IndyNDA: Indianapolis .NET Developers Association

Monthly Meeting: Thurday, September 9th

Another technical discussion will be held at the 117th monthly meeting on Thursday, September 9th.

Following the discussion, three special interest groups (SIGs) explore topics of interest in C#, ASP.NET, and SharePoint developments.

Registration opens at 5:30.
Snacks and soft drinks until 6:00
All are welcome, and there has never been a fee to attend, thanks to the generosity of our sponsors. Please consider their services and products in your next procurement cycle.

Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
SIGs meet after the prize drawing following the main meeting.

ASP.NET SIG (Trey Gourley, SIG Leader)
The group is in the midst of a multi-month development of an open source project: KBMVC (Knowledgebase written in MVC). The project is posted at CodePlex.com. Join in the development, or attend to learn about MVC.

C# SIG (James Ellis, SIG Leader)

SharePoint Developers SIG (James Curtis, SIG Leader):

Meeting location
Nine Parkwood Crossing
900 EAST 96TH STREET
Indianapolis, IN 46240

5th Floor Conference Room

This Duke Realty office building is just east of College Avenue, and on the north side of 96th Street. It is one mile from the I465 & North Meridian Street/US 31 interchange.

Indy GiveCamp: November 5-7

Indy GiveCamp is now accepting proposals from local charities for pro-bono software projects. Indy GiveCamp is a weekend-long event where software developers, designers, and database administrators donate their time to create custom software for non-profit organizations. This custom software could be a new website to broadcast the organization’s mission, keep track of member information, or a communication tool. The only limitation for a project is that it must be scoped to be completed in a weekend.

Prospective charities are small to medium groups without the technical capabilities or resources to establish new systems or maintain antiquated systems. Indy GiveCamp pairs charities with 3-8 industry experts. The event will take place at MID Technologies on November 5th -7th.

Charities are invited to apply on Indy GiveCamp’s web site at www.indygivecamp.org. Individuals wanting to help volunteer their technical knowledge are encouraged to register at the site listed above.

About Indy GiveCamp
Indy GiveCamp is the local “chapter” of a nationwide chain of philanthropic software programming events using a variety of technologies for web, phone, and desktop application developments. With a goal of 50+ developers, Indy GiveCamp hopes to help 10-15 local charities that would not be able to afford the estimated $100,000 in donated software development costs. The first GiveCamp started in Dallas in 2007 leading to 30+ similar events all across the country. Information on the weekend’s events, sponsorship opportunities, charity information, and application process can be found at www.indygivecamp.org.

PTI's Back to School Event: September 25th

PTI's Back to School Event features 14 sessions in separate tracks for Developers and DBAs, including a SQL Server 2008 R2 track sponsored by IndyPASS.

Join well over 100 of your peers at the Fishers Hospitality and Conference Center as professional developers and DBAs share insights and learn from other experts.

Sessions include these:
SQL Server 2008 R2 Overview
Working Smartly with SharePoint 2010 Workflow
Under the hood on CRM 2011
Enhancing Oracle Applications
Self Service BI in SQL Server 2008 R2 (PowerPivot)
Everything Your DBA Wouldn''t Tell You About SQL Azure
Solution Creation Tools for the IT Professional Without Semicolons
Oracle Heterogeneous Services: Playing Nice With SQL Server
Multi-Server Management in SQL Server 2008 R2
WPF in Visual Studio 2010
Architecture & Business Intelligence
Oracle: All Things Encrypted
Using SQL Audit for PCI Compliance
Burning Down the Web with Silverlight 4.0

Register today!
https://www.perptech.com/event

Prior Meeting: OData by Dan Rigsby

OData: Open Access Protocol to Information
Presented by Dan Rigsby

Dan Rigsby photograph

Thursday, August 12th

OData.org has this to say about its namesake protocol:
"There is a vast amount of data available today and data is now being collected and stored at a rate never seen before. Much, if not most, of this data however is locked into specific applications or formats and difficult to access or to integrate into new uses.

The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a Web protocol for querying and updating data that provides a way to unlock your data and free it from silos that exist in applications today. OData does this by applying and building upon Web technologies such as HTTP, Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) and JSON to provide access to information from a variety of applications, services, and stores. The protocol emerged from experiences implementing AtomPub clients and servers in a variety of products over the past several years. OData is being used to expose and access information from a variety of sources including, but not limited to, relational databases, file systems, content management systems and traditional Web sites."

What Does the Odata Architect Say?
How does OData work and when should I use it? When do I use OData and when do I use WCF? Scott Hanselman recently interviewed Pablo Castro for insight in this podcast:
http://www.hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=223

OData client libraries are available for a range of platforms including .NET and Silverlight through WCF Data Services, as well as AJAX, PHP, Java and the IPhone.

Join us for Dan Rigsby's presentation on the art and science of Odata in the real world.

About Dan Rigsby
Dan Rigsby is a System Architect for Aprimo in Indianapolis, Indiana. Dan has been an avid .Net developer since late 2001 starting with ASP.Net, but today concentrates on SOA, Wcf, smart client applications, and a host of other areas. Dan is very active in the community as a developer, speaker, blogger, officer at IndyNDA, and 5 star moderator on the MSDN forums for Wcf. He is always eager to help out others when he can and has been awarded the Microsoft MVP award for his work with Connected Systems in Wcf. As a certified ScrumMaster, Dan has been involved in agile techniques and project management. Read more about Dan and development adventures at http://www.danrigsby.com/ or connect with him on Twitter or Facebook.

Monthly Meeting: Thurday, September 9th

Indy GiveCamp: November 5-7

PTI's Back to School Event: September 25th

Prior Meeting: OData by Dan Rigsby

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