The Programmers SIG is a group dedicated to exchanging ideas and information on software programming. Most members work in the "component" paradigm made popular by Visual Basic, Delphi, ASP, and ASP.Net.
Our group has in the past focused mainly on Windows based, thick client, programming. The industry has moved to web based, thin client, for software and services delivery. It is time for us to shift our focus to these technologies.
Moving forward, our discussions will be dominated by web based technologies. In particular, those that support the component paradigm that we are so familiar with. Visual Studio, Prism, ASP.Net, CCS, Java Script and other related web technologies are the focus of our meetings.
We meet the first Wednesday of each month except January, em>July, and August. We usually meet at the Inter American Development Bank in downtown Washington, 2 blocks from Metro Center, at 7 PM.
04-Aug-2010 |
No meeting in AugustPlease contact Tom Miller if you are available to present. I know we usually try to meet in August, but our host is often on vacation and it traditionally has the lowest attendance of the year. So I made a command decision to add August to our permanent list of months we don't meet: January, July, and August. Presenter: TBD |
15-Sept-2010 |
Product Review - Telerik Sitefinity Content Management SystemSitefinity is a commercial content management system (CMS) writen in C# and ASP.Net. Their new version 4.0 has lots of great improvements and should be shipping by the end of the year. Presenter: Tom Miller |
06-Oct-2010 |
Data Persistance Shootout: NHibernate vs MS Entity FrameworkNHibernate is an open source project that is migrated from the very popular Java Hibernate projectd. MS Entity Framework has been updated a lot for the new version 4.0 released along with ASP.Net 4.0. We will look at some of the strengths and weakness of both and a demonstration of the Entity Framework. Presenter: Tom Miller |
03-Nov-2010 |
OpenPlease contact Tom Miller if you are available to present. Presenter: TBD |
If at all possible please present any code examples in C#. In addtion, our group is always interested to hear how the item being discussed does or does not work with Mono.
