Moncton Developer User Group

An overview of Windows PowerShell for IT Pros and Developers

Marco is going to provide an overview of Windows PowerShell both from an IT Pro and Developer perspective.  He will quickly review its history and how it is object based.  Then he will get into some practical examples such as how it can be used to remotely manage servers, work with web services and do Windows Azure administration and automation.

Registration

http://monctonug-powershell-2013.eventbrite.com/

Date and Times

Tuesday April 16th 2013
from 6:30 to 9:00pm

Location

795 Main Street – Second Floor Board room
Moncton, NB

Directions

Directions

Event Sponsors

This event would not be possible without the following sponsors:

Food

Thanks for Remi Depres-Smith for putting food in our belly. You can reach out to Remi anytime on twitter at https://twitter.com/remids.

Swag and Prizes:

Host Bio

Marco Shaw

Marco has been working in the IT industry for over 12 years. He was awarded the Microsoft MVP award for his contributions to the Windows PowerShell community for 5 consecutive years (2007-2011). He has co-authored a book on Windows PowerShell, contributed to Microsoft Press and Microsoft TechNet magazine, and also contributed chapters for other books such as Microsoft System Center Operations Manager and Microsoft SQL Server. He has spoken at Microsoft TechDays in Canada and at TechMentor in the United States. He currently holds the GIAC GSEC and RHCE certifications, and has been doing some work for TrainSignal recently.

Scaling web applications

Got a great idea? If it’s that great, you might be in trouble once millions of people start agreeing with you. With Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and others like it, a lot of sites have been victims to viral takedowns of unprepared apps. The best way to make sure this doesn’t happen to you is to prepare a scalable architecture in advance.

In this presentation, I will demonstrate the basics of making scalable systems, so when you finally get famous, your application won’t get stage fright.

Registration

http://scaling-web-apps-march2013.eventbrite.com/

Date and Times

Wednesday March 13th 2013
from 6:30 to 9:00pm

Location

795 Main Street – Second Floor Board room
Moncton, NB

Directions

Directions

Event Sponsors

This event would not be possible without the following sponsors:

Food:

Swag and Prizes:

Host Bio

N/A

You can reach Maxime on twitter at twitter.com/mSanterre

Two Screens for the Code of One – Using Portable Libraries

Code once release twice with the power of portable libraries.   You will find out the best way to develop reusable code that allows you to reach two platforms with little more effort that reaching just one.  Whether you are a Windows Phone developer that wants to branch out into Windows 8 or the other way around or even new to the Modern UI development experience this is a must attend session for you!

Registration

http://using-portable-libraries-monctonug.eventbrite.com/

Date and Times

Monday, February 11th 2013
from 6:30 to 9:00pm

Location

795 Main Street – Second Floor Board room
Moncton, NB

Directions

Directions

Event Sponsors

This event would not be possible without the following sponsors:

Food

TBD

Swag and Prizes:

Speaker Bio

Atley Hunter is a passionate developer with over 15 years’ experience. As one of the most prolific Modern UI developers in the world, he has more than 100 apps in the Windows Phone Store and 50 apps currently in the Windows RT Store.  As a Microsoft Windows Phone MVP, Telerik MVP 7 Insider and Nokia Ambassador, he is constantly working with developers worldwide to improve both skills and the platforms themselves.  Atley is always sharing his knowledge and connecting with developers through events, his blog, email Twitter, Skype and LinkedIn.

Twitter: @AtleyHunter
Blog: http://www.AtleyHunter.com

ASP Classic: A Survival Guide

In contrast to the cutting-edge topics normally presented, this Moncton UG session focuses on one unpleasant reality of a programmer’s career:
Legacy code. Specifically, applications written in “classic” ASP. The bad news is that there’s still a lot of it lurking about; the good news is that you can typically fix it and make it go away again quickly if
you know the basics and a few “gotcha”s. This presentation is intended to be the compass and Swiss army knife that will help you survive and make it back to the civilized world of post-2002 web programming.

Registration

http://aspclassic-february2013.eventbrite.com/

Date and Times

Wednesday February 13th 2013
from 6:30 to 9:00pm

Location

795 Main Street – Second Floor Board room
Moncton, NB

Directions

Directions

Event Sponsors

This event would not be possible without the following sponsors:

Food:

Swag and Prizes:

Host Bio

Doreen Clemons is the chief cook and bottle-washer at Bonaventure Software. She started programming in BASIC on a TRS-80 at the age of 12. Doreen has spent the majority of her 11-year coding career working with Microsoft technologies, but opts for open source and/or Java…if nobody’s watching.

Due to unforeseen circumstances we had to reschedule the meeting to the following week.

Behavior Driven Development with SpecFlow

Get an overview of Behaviour Driven Development on the .Net platform with SpecFlow, a free open-source tool. We’ll take SpecFlow for a run and see how it works, why it’s useful and how it helps improve your components public interface.

Registration

http://monctonug-december2012.eventbrite.com/

Date and Times

Wednesday January 16th 2012
from 6:30 to 9:00pm

Location

795 Main Street – Second Floor Board room
Moncton, NB

Directions

Directions

Event Sponsors

This event would not be possible without the following sponsors:

Food

Swag and Prizes:

Host Bio

Rémi Després-Smyth

Rémi is an avid software developer with over 14 years experience, who has founded two software consultancies – most recently, Journeyman Software. He is a contrarian always looking for better ways of doing things. Remi is active on Twitter (@remids), and is always willing to discuss new development tools and techniques.

Windows 8 / Office

UPDATE – Please bring your laptop, as it will be needed for an extra prize and contest.

Mitch Garvis will be here on December 10th to talk about Windows 8 (RT) and Office 2013.

1st hour: Windows 8, Windows to Go, Windows RT, and devices. The differences, the options, and why less is now more. Since release perceptions versus realities of what the actual experiences have been.

2nd hour: Office 2013 – a tour of the next version, including the application suite, Office 365, and Lync.

Registration

http://monctonug-windows8andoffice.eventbrite.com/

Date and Times

Monday, December 10th 2012
from 6:30 to 9:00pm

Location

795 Main Street – Second Floor Board room
Moncton, NB

Directions

Directions

Event Sponsors

This event would not be possible without the following sponsors:

Food Swag and Prizes

Host Bio

Mitch Garvis is a Renaissance Man of the IT world. In addition to being a Virtual Technical Evangelist – Windows Infrastructure for Microsoft Canada, he is also a partner with SWMI Consulting Group. Among his numerous certifications are several MCITPs, as well as the new MCSE: Private Cloud. He lectures and trains on a variety of topics including System Center, server virtualization, desktop deployment, and security. You can read his blog at www.garvis.ca, or follow him on Twitter as @MGarvis. In his spare time he likes to break things, and has recently earned his Second Degree Black Belt in Taekwondo. He makes his home outside Toronto, Canada where he has one wife, two kids, two dogs, and two minutes to himself per day.