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LIDNUG: Phil Haack in the hot chair, open Q&A on ASP.Net MVC – Dec 14 10:30AM PST

Brian Madsen — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:19:00 GMT

Ever wondered what ASP.Net MVC is all about? Well, you now hat the chance to ask all the questions of Phil Haack when he takes a seat in the hot chair for a full Q&A on ASP.Net MVC at the Linked .Net Users Group (LIDNUG).

More and more applications are utilising the extremely flexible/powerful MVC framework and with the latest release of Project Orchard (Open Source ASP.Net MVC CMS) on CodePlex it’s now even easier to get going with ASP.Net MVC. ASP.Net MVC 2 has also just been released to Beta.

About the event:

Title: Phil Haack in the hot chair – open Q&A on ASP.Net MVC
Venue: Live Meeting
Date: December 14, 10:30AM PST
Cost: FREE

About Phil Haack:

Phil is a self-professed geek, Open Source supporter (running the Subtext project) and a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft on the ASP.Net team working on the ASP.Net MVC framework.

He’s an internationally acclaimed author (Amazon), speaker and technology evangelist.

Moreover, he’s a family man…

Phil Haack’s blog: www.hacked.com
Phil Haack on twitter: www.twitter.com/haacked

ASP.Net MVC: www.asp.net/mvc

You don’t want to miss out on this event….

LIDNUG: Scott Guthrie Talks Shop 3 recorded session now available

Brian Madsen — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:04:36 GMT

Yeps folks!! the recording from todays open Q&A with Scott Guthrie is now available for download.

Scott answered questions across the board, both about current releases, upcoming releases and specific platform/product features.

Needless to say, Scott’s a fountain of knowledge!

Download the recorded session here: http://www.lidnug.org/presentations.aspx

LIDNUG: Scott Guthrie Talks Shop III, Monday 23 Nov 11:30AM PST

Brian Madsen — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:39:00 GMT

Didn’t attend PDC – want to hear what the biggest announcements was straight from The Gu himself?

Well, now you have a chance – The Linked .Net Users Group (LIDNUG) is holding an open Q&A session with Scott Guthrie on Monday the 23rd of November, at 10:30AM 11:30AM PST (UTC-8).

Hell, even if you attended PDC 09 and was right in the middle of things, you know as well as i do that you can’t be everywhere at once and here’s your chance to ask Scott the questions you really wanted to at PDC 09.

To register for this free event, use your LinkedIn account and click here:

http://events.linkedin.com/LIDNUG-Scott-Guthrie-Talks-Shop/pub/144324
We will also be taking questions directly from Twitter – just twitter:
- @ScottGu #LidnugLiveQ your question here

Want to keep up with all the other LIDNUG events coming up, including Phil Haack on Dec 14, simply subscribe to our Live calendar here:

http://bit.ly/lidnughtmlcalendar

Look forward to seeing you there!

Note: Apologies for the mishap with the time – my computer had inadvertedly applied daylight savings change, which we no longer do here in WA. Correct time is 11:30AM PST.

LIDNUG: Project “Dublin” overview for application developers – Craig McLuckie

Brian Madsen — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:12:54 GMT

LIDNUG is bringing you an action-packed two months, leading up to Christmas. The first in a range of highly anticipated talks is Craig McLuckie’s Project “Dublin” overview for application developers.

The session will cover the following topics:

An overview of “Dublin”

“Dublin” service hosting extensions for .NET 4 – the role of the workflow management service, “Dublin” federated instance control capabilities, service autostart to reduce latency on first activation
Monitoring and troubleshooting .NET 4 WCF and WF services – a consolidated ETW based event model, open and extensible monitoring database
Deployment and configuration of .NET 4 WCF and WF services –service deployment with configuring services to work with “Dublin”
“Dublin” tooling –PowerShell based scripting layer, InetMgr plugin that provides an at-a-glance dashboard for service health, rich event querying capabilities, and supports most service related administrative tasks

How to get the most out of “Dublin” extensibility

Durable services extensibility
Monitoring extensibility
Tooling extensibility

Event Date: November 10, 2009

Event Time: 10:00AM-11:30AM PST (GMT-8)

LIDNUG: Visual Basic.Net with Lisa Feigenbaum, Oct 29

Brian Madsen — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:07:33 GMT

Another stellar line of speakers are coming to LIDNUG – On the 29th of October we’ll be visited by Lisa Feigenbaum for a good look at Visual Basic.Net.

Lisa is a Program Manager in the Visual Basic team at Microsoft. She’s going to talk about what’s new in VB.Net and answer any questions you have.

Thursday, 29 October 2009

	Time		10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
	Subject		Visual Basic .NET with Lisa Feigenbaum
	Registration		http://bit.ly/UZeXW
			Lisa Feigenbaum is a Program Manager in the Visual Basic Team in Microsoft. She's going to talk about what's new in VB.NET and answer any questions you might have. blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/tags/lisa%20f eigenbaum/default.aspx

LIDNUG: Scott Guthrie session recording now available for download

Brian Madsen — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:51:49 GMT

It’s almost like a broken record, but i still can’t stop saying it – Scott Guthrie absolutely rocks!

In his open Q&A session for the Linked .Net Users Group (LIDNUG) he again dazzled us all with his “geeky” brilliance..seriously, i’m starting to think there’s at least a couple of thousand Gu clones walking around for him to retain that much knowledge!

In a 1 1/2hr session he answered questions from the attendees (252) and it was as usual a brilliant session.

For those that missed out – here’s a tidbit…The Silverlight team is working hard on Silverlight 4 already….He owns other coloured polos as well, not just red ones (????).

Lastly, head on over and download the recorded session from our archives – my voice’s still rather raspy/croaky etc, so i elected not to speak during the session (nobody’d be able understand me anyways).

LIDNUG: Scott Guthrie talks shop with developers II

Brian Madsen — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:27:51 GMT

Scott Guthrie will be visiting the Linked .Net Users Group (LIDNUG) for a second time this year, with a follow up on his first open Q&A session.

Event details:

Topic: Scott Guthrie talks shop with developers II - Open Q&A with Scott Guthrie
Date: August 25, 9:00am PDT (list of local times)
Cost: FREE
Registration: http://bit.ly/fbKNC

Prizes: JetBrains ReSharper & DevExpress CodeRush and Refactor

At this open Q&A session Scott Guthrie will answer questions from the attendees via Live Meeting.

Don't miss out on this opportunity to find out where ASP.Net, MVC, .Net is heading!

LIDNUG: Life inside the Big Blue Monster – Scott Hanselman’s recording available

Brian Madsen — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:53:15 GMT

Scott Hanselman; Author, code guru and internet legend visited LIDNUG late last week in an open Q&A session which gave us a bit of an insight into his life inside and outside of Microsoft.

In his normal humorous self, Scott took is through to his garage and showed us his arcade machine, which he built himself all the while answering a ton of questions from the attendees.

He also explained how he juggled work vs family life, talked about some of his likes and dislikes about working for Microsoft.

Download the recorded session from LIDNUG’s archives.

LIDNUG – Announcing an action packed August

Brian Madsen — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:27:47 GMT

It's that time again and wow, do we have a line-up this month that you definitely don't want to miss!!

First off, thanks to all the members who voted in the "Bring Sara Ford to MSFT Tech-Ed Australia" poll - it's now official and Sara Ford will be giving a Tips and Tricks presentation at this years Australian Tech-Ed.

July also saw the conclusion of the voting for our new logo - thanks to everybody who participated and congratulations to Dave Herren for submitting the winning entry.

see http://www.lidnug.org for the winning entry.

Upcoming events in August
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August 13, 2009 at 10:30AM PDT
Scott Hanselman - Life inside the Big Blue Monster, a random Q&A
- http://events.linkedin.com/LIDNUG-Life-inside-Big-Blue-Monster/pub/90969

August 25, 2009 at 9:00AM PDT
Scott Guthrie - Talking Shop with Developers II
- http://events.linkedin.com/LIDNUG-Scott-Guthrie-talks-shop/pub/90959

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As usual, these are Live Meeting events and will be recorded - of course, attending in "person" is half the fun.

Have you ever missed any of our events? Want to keep up to date with the most popular discussions in the group? Want to ask a question?

LIDNUG is now twittering, are you following us?

- http://www.twitter.com/lidnug

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us on info[at]lidnug.org.

LIDNUG gets a new logo

Brian Madsen — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:39:28 GMT

The Linked .Net Users Group has just gotten itself a new logo – we had 10 entries and the vote fell on Dave Herren’s submission after 1 month of voting.

Congratulations to Dave Herren for his win!

LIDNUG: Tim Heuer presentation recording now available on www.lidnug.org

Brian Madsen — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:17:13 GMT

The recording of Tim Heuer’s presentation earlier this month, was delayed due to disk space running out – that’s been sorted out and the recording is now available for download over on www.lidnug.org.

The topic of the night was Silverlight 3 and Tim showed us around some of the new features as well as answered questions from the audience.

To download his presentation (or others), click here.

LIDNUG: Advanced Developer Features in Visual Studio 2010

Brian Madsen — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:03:43 GMT

We got a quick session coming up this July 21st at 10:30AM PDT, featuring advanced developer features in Visual Studio 2010.

Advanced developer features in Visual Studio 2010:

Time: July 21, 2009 at 10:30AM PDT - 11:30AM PDT

Experience a tour of what’s coming soon in Visual Studio 2010 for debugging, profiling, analyzing and diagnosing your applications so they are capable of 24x7 reliability and of scaling to enterprise loads.

Not only will you get to see the technology in action, you’ll get a chance to ask questions to a member of the Microsoft team responsible for delivering those features.

Come get the inside scoop, and get a leg up on all the other development teams out there!

Presenters: Visual Studio Program Managers Daryush Laqab and Andrew Hall

Registration and event details: http://events.linkedin.com/LIDNUG-Advanced-developer-features/pub/93249

LIDNUG: Tim Heuer presenting on Silverlight 3 this week

Brian Madsen — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:54:07 GMT

Join us for a Silverlight 3 talk with Tim Heuer at the Linked .Net Users Group on Thursday the 9th of July, 2009 at 10:30AM PDT.

We currently have 140 registered to attend and it promises to be a seriously cool presentation.

As usual, the event is presented via Live Meeting!

LIDNUG has also been looking for a new logo and voting has started for the submissions.

See the submissions here and vote: http://www.lidnug.org/community.aspx

Voting will close by the end of the month!

We’ve also reached an astonishing number of members – with now more than 27,000 registered members!

So, even though it’s summer in the northern hemisphere there’s still plenty of opportunities left to learn about all the new stuff coming out!

Since 2009 saw the kickoff for the Linked .Net Users Group, with both some hugely successful events and a massive amount of positive feedback, we’re definitely not resting on our laurels!

August will see us have both Scott Hanselman and Scott Guthrie present, on the 13th of August and 25th of August respectively!

As usual we’ll be recording all of our events and make them available from the LIDNUG web site.

LIDNUG: Double the Scott in August

Brian Madsen — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:47:39 GMT

The cat’s out of the box (or is that the dog?) as the Linked .Net Users Group will see Scott Guthrie return to our monthly meetings in August.

Last time we had Scott around, we had a massive 518 attendees to the event and it was a resounding success!

Obviously Scott enjoyed himself and promised he’d be back – so, here’s following up on that promise with a tentative date of the 25th of August, 2009 (that’s 25th US time, will be 26th for us in the AustralAsia region, my bad).

Did i say Double the Scott?? yessir, indeed!

Scott Hanselman will also be grazing us with a visit, albeit his first for us (nudge nudge!!) – The date we’ve currently put down is the 13th of August, 2009.

What will we be talking about? we’ll see, it’s not in concrete yet, but i’m guessing (probably rightly so) that The Gu will do another Q&A for us, since it’ll be right off the back of Tech-Ed US!

We’ll let you know where to register as soon as we get a full green light from both!

LIDNUG: Sara Ford session recording now available

Brian Madsen — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:39:00 GMT

Late Sunday evening, midnight for some residents in the US, and early morning Perth time had Sara Ford present for the Linked .Net Users Group.

The title for the presentation was “Embrace Open Source with CodePlex” and had Sara showcase the different features and functionalities available to projects on CodePlex.

Attendance was low, but we’re factoring in the time of day as this was our first “out of business hours” event, in an attempt to drive more international members to the presentations. Well, lesson learned…

The recording of the session is now available over on the lidnug.org site.

To download the recording, or to download past recordings, go to: www.lidnug.org/presentations.aspx

It’s well worth a look and as usual Sara brought her exuberance and energy to the floor.

LIDNUG: Sara Ford Embraces Open Source on CodePlex

Brian Madsen — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 07:09:19 GMT

Tomorrow we’re having the first, hopefully of many, event that caters not specifically for the US.

Sara Ford is presenting on Open Source on CodePlex at 9pm (PST time, which is middle of the day Perth time).

So, if you’re a software developer interested in running an open source project, or just looking around for a particular tool to download, come check out the latest from CodePlex.

Registration link: http://events.linkedin.com/LIDNUG-Sara-Ford-Embrace-Open-Source/pub/65637

Hope to see you there…

LIDNUG for the greater good – members devoting time to charity projects

Brian Madsen — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:07:08 GMT

The power of a community can be measured in many ways – reach of the community, involvement and engagements of it’s members etc.

One thing you don’t often see is communities getting in to the charity organisations and devoting time to projects there.

Our founder, Inbar Gazit, put the question out some time back and the response was overwhelmingly positive, with 100s of developers willing to devote time to charity organisations needing projects finished or completed.

so LIDNUG has now gotten hold of 3 such organisations and we’re in the midst of getting our “resources” sorted out so we can get their projects rolling.

Here’s the three organisations that’s going to benefit first:

Haas Foundation – www.haasfoundation.org
1-2 developers to assist with rewamp of public website and work in conjunction with the people already there.
Puentes – new web site developed
Kids teaching Kids – www.intuition.org

If you’re a charity organisation, or NFP organisation, lets us know if you have a project you’d like to add to the list and we’ll look at getting some resources sorted.

LIDNUG: Claudio Perrone’s presentation, Agile tales of creative customer collaboration, is now available to download…

Brian Madsen — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:51:33 GMT

Claudio Perrone’s event earlier this week is now available for download over at www.lidnug.org.

http://www.lidnug.org/Presentations.aspx

Enjoy!!!

LIDNUG: Scott Guthrie Q&A session recording available

Brian Madsen — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:55:20 GMT

Man oh man!! the most highly anticipated event at the Linked .Net Users Group went well..Not saying I was nervous, but you just don’t want to have serious problems when you’re holding such a big event!

Fortunately, it went through without a hitch and the recording is now available for Scott Guthrie’s Q&A session.

Check it out and see some of the announcements that came out via the answers Scott Guthrie gave!

To download the recorded session, click here.

518 members attended it and the event ran for 1 1/2hrs!

Thanks to all our members for the support!

Agile what???

Brian Madsen — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:47:11 GMT

the Linked .Net Users Group discussions on LinkedIn often has some excellent discussions brewing – one of the last ones that came up was with regards to the Agile development methodology and how to get started with it.

One of the guys, Neil Martin, offered up a link to a blog post he wrote some time back and it’s probably one of the better introductions to Agile that i’ve read in a while.

So if you’re considering to get started with Agile or if you’ve been thrown into the deep end because one of your directors got hold of this “Buzzword”, you should have a read.

http://neilmartinagile.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/agile-practises-some-guidence/

What i live best about this blog post is that it gives you information without packaging it up with expensive phrases – it’s for beginners of Agile and it’s written in such a way that you can relate.

Very well written Neil…