Announcements and Events

Federated Identity Management in a Service Oriented World with Bill Poole

Join us at the Perth .NET Community of Practice, Sept 4th to hear Bill Poole talk about Federated Identity Management in a Service Oriented World.  Gone are the days of siloed applications that identify users with a simple username/password combination stored in the application database.  In today’s world of Internet based e-commerce where secure transactions occur over insecure open networks and in a service oriented world of composite applications where identity must be shared between systems hosted by different organisations on disparate platforms; in a world where increasing numbers of businesses are turning to hosting their applications in the cloud, and where users from partner organisations need to be securely granted access to enterprise resources, architects are turning to an ever increasingly complex array of security solutions to solve their identity woes.  How do we as mere mortals make sense of PKI, Kerberos, SAML, and a plethora of WS-* standards aimed at addressing these concerns?  This session will provide a clear and practical description of how to apply today’s security technologies in order to effectively manage and share identity across applications, service and organisational boundaries.

TOPIC:    Federated Identity Management in a Service Oriented World with Bill Poole
DATE:     Thursday, Sept 4th, 5:30pm
VENUE:  Excom, Level 2, 23 Barrack Street, Perth
COST:     Free. All welcome.

Bill is a Consulting Manager with Change Corporation, primarily consulting in Solution and Enterprise Architecture. With over 10 years of industry experience, his professional interests include Enterprise Architecture, SOA, systems integration, large scale application development, as well as design patterns and best practice.  He has considerable experience in the design and development of robust, scalable service oriented enterprise solutions. Bill currently manages the Application and Development Services knowledge team, which provides Change Corporation’s body of expertise in application development and systems integration.  His blog “Bill Poole’s Creative Abrasion” can be found at http://bill-poole.blogspot.com/.

Slides: Agile in a .NET Environment, Dwayne Read

Dwayne Read has made the slides available from his "Agile in a .NET Environment" presentation. You can download from here: http://www.box.net/shared/9y7hlhbxji

Reminder: Readify RDN Event, 5:00pm - 7:30pm, Thursday August 14th

If you haven't yet registered for Readify's RDN event this Thurdsay, now's the time to do it: http://www.readify.net/Default.aspx?tabid=288 

Date:           Thursday 14 August 2008
Time:            5:30pm-7:30pm (pizza and networking at 5:30pm – presentation to commence at approximately 5:45pm)
Location:     Cliftons |Australia Place, Corner St George’s Terrace & William Streets, Perth
Presenters: Chris Padgett (Building WCF Services with WF) & Graeme Foster (Windows Communication Foundation)

Agile in a .NET Environment with Dwayne Read

Join us at the Perth .NET Community of Practice, August 7th to hear Dwayne Read compare two of the more dominant agile methodologies, XP and FDD, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of both. Examples of the application of these techniques at Snowden Technologies in a .NET/TFS environment will be discussed. This presentation is aimed at highlighting the importance of shaping the process to fit the type of applications a company develops, the people/communication side of development and the technologies they utilise.

TOPIC:    Agile in a .Net Environment with Dwayne Read
DATE:     Thursday, August 7th, 5:30pm
VENUE:  Excom, Level 2, 23 Barrack Street, Perth
COST:     Free. All welcome.

Dwayne Read is an Agile and OO specialist with over 18 years in the software industry. He has been a key player in numerous successful projects ranging from 3 month commercial product developments through to 4 year highly complex R&D and defence applications. Dwayne draws on his practical experiences to provide focused training workshops as well as on-site mentoring and facilitation in such techniques as iterative development, JAD sessions, use case modelling, software architecture, design patterns, test-driven development, automated testing, code inspection, etc.

There will be a door prize of a ReSharper license (courtesy of JetBrains), and a copy of the book “Practices of an Agile Developer” (courtesy of O’Reilly publishing).

Readify Dev Day, July 29th

Readify have announced the first of their RDN Dev Days to be held in Perth. It takes place Tuesday, July 29^th, details can be found here, and the sign up page for Perth is here.

The sessions are:

Hands on WCF with Bill Chesnut

Join us at the Perth .NET Community of Practice, July 10th to hear Bill Chesnut talk about Hands on WCF: looking at ways to use WCF from .Net, ASP and BizTalk. These are hot topics and Bill is well placed to demonstrate what can be achieved with these Microsoft technologies.

TOPIC:    Hands on WCF with Bill Chesnut
DATE:     Thursday, July 10th, 5:30pm
VENUE:  Excom, Level 2, 23 Barrack Street, Perth
COST:     Free. All welcome.

Bill Chesnut is the Principal Consultant at Stargate Global Consulting. He’s a BizTalk Server MVP, been involved with .Net since before the release of V1, and involved in the IT world since 1983.  His current focus is primarily on BizTalk, WF & WCF.

2008 Community Launch Topics

Join us at the Perth .NET Community of Practice, July 3^rd for a selection of short talks on topics relating to the 2008 launch of Visual Studio and the .NET framework. Each talk will be approximately 10 - 15 minutes long with questions between topics.

Currently, the presenter line up is Alistair Waddell, Dave Gardner, Michael Minutillo and Piers Williams:

Alistair Waddell:         LINQ features

Dave Gardner:             New Web development features in Visual Studio 2008

Mike Minutillo:            New C# 3.0 language features

Piers Williams:            Continuous Integration with Team Build

TOPIC:    Community Event
DATE:     Thursday, July 3rd, 5:30pm
VENUE:  Excom, Level 2, 23 Barrack Street, Perth
COST:     Free. All welcome.

There will be a few give away packs of Visual Studio 2008 Pro (including SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008), T-shirts and a JetBrains ReSharper license.

How to be a debugging superhero using Visual Studio 2008 with Dave Gardner

Join us at the Perth .NET Community of Practice, June 5th to hear Dave Gardner talk about ‘How to be a debugging superhero’ with Visual Studio 2008.  Ever thought you should spend more time learning about the debugging features that Visual Studio has to offer?  If so then this is the session for you!  This entire session will be hands-on (not a single PowerPoint bullet in sight), as we see how many tips, tricks, and best practices we can jam into an hour.  Amaze and delight your co-workers with your newfound skills after you are transformed into a debugging superhero*.

* Individual results may vary. The presenter makes no guarantee that you will obtain any superhuman abilities during this session.

TOPIC:    How to be a debugging superhero with Dave Gardner
DATE:     Thursday, June 5^th, 5:30pm
VENUE:  Excom, Level 2, 23 Barrack Street, Perth
COST:     Free. All welcome.

Dave Gardner is a seasoned.NET developer and the Chief Software Architect at Intilecta Corporation. For the past decade and a bit, Dave has worked as a solutions architect, consultant, and developer, and provided expertise to organisations in Australia, New Zealand, and Malaysia. Dave is a co-author of the upcoming "Professional Visual Studio 2008" book from Wrox. He blogs about Visual Studio and .NET at http://www.professionalvisualstudio.com/, and has a personal website at http://peaksite.com/.

Readify Developer Network Event: Thursday, 29th May: Expression Web 2 & Silverlight 2, Reactive Programming with SyncLINQ

Please Note: Venue has changed to:

Cliftons, Mezzanine Floor, Australia Place
cnr St Georges Tce & William Street
Perth

Thursday 29 May, 5:30pm - 7pm

RDN events are a growing success in Melbourne and Sydney, and more recently Brisbane.   With such increased demand for RDN across the country, coupled with the recent launch of our new WA office, Readify is proud and excited to be hosting its inaugural “RDN on the road” event for WA.  So come along and meet some of the Readify team, including CEO Graeme Strange, who will be making a special appearance. 

Enjoy robust technical discussion, refreshments and great networking opportunities...all for FREE!

Find out more about RDN.

Register Now! 

This session runs from 5:30pm-7pm, comprising of an overview presentation of Expression Web 2 & Silverlight 2, as well as an in-depth presentation on Reactive Programming with SyncLINQ.

ReadiPrimer – Expression Web 2 and Silverlight 2: Twice the Power, Double the Ease

Presented by Alister Jones

Fresh off the back at presenting at REMIX08, hear our local UX guru Alister Jones present on the next version of Microsoft Expression Web, which provides developers and designers with the tools they need to work with the current and next versions of Microsoft Silverlight.  This session demonstrates how the new features in Expression Web and Silverlight make it much easier to create rich interactive applications for the web.

Secondly, for all of you who were unable to attend CodeCampOz 2008 (yes, we know it’s a long way), Paul Stovell will be presenting on what was undoubtedly the standout session of the weekend.

ReadiDepth – Reactive Programming with SyncLINQ

Presented by Paul Stovell

As Windows Client developers, our platform is always improving.  From Win16 to WPF and Silverlight; what was once considered impossible has increasingly become normal.  However, while the capabilities of our platform have evolved, have we? Is Object Oriented programming enough, or is there a paradigm that can better leverage these platforms?

During this presentation, Paul introduces Reactive Programming. If you work with Windows Forms, WPF and Silverlight, prepare for a shift.

Occasionally Connected Systems using SQL Server CE and SQL Server Express with Greg Low

Delivering on the Promise of SOA with Bill Poole

Join us at the Perth .NET Community of Practice, April 3rd to hear Bill Poole talk about delivering on the promise of SOA. It is a commonly held belief that transitioning to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) simply involves exposing a bunch of Web services.  If only it were that easy!  SOA is currently receiving much attention and is surrounded by considerable hype.  As such, it is often misrepresented by various industry stakeholders in pursuit of their own agendas. In this session, Bill will cut through the hype and misinformation surrounding SOA and provide a clear practical description of the design patterns and best practice that will help developers deliver on the promise of SOA.

TOPIC:   Delivering on the Promise of SOA with Bill Poole
DATE:     April 3rd, 5:30pm
VENUE:  Excom, Level 2, 23 Barrack Street, Perth
COST:    Free. All welcome.

Bill Poole is a Senior Consultant with Change Corporation, primarily consulting in Solution Architecture.  With over nine years of industry experience, his professional interests include SOA, systems integration, large scale application development, as well as design patterns and best practice.  He currently manages the Application and Development Services knowledge team, which provides Change Corporation’s body of expertise in application development and systems integration

We will have a couple of door prizes: a Resharper license donated by JetBrains and a copy of “Enterprise Integration with Ruby” donated by O’Reilly. Talent International will be providing beer and pizza. If you want a seat, please try to arrive early.

Real World WCF with David Shields

Join us at the Perth .NET Community of Practice, March 6th to hear David Shields present on WCF. In this session, David will talk about a real world implementation of WCF and WS-Eventing. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is designed to offer a manageable approach to distributed computing, broad interoperability, and direct support for service orientation.

TOPIC:   A real life implementation of WCF with David Shields
DATE:    6th March, 5:30pm
VENUE:  Excom, Level 2, 23 Barrack Street, Perth
COST:    Free. All are welcome.

David Shields is a Solutions Architect and Senior .Net Developer at Fujitsu, Western Australia, currently leading a development with Western Australia Police on a Multi-Jurisdictional Person of Interest search facility. David has been in the industry since before VB 1.0 (!) and before that had a 12 year military career in communications and security.

We will have a few goodies to give away: a Resharper license donated by JetBrains, a copy of “Head First Design Patterns” donated by O’Reilly, and a laptop/attaché carry case from Microsoft. Talent International will be providing beer and pizza. If you want a seat, try to arrive early.

User Group News

·         The video of Scott Hollier's Disability Divide December talk can be found here: http://www.vimeo.com/440070  Thanks to Alistair Waddell for loan of the video camera and for converting and posting the video. Apologies for taking so long to post it.

·         Michael Minutillo has posted the materials from his February talk on ASP.NET MVC.

·         Microsoft has kindly donated copies of the TechEd 2007 Conference DVD set to the user group library. This is a great learning resource and a few members have commented on the usefulness of the content. Thanks to everyone at Microsoft Australia for making this happen (including Michael Kleef).

·         I mentioned in the last e-mail out about Microsoft’s certification promotion, running until May 31^st 2008. If any member is thinking of taking a MS certification, please don’t hesitate to contact Mitch if you want more information about the ‘pass one, get 1 free’ offer.

ASP.NET MVC with Michael Minutillo

New Additions to the User Group Library (4)

Here are some of the new additions to the Perth .NET user group library (in no particular order):

(donated by PearsonIT)

(donated by PearsonIT)

(donated by O'Reilly)

 (donated by PeachPit)

(donated by O'Reilly)

(donated by PearsonIT)

  (donated by Apress)

   (donated by Apress)

  (donated by Oxford University Press)

  (donated by Apress)

The library is a great resource, and we are very grateful to all the publishers who have helped make it possible.  We are still on the lookout for anyone who would like to review the odd book...