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GANG Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary with All-Day Event

August 09, 2011

This fall marks the 10th anniversary of the Great Lakes Area .NET User Group and we are celebrating with a special all-day event October 1.

Visit the Event Page to find out more, including how to register.

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Upcoming Meetings and Events

  1. 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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2010-2011 Attendance

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Date Meeting Number of attendees
1/20/2010 Web Caching for Newbies 28
2/17/2010 Intro to ASP.Net MVC with a Splash of jQuery 48
3/17/2010 Windows 7 for Developers 38
4/21/2010 Testing for the Web (Accessiblity and Security Edition) 43
4/26/2010 Architecture Tools of Visual Studio 2010 50
5/19/2010 F# and Functional Programming for C# Developers 43
6/16/2010 Real World C# 4.0 74
7/21/2010 Javascript is Real Code: SOLID and TDD in the Browser 55
8/18/2010 New Testing Features of Visual Studio 2010 57
9/15/2010 Introduction to Unit Testing 53
10/20/2010 LOB Application Development with Microsoft CRM 74
11/17/2010 Windows Phone 7 Development 80
01/19/2011 Refactoring – Everything you Wanted to Know but were Afraid to Ask 59
02/16/2011 10 Tips for Moving from Wnforms to WPF 77
03/16/2011 Beyond Web 2.0 APIs : Implementing RESTful Hypermedia for .NET Applications 84
4/20/2011 Microsoft .Net Micro Framework 86
5/18/2011 Pinned Sites in IE9 and Windows 7 59
6/15/2011 A Lap Around Windows Azure 91
7/20/2011 Refactoring to a SOLID Foundation 101
8/17/2011 ASP.NET MVC 77
9/21/2011 The Scaling Habits of ASP.NET Applications 80
10/1/2011 GANG10! 92
11/16/2011 Node.js, Web API, Oh My! 98