You have been hearing a lot about the new Window Phone 7 lately.  Did you miss the bubble with iPhone development because you didn’t want to learn a whole new language and framework?  Then you're invited to a hands-on event for Windows Phone 7. 

Get some help getting your Windows Phone 7 app into the marketplace. You’ll receive everything you need to develop an app—including some good community fun, sample code and templates. You can work individually or collaborate with others as a team.

Chris Koenig, Senior Developer Evangelist with Microsoft will be joining me for this fun, fact filled, dare I say Lab filled event.

Attendees will also receive a special entry card for a chance to win a Windows Phone 7, after your app has been submitted to the marketplace.

Be there!

Get started

Download the Toolkit

Register at the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace

Download the Windows Phone Mobile Advertising SDK to monetize their app

Date: March, 8th, 2011 

Time: 6:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M. 

Place:

Technology 101 

105 SE 22nd St, Suite #7 

Bentonville, AR 72712

Please RSVP: nwadnug032011.eventbrite.com

Northwest Arkansas CodeCamp 2010

Connect | Learn | Teach

FREE 1-Day Developer Conference in Springdale, AR!

Saturday October 23^rd, 2010

The Northwest Arkansas CodeCamp is a yearly regional developer and technology focused event that is focused on three things Connecting, Learning and Teaching. 

Connect with your peers! Knowing who knows is almost as important as knowing.  Attending local and regional conferences is a great way to interact and expand your circle of influence. 

Learn, by attending topical sessions presented by national and local speakers can help you stay up to date on the mountain of new topics coming out each year.

Topics will include iPhone, Android, ASPNET MVC, Object Oriented Programming, Test Driven Development, Web Design, CSS, JQuery, Entity Framework, and Version Control.

Teach what you know, share your experiences with others.  Teaching and presenting is also an awesome way to learn.  By putting yourself out there and letting others hear what you have learned you gain incredible feedback and learn other approaches to the problem.

When and Where October 23, 2010 at the Tyson Corporate Headquarters located at 2210 W. Oaklawn Dr. Springdale, AR 72765.

Register online at http://nwacodecamp.com.

The Northwest Arkansas CodeCamp is organized by members of the Northwest Arkansas .Net User Group, Inc..  The Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to the promotion, education and adoption of Microsoft .NET Technologies. They strive to provide an environment for professionals to network in Northwest Arkansas and foster the free exchange of ideas and information.

They hold monthly meetings with presentations that allow you to keep up to date on the latest emerging .NET technologies as well as provide practical skills you can use immediately. To find out more about the Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group visit them online at http://nwadnug.org.

The next Northwest Arkansas .Net User Group meeting will be held on October 12th, 2010 5:30 PM. Jay Smith will be show everyone how to estimate tasks using Planning Poker.

Get your Ticket for the meeting here! Remember his is how we figure out how much food to get so please help us make sure we have enough for everyone.

Announcements:
Houston TechFest 2010 - October 9, 2010
Northwest Arkansas CodeCamp - October 23, 2010 - Registration Open
Tulsa Techfest - November 12, 2010 - Open Call for Speakers
Northwest Arkansas GiveCamp - January 14-16, 2011 - More Info

Northwest Arkansas Code Camp
The Northwest Arkansas CodeCamp is less than 20 days away. Registration is still pretty low so please help get the word out. There will be 6 tracks of sessions covering everything from mobile to ASP.NET development. Check out http://nwacodecamp.com/ to register and plesae forward this event information to anyone you feel would be interested.

This Months Meeting Information

Title: Planning Poker is a consensus-based estimation technique for estimating, mostly used to estimate effort or relative size of tasks in software development . It is a variation of the Wideband Delphi method. In this session you will learn not only what planning poker is but how to facilitate it with your team. Using Planning Poker to estimate task on your project is not only accurate its fun.

Presenter:
Jay Smith is an ASP .NET MVP and works for Tyson Foods, Inc. as a PMO Architect and Evangelist where he works with teams to test bed processes and technologies. Jay is also one of the founding members of the Northwest Arkansas .Net User’s Group and host of User Group Radio - The Community Leadership Podcast. Jay often presents to the community on various topics including Agile Software Development, Object Oriented Principles, and Application Architecture.

Agenda
6:00 PM - 6:15 PM - Welcome and News, Sign-in and Food
6:15 PM - 6:30 PM - Lightning Presentation
6:30 PM - 6:40 PM - Intermission - Presenter switch over
6:40 PM - 8:10 PM - Main Presentation
8:10 PM - 8:30 PM - Closing and Prize give-a-ways

Where
Technology 101
105 SE 22nd St, Suite #7
Bentonville, AR 72712

Hope to see you there!

Come join the NWA .NET User Group on April 7th at 5:30 PM and learn the benefits of Windows Live and Mesh Frameworks!

Lightning Presentation

Title: Continuing Education in Information Technology

Description: In the IT field, you have to keep learning. Whether you keep learning because you want to, or because you have to (if you don’t, someone else will), many options exist for IT professionals to expand the breadth and depth of their skill sets. This presentation will explore several different options for continuing education in the IT field, including self-learning, traditional training, conferences, and a couple of interesting part-time graduate school programs.

Presenter: Jeff Mullins is a faculty member and Associate Director of the Master of Information Systems program for the Information Systems department in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. Prior to his move into academics, Jeff spent more than 10 years playing various roles in the IT department at Tyson Foods, including .NET and Java application development, business analysis, and project management. Jeff also recently founded Windsong Solutions, a small IT consulting, development, and training firm.

Main Presentation

Title: Lap Around the Live Framework and Mesh Services

Description: Learn about the Live Framework, our latest offering for developers programming against our Live Services from any device, platform, runtime, or programming language. See new and future services (such as Mesh Services), protocols, APIs, and tools which enable your web, service, or client applications to access, store, and synchronize user data with Live Services, obtain audience analytics data, and more

Presenter: Chris Koenig is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft, based in Dallas, TX. Prior to joining Microsoft, Chris worked as a Senior Architect on the Architecture Strategy Team for The Capital Group in San Antonio, and as an Architect, Developer and Development Team Lead for the global solution provider Avanade. As a consultant, Chris worked with a variety of clients from many vertical markets, ISVs and other solution providers on enterprise-class Windows and web-based applications. Today, Chris focuses on building, growing, and enhancing the developer communities in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas. Chris is a devoted husband and father of four awesome children who keep him very busy. In his spare time, Chris serves as Scoutmaster for his oldest son's Troop, and Committee Chair for his youngest sons' Pack. Chris also enjoys traveling, cooking, camping and playing guitar.

You can contact Chris through his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/chkoenig, via email at chris.koenig@microsoft.com, or via Windows Live Messenger at chris@koenigweb.com.

Swag:
JetBrains ReSharper License
Infragistics Resource DVD
Infragistics NetAdvantage
Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation
Application = Code + Markup A Guide to the Microsoft Windows
Presentation Foundation
Microsoft 6 Office Business Application for Office SharePoint Server 2007
Programming Microsoft Office Business Application

When:
5:30 PM - 5:45 PM - Welcome and News, Sign-in and Food
5:45 PM - 6:00 PM - Lighting Presentation
6:00 PM - 6:10 PM - Intermission – Presenter switch over
6:10 PM – 7:30 PM – Main Presentation
7:30 PM – 8:00 PM – Closing and Prize give-a-ways

Where:
The Jones Center
922 East Emma Avenue
Springdale, AR 72764
Room 130 (Generations Room)

NetMeeting URL: http://snipr.com/nwadnug
Link RSVP URL: http://snipr.com/epmzx

Main Presentation
Title: A Path to Automated Testing

Description: In this session we will discuss different ways of testing applications and the benefits of having an automated suite of tests.  We'll show you how to start unit testing your applications and techniques and strategies you can use in your application and your test cases to make them both easier to maintain.

Presenter: John Teague is a Co-Founder and Principal Consultant for Next Level Technology, focusing on Agile Software development, coaching and training. He is very active in the .Net community as an organizer of the Austin .Net Users Group CodeCamp conference, Los Techies Day of Test Driven Development and presenting at several .Net user groups.

Lighting Presentation
Title: How To Build A Resume

Description: Megan is going to show how to write a technology resume in a way that is clean and easy for potential employers to read in order to put your best foot forward and be able to get an interview.  This will involve a clean, easy to read format, bullet points with active words, and an eye catching objective that caters to each job opportunity.

Presenter: Megan Coger has 4 years of experience as an IT Recruiter in Northwest Arkansas with TEKsystems, the largest IT staffing company in the nation.  She specializes in helping IT Professionals with their careers; this involves helping with career pathing, career opportunities, and coaching with resumes and interviews.

When:
5:30 PM - 5:45 PM - Welcome and News, Sign-in and Food
5:45 PM - 6:00 PM - Lighting Presentation
6:00 PM - 6:10 PM - Intermission – Presenter switch over
6:10 PM – 7:30 PM – Main Presentation
7:30 PM – 8:00 PM – Closing and Prize give-a-ways

Where:
The Jones Center
922 East Emma Avenue
Springdale, AR 72764
Room 130 (Generations)
NetMeeting URL: http://snipr.com/nwadnug
Link RSVP URL: http://snipr.com/clkm7

Come join the NWA .NET User Group on February 10 at 5:30 PM and learn about Advanced LINQ and Agile Development!

(Please be aware that the NWA .NET User Group meetings have moved to the 2nd Tuesday of the month)

Lightning Presentation

Title: Advanced LINQ

Description: Since its arrival, LINQ has proved its power to me over and over.  I find that it speeds up development and leaves behind code that is more maintainable than ever.  The goal of this presentation is to show you how even the most complicated algorithms can be left dead simple with a little LINQ to help shine some clarity.

Presenter: Rob Tennyson works for Tyson Foods in Springdale, AR where he is a Lead Programmer Analyst.  He has been programming professionally since 2001 and loves all things a good architecture astronaut would love! Sometimes he actually gets real work done too.  For more information, see http://robtennyson.us.

Main Presentation

Title: Introduction to Agile Software Development

Description: In this presentation we will learn about what Agile Software Development.  We will also take a quick look at the Manifesto for Agile Software Development which guides many of the agile practices.   Will wrap up with looking at how an agile team gathers and plans, and accomplishes the work.

Presenter: Jay Smith works for Tyson Foods, Inc. where he is a PMO Architect and Evangelist, and is a former President of the Northwest Arkansas .Net User’s Group.  Jay currently serves on the INETA Speakers Committee and works diligently with others on test bed projects to learn new concepts and designs.  You can read more about Jay on his blog http://www.jaysmith.us or follow his tweets at http://twitter.com/jaysmith.
Jay regularly presents to user groups on various topic including Design Patterns, Visual Studio 2008, Enterprise Library, WPF, and Unit Testing.  He is a registered speaker on Codezone, you can make speaker request through there or contact him directly.

Swag:

• Progamming Linq
• Programming Robotics Studio
• Introduction Silverlight 2
• Windows Vista Ultimate
• Infragistics NetAdvantage
• Infragistics Resourse DVD

When:

• Date: Feb 10th
• 5:30 PM - 5:45 PM - Welcome and News, Sign-in and Food
• 5:45 PM - 6:00 PM - Lighting Presentation
• 6:00 PM - 6:10 PM - Intermission – Presenter switch over
• 6:10 PM – 7:30 PM – Main Presentation
• 7:30 PM – 8:00 PM – Closing and Prize give-a-ways

Where:

• The Jones Center
  922 East Emma Avenue
  Springdale, AR 72764
  Room 228 (Memphis Room)
• NetMeeting URL: http://sn.im/b70ve
• Link RSVP URL: http://sn.im/b71fh

Social Networks

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• LinkedIn
• Facebook