Meetings

January 2012 - First Meeting of the Year!

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:56:33 GMT

Joel Feaster will talk about Knockout.js (a JavaScript MVVM framework) and Richard Clements will talk about Jenkins (an open-source build server).

We'll meet at 6:30pm on Thursday, January 19 at the Microsoft building.

November 2011 Meeting (Last meeting for 2011)

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:36:49 GMT

Come on out to the last meeting of the year!

We will be hosting an Open Spaces style meeting, so bring your topics of interest on Thursday night.

July 2011 Meeting: Fluent NHibernate with Richard Cirerol

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:19:11 GMT

Working with NHibernate can be very daunting and error prone, especially when using XML configuration. Fluent NHibernate was created to reduce that friction. Learn how to configure your application to use NHibernate using Fluent NHibernate. We will explore fluent-mapping and auto-mapping. We will also create our own auto-mapping conventions. Time permitting, we will explore setting up (Fluent) NHibernate in an ASP.NET MVC application using convention-over-configuration principals.

The meeting will start at 6:30 pm on the 4th floor of the Microsoft building on 5th and Main. View Map

June 2011 Meeting: Fluent Migrations with Andrew Hanson

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:13:26 GMT

Andrew Hanson will be talking about fluent database migrations.

The meeting will start at 6:30 pm on the 4th floor of the Microsoft building on 5th and Main. View Map

May 2011 Meeting Debrief

Fri, 20 May 2011 15:43:12 GMT

Thanks to Jason Walker for his RavenDB presentation. Despite our technical difficulties, he did a great job giving us the rundown on document databases and RavenDB.

For posterity's sake, I am listing his reference links here:

http://groups.google.com/group/ravendb
http://ravendb.net
http://codeofrob.com
http://github.com/ungood

BTW, if you are interested in presenting, please send us a note on the NETDUG mailing list.

Next month's meeting is on June 16th.

May 2011 Meeting: RavenDB with Jason Walker

Mon, 16 May 2011 15:13:12 GMT

Jason Walker is reprising his 2011 Boise Code Camp talk on RavenDB on May 19th. If you missed this talk at Code Camp, you have a second chance!

RavenDB is an open source document database made for .NET by one of the creators of nHibernate.
Documents are stored as schema-less JSON and retrieved with pre-defined indexes or dynamic LINQ queries.
This session will go over when you might consider using a document database instead of a relation database, and how to get started with Raven.

The meeting will start at 6:30 pm on the 4th floor of the Microsoft building on 5th and Main. View Map

April 2011 Meeting: Jarod Ferguson speaking on EF 4.1, MVC3 Tools Upgrade, and More!

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:40:53 GMT

Jarod Ferguson will be presenting on:

* Entity Framework 4.1

* MVC3 Tools Upgrade + EF

* DataJs with OData (or knockout.js)

The meeting will start at 6:30 pm on the 4th floor of the Microsoft building on 5th and Main. View Map

Richard Cirerol

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 03:52:28 GMT

Rich gives a brief into into App Harbor and what you can do with it, and what it can do for you.

Brian Lagunas shows how to create custom controls in WPF

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:17:58 GMT

Come and watch Brian Lagunas show how to create custom controls in WPF (and hopefully Silverlight and WinPhone 7)