Dev East

Speakers For Dev East Halifax Meeting July 14, 2009

UX & U

Russell Smith, Usability Specialist &Interaction Designer

As a Usability Specialist, Russell chamUser Interactionpions the user experience throughout the development process by consistently communicating and architecting research and design solutions that align with user, business and technical goals.

He has worked with T4G Limited for over eight years focused primarily on content delivery, design and front end development in the retail, telecommunications and utilities sectors. Over the past 4 years, Russell has gained skills and experience specifically in the evaluation and architecting of information and design, most recently with New Brunswick Tourism, New Brunswick Power, Bell Aliant and Atlantic Lottery Corporation.

A users experience can make or break the success, uptake and interest in your online application or website. This session will help to understand what UX is and how it can help create user focused applications.

ASP.NET MVC and jQuery

Shawn Peterson

This presentation will include an overview of ASP.NET MVC (model view controller) and jQuery along with some code samples from an application built using these technologies.

Dev East Halifax Meeting July 14, 2009

After a brief hiatus and a leadership change we’re back!  Tonight’s presentations are User Interface Design and Usability, and ASP.NET MVC with jQuery.  Speaker bios and session abstracts will be posted within the next week.

There are lots of prizes and giveaways at this event - including Visual Studio 2008 Professional, XBox 360 Halo Wars, Resharper, T-shirts, and more.

Many thanks to the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University for hosting the event.  Their generosity is greatly appreciated and we look forward to continuing to work with them in the future.

Please register ahead of time for this free event at http://deveast.eventbrite.com.  The address details are there.  We need a list of the attendee names so that Dal Security will grant you access into the building after hours.  Hope you can make it!

Shawn

Rough schedule for the evening:

• 6:00 pm to 6:30 pm :  social mixer with pizza and pop
• 6:30 pm to 6:45 pm :  introductions
• 6:45 pm to 7:15 pm :  User Interface Design and Usability
• 7:15 pm to 8:15 pm :  ASP.NET MVC with jQuery
• 8:15 pm to 8:30 pm :  prize giveaways and wrap up

TechDays 2009 is coming to Halifax!

Thanks go to everyone who helped spread the word – we made it!   The official announcement can be found here: TechDays Expands to Another city in 2009!!

Cast Your Votes - Bring Microsoft TechDays to Halifax!

TechDays is a two-day paid training event put on by Microsoft across Canada and the team is trying to decide between Halifax and Edmonton for a November event.

Here is what Rick Claus wrote on the Canadian IT Professionals blog:

“You have to send my colleague Damir Bersinic (damirb@microsoft.com) an email indicating how many people at your place of work are willing to commit to coming out and registering for one of these two cities? Remember – this is a Technical Training Conference that was designed from the ground up to give you the skills you need to be successful in your job. Either you, your boss or others on your team need to send in an email of support for either the Halifax OR Edmonton location of the November 25th&26th open slot. It has to be in by MAY 15th in order to count. The city that shows the most support by email by May 15th will become the 7th confirmed city for Techdays 2009.”

For more details:

http://blogs.technet.com/canitpro/archive/2009/05/04/the-7th-city-for-techdays-canada-2009-halifax-or-edmonton.aspx

DevEast Halifax gets a new leader!

Hello DevEast Halifax,

I’d like to take a moment just to say thank you for granting me the privilege to organize a few meetings and events this year. I have accepted a position in Ontario, and am moving there at the end of this week. There was a lot I wanted to achieve this year, specifically to improve the number of sponsorships for group events, increase the turnout by actively involving more technical communities, and establish a regular venue for hosting regular meetings. We got on the right track, but there’s much left to be done to represent and connect Atlantic Canadian developers with hiring organizations, each other, and the world.

On that note, I’m thrilled to be able to turn over leadership of DevEast Halifax to Shawn Duggan, a Newfoundland native and passionate software architect (you can view his upcoming blog here, http://www.shawnduggan.com). Shawn spoke at the SQL Server 2008 Community Launch event, and did a fantastic job. He has a plan to take events, social networking, and community speakers to the next level, and I hope you’ll welcome him in his new role.

I look forward to keeping in touch with the group, and will always be happy to come back and speak, should I acquire anything worth sharing on my next journey.

Daniel

Feb 25 in Moncton: SubSonic

Update: We have some great door prizes courtesy of Microsoft:

• Visual Studio 2008 Professional
• Microsoft Laser Desktop 7000 (mouse/keyboard combo)
• Numerous books
• Several T-shirts

Dev East Moncton brings you “SubSonic. All Your Database Are Belong To Us. A Primer” presented by Remi Despres-Smyth.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 3:00pm - 4:30pm, Room 1124

NRC Research Facility
55 Crowley Farm Road
Moncton

Limited seating available. Please register at http://deveastsubsonic.eventbrite.com/.

SubSonic is a Super High-fidelity Batman Utility Belt for developers. SubSonic works up your DAL for you, throws in some much-needed utility functions, and generally speeds along your dev cycle. And it’s FREE (it’s an open source .NET project)!

Free parking onsite. Refreshments will be provided.

Halifax: Speaker Idol Cancelled

Due to lack of interest, we won’t be moving ahead with the Speaker Idol event tomorrow night. Stay tuned for upcoming speaking events in the future.

Halifax: Speaker Idol!

*** Speaker Idol Is Cancelled ***

DevEast (Halifax) will be hosting a “Speaker Idol” evening on Thursday, February 12th from 7-9PM at NSCC Leeds Campus! The event is an informal “contest” where attendees present a ten-minute presentation on their favourite .NET technology–this can be anything you want, from your favourite Visual Studio hack to your own pet framework. The only rule is that you must no previous technology speaking experience. Let’s see if there are any hidden speaker talents in our user group community!

Prizes: I have licenses for Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition and Microsoft Expression Web 2 to give away as prizes to the two best presentations as voted by the attendees.

Prepare your short topic presentations and we’ll see you in February!

Halifax: SQL Server 2008 Community Launch

UPDATE: The event has been postponed to November 27th. The event registration site has been updated to reflect the new date.

DevEast (Halifax) will present a SQL Server 2008 Community Launch event on November 27th (location and times to be determined soon). This event will focus on the developer side of SQL Server 2008, which is a product that effects quite a few segments of the Microsoft IT population. Our event will consist of an overview session followed by “breakout” groups to discuss some of the details important to developers in more detail and to facilitate a conversation between members about what’s possible with SQL Server 2008.

The overview and training sessions will be delivered by consultants from T4G Halifax, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Stay tuned for further details and signup instructions.

Sign Up For The Event Here:
http://communitylaunchhalifax.eventbrite.com/

Igloo Coder Moncton Today

Moncton, NB - Wednesday October 22

Pizza / refreshments will be served.  Door prizes to be won!

Please register online at http://igloocodermoncton.eventbrite.com/

6:30pm - 9:00pm (NBCC Moncton, 1234 Mountain Road, Room A3004)

Topic: Fundamentals of Object Oriented Programming

Presented by: Donald Belcham

If you read MSDN, books or attend the average conference, you will be exposed to a world of promised drag and drop goodness and framework APIs.  Once you get to work and begin building and maintaining applications you find that these promises aren’t being realized.  Other programming communities have long touted the use of Object Oriented Programming fundamentals to ensure that and application’s code base exists in a healthy state.  This presentation will look at the fundamentals of OOP that have long been forgotten by mainstream .NET programmers but are making a comeback.  The techniques discussed in this session will be practical and something that each attendee will be able to take to their job the day after attending.