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Hawke's Bay .NET User Group

The Hawke's Bay .NET user group was started in December 2005 to get together IT professionals from Hawke's Bay that are interested in .NET based software development. The aim of the group is to share ideas and experiences with this platform with the rest of the group. As a group we are also in a position to talk to Microsoft NZ to draw on their resources and speakers.

The group consists of a mixture of software developers, IT managers, IT lecturers from EIT (Eastern Institute of Technology) and EIT students. Everybody is welcome to come along. Being part of the group, or just joining for a particular presentation, does not cost you anything but your time.

We have regular meetings, roughly every 6 - 8 weeks, normally on a Thursday late afternoon. As a part of our get together we will have a presentation. Either by one of our members, or by somebody from outside.

If you are not a member of our group yet, but are interested in becoming one, keep an eye on this website and register for our next event.

Gerard van de Ven,
Group convenor
mail to gerard at birdwoodsoftware.co.nz

Upcoming Sessions

Meeting

Abstract

Presenter

Event Date

HB .NET: SQL Server: Keeping the heart alive

SQL Server is at the core of many infrastructure systems in a modern enterprise. This session will discuss performance, maintenance, high-availability/disaster recovery and day to day operations for those environments where you don’t have a dedicated database administrator. We’ll cover looking after SharePoint, Dynamics/xRM, BizTalk and other systems.

Dave Dustin

Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Dave Dustin is a popular community leader and presenter, offering one on one mentoring and support, as well as training to larger audiences. He is comfortable delivering information in a webinar or face to face environment, tapping into his twenty years of experience to provide solutions that have been tested and work.
He has worked for a number of start ups and provided consultancy for several SME's. Using this experience he founded the AucklandSQL Users Group, which has over three hundred registered members.
As a result of his involvement with the Microsoft technical community, he was awarded Microsoft MVP status.
Dave still participates heavily in the community alongside his current position as a SQL Server Administrator / Developer for Wolters Kluwer Pharma Solutions.

5/08/2010

Previous Sessions

Meeting

Abstract

Presenter

Event Date

Hawke's Bay: SQL Server Topic

To be defined

Dave Dustin

24/06/2010

Hawke's Bay: Silverlight - What's New 4.0

This presentation will be centred around the latest version of Silverlight - I'll demo/discuss/show as much as we have time for, there's no shortage of cool stuff to cover.

Depending on a show of hands on the day, I may also take time to introduce Silverlight to those new to it and discuss where I see it fitting into the web application landscape - this alone could take up a whole session but even for Silverlight converts it's important to understand where it fits, why it isn't simply another Flash, why traditional HTML/CS/JS based web applications are still important, why standards are important but not a pre-requisite for web technology, where WPF and Silverlight are heading...
So come along - looking forward to seeing some new faces.

Andrew Tokeley, Xero

27/05/2010

Hawke's Bay .NET: MIX10 Community Road Show

With MIX10 just behind us, it’s no better time for Microsoft to get on the road and showcase some of the highlights from this year’s conference held in Las Vegas. Join us at your local Community User Group where we will focus on some of the key highlights including; the future of Mobile™, Silverlight™, Internet Explorer®, Expression®. Ryan Tarak, from Microsoft New Zealand will be travelling all over NZ spreading the good word and also be getting everyone ready for the launch of Visual Studio 2010 by giving the first 30 members at each event a retro Microsoft t-shirt. We will also be providing content from MIX on DVD’s and also the usual pizza and beer, so make sure you block out the date below.

Ryan Tarak, Development Advisor, Microsoft

8/04/2010

VSTS 2010 – What are the roles and where is it going?

VSTS 2010 is the ‘third release’ of Visual Studio Team system – common folklore tells us that means it is the most complete and stable release to date. In terms of stability time will tell but early indications are favourable – in terms of completeness new features for the test and architect roles are a big advance in VSTS 2008. Most smaller development shops don’t have specific architects or testers but the new role tools are still important because let’s face it – the roles still need to get done usually by the ‘developer’. So come along and learn what new stuff is available for several roles and how you can leverage it.

Mark Carroll is a founder of aBEAT which is a consultancy specialising in IT architecture and software development support. He is also the user group lead for the Wellington based Visual Studio Team System user group and was with Microsoft for a number of years before he formed aBEAT.

11/02/2010

SQL Server 2008 New Features

SQL Server 2008 delivers on Microsoft’s Data Platform vision by helping your organization manage any data, any place, any time.
This new release builds on the great platform laid with SQL Server 2005, enhancing it with great new capabilities such as native support for spatial data, database encryption and compression and enhanced manageability through Policy Based Management, Powershell and the Resource Governor as well as many new great enhancements for Analysis Services and Reporting Services.

Jeremy Boyd is one of the two Microsoft Regional Directors for New Zealand. He is one of the founders of Mindscape (http://www.mindscape.co.nz/), developers of software tools and applications around the .NET platform.

26/11/2009

First Steps with jQuery

Ben Fox will give an introduction to the more and more popular javascript library and framework of jQuery

Ben Fox:
Ben completed his Bachelor degree in Computing Systems at EIT end of 2008, after completing an internship at Birdwood Software Solutions (BSS). He has been involved in projects at BSS since then and is currently working on a large website for a company in the UK, that requires a high amount of interactivity at the client side. BSS has started to use jQuery to implement this interactivity.

27/08/2009

ASP.NET MVC, a Deep(er) Dive

Overview of ASP.NET MVC, including some more advanced details of Controllers, Views and Routing.

Owen Evans:

Owen Evans is a software developer with Xero, in his day to day role Owen gets his hands dirty with the MVC framework running the Xero API.

7/07/2009

Web Security

As an ASP.NET developer, there are many things to think about while developing your web application. Come along to understand the fundamentals of developing a secure web application

Kirk Jackson

28/05/2009