Recent Events

  1. Special Event: Jeff Barr's Amazon Web Services User Group Road Trip

    May 16, 2013

    May 16, 2013

    6:30 - 8:00 at the Meridium Building, Downtown

    Chief Amazon Web Services (AWS) Evangelist Jeff Barr will make a stop in Roanoke as part of his 13 city, 5500 mile speaking tour with a presentation designed to introduce AWS and cloud computing to those who don’t know much about it, and to discuss the latest and great AWS developments for those who do. Topics to be covered include the latest EC2 instance types, the Relational Database Service, Amazon Glacier, Amazon Redshift, and the Virtual Private Cloud.

    Please come armed with lots of questions; Jeff enjoys the interactive part of user group presentations.

    Jeff holds a BS degree in Computer Science from American University and is a part-time graduate student at the University of Washington. He’s father to 5 children and grandfather to 1. He’s a 10 year veteran of Amazon.com and has also worked on the Visual Studio team at Microsoft and at several startups.

    Check out Jeff's blog for more information.

    Please register to attend!




    Street: 207 Bullitt Avenue
    City: Roanoke
    Country: USA
    State: Virginia

  2. May Meeting: Creating an Flexible Data Quality Foundation

    May 02, 2013

    May 02, 2013

    Data Quality (DQ) tools are typically expensive and difficult to integrate into your ETL and governance plans but it doesn't have to be that way. During this fun, highly-interactive session, Kevin Hazzard (Microsoft Windows Azure MVP and author of the book Metaprogramming in .NET), will show you how to implement a modular, highly resilient DQ foundation from the tools you already own, no matter which version of SQL Server you're using today.

    Kevin Hazzard is a consultant, author and Microsoft Windows Azure MVP from the Richmond, Virginia. He serves as a Director at CapTech Consulting, a technology consulting firm of 400 where he designs and implements large-scale SQL Server databases and .NET services for Fortune 500 clients, focusing on the health care, retail, manufacturing and communication industries. Kevin is the lead author of Metaprogramming in .NET by Manning, a book that concerns the value of adaptable software design.

    Street: 207 Bullitt Avenue
    City: Roanoke
    Country: USA
    State: Virginia

  3. Roanoke Code Camp 2013

    March 09, 2013

    March 09, 2013

    Roanoke Code Camp 2013

    Best place to pick up new skills, meet fellow developers and win prizes while doing it!

    Register now!

    Visit www.RoanokeCodeCamp.org for more information.

     

    Join us on Saturday, March 9th for this fantastic local opportunity! Roanoke Code Camp is Roanoke Valley's premier software developer event of the year. Register now to see the best speakers in the Mid-Atlantic present on a wide variety of cutting edge topics. And best of all, it's completely FREE!  Don't wait, go register right now to save your seat at the Roanoke Code Camp! 
     
    Please forward this email to friends and colleagues and help spread the word. 
     
    Do you have a topic you believe other developers maybe interested in?  Consider speaking, the "Call For Speakers" is open.
     
    LOCATION VIRGINIA WESTERN
    Street: 3094 Colonial Ave.
    City: Roanoke
    Country: USA
    State: Virginia

  4. March Meeting: NO MEETING

    March 07, 2013

    March 07, 2013

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  5. February Meeting: Staying DRY with Aspect Oriented Programming

    February 07, 2013

    February 07, 2013

    Presented by Mike Lawton

    Don’t Repeat Yourself is one of the SOLID principles.  Unfortunately, that goal breaks down with real-world requirements like logging, exception handling, authorization, etc.  Rather than clutter your codebase with boilerplate code, instead leverage Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) to simplify your classes, avoid duplication, and write cleaner code that conforms to the DRY principle. We’ll look at how AOP works by using PostSharp to demonstrate how to remove those obstacles that keep your code from being DRY.

    Mike Lawton is Vice President of Software Development at DaProSystems, a public safety software company based in Roanoke, Virginia.  DaProSystems provides systems and support services utilized by thousands of police officers, sheriff’s deputies, emergency dispatchers, first responders and related mission critical personnel  each day.  Mike received a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from DePauw University, intending to pursue a career in radio.  However, his fascination for computers won out and he became a predominately self-taught developer.  In the beginning it was FoxPro.  Now, it’s mostly C#, WPF, ASP.NET WebApi, SignalR, and Mono for Android.  His twitter handle is @malawto.

    Meridium is located at 207 Bullitt Avenue, downtown. When you pull into the parking lot, drive around to the far side of the building. The main entrance (pictured) is on the opposite side of the building from Bullitt Ave.

    We will be using the conference room on the first floor. Someone will be at the door to let people in until 6:00. After that, there will be a sign on the door with a phone number to call to get let in.




    Street: 207 Bullitt Avenue
    City: Roanoke
    Country: USA
    State: Virginia

  6. January meeting: Intro to TypeScript

    January 03, 2013

    January 03, 2013

    Our meeting will be at the Roanoke County Public Safety Building.

    Intro to TypeScript

    Presented by Joel Cochran

     

    TypeScript is Microsoft's entry into the JavaScript pre-compiler space. As a javaScript superset, TypeScript compiles to JavaScript and introduces concepts such as strong typing, classes, modules, constructors, namespaces and more to JavaScript development. In this session we will discuss the use cases for TypeScript and investigate the tooling around it as we dig into the fundamentals of this new language. 

     

    Joel Cochran is a Senior Technology Consultant with Lotic Factor Inc, of Roanoke, VA, a business and technology consulting firm.  He is a Microsoft Expression Blend MVP, an ASPInsider, and is currently serving as the INETA Mentor for Virginia. Joel is the author of "Expression Blend in Action" by Manning Publications and "The Practical MVVM Manifesto" (http://practicalmvvm.com).  A technology generalist, he works with technologies such as Windows 8, WPF, ASP.NET MVC4, SQL Server, SSIS, and Azure. His languages of choice are C# and JavaScript. He spends an inordinate amount of time on Twitter (@joelcochran) and far less time on his blog http://joelcochran.com.

     

    Roanoke County Public Safety Building

    Street: 5925 Cove Road
    City: Roanoke
    Country: USA
    State: Virginia
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