Monday, February 6th, 2012 11:30am Evening Meetings have been canceled since December 2010. Meeting Location: okcCoCo (directions) Abstract Unity has been around for a while, and if you haven’t heard about it yet, then this is your calling. Unity is an extensible dependency injection container from Microsoft that provides support for constructor, property, and method [...]

We have been meeting at The okcCoCo for some time now. The okcCoCo is moving to a new location in Midtown. The new okcCoCo will include many more offices, more coworking space, more social/event space, a gym, bicycle storage, coffee/sandwich shop, outdoor seating, and much more parking. They cannot do this without your support right [...]

Monday, January 2nd, 2012 11:30am Evening Meetings have been canceled since December 2010. Meeting Location: okcCoCo (directions) Abstract In Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Welc hereafter), Michael Feathers defines legacy code as code without automated tests – I like to add to that definition “that someone depends upon, e.g., in production”. Legacy Code is hard [...]

Monday, November 14th, 2011 11:30am Evening Meetings have been canceled since December 2010. Meeting Location: okcCoCo (directions) Abstract With the release of the new “Mango” operating system, the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 now supports SQL Server CE as part of the Windows Phone runtime environment. Join Microsoft Developer Evangelist Chris Koenig for a tour of [...]

Monday, October 3rd, 2011 11:30am Evening Meetings have been canceled since December 2010. Meeting Location: okcCoCo (directions) Abstract With the rising popularity of ORM many developers are turning to them to influence the architecture of their applications. While there are many options available, with its maturity and community NHibernate is a good contender and a [...]

Monday, August 1st, 2011 11:30am Rescheduled for: Monday August 8th, 2011 11:30am Rescheduled again for September 12th, 2011 11:30am Evening Meetings have been canceled since December 2010. Meeting Location: okcCoCo (directions) Abstract While ORM’s like Entity Framework have the appearance of being an Easy Button(tm), they come with a lot of bloat. In this session, [...]

Monday, July 11, 2011 11:30am Evening Meetings have been canceled since December 2010. Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative (directions) Abstract “Agile development”, “software craftsmanship”, and “test driven development” are words which have been the cutting edge in our industry for several years, and increasingly are moving into the main stream of software development. Come join us [...]

Monday, June 6, 2011 11:30am Evening Meetings have been canceled since December 2010. Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative (directions) Abstract Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a set of technologies for building Graphical User Interfaces on MS Windows desktops. It is the successor of Windows Forms and utilizes several different key technologies such as DirectX and XAML [...]

Monday, May 2, 2011 11:30am Evening Meetings have been canceled since December 2010. Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative (directions) Abstract FubuMVC is a Front Controller-style MVC framework that tries to focus on SOLID principles, separation of concerns, DRY, and other critical concepts of rapid, friction and pain-free web development. This talk aims to show off a [...]

Monday, April 4, 2011 11:30am Evening Meetings have been canceled since December 2010. Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative (directions) Abstract In the time that LINQ to SQL has been available, we have been identifying ways to make LINQ to SQL better. We have compiled all of those cool tips and tricks including new features into a [...]