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1. GANG Meeting February 15, 2012: Sarah Dutkiewicz on Intro to PowerShell/Extending PowerShell

   February 15, 2012

    

   Title:  Intro to PowerShell/Extending PowerShell

   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.

   Speaker: Sarah Dutkiewicz

   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.

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2. GANG Meeting May 16, 2012: Steve Smith on Common Design Patterns

   May 16, 2012

   Title: Common Design Patterns

   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.

   Speaker: Steve Smith

   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.

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