*Words of Wisdom From The Elder

If you are in any of the following cities located near Hattiesburg, MS we hope you’ll come out on Thursday October 14th, 2010 for Hub City .NET User Group meeting:

• Hattiesburg, MS
• Meridian, MS
• Jackson, MS
• Biloxi, MS
• Gulfport, MS
• Mobile, AL
• New Orleans, LA

About The Speaker

Chris Eargle is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional – C# and INETA Community Champion from Columbia, SC, USA. He has designed and developed several enterprise and open source applications, and he runs the local .NET User Group: the Columbia Enterprise Developers Guild. He is a frequent guest of conferences and community events promoting best practices and new technologies. His blog, kodefuguru.com, has been featured on ASP.NET, MSDN, and Reddit.

Presentation: Secrets of a .NET Ninja

In my years developing C# applications, I have seen techniques both good and bad. I will demonstrate those that are good, rant against those that are bad, and reveal those unknown to many.  Whether a novice or a seasoned coder, you will find something useful, or perhaps even wicked, that you can do with C# and the .NET Framework.

Register Here!

(while the event is free, we ask you to register so we can plan better for food)

http://hubcitynugoct2010.eventbrite.com

Time: 7:00 PM (6:30 PM food starts)

Location: University of Southern Mississippi

Directions

Joseph Cook Library – Room 123
University of Southern Mississippi Campus
Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39401

Map: http://lib.usm.edu/about_us/floor_and_campus_maps/map_to_cook_library.html

Room 123 is located in the back of the common study area on the right hand side.

Prizes and Free Food

Food will be served for those attending this event.  Please arrive early starting at 6:30PM to eat.

We have books to give away, free software from Telerik, JetBrains, and DevExpress.

Just a quick plug so you know sooner than later.  Starting Oct 14th we are starting http://hubcitynug.org back up at the University of Southern Mississippi!  More details will follow but save the date!  As soon as we finalize all the details I’ll let you know.  If you haven’t already, be sure to join the mailing list.

I met up with David Giard at the DevLink conference and recorded an episode of “Technology and Friends” with him.  This is now live. 

http://technologyandfriends.com/archive/2010/09/07/tf114.aspx

Before I even start about the event I need to thank INETA who made Saturday’s event possible.  INETA sponsored the “.NET From Scratch” track at SQL Saturday #28 in Baton Rouge this past Saturday.  So thank you INETA for helping out to make this happen!

The event was a top notch run event thanks to Patrick LeBlanc, Mike Huguet and others from the Baton Rouge area.  By the way, Patrick runs the SQL group in BR (Baton Rouge) and Mike runs the .NET User Group there, both great groups.

Friday evening we met up at Mike Anderson’s Seafood in Baton Rouge for a speaker dinner.  They had me at seafood.  I will say this is the first speaker dinner I’ve been to where there was crawfish.  Awesome!

After a good meal, great conversation, and fun I headed back to the hotel to work on demos, slides, and run through the deck one more time. 

The next morning I made it over to the LSU campus.  The last time I was on campus it was for a LSU vs Southern Miss football game back in the mid ‘90’s when I was in college. 

For the .NET From Scratch track we had attendees register for the track so we’d be able to gage attendance.  The room only held 50 people and I’m happy to say we filled the room and even had to cut the registration off.  What does that tell you? It tells you that even though we are at version 4.0 of the .NET framework, there is a huge void out there that speakers continue to ignore which is a way for new developers to learn about the platform. 

I wanted to say thanks to those that came to the track on Saturday.  I mean this when I say I had a blast!  It was such a great group and I hope it was worth your time.

As promised I zipped up the slide deck and the demos.  You can download them here:

.NET From Scratch Slide Deck and Demos

Hope to see you next year!

This past week I spent several days in Nashville, TN at the DevLink conference.  It was a little rough to get around the conference for me as I had dislocated my shoulder last Monday but I managed. 

The conference itself was great. I had tons of great conversations and met some people that I’ve exchanged emails with.

As promised to those in my session “Demystifying Windows Communication Foundation” here is the slide deck and demos.

Hope to see you back next year!