NET community.
SESSION 2: F# and You!
6:00-8:00 pm
Rick Minerich
Why would a programmer choose a specific style of programming for a specific task? The answer is that when you work close to your problem domain you can build things more quickly and with a lower error rate. Functional programming languages sit much closer to the domain of mathematics which makes them ideal for programming in the small. However, F# is not simply a functional programming language. Its blend of the functional and object oriented gives it a power and flexibility beyond that of other .NET platform languages.
Visit the F# Developer Center.
About Rick Minerich
Shortly after graduating from UMass Amherst Rick joined Atalasoft, a Microsoft Platform ISV with an image processing bent located in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Since that time he’s worked hard to become a part of both the .NET and greater functional programming communities. This has culminated in the launch of the New England F# User Group and a Microsoft MVP award. Currently, he spends most of his time working on the soon to be released book Professional F# 2.0.
Due to the lovely winter weather the Wed 2/10/10 Boston .NET User Group meeting is cancelled.Please spread the word to anyone you know in the group.
We are working to have Rick back for one of the upcoming meetings.
With the potential for bad weather on Wednesday 2/10, Microsoft may close the Waltham office and our meeting would be cancelled. Please check back Wednesday morning.
Unfortunately, I have to go away on a business trip this coming Wednesday 2/10 and need a volunteer to make a few brief announcements and introduce our meeting speaker. If you can help out please email me at chris.pels@bostondotnet.org.
Thanks,
Chris
