GANG Meeting January 19, 2011

When

From: January 19, 2011 06:00 PM

To: January 19, 2011 09:00 PM

Publication date: September 05, 2010 12:00 AM

Where: Street: 1000 Town Center Drive; City: Southfield; State: Michigan; Country: USA

What

Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Title: Refactoring – Everything you Wanted to Know but were Afraid to Ask

Refactoring is a skill all modern developers need. We will take a deep dive into refactoring; starting with defining "technical debt" and how that problem is solved by refactoring, before going on to look at common refactoring tasks. We’ll finish by looking at how tooling can help us with these tasks and examining some more advanced "refactoring to patterns" topics.

Speaker: Gary Short

Gary Short works for DevExpress as the Technical Evangelist on the frameworks team. He has a deep interest in technical architecture, especially in the areas of technical debt and refactoring. Gary is a C# MVP and gives presentations at user groups and conferences throughout the UK.

As well as C#, Gary also has an interest in dynamic languages such as Smalltalk, Ruby and Python as well as iPhone development using Objective-C.

Gary's ducelt tones can also be heard on the SodThis and the CodeCast podcasts.

Gary Short User Group Tour January 2011

Jan 10th (Mon) Credit Crunch Code - Time to Pay Back the Technical Debt

Ann Arbor .Net Developer’s Group, MI
aadnd.org

Jan 11th (Tues) Community Leadership Summit (CLS)

Kalahari Resort, Sandusky, OH (CodeMash Venue)

Jan 12th - 14th (Wed - Fri) Asymptotics and Algorithms, What You've Forgotten Since University

Do not forget to come by the DevExpress booth, which will be manned the whole conference by Gary Short, Steve Andrews and/or Rachel Hawley.

Codemash, Sandusky OH
codemash.org

Jan 17th (Mon) Applied F#

Commercial Users of Functional Programming-MI, Troy MI
sites.google.com/site/cufpxmichigan

Jan 18th (Tue) Data Mining the Social Web

North West Ohio .NET User Group, Toledo OH
nwnug.com

Jan 19th (Wed) Refactoring – Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask?

Great Lakes Area .NET User Group, Southfield MI
migang.org

Jan 20th (Thu) My Favorite Design Patterns

Greater Lansing .NET User Group, Lansing MI
glugnet.org

Giveaways
Here are some of the items we plan to give away during the meeting.

"Azure In Action" by Prince and Kay ($40 value), courtesy of Manning
"Test-Drive ASP.Net MVC" by McCracken ($40 value), courtesy of O'Reilly
"Windows Phone 7 Game Development" by Dawes ($40 value), courtesy of Apress
"Pro Windows Phone 7 App Dev" by Randoph & Fairbairn ($40 value), courtesy of Wrox
"WPF4 Unleashed" by Nathan ($40 value), courtesy of Pearson
10 CODE Magazine ($50 value), courtesy of CODE Magazine
1 copy of Studio license ($800 value), courtesy of Component One
1 copy of Camtasia Studio ($299 value), courtesy of TechSmith
1 copy of SnagIt ($49 value), courtesy of TechSmith
1 copy of Ultimate Collection ($1999 value), courtesy of Telerik
2 copy of CodeRush + Refactor Pro ($498 value), courtesy of Devexpress
2 copy of Isolator 2010 ($598 value), courtesy of Typemock
1 copy of Resharper ($199 value), courtesy of Jetbrains
1 copy of Dot Trace ($199 value), courtesy of Jetbrains
1 1-month subscription ($10 value), courtesy of LearningVisualStudio.net
1 copy of Nevron Chart for .Net LITE ($299 value), courtesy of Nevron Software
3 copy of CodeSmith Professional ($597 value), courtesy of CodeSmith
1 copy of Spread for Win, ActiveReports, DataDynamics Reports, Active Analysis, Spread for ASP.NET ($699 value), courtesy of Grape City
1 copy of .NET Developer Bundle ($795 value), courtesy of RedGate
2 copy of Beyond Compare ($100 value), courtesy of Scooter Software
1 copy of .Net Component voucher ($899 value), courtesy of Aspose
15 Ski Caps ($45 value), courtesy of Component One
6 T-shirts ($30 value), courtesy of Grape City
3 T-shirts ($ value), courtesy of Microsoft
1 Travel Mugs ($ value), courtesy of Microsoft
10 Phone Cases ($ value), courtesy of Microsoft
5 Phone Non-stick strips ($ value), courtesy of Microsoft