Events this Week – September 15th, 2008 - .net DEvHammer - Site Home

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area…note that the MSDN Events in Reston (9/16) and Richmond (9/18) are being presented by yours truly, as is the presentation on AJAX at the Charlottesville .NET User Group (9/18) and the Geocoding presentation at CapArea.net (9/23). So if you’d like to catch your local Developer Evangelist in action, please stop by one of those events:

Monday, September 15, 2008 6:30 PM: Philly ALT.NET - Reconnoitering Kanban & Lean - Reconnoitering Kanban & Lean - Dave Laribee Drexel University Rush Building Room 014 (Basement Level) 6:30 PM - Greetings and Eatings 7:00 PM - Reconnoitering Kanban & Lean - Dave Laribee Recently, we installed a Kanban pull system at Xclaim Software to reduce some of the wastes associated with weekly iterations, demos, and retrospectives. I'll spend 30-40 minutes covering our implementation while mixing in some of the philosophical underpinnings of Lean including flow, pull, and standard work. We'll transition into an open discussion about emerging Lean practices with an emphasis on why you should care, how to get started, and highlighting resources I've found useful in learning, developing, and applying Lean Software Development practices.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:30 PM: MSDN Event - Visual Studio 2008, WPF and Vista Security - Join us for a 4 hour MSDN Event where we will cover 3 separate sessions focusing on Visual Studio, WPF and Vista Security.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 6:00 PM: Baltimore SharePoint Users Group September Meetup - Meetings held at the UMBC Tech Center. Join the Meetup group at http://dotnet.meetup.com/126/.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 5:30 PM: Microsoft Access SIG Meeting - Presentation on Microsoft Certification - 5:30pm--Networking with free Pizza and soft drinks. 6pm--Our presentation, by Kemal Tuncer of Knowlogy, on the latest in Microsoft certification. 8pm--End of Program The Knowlogy office is at 818 Connecticut Ave. on the 4th floor. You can call David Kiasi at (301) 335-5802 after 4pm the day of the meeting. It is one block from the Farragut West Metro stop, the "I" Street exit. You may get confused about the location. It is off of the Farragut Square park to the southeast. There are two restaurants with outdoor seating in front of the building.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 7:00 PM: Enabling SharePoint Authentication Against DotNetNuke - You probably already know that you can setup SharePoint to authenticate via Forms Based Authentication and better yet using the AspNet Membership and Role providers as its back-end. You probably also know that DotNetNuke also uses the AspNet Membership as its default provider. In theory, SharePoint and DotNetNuke could share *one* central membership store. In this session, Antonio Chagoury will take you from theory to practice by setting up SharePoint to use DotNetNuke's database as the Membership Provider. Antonio will also go into some *gotchas* with the Role Provider, and provide tips and tricks for making it all work.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 12:30 PM: MSDN Event - Visual Studio 2008, WPF and Vista Security - Join us for a 4 hour MSDN Event where we will cover 3 separate sessions focusing on Visual Studio, WPF and Vista Security. This event will be held at the Regal West Towers Cinemas 10.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 2:00 PM: Roanoke Visual Studio 2008 Community Launch - Attend our Heroes Happen { here } 2008 Launch Wave for Visual Studio 2008 event and be one of the first to see how the latest Microsoft technology can help provide you with a highly secure, reliable, and easy-to-manage platform to help you host and develop connected applications that can give your business the competitive edge you need. Registration is required. Event will be held at the Roanoke Higher Education Center.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 6:00 PM: .NET Valley Live! - Scranton University (DNV) - This event will begin at 6pm in the Hyland building room 201. Presenting will be Rachel Appel. The topic will be An Introduction to ASP.NET Dynamic Data. In this session you will learn concepts and use of scaffolding to create an ASP.NET dynamic data web site that uses Linq to SQL. We will also discuss dynamic page and field template creation and customization as well as 3rd party control integration.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 6:30 PM: Charlottesville .NET User Group September Meeting - Controlling AJAX when you're out of control by G. Andrew Duthie While implementing and troubleshooting AJAX functionality in an application is rarely easy, it gets even harder when you don't have complete control over the site where you have to implement it. Shared hosting environments, blog accounts on large blog sites, etc. are situations where you may have only limited control over where and when your javascript gets loaded and executed. In this talk, Microsoft developer evangelist G. Andrew Duthie will walk you through some examples of how you can overcome limitations on such sites, and how to troubleshoot some of the inevitable issues you may run into. Some basic understanding of javascript and AJAX is assumed.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 6:30 PM: Hampton Roads SQL Server User Group - Our September meeting will be hosted by CorasWorks, a SharePoint vendor. Mike DiCarlo will join us and show some ways to extend SharePoint with workflows.
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Monday, September 22, 2008 7:00 PM: DC-MD-VA Microsoft Robotics Studio Group - MRDS Workshop 2. We all know there is some complexity using Microsoft Robotic Developer Studio (MRDS). However, once you learn some basic patterns, it all falls into place. In this workshop, we will kickoff two projects from scratch. Those who participate will see how easy it is to build robots using this technology once the basics are understood.
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 8:15 AM: Philadelphia IT Architect Regional Conference - You are invited to join your fellow architects at Philadelphia IT Architect Regional Conference on September 23rd - 24th. This event is the largest event in Philadelphia addressing the needs of IT architects today. See over 15 seminars and two tracks separated by specialty: Enterprise and Software Architecture. We recently added a keynote by industry luminary and ObjectWatch CTO Roger Sessions Roger will be presenting “The Major Enterprise Architecture Methodologies: A Comparison.” For details on the event and the other great keynotes and session we have lined up, go to: http://www.iasahome.org/web/itarc/Philadelphia Please register now as space is limited. Registration fee is $550 for IASA members and $750 for non-members.
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 7:00 PM: CapArea.net September Meeting: G. Andrew Duthie on Geocoding and Mapping - Geocoding, RSS, and Mapping, oh my!, - Take a trip into the wonderful world of geolocation with Microsoft Developer Evangelist G. Andrew Duthie. Andrew will explore the use of such technologies as Windows Live Maps and RSS as data sources for geolocation, geocoding via the MapPoint Web Service, and mapping out geolocated data with the Virtual Earth Map control (including the recently previewed ASP.NET Virtual Earth Server Control). If you’re feeling lost, this tour of geolocation tools and technologies may be just what you need to find yourself.
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