So - all the Microsoft user groups and communities seem to be now back from their summer holidays. There are quite a few upcoming events that you should check out. First of all (as mentioned previously) Christian Weyer is back to do his long-anticipated talk on Software Factories next week - you shouldn't miss this talk if you are interested in SOA at all.

Then, in September, Dominick Baier is back over to do a tour of Belfast, Cork, Dublin and Galway talking on building secure applications. Dominick was the top scoring speaker in our VB tour last year - so it's great to see him back. Our own Rob Burke will also be joining Dominick in Cork to cover Atlas. Apart from all that the SQL Server user group is planning another meeting in Dublin.

All the events are free unless otherwise indicated and you'll find more details and registration links below.

ArchTalk SIG and Dublin Area Microsoft Technology User Group present: Applied Software Factories: Experiencing Industrial-Strength Service-Oriented Design and Development on the .NET Platform

• Date: Tuesday, August 29th, 7pm-9pm
• Location: Morrison Hotel, Lower Ormond Quay
• Presenter: Christian Weyer, Thinktecture

 Summary:

One part of our industry talks about software factories, the other about service-orientation. In this session you will see how these two stories fit together, and how you can build a software factory to aid your service-oriented design and development efforts on the .NET platform today and tomorrow using ASMX and WCF. Pieces of guidance and the basic tools are present, but we need to incorporate our own experiences and best practices. Enter a new level for the design and development of distributed solutions.

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SQL Server User Group Meeting

• Presenter: Rhys Kerrigan, TeamDBA
• Date: Tuesday, September 5th, 6-8:30pm
• Location: Microsoft Atrium Building, Dublin

Summary:

SQL Server Database Administration using SQL Server 2000 & 2005

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Northern Ireland Microsoft Technology User Group presents: Writing Secure ASP.NET Applications

• Date: Monday, September 11th, 7-9pm
• Location: Wellington Park Hotel, Belfast
• Presenter: Dominick Baier, Develop Mentor

Summary:

ASP.NET 2.0 has a lot of good services to build secure and robust web applications 'out of the box', but you still have to be aware of the threats. In this talk we look at some of the most common vulnerabilities in web applications and how ASP.NET helps you to mitigate them. Furthermore you'll get to know the most important built-in facilities in ASP.NET for doing proper input validation, authentication & authorization and error handling & logging. Every developer writing web applications should be aware of this information.

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Cork Area Microsoft Technology User Group presents: Atlas & Writing Secure ASP.NET Applications

• Date: Tuesday, September 12th, 7-9:30pm
• Location: Imperial Hotel, Cork
• Presenter: Rob Burke, Microsoft & Dominick Baier, Develop Mentor

Summary:

Atlas

Atlas is a free framework from Microsoft that makes it possible to easily take advantage of AJAX techniques on the web, enabling you to create web applications with a rich, responsive UI and server communication that work cross-browser and cross-platform.  Atlas integrates client script libraries with the ASP.NET 2.0 server-based development platform.  In this presentation, we’ll introduce Atlas and demo it in action, and also showcase the latest Atlas Control Toolkit, an open-source toolkit of web-client components which is being built as a joint project between the community and Microsoft.  You’ll leave with links to all the latest Atlas resources and everything you need to get started with Atlas.

Writing Secure ASP.NET Applications

ASP.NET 2.0 has a lot of good services to build secure and robust web applications 'out of the box', but you still have to be aware of the threats. In this talk we look at some of the most common vulnerabilities in web applications and how ASP.NET helps you to mitigate them. Furthermore you'll get to know the most important built-in facilities in ASP.NET for doing proper input validation, authentication & authorization and error handling & logging. Every developer writing web applications should be aware of this information.

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Dublin Area Microsoft Technology User Group presents: Writing Secure ASP.NET Applications

• Date: Wednesday, September 13th, 7-9pm
• Location: Buswells Hotel, Dublin 2
• Presenter: Dominick Baier, Develop Mentor

Summary:

ASP.NET 2.0 has a lot of good services to build secure and robust web applications 'out of the box', but you still have to be aware of the threats. In this talk we look at some of the most common vulnerabilities in web applications and how ASP.NET helps you to mitigate them. Furthermore you'll get to know the most important built-in facilities in ASP.NET for doing proper input validation, authentication & authorization and error handling & logging. Every developer writing web applications should be aware of this information.

Click here to register or find out more.

Galway Area Microsoft Technology User Group presents: Writing Secure ASP.NET Applications

• Date: Thursday, September 14th, 7-9pm
• Location: Harbour Hotel, Galway
• Presenter: Dominick Baier, Develop Mentor

Summary:

ASP.NET 2.0 has a lot of good services to build secure and robust web applications 'out of the box', but you still have to be aware of the threats. In this talk we look at some of the most common vulnerabilities in web applications and how ASP.NET helps you to mitigate them. Furthermore you'll get to know the most important built-in facilities in ASP.NET for doing proper input validation, authentication & authorization and error handling & logging. Every developer writing web applications should be aware of this information.

Click here to register or find out more.