The meeting will be held at the usual time and place: 6:30 PM meet and greet followed by 7:00 PM meeting in Room 401 of Building 100 at Gwinnett Technical College in Lawrenceville.

For more information including directions, see our website: ggmug.com.

Heard about the new 3.5 version of .Net, but not sure what's really new? Come learn all about it this month as we hear from Cliff Jacobson, Senior Developer at Visioneering Games.

Cliff delivered this talk back in March at the Atlanta Code Camp.

Cliff is a great speaker and very knowledgeable about .Net.

Cliff Jacobson

Cliff is a local developer focused on web development doing both ASMX and ASP.NET plus AJAX development.  Cliff currently works for Visioneering Games, an Atlanta company building skill-based games including their prizewagon.com website that offers free Texas Hold'em poker.  Cliff was an MCT years ago and challenges himself with how to best present technical topics in a meaningful way to his audience.  Cliff can be found attending many of the local .NET groups, and presented at the code camp this last spring.

We're also proud to say that Cliff is one of our founding members at GGMUG

Operation Silverlight

At the last meeting we decided to extend our "Write-A-Silverlight-Game-To-Win-A-Zune" contest. The new deadline will be the September meeting. Everyone agreed that one month would be too little time, so hopefully the extension will encourage more people to enter.

The rules will be posted on the website, but the short version is here:

• You must attend TWO meetings in order to enter.
• You must be present at the September meeting(September 11, 2008) to win.
• You must submit an original game written in Silverlight that can be played by members in attendance at the September meeting.
• You must submit your entry to info@ggmug.com at least one week prior to the meeting.

Have a great week, and we'll see you next Thursday at Gwinnett Tech!

To go with Keith Rome's Games For The Web With Silverlight 2.0 presentation at our June 12th meeting we have our very first contest.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to develop a web game using Silverlight 2.0 before the July meeting.

Microsoft has been very generous in donating a Zune for the 1st place winner! We will be working with other companies to get more prizes donated for the 2nd and 3rd place winners as well.

The rules are simple:

1) You MUST attend BOTH the June and July meetings to win (6/12/08 and 7/10/08).

2) Judging will by by voting by all attendees of the July meeting.

3) In the event of a tie, there will be a head-to-head vote to break the tie.

4) You must be a member in good standing of GGMUG to enter. This is not an open contest for anyone in the wide, wide world of sports. Rule number 1 pretty much covers this one...

5) The game must be playable with the Silverlight 2 player in a browser.

More rules may be added (as we think of them...) and will be presented at the June meeting.

We're not a huge group yet, so your odds of winning a Zune look pretty good! Come on out to the meetings and let's have fun with this one!

Do we ever have a great meeting lined up for June! The date is Thursday, June 12 and the start time is 6:30 PM for socializing and 7:00 for the actual meeting.

Keith Rome of Wintellect is coming to tell us about Games For The Web With Silverlight 2.0.

Keith is a C# MVP and holds a number of Microsoft certifications including MCPD-EAD, MCSD, MCDBA, and several MCTS titles. Keith is a highly active development community leader in the Atlanta region, and either attends, coordinates or presents at nearly every .NET meeting and code camp in Atlanta. His current specialties include Deep CLR Internals, Systems Architecture, and Silverlight/WPF.

He is a Project Manager and Senior Technical Consultant for Wintellect, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner that focuses on high-end consulting and training in Microsoft core development technologies. He has been a developer and consultant in the Atlanta region since 1997, and has experience in a wide range of vertical industries, technologies, and platforms, but has been focused on the .NET platform since 2002. He is a C# MVP, and holds many current Microsoft certifications including MCPD-EAD, MCSD, MCDBA, MCTS-WSS, MCTS-WPF, and MCTS-TFS. He can most often be found speaking at user groups and other developer events about real-world Silverlight and .NET Internals topics.

Keith's MVP profile can be viewed here: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Keith.Rome.

His Bog is here: http://www.mindfusioncorp.com/weblog/

His company's website is: http://www.wintellect.com/

NOTE:  Our meeting time has changed.

We will have meet and greet from 6:30 PM until 7:00 PM and the meeting will begin at 7.

The location stays the same: Gwinnett Technical College, Building 100, Room 401. 

To go with Keith's presentation we have a CONTEST! More on Operation Silverlight in the next post! You could win a major award! Stay tuned!

GGMUG.com now has a job board complete with our first listing!

Be sure to check out the Pages links over in the left column. Here is a link directly to that page.

Our first listing is for the .Net developer position with the Gwinnett County Government's IT department that was announced at the May meeting.

So cruise on over, check out the listing and tell them GGMUG sent you!

jeffa

Just got back from our first meeting and it was AWESOME!

A HUGE thanks to Gwinnett Technical College for providing the meeting space. The room is absolutely perfect.

Huge thanks to Microsoft and SRA International for the prizes and speakers. Doug Turnure, Microsoft Developer Evangelist, gave a very informative intro to WCF and the RESTful model. Noah Subrin, SRA International Senior Developer, continued the WCF topic forward to inter-operating with Workflow. Thanks guys!

Another HUGE thanks to Magnic and Sergey Barskiy for our pizza feast.

Thanks to everyone who came out.

Here are a couple of pictures of Noah's presentation. Sorry for the quality, they are from my cell phone...

We had about 35 people, which is great for a first meeting! The next step is to promote, promote, promote and grow the group. So get the word out! Second Thursday, Gwinnett Technical College, 6:30 PM.

HUGE thanks to Sergey Barskiy and his company Magenic for providing pizza and sodas for tomorrow night's meeting.

Magenic Technologies is a premier software development company building solutions that give our clients the advantage.  Magenic's team of developers and consultants combine business and technical expertise to provide advice to a wide variety of clients, ranging from ISV's to innovative Fortune 1000 companies.  With regional offices located in Atlanta , Minneapolis, the greater Boston area, and the San Francisco Bay area, Magenic works with clients internationally as well as in the United States.

Very important announcement!

The location of our first meeting (May 8, 2008) is changing from the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Building to our new home at Gwinnett Technical College, Building 100, Room 401.

Click here for the Gwinnett Tech website showing the map for finding the campus.

Click here for maps of the campus showing our meeting place.

Everything else will remain the same. 

Our thanks to the facilites folks over at the Hall Of Justice, but Gwinnett Tech is a much better fit for us. We have confirmed all our dates through the end of the year, so we are ready to rock and roll!

We'll be sending out an email to everyone who registered in a couple of days.

Our first meeting will be May 8, 2008 from 6:00 - 9:00 PM at the Gwinnett Justice And Administration Building (let's call it "The Hall Of Justice"), Conference Room A Gwinnett Technical College, Building 100, Room 401.

Our speaker for the first session will be Doug Turnure from Microsoft. Doug is an excellent presenter and all around great guy who's presentation will be New features in WCF 3.5: REST, JSON, and Syndication.

 Here's the summary:

The web has become a huge set of connected data that adheres to a set of standards and protocols. The foundational aspects of the web are the importance of URI composition, the proliferation of HTTP GET, and the descriptive nature of the Content-Type header. Built on WCF extensibility points in the .NET Framework 3.0, WCF in the .NET Framework 3.5 includes first-class support for building services that embrace these tenets of the web. This includes building and consuming syndications, communicating with AJAX applications, Silverlight, etc. This presentation briefly describes the tenets of the web in more detail, then pivots to a detailed discussion of the new Web-centric features of WCF in the .NET Framework 3.5. 

The speaker for our second session will be Noah Subrin who lives here in Gwinnett and has created several developer courses and published several articles on www.sswug.org in addition to being a Technical Lead at SRA International. His presentation is You Got The Silver (A Look At Workflow Services). Noah was one of the presenters at the Atlanta Code Camp back at the end of last month.

 Our agenda is as follows:

6:00 - 6:30: Meet and greet
6:30 - 6:40: Intro and announcements
6:45 - 7:45: WCF 3.5: REST, JSON, and Syndication - Doug Turnure
7:45 - 8:00: Break
8:00 - 9:00: You Got The Silver (A Look At Workflow Services) - Noah Subrin

Please note that we aren't allowed to serve food in The Hall Of Justice We still aren't planning to serve food at this meeting, so be sure to grab something beforehand! 

Please RSVP to let us know you are coming so we have an idea of how many people we need to accomodate. Go to ggmug.com/Join.aspx  to register. 

jeffa