Some great discussions in the FishBowl on TDD & BDD .. Then moved over to Inversion of control jump start and ended on advanced javascript & CSS session. Both of which were given by Ben Scheiman a Principle Consultant with Sogeti, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. (@subdigital)

BLOG: http://flux88.com/

About: http://www.flux88.com/AboutMe.aspx

laptop running out of juice notes will have to be inserted later.

John Teague talks about a business problem at his company Callaway golf that he ultimately solved with jQuery.

Notes:
--jQuery can be compressed to 12KB
--Easy to manipulate DOM
--TIP&TRICK: Essentially recommends combining your JavaScript files into one.
--Big fan of FireBug

Sites:

• www.VisualjQuery.com
• http://www.callawaygolf.com/Global/en-US/Products/Clubs/Drivers.html

Prescriptive Data Access in .NET 3.5
Brian Orrell

Description: Review the "right way" to develop data access and management applications using VS2008 and LINQ. Many things have changed with LINQ to SQL many developers have difficulty separating the hype from the real-world applicability of these new technologies.

BIO: Pariveda Solutions , Vice President
Brian Orrell is a Vice President with Pariveda Solutions. He has over fifteen years of technology consulting experience in a variety of industries and technologies. His emphasis is on the delivery of enterprise solutions utilizing Microsoft .NET. His areas of expertise include designing, developing and maintaining web-based and distributed object systems. Mr. Orrell has led large-scale development engagements for large utility companies, airlines, shipping companies, educational and non-profit organizations.

Notes:

• Do you check data during the time your user pulls it changes it and hits save???

I bounced around a little focusing on three sessions.

• Building Applications with Dynamic data
  Jason Kergosien
• Coding for Stupid Useres
  Gordon Montgomery
• Programming Microsoft Business Rules Engine
  Rick Garibay

These were all nice sessions. Notes will be Com'n

Well we're here ... Ready to see what this place is all about.. There is a lot of Texas orange around here??? Not for sure what that is all about but I’m sporting my classic white & red Hog shirt! No funny looks as of yet wait until I break out the PIIIIIIGGG SSOOOOOOOOIIIIIIEEEEEEE on them though.

First session - [Unit Testing in Silverlight 2.0 W/ Eric Hexter](@ehexter)

BIO: AspInsider , Director Austin .NET user group, Organized 07 Austin code camp
BLOG: http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/hex/

Notes:
There are 3 DLL's inside the controls that can be used for Unit testing...Its those Dll's that make Unit testing in SilverlIght possible.

No VS2008 CTRL + R + T in Silverlight apps for Unit testing must use an add-on

Using Silverlight Test framework builds the XAP file packaged and ready for you silverlight app

**Jamie Kinsdell using Nunit with Silverlight (need to change some references web config entries.

Jeff Wilcox on Silverlight Project - project template && Item template

Code is in the Austin Code camp repository

I have heard a bunch of people threaten to start a SQL usergroup well congrats to these guys. Its now a REAL deal.

http://nwasql.com/

I look forward to going, the lunch time thing will be hard to make on a regular basis but hopefully I can square it away for the first meeting of this group.

Meeting Details

When:
Wednesday, May 14th, 11:30am - 1:00pm

Host:
Connolly Consulting

Address:
2703 SE Otis Corley Drive MAP

City:
Bentonville, AR 72712

I have been playing with Deep Zoom Composer since Mix. It was fun but painful all at the same time. Just in case you don't follow theADOguy I thought I would reference a blog post of his:  a new version of Deep Zoom Composer.

With the following added features Better exporting, Impoved Design Experience, Better Collection Exports & Help now works.

To get the download: An Update to Deep Zoom Composer

Thanks

Last week I got the opportunity to talk to some High School students about how easy it is to create Google maps & Virtual Earth maps on the Internet.

I have always been extremely impressed with the Virtual Earth interactive SDK site. If you have to do a project using this technology this is a great place to start!

There were a few things I didn't get the chance to mention thought I would do so here.

1. I stumbled across a post (Marc Schweigert) who took the ENTIRE Virtual Earth interactive SDK and provided the code in a Visual Studio project and available for download.
   
   To download the solution and all the code: Click Here
   
2. There is a really nice site I check regularly that showcases new Google maps: check this blog

Happy developing...

Not much to talk about from a coding perspective. Phase I was vanilla.  More to come soon Phase II will include some Silverlight features. The biker rally is later in the year.

http://www.bikesbluesandbbq.org/

1 of 4 part blog that will talk about a few of the neater features for this site. Please stay tuned.

::Second Life User Group::

Zain Naboulsi is asking everyone to get the word out for the

Heroes Happen Here Launch in Second Life -- April 26th, 2008.

Click Here to get all the info on the event as well as everything you need to get setup beforehand!

::DALLAS TechFest::

Less than one month:
MORE INFO

Notice - (pulled from Chris Koenig's Blog)
The venue can only hold 500 people, so don’t wait - register today to make sure you get your seat at the Dallas TechFest!