Happy New Year to everyone!
We have quite a few exciting events planned for this coming year of 2010! Among them are...
1) First and foremost, our monthly meeting @ Herzing College (5218 East Terrace Drive, Madison) -- Room #120 -- is tomorrow!
We are very much looking forward to having Clark Sell out from Microsoft to speak at the meeting tomorrow -- joining Dave Bost, Clark is our new regional Microsoft Developer Evangelist for the Wisconsin area -- Clark will be presenting a .NET technology overview on "MVC, WPF Printing, MEF" and more --- this will be a great broad overview of topics and will allow us to tap into Clarks years as a Microsoft consultant!
Clark's Bio: Clark has been with Microsoft for over 4 years and has now joined the has joined the Microsoft Evangelism team with a primary focus on Wisconsin! He's been with Microsoft since 2005 and comes from Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) as a member of the VSTS Rangers (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/ee358786.aspx). Clark can be reached at csell@microsoft.com and you can view his blog at http://csell.net
Meeting Address: Herzing College -- Room #120 -- 5218 East Terrace Drive, Madison WI 53718 ( Bing Maps Link )
Meeting Agenda
- 5:00pm: Networking with sponsors and members
- 5:30pm: Free pizza and soda
- 6:00pm: Introduction and start main presentation
- 8:00pm: Give away prizes and Wrap up meeting
2) Next month we're trying to firm up the dates for the PDC Road Show here in Madison --- tentatively we're looking at Feb 3rd ( Wednesday ).
There's a lot of anticipation for this -- so once finalized, will keep everyone informed.
3) Our monthly ALL.NET meeting @ Herzing College (5218 East Terrace Drive, Madison) -- Room #120 -- is coming up on Jan 20th!
As always -- bring your questions / comments -- bring things to show off and / or just talk about -- bring your laptops -- this is YOUR time to come and tap the minds of and share with some of the other top developers in our area!
We had a fantastic presentation last month from the developer of PDO ( http://pdo.codeplex.com/ ) -- which was... "Persistable Data Objects for WPF is an ORM tool and application framework for developing data driven applications in Windows Presentation Framework (WPF). The code generation tool builds C# classes and SQL stored procedures that are fully LINQ queryable."
Presentations like these are invaluable learning lessons that show off the top quality developers that live and work in the Madison area! Awesome.