| Nelson - Short Presentations | OneNote - Terry Humphris
ASP.NET Expression Builders and automated TabIndexes - Daniel Ballinger
Integrating .NET with VB6/COM+ - Nick Williams | Terry Humphris, Daniel Ballinger, Nick Williams | 18/08/2010 |
| Nelson - Common TSQL Programming Mistakes | We are going to examine a variety of mistakes to which many developers fall prey - some obvious, some fairly subtle and some just plain evil! Coupled with this, we’ll be investigating some simple, and some not so, tips for increasing performance from your data layer. | 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 awared Microsoft MVP status.
Dave still participates heavily in the commiunity alongside his current positon as a SQL Server Administrator / Developer for Wolters Kluwer Pharma Solutions. | 25/06/2010 |
| Nelson: Microsoft Community Road Show - Showcasing MIX10 | With MIX10 around the corner, 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 drinks. | Ryan Tarak | 12/04/2010 |
| Best practice - Caching | .NET caching for the web and other layers | Kirk Jackson is a Senior Developer at Xero, the creators of "The world's easiest accounting system". He is also a Microsoft MVP and involved in the local .NET community. | 19/08/2009 |
| Mono And Moonlight - Why You Should Care | The presentation focuses on using ASP.NET MVC under Mono and the new Mono tools integrated into Visual Studio to make the process easier. | Grant Archibald is the Principal Consultant at Pure Direction, a Development Company based in Auckland. He has over 15 years experience using the Microsoft development tool set having created systems from desktop to web, mobile systems, backend systems and most things in between. He is a current member of the ASP Insiders group and has previously presented at local user groups in Auckland and Tech Ed NZ. | 13/07/2009 |
| Nelson .NET - ASP.NET MVC a Deep(er) Dive | Covering -
What is MVC?
What is the ASP.NET MVC Framework?
How to get started in MVC?
What are the main concerns moving from WebForms to MVC?
Will MVC suit me?
Q&A | Owen Evans - bgeek.net
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. | 24/06/2009 |
| Introduction to SQL 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.
Come join us as we delve into the new features in SQL Server 2008 and the benefits they can bring to your organisation.
| Rob Hawthorne | 20/05/2009 |
| Building fast and scalablewebsites with ASP.NET and SQL Server | Overview of high-impact performance optimization principles that can be applied to all components that affect your website's performance, from the browser to the database. Hear about how browsers process a page and how you can use that information to decrease page load times. Learn how to achieve high-performance, end-to-end caching, along with several tricks that can dramatically improve the performance and scalability of ASP.NET and SQL Server. | Rick Kiessig will be giving a presentation on Wednesday the 11th of March. Rick worked at Microsoft in Silicon Valley for six years as a Solutions Architect, before moving to Nelson two years ago, where he is now working as a consultant. | 11/03/2009 |
| Overcoming your web insecurity | | Kirk Jackson | 11/02/2009 |