Re: August 27, 2008 – Bill Vaughn: You Choose the Topic!

JoeWirtley — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:50:54 GMT

In addition to the presentation, Bill Vaughn has also agreed to meet with interested user group members the afternoon of the meeting. So we will be having an "Open Space with Bill Vaughn" the afternoon of August 27. We'll be meeting in the community room at Dorothy Lane Market in Springboro, which is just down the road from our normal meeting location at Max Technical Training. The community room is on the second floor of the store; there's an elevator to the right when you come in and stairs a little farther in to the left. We will be starting at 3:00 and go to approximately 5:30 when we will move on to the meeting. I'm sure it will be a great opportunity to meet Bill and talk with him and your fellow group members.

August 27, 2008
Title: Open Space with Bill Vaughn
Time: 3:00-5:30
Location: Dorothy Lane Market, Springboro, Community Room

August 27, 2008 – Bill Vaughn: You Choose the Topic!

JoeWirtley — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:29:14 GMT

Description: We’re going to be having a presentation by INETA speaker Bill Vaughn at our next meeting. And you get to choose the topic! Bill has offered four presentation topics that he will to allow us to choose from at the meeting. The four topics are:

Visual Studio Reporting - ReportViewer control, RDL, Reporting Services, in Visual Studio 2008 and SQL 2008
SQL Server CLR Executables – Developing CLR executables
ADO.NET Connecting – Everything you want to know about connection strings, connecting to servers, and monitoring the connection pool
SQL Server Compact Edition – An overview of the compact edition in comparison to other SQL editions, including an overview of the AND.NET 3.5 Sync Services.

You can find more detailed overviews of each session in the forums section of the group site. So come to the meeting ready to vote for your favorite topic.

We’re also working on organizing an open space session with Bill Vaughn in the afternoon before the meeting. Stay tuned for more details, but do get it on your calendar.

Bio: William (Bill) Vaughn is an industry-recognized author, mentor and subject-matter expert on Visual Studio, SQL Server, Reporting Services and data access interfaces. He’s worked in the computer industry for over thirty-five years. In 2000, after 14 years at Microsoft, Bill stepped away to work on his books, mentoring and independent training seminars. His latest are Hitchhiker’s Guide to Visual Studio and SQL Server (7^th Edition) and Hitchhiker’s Guide to SQL Server Compact Edition. He and Peter Blackburn also wrote the critically acclaimed Hitchhiker’s Guide to SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services. He’s available for consulting, mentoring or custom training. See www.betav.com or www.betav.com\blog\billva.

In addition to the main presentation, we will have a grok talk (ten minute presentation):

Title: Introduction to jQuery

Description: Thanks to modern frameworks, creating cross-browser compliant, rich user experiences via JavaScript doesn't have to be painful. This talk will provide a brief overview on how to use the jQuery library to access and change elements and their properties, animate elements on the page, and interact with server side processes via AJAX. We'll see how jQuery's rich syntax allows you to leverage CSS selectors to find elements and how jQuery's extensive plugin library makes it easy to add new, dynamic functionality to a page.

Bio: Rich Reuter has been developing software for 8 years. He has recently joined Sogeti as a Senior Consultant for the Microsoft Practice. Rich's primary focus is web development on the ASP.NET platform, and he likes working on all facets of web applications. He is also a proponent of TDD and Agile principles. When not developing, Rich enjoys playing music and cooking. See http://www.richreuter.com and http://twitter.com/rich36.

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