Design Patterns provide common templates for solving the same family of problems in a similar way. They also provide a higher-level language for software developers to use to describe approaches they might choose when designing a component of an application. In this session, you'll learn about several of the most common, and useful, design patterns used by Microsoft developers today.

Steve Smith is currently a Senior Architect with The Code Project and CTO of Lake Quincy Media, which he co-founded in 2005.  He also founded and continues to run ASPAlliance.com, a popular resource for Microsoft programmers.  He is a Microsoft Regional Director, an ASP.NET MVP (profile), an INETA Speaker, and an ASPInsider.  He's written or contributed to several books on ASP.NET and related topics and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences such as DevConnections and TechEd.  Steve also founded and organizes the Hudson Software Craftsmanship group in Hudson, Ohio, where he and his wife Michelle also own office space and she manages their agile consulting company, NimblePros.com.
 
Steve is a US Army veteran who served in Iraq as a combat engineer platoon leader tasked with finding and destroying unexploded ordnance and clearing IEDs.  He received his honorable discharge as an army Captain in 2005 and is now happy to be 100% a civilian.
 
Steve lives in Ohio with his wife and business partner Michelle, their daughter Ilyana, and son Nikita.  When he's not trying to keep up with his business or technology, Steve enjoys games, bicycling, and karate.

While PowerShell is great for automating IT tasks, developers have been quick to dismiss it as just another scripting language. In the first half of this talk, we look at the basic building blocks of PowerShell and syntax of the scripting language itself. In the second half of this talk, you will learn how you can use your developer skills to extend PowerShell for your business needs. You will see how to work with existing business logic and how to take existing .NET libraries and make their functionality accessible as cmdlets.

Sarah Dutkiewicz is known for troubleshooting problems in various Microsoft-based realms - including ASP.NET, Silverlight apps, WPF apps, SQL Server configuration and administration, and general IT administration via PowerShell. From tech support to IT to software development, Sarah can apply her love for technology in various arenas.

You can find Sarah primarily attending, speaking at, and organizing various user groups and developer events.

She maintains a technical blog at http://www.codinggeekette.com and runs a technology-agnostic community site for the Cleveland, OH area at http://www.clevelandtechevents.com.

Sarah is the owner of Cleveland Tech Consulting, LLC.

The purpose of this session is to demystify the central ideas behind pattern recognition and machine learning by demonstrating two key elements of the same: namely classification and clustering. Most developers shy away from such algorithms simply because of their perceived difficulty while missing the inherent simplicity of these approaches. The first part of the session will demonstrate how a computer can learn from labeled examples in order to predict appropriate labels for future examples. The second portion will deal with learning the structure of data without having to know anything about it a priori.

Seth Juarez has a Master’s Degree in Computer Science where his field of research was Artificial Intelligence specifically in the realm of Machine Learning. He is a Technical Evangelist for DevExpress where he specializes in data analysis and shaping in conjunction with their reporting toolset. When he is not working in that area, he devotes his time to an open source Machine Learning Library specifically for .NET that is intended to simplify the use of popular supervised and unsupervised learning models.

Great Lakes Area .NET Users Group (GANG) would like to invite you to DevLunch at TGI Friday’s. (2nd Wednesday of each month). Come meet up with other Developers in the area to socialize and network over lunch.

There will also be a raffle which involves:

* TGIF Gift Cards (courtesy of New World Systems)
* Software
* Shirts

Please do tell your co-workers and friends. You can also tweet using the #DevLunch hash tag.

We look forward to see you there!

Just to get an idea of how many people are coming, please RSVP on this LinkedIn Event or send an email to Gerhard Weiss (secretary@migang.org). Feel free to still come if you do not RSVP, doing so will just help out on knowing how many tables to get.

p.s. The November 9th DevLunch had a nice turn our of 14 people attending.

Date: December 14th (2nd Wednesday of each month)
Time: 12:00pm-1:00pm
Place: TGI Friday’s (SE Corner of I-75 and Big Beaver Rd)
Location: 591 W Big Beaver Rd, Troy MI 48084
Phone: (248) 524-9489

If you are developer building web applications and web apis on the Microsoft platform, this talk is for you. First we’ll take a look at the new Microsoft Web Apis, a lightweight solution for building RESTful / HTTP services that can talk to a broad range of clients including native and browser-based applications on mobile devices or the desktop. Then we’ll jump over to some exciting work we’re doing to enable developers to build web applications and web apis on Windows with node.js. If you are not familiar with node.js you will be after this talk!

Glenn is a PM on the WCF team working on Microsoft’s future HTTP and REST stack. Prior to WCF he was a PM on the new Managed Extensibility Framework in .NET 4.0. Glenn has a breadth of experience both inside and outside Microsoft developing software solutions for ISVs and the enterprise. Glenn has also been very active in involving folks from the community in the development of software at Microsoft. This has included shipping several products under open source licenses, as well as assisting other teams looking to do so. Glenn is also a frequent speaker at local and international events and user groups. When he's not working and playing with technology, he spends his time with his wife and daughter either at their home in Seattle or at one of the local coffee shops.

Glenn's blog can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/gblock or you can follow him on twitter at you own risk at http://twitter.com/gblock

In October 2011, the Great Lakes Area .Net User Group (GANG) celebrates its 10-year anniversary. To celebrate, GANG will host an all-day event Saturday, October 1. Visit the Events Page then RSVP for a day of learning and fun.

Mark your calander to come and celebrate with us.

Topics and Speaker's Bio are located on the Events Page.

Find out how F# fits in to developing for the Windows Phone 7.

Daniel Mohl is a professional software engineer/architect whose interests include understanding the intricacies of various programming languages, enterprise application architecture, and how to bridge the gap between business and technology. He works with F#, C#, Erlang, ASP.NET MVC, WPF, WCF, Silverlight, WP7, RabbitMQ, CouchDB, SQL Server, etc. He is a C#(F#) MVP, F# Insider, blogger, speaker, event organizer, and architect.

Blog: http://bloggemdano.blogspot.com/
Twitter: @dmohl

Onorio Catenacci
Email:  catenacci@ieee.org

Website | Twitter

This meeting is on September 21 but because of a website date sorting issue it had to be entered with a September 22 from date.

 As our ASP.NET web applications become more and more successful we switch our focus from adding feature to performance, scale and management. Richard has been in the lab studying the scaling habits of the average domestic ASP.NET solution and has emerged to discuss his findings (no applications were actually harmed during the capture of this data). Come and learn where ASP.NET stumbles and how to get it back on its feet. In this session you will learn about the web acceleration equation, identify common ASP.NET bottlenecks, explore solution alternatives, uncover the secret sauce and determine a reasonable strategy for scaling ASP.NET applications.

Richard Campbell has been involved with microcomputers and software since 1977. His career has spanned the industry both on the hardware and software sides, from manufacturing to sales, service, game development, line-of-business software and large scale systems. He's been deeply involved in creating new businesses around software, hardware, services and products in a huge range of roles, including technical, management and financing. During the halcyon days of the DotComBoom he was a consultant to venture capital firms providing technical due diligence and architectural direction.

Today Richard is on the board of directors for Telerik (www.telerik.com), a leading vendor of development, team productivity, automated testing tools, UI components and content management solutions in the Microsoft space. He is one of the co-founders of Strangeloop Networks (www.strangeloopnetworks.com), developing an appliance for web site performance. He's a partner in PWOP Productions, creating a variety of multimedia programs including ".NET Rocks!, the Internet Audio Talk Show for .NET Developers," (www.dotnetrocks.com) a podcast produced twice a week for more than 150,000 listeners in 120 countries. In addition he's the host of RunAs Radio (www.runasradio.com), a podcast for the IT Professional using Microsoft technologies. Richard also serves as a technical director for Penton Media, planning the content of magazines and conferences that engage technology professionals all over the world.  

Blog: http://www.campbellassociates.ca/blog

Richard Campbell’s presentation is made possible by Telerik.

ASP.NET MVC is the test-friendly framework for building applications on top of ASP.NET. In this session we'll see how to use routing, implement controllers, and create Razor views while building a small application.

K. Scott Allen is the Principal Consultant with OdeToCode LLC and a member of the Pluralsight technical staff. Scott has over 16 years of commercial software development experience across a wide range of technologies. He is a published author in leading print and online technical journals, and also a speaker at national and international conferences.

Blog: http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/

Podcast: Herding Code

K Scott Allen’s presentation is made possible by JetBrains.

"Remember the Mars Climate Orbiter which crashed in 1999? You may recall it crashed because of a misunderstanding between some of the developers regarding which units certain measures were to be expressed in. Some understood they should be measured in meters; others in feet. Now maybe you're not developing software to power a Mars probe but maybe your customers would still like you to be careful about making sure units aren't mixed up. F# gives you some excellent capabilities to insure you don't mix up your feet and meters or your dollars and your euros or your seconds, minutes and hours."

Onorio is a senior consultant for Sogeti. In addition, he has been writing software for around 24 years in various languages ranging from C to Visual BASIC.
A self-taught programmer, he is always interested in learning about new techniques and approaches to improve our craft. 
He has been working to learn functional programming for about the last year and a half and he's currently leading the MIGANG F# Special Interest Group. Plus he has some beautiful birds too.
In addition to his birds and his software development, Onorio is also a volunteer 4-H leader in Oakland County, helping to lead a club for kids who want to become veterinarians.
Later this year Onorio will be giving a presentation at 1DevDay Detroit 2011 entitled "Why You Should Start Learning Functional Programming Today"