Windows Phone Roadshow 2012 @ Ellerslie .NET User Group

Ellerslie .NET User Group Website is revived!

http://ellerslieusergroup.net.nz/

Ellerslie .NET User Group 22/12/2011 C# 5.0

Hello everyone,

After 9 months pregnancy and 2 months learning to be a mum, I am back and yes, Ellerslie .NET User Group is time to revive! Right before Christmas and Christmas holiday we will have a talk about C# 5.0 by Alex Davies, Software Engineer at Olympic Software. Hope we can meet up after not seeing each other for so long! A good geeky event right before the holiday season! Yay!

Again, really look forward to meet you all, register to let me know aye!

Date: 22nd December 2011 Thursday Same time, same place. which is... Gather at 5:45pm, starting at 6:00pm Catering: Pizza & Drinks Door Charge: Free! Venue: Olympic Software, 10 Cawley Street, Ellerslie, Auckland (find a map here) Register here: jacqc@olympic.co.nz Title: C# 5.0 C# 5.0 brings two new keywords to assist in writing responsive asynchronous applications. We will have a look at the existing problems of synchronous code and how we can utilize the new language features to improve your applications to make them respond faster and perform better. Speaker: Alex Davies, Software Engineer at Olympic Software NZ Ltd

Cheers,

Jacqualine Chow
Business Development Evangelist

DDI: 09 980 3999

Mobile: 029 770 0999

www.olympic.co.nz

Ellerslie .NET User group 17/10/2010

Hello everybody! Haven’t contact you all for so long! It’s my bad, too much happened in the last half a year. Anyway, here Ellerslie User Group is, we are starting up again!

Date: 17th November 2010 Wednesday. Same time, same place. which is... Gather at 5:45pm, starting at 6:00pm Catering: Pizza & Drinks Door Charge: Free! Venue: Olympic Software, 10 Cawley Street, Ellerslie, Auckland (find a map here) Register here: register@ellerslieusergroup.net.nz Join us at your Ellerslie for the Tech.Ed 2010 Express Roadshow presented by Ryan Tarak (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nzstudents/). We will demonstrate how you can leverage your existing skills to build applications for the Windows Phone platform, hear about the next release of Internet Explorer and much more. In addition to the exciting technology demos, we will have giveaways and prizes to be won also.

Hope to catch up with you all on the day, so please register and come!  (Come on the day even you didn’t register though, haha)

Cheers,

Jacqui

Post - .NET User Group 9 - Building line of business applications with Silverlight

Last Thursday we had our 9th .NET User Group meeting. Guess what, we got 72 people in total! It's very impressive. Darryl thought it is the biggest single user group he ever heard of in New Zealand .NET community. I think it's probably the case. Honestly we cannot fit anymore people in the room so in the future if we have a bigger number, we will have to do it in our warehouse. Good to see this number of people turned up. :)

Rob has put up the slides and the source code on his blog. Take them and play around with it!

.NET User Group 9 - Building line of business applications with Silverlight

Presented by Rob Fonseca-Ensor from Datacom

Date: Thursday 7 August 2008
Gather at 5:45pm, starting at 6:00pm
Catering: Pizza & Drinks (we will have chicken pizzas this time!)
Door Charge: Free!
Venue: Olympic Software, 10 Cawley Street, Ellerslie, Auckland (find a map here)

Parking: Free, just park in Olympic Software’s car park
Register here: Ellerslie DNUG or Dot Net NZ (please register)

 

Business value with Silverlight: Reading, Writing, Binding, Validating and Visualising your Data. Rob Fonseca-Ensor from Datacom will walk you through the steps to building useful, real world silverlight applications. Learn how easy it is to build a .net rich internet application with Silverlight & REST (via ADO.Net Data Services)

Post - .NET User Group 8 - A Tester’s Perspective

It was a great night and we had around 30 people for the meeting. It's a good mixture between developers and testers. Yes, we are trying to break the walls between these two groups, who as Hafiz said, always like having a war between them. Fortunately it's never a big problem in Olympic as we all have fun together and sit around each other. Have to admit that "Strange - it works on my machine!" is one of everyone's favourite lines here. Haha.

By the way, you can download Hafiz's presentation slides here. Oh yeah, sorry that we have removed some animation and it is in pdf format anyway. So less fun for people who didn't come! :D

.NET User Group 8 - A Tester’s Perspective

Presented by Hafiz Vegdani

Date: Wednesday 9th July 2008
Gather at 5:45pm, starting at 6:00pmCatering: Pizza & DrinksDoor Charge: Free!Venue: Olympic Software, 10 Cawley Street, Ellerslie, Auckland (find a map here)
Parking: Free, just park in Olympic Software’s car parkRegister here: Ellerslie DNUG or Dot Net NZ (please register)

HELLO... HELLO... Testing 1, 2, 3... Testing 1, 2, 3...

Did you ever see software testing as part and parcel of the Software Development Life Cycle? Are you aware of the challenges of Software Testers?

Come to our next Ellerslie .NET User Group meeting and find out about:
· QA functions
· UI standards
· Visual Studio Testers Edition at a glance
· How to write and maintain test scripts
· Types of testing
· Test process definitions
· Testing principals
· Attitudes of people

Hafiz Vegdani is a Lead Test Analyst at Olympic Software. He has 8 years experience in software testing.

.NET User Group 7 - REST in .NET

Presented by Alex Henderson from Dev|Defined Limited

Date: Wednesday 28 May 2008
Gather at 5:45pm, starting at 6:00pm
Catering: Pizza & Drinks (we will have chicken pizzas this time!)
Door Charge: Free!
Venue: Olympic Software, 10 Cawley Street, Ellerslie, Auckland (find a map here)

Parking: Free, just park in Olympic Software’s car park
Register here: Ellerslie DNUG or Dot Net NZ (please register)

 

A quick tour through the concepts of REST, or REpresentational State Transfer, including why you would use REST over WS-* and how you can implement REST'ful API's with .Net using WCF, ADO.Net Data Services (Astoria) and Open source Frameworks, how to address security concerns, and what the future of REST may offer us.

.NET User Group 6 - MIX08: A Developer's Perspective

Presented by Nigel Parker from Microsoft

Date: Tuesday 15 April 2008
Gather at 5:45pm, starting at 6:00pm
Catering: Pizza & Drinks (we will have chicken pizzas this time!)
Door Charge: Free!
Venue: Olympic Software, 10 Cawley Street, Ellerslie, Auckland (find a map here)
Parking: Free, just park in Olympic Software’s car park
Register here: Ellerslie DNUG or Dot Net NZ (please register)

Now in its third year, MIX08 took place in Las Vegas from March 5-7 2008. MIX is an intimate opportunity for cutting-edge technical, creative and business strategists to engage Microsoft in a conversation about the future of the web.

Nigel travelled to MIX and brought back with him a wealth of information and resources. Join Nigel as he showcases technical aspects of Microsoft's latest web technologies including Silverlight 2, .NET 3.5 and Live Services.

Post - .NET User Group 5 - Introduction to the ASP.NET MVC Framework

Wow! We got 50 people last night! See the crowd, it's really amazing.

This is the first time I met JD and he is a very nice guy. I was shocked that he's younger than me and started programming when he's about 8 (very geeky! :P). He gave us a very good introduction to the MVC Framework, which was not too overwhelming, just right, especially everyone in the room has just finished a whole day of work and looking forward to Easter weekend. JD has presented quite a number of demos and that helped me to absorb the ideas a lot easier (Here you can download the slides and demo). I have to admit that although the MVC concept born before my time, I only have a really high level understand of it. Now I know a bit more and ready to test this .NET MVC framework out.

Overall it's a very good night. I saw many old faces and some new faces,  including some girls I've never met before (you know, there are really not many girls around). For some people this is the first time they come to our events, and they asked how often do we have such event and commented it is a very good one because it also allows people from the MS community to meet each other. I was happy to hear that. It's good that everyone's happy. I like to see people are happy.

This time we have vegetarian, chicken, seafood and normal pork pizzas, but I think we should have ordered 1 more vegetarian pizza. Interestingly no matter how many pizzas we order, there are always some leftover. André said people tend to not eat the last few pieces. I asked JD to bring some back to Wellington but he said his bag could not fit them. Ivy took away one, Pedro took some for breakfast (he likes cold pizzas), and we still have about two pizzas left. Oh well, better than not enough. :)  I wasn't very hungry, but still have eaten many pizzas. Dinuka captured a picture of me concentrating, "investigating" the seafood pizzas and try to "calculate" how much more I can eat.

As a conclusion, it's all good! ;)

.NET User Group 5 - Introduction to the ASP.NET MVC (Model-View Controller) Framework

Presented by John-Daniel Trask from Mindscape

Date: 19/03/2008
Gather at 5:45pm, starting at 6:00pm
Catering: Pizza & Drinks (we will have non-pork but non-vege pizzas this time!)
Venue: Olympic Software, 10 Cawley Street, Ellerslie, Auckland
Register here: Ellerslie DNUG or Dot Net NZ

John-Daniel will be introducing the ASP.NET MVC framework from Microsoft which allows developers to create ASP.NET solutions without using standard web forms that they're used to.

This new framework empowers developers to more easily create robust solutions based on solid design patterns.

This talk will start by introducing the MVC pattern and then dive into the specifics of the framework so even if are new to using the MVC design pattern you will be able to understand what is being discussed. Finally, he will cover unit testing and mocking to validate your solutions.

See Scott Gutherie's blog for ASP .NET MVC Framework.

Introduction to .NET Framework Programming PowerPoint Slides

Rodney has put up his power point slides, go here to downalod it. :)

Post-.NET User Group 4 - Introduction of .NET Framework Programming

 

This is Rodney Lake, our speaker last night. We have 56 people with different level of expertise here last night and Rodney sure has done a very good job. I believe everyone (including myself) has got something out from the presentation.

 

 

The presentation was really good. I think it has given people a good introduction about .NET and what .NET Framework can do without overwhelming them with too much technical information. Quite a number of people come talk to me and ask some questions after the presentation, showing that people are inspired by all the information presented by Rodney! It's good to see people are happy about the meeting.

 

We have ordered 28 pizzas. Maybe not all the girls eat like me (who have ate 4 pieces, i.e. half of a pizza), we do have some pizzas left. Things I've learnt from this are: 1. We need chicken and beef pizzas, not just vegetarian! 2. We should count half for guys and a quarter for girls. 3. People are more into fizzy drinks and juice than beer (well myself don't drink beer too). Anyway, see me carrying these empty pizza boxes, that's still quite a lot!

P.S. I told my Java friends last night that once I have started developing in .NET framework, I think I can never go back to Java again. Of course Java people can disagree with me since I do not have industrial experience with Java (but 4 years University experience, developing Java everyday...).

.NET User Group 4 - Introduction to .NET Programming

Presented by Rodney Lake (Spectra Data Solutions)

Date: 20/02/2008
Gather at 5:45, starting at 6:00
Catering: Pizza & Drinks
Venue: Olympic Software, 10 Cawley Street, Ellerslie, Auckland
Register here: Ellerslie DNUG or Dot Net NZ(we really want to have an idea of the number)

Are you curious about .Net programming? This presentation is a back-to-basics introduction to programming in the .Net Framework.

Topics will include:
• An brief introduction to Visual Studio
• The difference between VB.Net and C#
• The difference between ASP.Net and Windows Forms
• Introduction to the Base Class Library
• Introduction to the Common Language Runtime
• Emerging and future technologies
• Your questions, no matter how dumb… :)

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.NET User Group 3 - Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007

Date: 08/11/2007
Gather at 5:45, starting at 6:00
Catering: Pizza & Drinks
Venue: Olympic Software, 10 Cawley Street, Ellerslie, Auckland

Presented by Adam Cogan (Chief Architect at SSW, MVP)

Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 is an integrated performance management application designed to help improve operational and financial performance across all departments and all levels of your organization.

With Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, you can monitor progress, analyse what is driving variances, and plan your business from budgeting to creating management reports. You can have metrics, key performance indicators (KPIs), and reports delivered to every desktop through intuitive scorecards, dashboards, and the easy-to-use 2007 Microsoft Office system environment. A key component of the Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) offering, Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 can help you understand how performance can align with personal and departmental.
http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/Products/Training.aspx#MSPerformancePoint

Presented by Adam Cogan
Position: Chief Architect, Microsoft Regional Director
Qualifications: B Bus, JP, MCP, Microsoft MVP (Visual Studio Team System)
Adam Cogan is the Chief Architect at SSW, a Microsoft Certified Partner specializing in Office and .NET Solutions. At SSW, Adam has been developing custom solutions for businesses across a range of industries such as Government, banking, insurance and manufacturing since 1990 for clients such as Microsoft, Quicken, and the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation.

Adam was one of the lead developers behind Australia's first live .NET site - using a version that was pre Beta 1! One of his latest projects was the Smart Tag implementation for Quicken Australia. Adam was also responsible for developing Reporting Services and Exchange Server samples for Microsoft that turned into a hugely popular Exchange Reporting Tool. Adam develops in Microsoft technologies; his favorites being SQL Server 2005, Reporting Services, OLAP, Winforms and Webforms (using Visual Studio .NET 2005 with both VB.NET and C#), Access 2007, Outlook 2007/Exchange Server 2007.

http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/Employees/EmployeesProfile.aspx?EmpID=AC

Post-.NET User Group 2 - Policy Injection Application Block

Thanks for coming! This time we have about 25 people, it's around the number we've expected, without some people I've expected to come. I blame the rainy weather and bad traffic.

Mateus Velloso gave us an overview of the Enterprise Library in particular the Policy Injection Application Block. I had an overview from the code camp a month (or two?) ago but this time I get to know a bit more what PIAB can and cannot do.

It's not a my concern whether it is easy or hard to pick up. Personally I think nothing is really hard to learn. I am more concern what can be done and what's the limitation of these libraries, so in the future when i meet a problem i can identify the best practice for it.

Hmm hmm, but comparatively nice stuff up front seems more attractive to me. Andre is going back to Brazil for 7 weeks during Christmas time, so I will have to get speakers for January and February. I will see Nigel Parker's availability for those two months... he will be showing some pretty things up front, hehe...

.NET User Group 2 - Policy Injection Application Block

Alright, our second .NET User Group meeting is on next Wednesday, 24th Oct 2007!

This time our topic is Policy Injection Application Block.

Presented by Mateus Velloso (Principal Software Architect at Gen-i, MVP)

Ready to pimp your objects?

The Policy Injection Application Block simplifies the separation of business logic from cross cutting concerns (such as logging, validation, exception handling, and authorisation) by letting you define policies and the objects/methods they apply to in a declarative way.

Gather at 5:45, starting at 6:00

Catering: Pizza & Drinks
Door Charge: Free
Parking: Free, just park in Olympic Software’s car park.

Venue
Olympic Software
10 Cawley St
Ellerslie Auckland

Map of venue

If you know anyone who might be interested please tell them about it. Remember it’s an open event so everyone is welcome.