This month will be conducted as an open space forum. Topics are unlimited and can include agile, C#, TDD, project management, estimation, team building, and more. So, bring your questions, ideas, and/or cool code snipets to share. Update Even though a small number turned out for tonight's meeting, we...

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Improving our craft: A discussion on software estimation How are your software estimation skills? If your answer was "Dude, I'm terrible at estimation", you're not alone. Being able to accurately estimate software is a skill every developer should have but research and statistics show it's...

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Stop Writing Crud! NHibernate to the Rescue Tired of writing CRUD? Code generators or not, there's got to be a better way! NHibernate is the most excellent port of Java's Hibernate to the .Net platform offering flexibility and versatility to give you time to solve the problems you are paid to solve....

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A Bazaar Intro to Distributed Version Control Why can't I check in my source at home? Wonder why the Linux and Ruby guys are giddy about Git? What does distributed mean with Version Control? Find out the answer to all these questions and more while we explore common use cases and how bazaar crept into...

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Kinda Easy, Kinda Hard: A WinForms programmer looks at WPF WinForms is your comfortable pair of old sneakers. You've been programming with them since 1.0. You've adjusted to them nicely. Now along comes this new pair of racing shoes: WPF. Everyone tells you these shoes will make you run faster. They...

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Jamie Wright: Introduction to jQuery jQuery is a javascript framework that is designed to make cross-browser DOM programming easier and make developing with javascript suck less. In this presentation, we will go over the basics of jQuery which will allow you to go home and get started right away. We...

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Now that you have decided to integrate testing into your development process, you find that when one test breaks, it seems like they all break. You also find that with so many tests broken, identifying the source of failed tests is challenging. Another challenge is that occasionally, tests are just plain...

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(sorry for the late notice - this is a stand-in presentation) Virtual Earth is Microsoft's premier internet mapping tool. Learn about its features and how you can take advantage of them to add mapping and spatial support to your own applications.

Brian will give us a lap around the Azure Services Platform, and show some real code. Learn how you can start playing with the cloud, and how you might be able to leverage this in your projects. At a minimum, he will cover how to properly say Azure, and what the big moving parts are. Brian H. Prince...

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Does your team spend days integrating code at the end of a project? Continuous Integration can help. Using Continuous Integration will eliminate that end-of-project integration stress, and at the same time will make your development process easier. But Continuous Integration is more than just a tool...

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