Category Archives: Meetings
As 2011 comes to a close…
2011 has been a good year at CRineta. Loads of great topics and speakers combined with a steady attendance. In the last few months, our open conversation time has grown, with more members sharing, questioning and answering – the heart … Continue reading
Developing for Windows Phone 7
NOTE: We will return to the Iowa Hall, Iowa Room D for our August meeting. ALSO NOTE: This meeting is on the 2nd Monday in August. Our August 8th, 5:30 @ Kirkwood) meeting will bring Jeff Brand down from Minneapolis … Continue reading
Create Business Applications with Silverlight
NOTE: We will be the same room as last month – Cedar Hall 3045 and 3046. Our July 11th (5:30 @ Kirkwood) meeting will bring yet another presenter new to us, Chris Rouw. He will be presenting on Silverlight. We’ve … Continue reading
Enforcing C# Code Standards Using StyleCop and FxCop
NOTE: We will be the same room as last month – Cedar Hall 3045 and 3046. Our June 6th meeting will bring another presenter new to us, James Hare. He will be presenting on enforcing C# code standards using StyleCop … Continue reading
Code First: Building a Cleaner Model with Entity Framework
Code First is a new approach to building your model in Entity Framework 4 that allows you to create your domain model with plain .NET classes that are completely under your control. Previously in Entity Framework you were required to … Continue reading
PowerShell 2.0 for Developers
February 7th, 2011 at 5:30pm PowerShell is Microsoft’s next-generation command-line shell and scripting language. This session will discuss why you need it, how to use it, and what makes it different from any other shell on any platform. Beyond its … Continue reading
LINQtroduction
January 10th, 2011 at 5:30pm Language Integrated Query (LINQ, pronounced “link”) is a Microsoft .NET Framework component that adds native data querying capabilities to .NET languages. Think of LINQ as the SQL you write in your .Net code against almost … Continue reading
Explore the Possible – Best of PDC
Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference (PDC) is an event where they release information about trends and targets for their technology and tools releases that developers can use to build solutions. Last year they talked about Windows Phone, Silverlight 4, Azure and … Continue reading
Fish Bowl
Our next meeting is going to be a Fish Bowl discussion about anything software related. Be sure you bring plenty of ideas to talk about. This is a great time to get hear how some good developers think about the writing, … Continue reading
SOIL’D to SOLID
Have you ever worked on system that could be described as a “Big Ball
of Mud”? Have you ever wondered what you could do to become a better
developer? Continue reading
