User Group Meeting - 12th March 2011 - Kochi

Venue:

Orion India Systems Pvt Ltd, 103, 2nd floor, Tejomaya, Info park SEZ, Kakkanad, Kochin-682030  

Agenda                                           

                                 

09:30 - 09:40 Community updates

09:40 - 10:30 Introduction to Windows Azure

10:30 - 11:15 Pattern Oriented Software development using .NET

11:15 - 11:30 Tea Break (15 min)

11:30 - 12:15 Developing web apps with ASP.NET MVC 3 and EF Code First

12.15 - 01:00 Ask the experts

For registration, please visit K-MUG site @ www.k-mug.org

Speakers

	Saravana Kumar  is Working as a Senior Software Engineer in Orion India Systems Pvt. Ltd, cochin. He has 4 years of Experience in IT Industry,  Expertise in developing applications using   Microsoft Technologies and also in Interwoven. He writes programming articles in his website http://www.wcftutorial.net.

	Praseed Pai is a well known software architect from Kochi,Kerala. His areas of interest include Enterprise software development (using C#/.net) ,Engineering Software development(CAD/CAM/C++),Cross Platform C++ development (Windows/Linux/Mac), Computer Graphics, Computational Finance and Domain specific programming languages. At present, he is associated with Cabot solutions, Kochi. His blog can be accessed here.   His open source compiler SLANG4.net got many fans
	Shiju Varghese, Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET, is a Technical Architect on the Microsoft .Net technology stack with a focus on web application development and Domain-Driven Design. He has been working with .Net Technologies since beta version. Shiju focuses on C#, ASP.Net MVC, Entity Framework, Windows Azure, REST, WCF and Unity. Shiju holds number of Microsoft certifications including MCP, MCAD, MCTS, and MCPD: Web.  He blogs at http://weblogs.asp.net/shijuvarghese/

My End of Season Thoughts……

 

Another year is going to say good bye to us and its been an eventful year for me. For me, this year started off in the worst possible manner, in the causality of a hospital. Sitting there, I thought it was not a good omen and expected lot of worst things in the days ahead. But to my surprise it turned out to be one of the most interesting time in my life. I ventured in to many new things like blogging, got involved with a technical community, delivered a presentation on WP7 and so on. My blog was up and running this and got over a thousand visitors. A big thank you to all and expects a lot in the coming years also.

Also my long cherished dream of having an SLR was finally fulfilled this year by a friend of mine who bought it from overseas. Then there were a lot of weekend getaways with my friends from college and office. This year also helped me to network with many people from Vijay Raj, an active blogger widely known as msigeek, Janakiraman from MS, Sreeju, Anoop aka AmazedSaint, Jairam, Ramprasanna, again a MS guy who is very familiar these days with this adventures in robotics, Anuraj, Shalvin, Yanesh, Saravana Kumar, Bijith, Safil, Shiju, Satheesh, Saleem and the list goes on. Thanks a lot guys, loved every second spent with you.

Speaking of technology, we experienced an eventful year. We finally the saw the uprising of tablets and smartphones which are poised to dethrone PC’s and laptops in the coming decade.Its that time of year when we take a stock of the developments happened in the past year and here from my perspective the end of the season accolades goes to……

K-MUG UG Meet on Dec 11, 2010 @ Kochi

This month's usergroup meeting for Central Kerala region will be on Dec 11, 2010 at Mastermind Computer Institute, 2nd Floor, New Kochappilly Building,Near Federal Bank,Civil Line Road,Chembumukku. For event details, click here, and registration for the event can be done here.

Agenda                                                                           

09:30 - 09:40 Community updates

09:40 - 10:30 Introduction to WCF

10:30 - 11:15 Lambda - It's uses and abuses

11:15 - 11:30 Tea Break (15 min)

11:30 - 12:15 Introducing Razor – A new view engine for ASP.NET

12.15 - 01:00 Memory and Resource Leaks in .NET application

K-MUG UG Meet Nov 13 2010 - A Retro

During the Community Tech Days 2010 held at Kochi, K-MUG decided to conduct monthly user group meeting for Central Kerala region at Kochi. First meeting was conducted on Nov 13, 2010 and the venue was Mastermind Institute of Engineering,  Kakkanad, Kochi. I was given a chance by the K-MUG people to take a session on Windows Phone 7. 

Although I had started making slides and creating some demo applications, last minutes hiccups is unavoidable. The case is no different here, I didn’t wanted any issues to surface during the presentation coz of my unstable development machine, so I decided to demo the application inside a VM. For that I created a new one with Windows 7 64-bit as OS and then went on to install the Windows Phone Developer Toolkit which is a free download from MSDN. Even though I had 3GB memory and a dual core processor, it took a pretty decent time to install. But to my horror, I found out that the application is not loading in the emulator after a successful build. So after googling for a while I was able to get the problem behind that, Windows Phone Emulator will not work properly in a VM. The time was almost midnight and I had to catch the early morning train, so I decided to show it in my machine come what may. 

Next morning I got up early and reached the station in time. During  the journey I decided to go through the ppts and demo applications and made sure that everyone is working fine. I reached Eranakulam around 9.30 and thanks to ever present traffic blocks in Ernakulam, I was late by half an hour in reaching the venue. When I entered the hall, Yanesh was mid-way through his presentation on Test Driven Development and I was unable to listen to his talk coz I was busy with settling down and Safil was waiting for me to have my lap  to show his presentation. Although he had Praseed’s lap as a backup, I handed over mine to him to prepare for the session. By this time Yanesh wrapped his session and I was not able to pay attention. Really missed it, coz I had attended his last session on Generics at CTD Kochi and it was an excellent one.  In the meantime, if someone is wondering who Yanesh is, this is for them. He is a solutions architect with Millennium Consultants who has got 16+ years of experience in designing and developing application using Microsoft Technologies. Please visit the event page to know more about Yanesh .

Usergroup meeting @ Kochi on Nov 7, 2010

 

K-MUG has decided to conduct monthly user group meetings across Kerala. So on 7th of November, Kochi will be hosting the meeting for central Kerala region. And, I will be giving a session on Windows Phone 7, also there are couple more people giving sessions on very interesting topics. 

Venue

Mastermind Computer Institute, 

2nd Floor, New Kochappilly Building, 

Near Federal Bank, 

Civil Line Road, 

Chembumukku, 

Cochin-682030

09:15 - 09:30 Community updates
09:30 - 10:30 Test Driven Development
10:30 - 11:15 Microsoft Surface
11:15 - 11:30 Tea Break (15 min)
11:30 - 12:15 Windows Phone 7
12.15 - 01:00 Introduction to WCF 4.0

For more details and info about the speakers, please visit the event page in K-MUG site and registration can be done here.