*Words of Wisdom From The Elder

If you are reading this and you live in the South as a .NET developer or someone who is learning .NET or finds it interesting I need your help.  Head over to the following URL and join in with fellow developers and community within the South.

http://southerndevs.groups.live.com

UPDATE: Note that it asks for a reason *why* you want to join. I would turn that off but I can’t in the settings so put in whatever.

Purpose of the group

The purpose of the group is to break through the boundaries of the community.  To let it breath and flourish as needed without the worry about state lines.  A lot of us in the community coordinate events, code camps and need help from one another and need a way to discuss and keep up with what is going.  Today a lot of this information lives in silos within one region or the other.  This group is about connecting the dots throughout the community regardless of where you live. 

So if you are in the South, or even on the border of what you think of as the South join me in establishing a group that can hopefully serve us all.

Start The Discussion

After joining the group there are multiple ways to connect with the group.  The preferred way is to simply email the group when you have announcements or need help by sending email to southerndevs@groups.live.com. 

Tell Your Friends

We can’t grow the group without your help.  If you are reading this, email the group to co-workers, friends, and so on.  Let’s get the ball rolling!

Did you know you can use the Visual Studio plugin CodeRush/Refactor in .ASPX pages as well as within JavaScript? It is something that isn’t demoed a lot but yes, it works!

Here’s a sample of me highlighting some inline styles and pressing the refactor key (I have mine bound to ctrl+(num plus) key). 

Creates this automatically by adding it to my styles.

Press escape after you type in the name you want to jump back to the marker where you were.

And you can also refactor JavaScript with Coderush/Refactor so don’t forget to hit that refactor binding and see what’s possible.

Today is the key word, if you are reading this on Sunday or at a later date, sorry.

The Software Engineering 101 workshop is going on today.  Here is how to join RIGHT NOW.  That’s right, it is going on RIGHT NOW.

First thing is you need to have Live Meeting installed.  You can get Live Meeting here:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/CD102447411033.aspx?ofcresset=1You’ll

After the client is installed go to this URL:

http://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft

After the site opens up, click this link:

When the link is clicked this window will open:

Enter the following Meeting ID and Entry Code:

MEETING ID =W3FQMB
ENTRY CODE=65?4mKN3D

After you get the client up BE SURE that your microphone is muted, it should be red.

Also follow along using the Twitter hashtag #swe101. 

 
http://deepfriedbytes.com/podcast/episode-46-using-powershell-to-be-more-productive-with-steven-murawski/

.NET developers have had the .NET Framework to themselves long enough. Why not let the ITPros have some fun and productivity that comes with using .NET? That is why we now have PowerShell. In this episode, we sat down with Steve Murawski to discuss PowerShell for the ITPro and .NET developer communities. We discussed the many ways to use PowerShell and how it can save time and sanity for highly productive developers and IT folks.

 
http://deepfriedbytes.com/podcast/episode-45-making-sense-of-what-was-oslo-with-lars-corneliussen/

At PDC 2009 Oslo was renamed to SQL Modeling and it left a lot of developers scratching their heads.  What better way to sort it all out than to talk with someone deep into the stack.  We sat down with Lars Corneliussen to see how this is all going to turn out and what it means for developers.  Definitely an interesting show as it paints a different picture about where things are going with M, M Grammar, SQL modeling, Entity Framework, Quadrant and so on.