GGMUG

Thanks to Mary-Jo Foley (a one-woman, Microsoft-watching strike-team), GGMUG is now forming an Action Team for 2011.

It started with this article that links to this awesome video:

Suddenly I was transported back to the '70s (well, mentally at least) and every action/adventure show ever made.

What GGMUG needs is an Action Team to travel the land, righting wrongs and refactoring evil. A team known only as "The Delegates". We also need a boss van like the one in the video. Pretty much a non-starter without it.

If possible, I'd like to recruit Kris Kristofferson as seen in the movie Convoy (based on the moving spirtiual ballad of the same name) to be our team's leader.

Our Leader: aka The Code Avenger

Parallel processing was one of the key technology pillars of .Net 4. For the next version, a concerted effort is being made to simplify asynchronous programming as well. In this session we'll compare and contrast the two alternatives. You'll see how to take advantage of each and learn when each approach is the most appropriate.

By day, Jim Wooley is a consultant for Slalom Consulting, In his free time, Jim is a frequent speaker, INETA Regional Speaker, MVP, and author of "LINQ in Action". He is always striving to stay at the forefront of technology and enjoys the thrill of a new challenge. He has been active evangelizing LINQ since it's announcement in 2005. In addition, he attempts to pass on the insights he has gained by being active in the community, including organizing and speaking at code camps and regional events, including DevLink, DevWeek, CodeMash, CodeStock, VS Live, and MIX.

This will be a great meeting, so don't miss it!

We will meet at our usual time and in our usual place:

• Gwinnett Technical College
• Building 100
• Room 401
• 9/8/11
• 6:30 PM

Here is the jQuery Templates session presented by Ritesh Kothari at our July meeting.

Due to YouTube's 15 min limit, it is in 5 parts. The first one is embedded, the others are available via link.

• Part 1 (above)
• Part 2
  
• Part 3
  
• Part 4
• Part 5

PowerShell: From Zero to Hero in 60 Minutes

Alex Tocitu

The meeting will be held in our usual location, Room 410 of Building 100 at Gwinnett Technical College beginning at 6:30 PM.

I look forward to seeing everyone there!

jeffa

Be sure to take our survey ASAP here: Survey Monkey.

There are three questions:

1. Which contest you want to see
2. Which contest you'd be willing to participate in
3. Which topics would you like to see at future meetings

It would be a big help if everyone would take the survey right away.

Thanks,

jeffa

Jim Wooley has been a huge help to GGMUG since our founding, and he is presenting a cool session at the next Atlanta .Net User Group session later this month.

The meeting will be held in the Microsoft office in Alpharetta on Monday, July 25, 2011 as 6:30 PM.

Dynamic Programming in a Statically Typed World

One of the key pillars of .NET 4.0 is the inclusion of dynamic language support. Many languages have

tended to stick to static or dynamic typing. With .Net 4.0, Visual Basic and

C# are uniquely positioned to straddle the fence and work equally well in

both the static and dynamic worlds. We will show how to take advantage of

the new dynamic language enhancements. We'll also demonstrate some cases

where you should and shouldn't use these dynamic features.

By day, Jim Wooley is a consultant for Slalom Consulting. In his free time,

Jim is a frequent speaker, MVP, and author of "LINQ in Action". He is always

striving to stay at the forefront of technology and enjoys the thrill of a

new challenge. He has been active evangelizing LINQ since it's announcement

in 2005. In addition, he attempts to pass on the insights he has gained by

being active in the community, including organizing and speaking at code

camps and regional events, including DevLink, DevWeek, CodeMash, CodeStock,

VS Live, and MIX.