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| Devscovery Redmond 2009Devscovery Redmond will be held on August 18 - 20, 2009
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Welcome to the South Sound .NET Portal
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Welcome to the South Sound User's Group DotNet Portal. Our user group was founded in December of 2000 to facilitate local area knowledge transfer about .NET tools, technologies, and development resources. This site was built, sponsored and hosted by Soundex Information Systems, Inc. as a community service. |
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Upcoming Meetings
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| September 9th / round table discussion on future SSDotNet presentationsPaul and I invite you to brainstorm with us on future SSDotNet presentations. What topics should we focus on, which presenters? The economy is tough right now and that means many of us are scrambling even more than usual for our next contract and/or worried that our skills aren't what they need to be to retain and advance in our careers.
So we want to hear it from you. What skills do you see as necessary to job retention and advancement? There are always lots of new and sexy technologies coming out, which ones are gonna get us somewhere in our jobs?
The State Government is getting stingy, where should we be looking for jobs? What skills, technologies and behaviors are going to help us to get those jobs?
Please come and give us the benefit of your experience and observation. We want South Sound .Net presentations to be useful, helpful and interesting to our members, that means we need to hear from you.
If you absolutely cannot make it to the meeting, please email Paul and I with your ideas:
Paul (paul@soundex.com), Camey (camcombs@speakeasy.net)
Thank you, we hope to see you there this Thursday, 9/9, from 7-9pm, followed by a gathering at the Fish Tale.
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| August 12th / Stuart Celarier - What's New in C# 4.0? The C# language is very much alive and changing to meet the on-going demands of developers. The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 release ushers in C# 4.0, bringing a new set of features in the way of named and optional parameters; co- and contra-variance ("yeah, whatever *that* is," I hear you cry); COM interop; and dynamic language support. We'll look at these features in action in working code, and how they make you, the developer, more productive than ever before. And, yes, I will explain covariance and contravariance in a way that you can understand, remember, and come to love!
Stuart Celarier
Stuart Celarier is a software architect and technologist in Portland, Oregon. He is a Microsoft MVP on Connected Systems and member of the INETA Speakers Bureau. Stuart is a frequent speaker at .NET user groups, code camps, and other professional events, and has chairs the Birds-of-a-Feather track at PDC and TechEd North America conferences. Stuart is a director of the Portland Code Camp and serves on the Software Association of Oregon's Developer Forum steering committee.
Email: stuart@visualstuart.net
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Mike Clark Fractional Thinking | | My Conversion app for Windows Phone 7 is going to have a couple of components for fraction arithmetic — it’s a “conversion”, with one panel converting back and forth between a decimal and a fraction (and vice versa). You know, what kind of fraction does 1.687 form? If you... | | 7/22/2010 8:03:22 AM |
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Mike Clark Hoping for a Windows Phone 7 Device! | | I am still chugging away at my Conversion app. I even have a working title for it: ConverterPlus! The “plus” part is the fraction arithmetic functionality. I know how fractions is everyone’s favorite (not), so maybe this will help. Don’t let on to your math teacher than y... | | 7/21/2010 12:48:55 AM |
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Paul Mehner from Wintellog Updated FAQ for SQL Azure | Microsoft published an updated FAQ (May 3, 2010) for SQL Azure, available here The FAQ is very thorough and is a “must read” for any organization ... | | 5/10/2010 11:25:29 AM |
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Paul Mehner from Wintellog Improving Windows Azure Storage Throughput Using the Content Delivery Network | Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) caches your Windows Azure Data Storage blobs at strategically placed locations around the world (18 at the time of this blog post). The purpose of the CDN is to provide maximum bandwidth for delivery of content to our applications and users. Building m... | | 5/4/2010 7:46:00 PM |
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Camey Combs Seattle Code Camp, this weekend | | Seattle Code Camp returns this weekend (April 17/18) at the Microsoft Commons, on their Redmond campus. Up to version 5.0,... | | 4/13/2010 3:25:12 PM |
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General Information
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| About Us...The South Sound .NET User Group meets the 2nd Thursday of each month (with a few noted exceptions) at the Olympia Center, 222 Columbia NW in downtown Olympia. Register your email address with this site to receive a monthly newsletter, meeting notices, and general announcements. We also have a local community discussion group at http://communities.msn.com/ssdotnet
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| Meeting Dates for 2010(2010) Jan 14, Feb 11, Mar 11 Apr 8, May 13, June 10, July 8, Aug 12, Sep 9, Oct 14, Nov 11, Dec 9
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| Olympia Area SQL Server Users GroupThe Olympia Area SQL Server User Group (OASSUG) is a community of information technology professionals who have an interest in Microsoft's© SQL Server database products. We are a network of SQL server professionals in the Olympia, Tumwater, and Lacey communities that have a strong desire to explore and share the latest technological advances in database technology and how to apply them to real business solutions.
For more information browse to www.oassug.org
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The South Sound DotNet Users Group is proud to be a Charter Member of the International .NET Association |
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