Baltimore Area Microsoft Developer User Group

Speaker: TBD

Topic: What’s next in Tech in 2012

Abstract:

Bio : TBD

Level: Intermediate

Location: Red Brick Station, White Marsh, MD

Date: Wednesday, February 15th, networking begins at 6:30

Sponsors: Red Brick Station

The meeting for January is canceled.

G. Andrew Duthie

Topic: Business Intelligence in SharePoint 2010

Abstract:
SharePoint 2010 provides a flexible platform to expose business intelligence (BI). Come and see a presentation covering capabilities that are available for exposing information to end users, including Charting capabilities, Access Services, Visio Services, Excel Services, and PerformancePoint Services, as well as development options and possibilities to further extend the capabilities that are available.

Level: Intermediate-Advanced

Bio: Viktor is a senior consultant with LCG Technologies, with 12+ years of experience. Hacking at code since the age of 9, his focus in recent years has been on web development in .Net technologies, with a special focus on SharePoint. Viktor is one of the leading experts in the Baltimore SharePoint community. He has created enterprise level applications such as a publicly facing EHealth Record application using SharePoint that has a rich user interface and custom look and feel. Viktor utilized SharePoint and SilverLight to build a clinical trials project management system to accelerate the clinical development process. Born in Czech Republic, Viktor has been in Baltimore since 2000 and has worked at area companies such as RDA, Finra, SAIC and Amtote.

Location: Vibrant Commerical Technologies
307 International Drive,
Suite 210
Hunt Valley, MD 21030
Date: Wednesday, December 28th, networking begins at 6:30

Sponsors: Vibrant Commerical Technologies, LCG Technologies

G. Andrew Duthie

Topic: Going beyond the Soft in Software: Programming with Kinect and .NET Gadgeteer

Abstract:

Join Microsoft Developer Evangelist G. Andrew Duthie (aka Devhammer) for a tour of some of the fun new ways you can leverage your .NET coding skills to drive hardware. We’ll look at the Kinect SDK for Windows, as well as the .NET Micro Framework, and the brand-new .NET Gadgeteer open hardware specification, and how its modular architecture opens up the world of embedded device development and rapid prototyping to even those who’ve never held a soldering iron.

Learn about both fun and practical things you can do by adding a little spice of hardware to your software recipes in this demo-driven talk!

Level: Intermediate-Advanced geekiness

Bio: G. Andrew Duthie, aka devhammer, is the Developer Evangelist for Microsoft’s Mid-Atlantic States district, where he provides support and education for developers working with the .net development platform. In addition to his work with Microsoft, Andrew is the author of several books on ASP.NET and web development, and has spoken at numerous industry conferences from VSLive! and ASP.NET Connections, to Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference (PDC) and Tech-Ed. Andrew has been participating in the user group community since way back in 1997, when one of his co-workers dragged him out to the Internet Developers User Group in Tyson’s Corner, VA, and he’s been hooked ever since.

You can read Andrew’s blog at http://devhammer.net, and follow him on twitter at http://twitter.com/devhammer.

Location: Emerging Technology Center in Baltimore
2400 Boston Street
Factory Building, 3rd Floor
Baltimore, MD 21224

Date: Wednesday, November 30th, networking begins at 6:30

Sponsors: ETC, GBTC, LCG Technologies

Speaker: Kyle Fritz & Alex Sleighter

Topic: Image Manipulation with HTML5: improving the speed of clinical decision making and kicking butt

Abstract: Learn how we leveraged Javascript and HTML5 technologies to build an extremely responsive medical image (DICOM) viewer and reduced the complexity (and load) of our server code by an order of magnitude. Our application is written in C# MVC3. To build the viewer we leveraged razor templates, backbone.js, and jquery templates. On the HTML5 side, we used canvas, webworkers and filestreams. This is not a hypothetical talk. We’ll show you how we used these technologies to make a real application that is used by physicians to save lives today.

Level: Intermediate-Advanced

Bio: Kyle Fritz & Alex Sleighter work at Healthcare IT Startup Vigilant Medical where they are responsible for the ImageShare product currently used by 10 hospitals to send over 1M medical images last year.

Location: Barrett’s in the Hunt Valley Town Center

Date: Wednesday, October 19th, networking begins at 6:30

Sponsors: Barrett’s, LCG Technologies

Speaker: Mark Lindell

Topic: Behavior Driven Development with SpecFlow

Abstract:Test Driven Development is so yesterday! Come learn about the practice of Behavior Driven Development. The presentation will be a short introduction and then full hands on development of a project using BDD practices. The code and tools used with be Visual Studio 2010, C#, Resharper, Moq and SpecFlow. This presentation is fast and interactive with no “Death by PowerPoint”.

Level: Intermediate-Advanced

Bio: Mark Lindell is the Software Architect for Philips/EPIS. Mark has been developing software since 1979 when he fell in love with a TRS-80 at a local Radio Shack. During the day, Mark spends his time evangelizing best practices, patterns, and beautiful code to multiple teams across the EPIS business unit. He hates the term Architect and prefers to be called a “Coding Architect”

Location: Vision Technology Services, 230 Schilling Circle, Suite 200, Hunt Valley, MD 21031

Date: Wednesday, September 21st, networking begins at 6:30

Sponsors: Vision Technology Services

Speaker: User Meeting

Topic: What’s next in Tech in 2011

Abstract: What is the next big thing in technology? Is 2011 the year of the Smartphone, Tablet/Mobile, Social Media, Cloud Based Computing, etc.? What should you be focusing you time on learning to prepare yourself for what is coming next? What strategies do you have for acquiring these skills? How can BaltoMSDN help

Bio :Not Applicable

Level: Intermediate

Location: Red Brick Station, White Marsh, MD

Date: Wednesday, August 17th, networking begins at 6:30

Sponsors: Red Brick Station

Geoff Snowman

Speaker: Geoff Snowman

Topic: Both Amazon Simple DB and Windows Azure Table Storage allow the creation of massively scalable data sets. In both systems, entities don’t have a fixed schema but instead provide key/value dictionaries. These databases support massive loads beyond the capabilities of any relational database. However, this flexibility comes at a price. Traditional data modeling tools like foreign key relationships and table joins aren’t supported by these storage engines. For developers used to working with SQL databases, new skills must be learned.

In this session, you’ll learn:
• Similarities and differences between Microsoft Azure Storage and Amazon SimpleDB.
• How to structure data in table storage.
• How to build web applications that run at massive scale by using table storage.

The code sample is written in ASP.NET MVC running on Azure with an Azure Table Storage database.

Level: Intermediate-Advanced

Bio: Geoff Snowmanis a web architect and independent consultant. From 2001 – 2009 Geoff worked for Microsoft Corporation where he focused on .NET development and BizTalk Server. Geoff’s technical interests include web development, social media, cloud computing, and service-oriented architecture. Geoff is a frequent speaker at developer community events throughout the Mid Atlantic and New York metro areas as well as online.

Location: Maryland Athletic Club, 655 President Street, Baltimore, MD 21202

Date: Wednesday, June 15th, networking begins at 6:30

Sponsors: Maryland Athletic Club

Speaker: Dave Clausen, Cloud Patterns
Topic: “HTML5”

Abstract: I’m a developer/architect with minimal artistic talent.
Some of my end-users are forbidden by Windows Group Policy from upgrading past IE7.
I set out to discover if HTML5 has any relevance to me.
If you can relate, then I hope you can benefit from the insights I picked up.

Topics covered (with some demonstrations):
• HTML5 background & introduction
• Why should I take the time to employ HTML5 if some browsers don’t support it?
• A first HTML5 page
• New elements
• element – any use for non-graphic-artists?
• HTML5 and mobile devices
• Quick take on offline storage & media support

Bio : Dave Clausen, MCSD is cofounder of CloudPatterns, LLC (custom software development), and cofounder of Roadmap (web-based project portfolio tool). He’s thankful for his involvement in some truly interesting projects, both at-present and in the past (example: UPS package tracking). When able to break away from software, he loves spending time with his family, and being involved at his church & with community service.

Level: Intermediate

Location: Maryland Athletic Club, 655 President Street, Baltimore, MD 21202

Date: Wednesday, May 25th, 2011, networking begins at 6:30.

BaltoMSDN is taking a break this month.