JavaScript is Real Code: SOLID and TDD in the Browser Most good programmers wouldn't consider their clipboard a tool for code reuse. They wouldn't write sixty line methods. They wouldn't write code without tests. They wouldn't flagrantly violate good design principles. Unless they were writing in JavaScript...

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Real World C# How many times have you written code that surprised you in that bad “I can’t believe that’s what it does” way? In this session, I’ll show you several traps and pitfalls that capture smart developers every day. I’ll explain why it’s easy to fall...

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MongoDB It's not you, it's me. Or rather, my needs have changed. The kind of apps we build today are different than the ones we built two decades ago. The scale requirements are different as are the levels of abstraction we work with. Relational databases are not our only option. The NoSQL movement is...

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Testing ASP.NET Web Applications (Accessibility and Security Edition) Testing has become a hot topic in the software industry in the last few years. You may be asking yourself what security and accessibility have in common…and you should come to this talk to find out! In this session, Jeff will...

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Mix 2010: An Overview This presentation will cover the highlights of Microsoft’s Mix 2010 conference. We will discuss development for Windows Phone 7 Series, Silverlight 4, Internet Explorer 9, .NET 4, and Visual Studio 2010, among other topics. This will be an overview of these subjects, but will...

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Lap Around PDC 2009 Drink from the firehose! We'll take a tour of many of the exciting new announcements made at the Professional Developers Conference 2009, looking at Windows Azure, Silverlight 4, VS2010, and parallel computing in .NET 4.0. Jennifer Marsman is a Developer Evangelist in Microsoft's...

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ASP.NET MVC 2 There was a time when everything was moving towards the desktop. This Internet thing was new and cool, but there was no way it would ever last. And no one knew how to code for the web, so to make web development easy and familiar, they made ASP.NET to be just like coding for a desktop....

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Credit Crunch Code – Time to Pay Back the Technical Debt Technical debt, the cost of putting off good development practices, can cripple a project's velocity, flexibility, and quality. This presentation will focus on a number of common anti-patterns such as "sensitive tests" which are...

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Happy Holidays to everybody! This month we will not have a dedicated meeting, but instead will be getting together for fun and food. We will meet at the Chili's Restaurant in Holland at 6pm . Seats are limited, so please RSVP by sending me an email. We hope that everybody has a safe and happy holiday...

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Due to the timing of the November meeting (which coincides with PDC week), we have decided to not hold a meeting this month. Look for a great speaker line-up in 2010!