The Free Lunch is Over: What You Need to Know about Parallelism Presented by Stuart Leitch Single thread CPU performance improvements have largely stalled out. The sequential performance “free lunch” most developers enjoyed from hardware advances is over. With the industry shift to multiple core systems, performance has to be realized through concurrency and many developers will find themselves building applications designed to scale as the number of cores increases.  This session will provide a broad review of the trends in parallelism and an overview of major patterns for parallelizing your applications. Stuart Leitch is a Charlottesville based developer working ...

There will be no March meeting of RV.NUG. We look forward to seeing you in April!

The Roanoke Valley .NET User Group (RV.NUG) is hosting our fifth Roanoke Code Camp on Saturday, March 10th at Virginia Western Community College. Code Camp is for developers by developers, and we need you to help make this year’s event the best ever. Dont miss it! Register for Code Camp What is Code Camp? Code Camp is a place for developers to come and learn from their peers. This community driven event has become an international trend where peer groups of all platforms, programming languages and disciplines band together to bring content to the community. And yes the price ...

Going beyond the Soft in Software: Programming with Kinect and .NET Gadgeteer Presented by Andrew Duthie Join Microsoft Developer Evangelist G. Andrew Duthie (aka Devhammer) for a tour of some of the fun new ways you can leverage your .NET coding skills to drive hardware. We’ll look at the Kinect SDK for Windows, as well as the .NET Micro Framework, and the brand-new .NET Gadgeteer open hardware specification, and how its modular architecture opens up the world of embedded device development and rapid prototyping to even those who’ve never held a soldering iron. Learn about both fun and practical things ...