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Wed, Apr 8 2009 4:55 PM

Attend Give Camp or the X Conference? Both!

Torn between attending Lansing Give Camp or the Kalamazoo X Conference? You don't have to choose; do both! Give Camp or X Conference? The first ever Lansing Give Camp is being held April 24-26. The first ever Kalamazoo X Conference is being held April 25. The sessions of the X Conference offer a great opportunity for learning and for improving your craft. For $20, you can't beat that. But Lansing Give Camp is a weekend of giving back to the community by helping out local charities. Coding for a cause; you can't beat that, either. Two amazing events, slightly more than an hour from each other, are being held the same weekend. It's like a bad case of deadlocked threads. Kalamazoo or Lansing? Lansing or Kalamazoo? How do you choose between them? You don't have to choose. Go to both. Spend the weekend in Kalamazansing! Kalamazoo X Conference and Lansing Give Camp have partnered together. Lansing Give Camp will have special projects that will accommodate X Conference attendees. Kalamazoo X Conference...
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Wed, Apr 8 2009 12:50 PM

Lansing Give Camp 2009, April 24-26

On April 24th-26th, 2008, the local software development communities will pool their talents to put together the first ever Give Camp in Lansing Michigan. The event will be hosted at the Impression 5 Science Center in downtown Lansing. For more information, please visit the event's web site, http://www.lansinggivecamp.org . Lansing Give Camp April 24-26 at the Impression 5 Science Center 200 Museum Drive, Lansing, MI 48933 http://www.lansinggivecamp.org What is a Give Camp? A Give Camp is a weekend-long event where software developers, designers, and database administrators donate their time to create custom software solutions for non-profit organizations. This custom software could be a new web site for the nonprofit organization, a small data-collection application to keep track of members, or an application for the Red Cross that automatically will email a blood donor three months after they've last donated blood to remind them that they are again eligible to donate blood. The only limitation for a...
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Tue, Mar 24 2009 10:38 AM

Changing of the Guard at Ann Arbor .Net Developers

February was election month for us .Net Developers in Ann Arbor, Michigan. On February 11th, during the monthly meeting, the Ann Arbor .Net Developers user group held its annual elections. After serving as the group's leader for the past 3 years--ever since the group was formed--Bill Wagner decided to hand over the reigns. When the election dust settled, I stood as the 2nd President of the Ann Arbor .Net Developers. I appreciate the honor and the opportunity given to me, and I look forward to serving the group for 2009. The Elected President: Jay Harris Vice Pres: Scott Zischerk Secretary: Darrell Hawley Treasurer: Eric Bratton That evening, after the meeting, we held our first board meeting, as we were responsible for filling the two appointed positions: Program Chair and Webmaster. As the group has grown, so have these two roles. Program Chair turned into a catch-all for most of the membership and speaker management, and was an overload for one person. Webmaster had changed, too, as the group's web site...
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Wed, Jan 14 2009 2:30 PM

This is CodeMash! A look back at CodeMash 2.0.0.9

Last week was CodeMash 2009 , a developer's conference in Sandusky, Ohio. The conference, which lasted from Wednesday, January 7th, through Friday, January 9th, was held at the Kalahari Resort, a hotel and indoor water park; this makes the conference unique, as families are able, and encouraged, to join the attending developer for the week, and while the developer is off learning about the Next Big Thing, the significant others, spouses, and children are off enjoying the fun of the water park. As for the conference itself, it is billed as an event where opposing developer communities congregate and mash together. Attendees are encouraged to exit their comfort zone—.Net developers can attend sessions on Java or Ruby; Java developers can attend sessions on Azure or .Net—allowing a seasoned developer to get a new perspective, and allowing communities to cross-pollinate ideas and practices. This was not only my first CodeMash as a speaker, but also as an attendee, and it will not be my last. Day Zero (The Precompiler...
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Thu, Dec 11 2008 8:56 AM

Announcing Ann Arbor Nerd Lunch

Brian Genisio has organized a monthly lunch for the local development community around Ann Arbor, Michigan. The event, held on the third Thursday of every month, will be an opportunity for developers to get together, network with colleagues, talk about what is cool or what is in the way in day-to-day development efforts, and have a good time socializing at lunch. A Google Group has been set up for more information, and will serve as the primary method of communication. The first Ann Arbor Nerd Lunch will be held next week, noon on Thursday, December 18th, at the Mahek Indian Cuisine restaurant in downtown Ann Arbor. The plan is to change the meeting place every month to accommodate different taste buds, but to keep the meeting time consistently on the third Thursday. Ann Arbor Nerd Lunch - Google Group Thursday, December 18th, Noon Mahek Indian Cuisine - Map 212 E. Washington Street Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 Please RSVP on the Google Group , so that proper table sizes can be planned. For every meeting, you are...
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Mon, Oct 20 2008 12:33 PM

Watch the PDC Keynotes from Ann Arbor

Interested in the Ray Ozzie keynotes next week, but can't make it to PDC? Come watch the two keynotes (Monday and Tuesday) at SRT Solutions in Ann Arbor. This community event will include remote viewing of the keynotes and discussion about the news. Lunch will be provided, as our local Microsoft office is sponsoring the event for both days. (Thank you, Microsoft!) Remote Viewing & Discussion of the Ray Ozzie Keynotes Monday, October 27, 11:30a-2:00p - Register Tuesday, October 28, 11:30a-2:00p - Register SRT Solutions 206 S. Fifth Avenue, Suite 200 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 Come out for the show. Space is limited, so please register. (Note: if you wish to attend both days, you must register for each day separately.) I look forward to seeing you there.
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Tue, Oct 7 2008 1:45 PM

Speaking at AADND on CI, 08-Oct-08

Tomorrow night, Wednesday, 08 October, I will be speaking at the Ann Arbor Dot Net Developers meeting. We will be discussing Continuous Integration, focusing on CI as a process, not just a toolset. Come out to Ann Arbor, enjoy some pizza, and hear about what Continuous Integration can do for your development cycle. Continuous Integration: It's more than just a toolset Wednesday, 08 October, 2008 @ 6:00pm SRT Solutions 206 South Fifth Ave, Suite 200 Ann Arbor, MI 48104 Session Abstract: Does your team spend days integrating code at the end of a project? Continuous Integration can help. Using Continuous Integration will eliminate that end-of-project integration stress, and at the same time will make your development process easier. But Continuous Integration is more than just a tool like CruiseControl.Net; it is a full development process designed to bring you closer to your mainline, increase visibility of project status throughout your team, and to streamline deployments to QA or to your client. Find out what...
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Wed, Sep 10 2008 3:07 PM

Speaking at GLUGnet Flint on CI, 11-Sep-08

Tomorrow night, Thursday, 11 September, I will be speaking at the GLUGnet Flint meeting. We will be discussing Continuous Integration, focusing on CI as a process, not just a toolset. Come out to Flint, enjoy some pizza, and hear about what Continuous Integration can do for your development cycle. Continuous Integration: It's more than just a toolset Thursday, 11 September, 2008 @ 6:00pm New Horizons 4488 West Bristol Road Flint, MI 48507 Session Abstract: Does your team spend days integrating code at the end of a project? Continuous Integration can help. Using Continuous Integration will eliminate that end-of-project integration stress, and at the same time will make your development process easier. But Continuous Integration is more than just a tool like CruiseControl.Net; it is a full development process designed to bring you closer to your mainline, increase visibility of project status throughout your team, and to streamline deployments to QA or to your client. Find out what Continuous Integration is...
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Thu, Aug 28 2008 4:33 PM

conferencesStream.Flush(); //Give Camp, CodeStock, devLink Wrap-up

My summer has been what seems like a steady stream of major events in the development community. It really all began with my election to the board of GLUGnet last April, which immediately put me as a planner for the first Lansing Day of .Net , for which I handled the web site and branding. The event, which I blogged about previously , was held on June 21, 2008, and was a huge success. We will definitely have the conference again next year, and are already brainstorming ways to make the event even better. Three weeks after LDODN, on July 11-13, was Ann Arbor Give Camp . Give Camp was an event for charity, where area developers volunteered their weekend to code for charity. The Heartland District truly displayed their selflessness and passion with their willingness to endure three days of Ninjas-On-Fire coding, often sacrificing sleep to accomplish deadlines, to help out not-for-profits that likely would never have the budget for a high-quality, professionally developed web site. I was also impressed by the event...
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Thu, Jul 3 2008 11:29 AM

Today is Contribupendence Day!

Jeff Blankenburg came up with a good idea! As I go through my LinkedIn connections, I see that not many of them have recommendations. And it's not that these people don't deserve them--many of these connections I consider to be amongst the brightest people in the industry. As a community, and in many cases simple as a people, we don't often take the time to help each other out. We may pat each other on the back for recognition of talent, but we don't often do so in a public forum. Social Networking sites like linked in are phenomenal for things like job hunting, not necessarily for the networking but because potential employers will peruse these sites to gather information about a candidate, and these recommendations can go a long way towards impressing the employer. Enter Contribupendence Day ! Jeff came up with the idea for one grand call-to-action where the entire community gets together to "tell the world about the people we work with." Everyone should comment / recommend / praise...
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