Category Archives: Meetings

Demystifying MVVM on Windows Phone 7

Monday, March 7, 2011 11:30am Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative (directions) Abstract Building rich client applications can be complicated – not because we want it to be, but because modern applications often have heavy expectations on UX, a lot of moving parts under the covers, and usually require integration between a number of different systems. To [...]

February 2011 Meeting

Lean Processes in a Creative Environment Ryan Kelley Monday, February 7, 2011 11:30am – Lunch Meeting Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative Abstract Ryan’s presentation will discuss methods of implementing lean processes in a creative environment. Typical lean methodology is often directed to the development side of projects, but what about the creative side? Designers and developers [...]

January 2011 Meeting

jQuery Power Presented by Jesse Harlin This presentation will cover jQuery within the context of a Visual Studio IDE in the .NET framework. AJAX, client-side scripting, performance, and debugging will be part of the talk. Novice or pro alike will benefit from this lecture. Unlock all the mystical secrets of your web application…NOW!

December 2010 Meeting

Double Feature: IT Hiring and Compensation Trends Presented by Joseph McIntyre AND Test-Driven Scaffolding Presented by Vincent Johns Monday, December 6, 2010 11:30am – Lunch Meeting 6:00pm – Night Meeting Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative IT Hiring and Compensation Trends This talk will explore trends in the current IT job market including: the IT Hiring Environment, [...]

November 2010 Meeting

Autofac IoC and ASP.NET MVC (Special Guests: WCF) Chad Gorshing Monday, October 4, 2010 11:30am – Lunch Meeting 6:00pm – Night Meeting Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative Abstract Autofac is an IoC container for Microsoft .NET. It manages the dependencies between classes so that applications stay easy to change as they grow in size and complexity. [...]

October 2010 Meeting

Big Data with Apache Hadoop Ryan Hoegg Monday, October 4, 2010 11:30am (Overview Presentation) 6:00pm (In-Depth Presentation) 6:00 Meeting Cancelled Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative Abstract Some of today’s internet software serves millions of users and uses petabytes of data. NoSQL databases and MapReduce algorithms help us make use of large numbers of servers in different [...]

VS2010 Community Launch Presentation Links, Etc.

Here are slide decks & code samples for the presentations given at the Visual Studio 2010 Community Launch. What’s New in Visual Studio 2010 (Chris Koenig) Slide Deck Introduction to Visual Studio 2010 Database Functionality (Kristin Ferrier) Slide Deck Video (presentation given to OKCSQL, June 2010) Intro to Advanced Office 2010 Development (Ty Anderson) Slide [...]

August 2, 2010 – Visual Studio 2010 Community Launch Event

Keynote: Chris Koening, Microsoft Developer Evangelist Kick off the launch of Microsoft's Visual Studio 2010 with the Oklahoma City community. This free event will feature presentations that explore the features & functionality of the new version of Visual Studio including VS2010's simplified SharePoint development, improved database tooling, and more. We'll have tons of prizes* from [...]

June 2010 Meeting

Introduction to Object-Relational Mapping with NHibernate Brian Sullivan Monday, June 7, 2010 11:30am (Overview Presentation) 6:00pm (In-Depth Presentation) Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative Abstract Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs) have started to make their way into mainstream .NET development with the advent of LINQ-to-SQL and the Entity Framework from Microsoft. Before that, though, there was NHibernate. Based on [...]