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Meeting: Wed., May 7th, 2008

When: Wed., May 7th, 2008

Where:   Two Rivers Marketing office
               107 E 5th St
               West Des Moines, IA 50309

Agenda: 5:45 PM - 6:00 PM - Pizza & Socializing
               6:00 PM - 7:30 PM - Presentation
               7:30 PM - 8:00 PM - Prizes

Silverlight
Jeff Brand  Presenter Bio:

Jeff has been with Microsoft for almost 12 years now. He started with the company soon after the release of Windows 95. Now those were heady days. He has seen the long march of Windows 2000 and was right there for the browser wars. While at Microsoft, he has been a consultant, an ecommerce specialist, and an enterprise technology advisor. Prior to Microsoft, Jeff was in the Air Force stationed at Offutt AFB in Omaha, NE where he was Chief Network Engineer (his pre-developer days) for the USSTRATCOM LAN. Today, Jeff is a .NET Developer Evangelist for Microsoft's North Central District. He lives in Minneapolis and often travel to the surrounding states of Nebraska, Iowa, and the Dakotas. In his current role, he is responsible for working with developers and customers that are evaluating or using .NET and assisting in them in understanding and using Microsoft's developer platform.

May Meeting Sponsor

The meeting is sponsored by Midwest Technical Solutions. Midwest Technical Solutions, a division of Midwest Search Group, has been successfully helping IT professionals find new opportunities in the Des Moines area since 2000. Our dedicated professionals are trained to go to the marketplace and help you seek a position suitable for your career. We will use your background information, past accomplishments and career aspirations to confidentially assist you in finding a position that will leverage your career. Whether it is for a project or on a full-time basis, we specialize in initiatives ranging from web development and systems integration to network security and technical support.

For more information, our website is www.midwesttechnicalsolutions.com

Code Camp: Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

When:	Saturday May 3rd, 2008
Where:	University of Iowa Conference Center Iowa City, IA
Agenda:	Code Camp

That's right! Iowa .NET User Group, CRIneta and the ITS department at the University of Iowa are joining forces to bring the first code camp to Iowa on May 3, 2008!

What?

You might be asking, what's a code camp? Well, here are some of the basic ideas:

Community driven
High quality
For and by developers
No cost (for attendees)
All about code, not PowerPoint presentations
Source code and slides must be available to share with people who attend
Never during work hours

What a code camp is not:

Corporate product placement
Marketing
PowerPoint centric Interested?!?

We have more than 15+ sessions covering topics such as ASP.NET MVC, SharePoint, SQL Server 2008 and many more! Registration is necessary to attend, so go to http://iowacodecamp.com and get started now!

Meeting: Wed., April 2nd, 2008

When: Wed., April 2nd, 2008

Where:   DMACC West Campus
               5959 Grand Ave
               West Des Moines, IA 50266 Map

Agenda: 5:45 PM - 6:00 PM - Pizza & Socializing
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM - Presentation
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM - Prizes

Intro to the ASP.NET MVC Framework
Chris Sutton, CRIneta.org

The ASP.Net MVC Framework is a new project that the ASP.Net team is working on to give developers an alternate and potentially better way to do web development in the ASP.Net environment. Model View Controller(MVC) is a well known presentation pattern that has been used in many environments with a variety of different languages. It enables the developer to achieve better separation between data, program flow and the actual presentation(html). By getting the optimal separation between data, flow and presentation your projects can be more maintainable as well as more testable.

In this talk we will dig into Models, Views and Controllers to learn how we can use this pattern to make our development lives easier. Chris will show you where to download the latest bits, how to install them and then how to use get starte developing with this project.

Presenter Bio:

Chris Sutton is a consultant and technical trainer in Eastern Iowa and has been working with ASP.Net since the November beta in 2002. He helped start SouthColorado.net, the Ineta group in Colorado Springs, CO, and has been involved running CRineta.org, the Ineta group in Cedar Rapids, IA, over the last three years. Chris has the MCPD:Enterprise certification and is working toward his MCITP: Business Intelligence certification.

Getting to spend time with his wife and kids makes his tech work worthwhile. He also enjoys hiking and biking in the summer and snowshoeing in the winter.