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News: O’Reilly Book Order!!

July 31, 2009 By Cotton Rohrscheib Comments

Today UPS delivered some of the books we requested from O’Reilly. Here’s what came in:

  • Designing Web Interfaces
  • Facebook Cookbook
  • FBML Essentials
  • Real World Haskell
  • RESTful .NET
  • RESTful Web Services

If you requested one of these books be sure to drop me a note to let me know and I will be sure to put your name on it.  If you requested books and there weren’t in this order, also let me know and I will get back w/ them to see where they are at.  I will bring these w/ me to the next meeting unless you are in Conway and want to swing by to pick it up.

Filed Under: News & Updates, Sponsors

New Sponsor: Telerik / Survey Link

July 30, 2009 By Cotton Rohrscheib Comments

teleriklogopreviewWe have a new group sponsor, Telerik is a leading vendor of User Interface (UI) components for Microsoft .NET technologies – ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, WinForms and WPF, and .NET Reporting and content management solutions. Building on its expertise in interface development and Microsoft technologies, Telerik helps customers build applications with unparalleled richness, responsiveness and interactivity. Created with passion, Telerik products help thousands of developers every day to be more productive and deliver reliable applications under budget and on time.

As I mentioned at our last meeting, they have asked that we complete a short survey to guage our awareness of their product.  Here’s the link, please take a few minutes to thank them for their sponsorship by taking this quick survey.

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Presentation: Larry Taylor on UML

July 29, 2009 By Cotton Rohrscheib Comments

If you missed out on Larry Taylors discussion on UML last night you missed an awesome presentation. If you would like to checkout all of his information from the presentation last night you can find it on his blog: http://thesoftwaredesigners.com/blog/?cat=3

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Update: O’Reilly Book Request

July 25, 2009 By Cotton Rohrscheib Comments

I have had a few emails asking about the O’Reilly Book Requests we put in a while back, I emailed our rep and she assured me the order has been placed and that we should be receiving them soon. I am hopeful they will show up before our meeting this month.

Filed Under: News & Updates, Sponsors

New Sponsor: Infragistics

July 25, 2009 By Cotton Rohrscheib Comments

We are pleased to welcome Infragistics on board as a sponsor for our group. They have generously donated 3 licenses of their NetAdvantage for .NET software that will be given away at our July, August, and September meetings.

NetAdvantage for >NET provides developers with the flexible, advanced controls to rapidly build and style high-fidelity application user interfaces on every >NET platform – Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF and Silverlight 3 for Line of Business Applications. Featuring every control developers need, you are empowered to rapidly build superior user experiences across all .NET platforms, with stability, performance and robustness.

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Next Meeting: Larry Taylor on UML

July 9, 2009 By Cotton Rohrscheib Comments

Brief Introduction to UML

As the strategic value of software increases for many companies, the industry looks for techniques to automate the production of software and to improve quality and reduce cost and time-to-market. These techniques include component technology, visual programming, patterns and frameworks. Businesses also seek techniques to manage the complexity of systems as they increase in scope and scale. In particular, they recognize the need to solve recurring architectural problems, such as physical distribution, concurrency, replication, security, load balancing and fault tolerance. Additionally, the development for the World Wide Web, while making some things simpler, has exacerbated these architectural problems. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) was designed to respond to these needs.

About Larry Taylor:

Larry is a software consultant in Little Rock, AR and has been programming for over 20 years. He is a long time member of the Little Rock .NET User Group and has been very active in the local .NET developer community and is currently serving as President.

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Video: Keith Crawford – Presenting Friendfeed

July 1, 2009 By Cotton Rohrscheib Comments

For those of you who were unable to attend last nights Central Arkansas Refresh meeting due to other commitments, or just because you didn’t want to get out in the the hailstorm, here’s the video of Keith Crawford’s presentation on Friendfeed.  Special thanks to Rob McBryde for handling the video production and posting it to Vimeo. You can also view Keith’s presentation files on Prezi.com, http://prezi.com/107051/view/.  He also has posted some other related files to Friendfeed if you are interested.

Enjoy the video, and be sure not to miss the next #RefreshCA meeting on July 28, 2009.

 

Presenting Friendfeed (Video) | KnowtheNetwork.com

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