This month we have a special guest, Geoff Dalgas of StackOverflow.com, giving us a presentation on ASP.NET MVC! StackOverflow.com was built from the ground up on ASP.NET MVC and is currently used by thousands of developers from around the world!

Geoff will be showing how StackOverflow.com uses ASP.NET MVC, as well as how to create a brand new simple Q/A site using MVC. Have questions about ASP.NET MVC? Want to get started using ASP.NET MVC? Come to the January Covallis .NET Users Group Meeting!

Thanks to our sponsor: Business Solutions Group, OSU (http://bsg.oregonstate.edu/)

Time/Place:

Thursday, January 22th, 2009 @ 6:00 PM

Location: OSU - Kelly Engineering Center, Room 1003

RSVP here!

(Or you can email: [email protected] (helpful for food ordering))

Schedule:

6:00 - 6:30: Networking Opportunities & Dinner

6:30 - 7:30: "ASP.NET MVC", Geoff Dalgas, StackOverflow.com

7:30 - 7:45: Q&A / Discussion

7:45 - 8:00: Giveaways: Books and cool stuff!

Please forward this to any other .NET professionals that may be interested!

Please join us Tuesday night for Nick’s talk on the Razor view engine for ASP.NET!

WHEN: Tuesday 08/24/2010 6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Useable Concepts Incorporated) 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHERE: Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium 2501 NW 229th Avenue Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?org=aj#/fotw1o04svrqm3xg

WHO: Nick Muhonen Nick Muhonen, a principal software architect and trainer at Useable Concepts Incorporated (http://www.useableconcepts.com/), spends most of his time researching, writing, coding, and helping peers understand "not-so-understandables". He has helped a wide variety of clients throughout the years, including up and coming small business entities as well as large fortune 500 organizations.

TOPIC: Cuts Like a Knife, and Feels So Right: ASP.Net Razor Preview. Nick Muhonen, in this special presentation, discusses the merits of the new ASP.Net Razor syntax, its involvement in web matrix and ASP.Net MVC 3.0 preview, and of course, demos for the faithful!

While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible: Ascentium - http://www.ascentium.com Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com ORCS Web - http://www.orcsweb.com O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com

And, our appreciation goes out to Useable Concepts Incorporated for providing pizza for this additional meeting: Useable Concepts Incorporated - http://www.useableconcepts.com.

Scott Hanselman on Information Overload and Managing the Flow.

WHERE: Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium 2501 NW 229th Avenue Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?org=aj#/fotw1o04svrqm3xg

WHEN: Wednesday 10/06/2010 6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium) 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHO: Scott Hanselman Scott Hanselman works out of his home office for Microsoft as a Principal Program Manager, aiming to spread good information about developing software, usually on the Microsoft stack. Before this he was the Chief Architect at Corillian Corporation, now a part of Checkfree, for 6 years. He was also involved in a few Microsoft things for many years like the MVP and RD programs and will speak about computers (and other passions) whenever someone will listen.

TOPIC: Information Overload and Managing the Flow: Effectiveness and Efficiency As developers, we are asked to absorb even more information than ever before. More APIs, more documentation, more patterns, more layers of abstraction. Now Twitter and Facebook compete with Email and Texts for our attention, keeping us up-to-date on our friends dietary details and movie attendance second-by-second. Does all this information take a toll on your psyche or sharpen the saw? Is it a matter of finding the right tools to capture what you need, or do you need to unplug?

Thanks to our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible: Ascentium - http://www.ascentium.com/ Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/ ORCS Web - http://www.orcsweb.com/rdirects/NEW_padnug_hostby.asp O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com/

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

Please join us next Tuesday night for another great PADNUG event!

WHERE: Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower 10260 SW Greenburg Road Suite 600 Portland, OR 97223 Map: http://bit.ly/9M9dNZ

WHEN: Tuesday 11/02/2010 6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium) 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at Gustav's

WHO: Patrick Cauldwell Patrick is a Software Engineer/Tech Lead at WebMD, an Adjunct Instructor at Oregon Institute of Technology, and a noted author. He has held a variety of development, leadership and educational positions in the Portland-area software industry. Patrick is also a Certified Scrum Master.

TOPIC: Workflow 4 Many real world business processes lend themselves well to being modeled as a formal work flow, and using a work flow framework can make the task of modeling much easier. Windows Workflow 4 provides a design surface, programming model, and toolset that make it easy for developers to model work flows, while taking advantage of a rich platform and set of services. WF 4 is much simpler to use and understand than the previous offerings, and is much more tightly integrated with WCF.

We'll look at what WF is good for, what it's best at, and how the WCF integration makes it easy to develop "durable services" and "long running" workflows.

Thanks to our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible: Ascentium - http://www.ascentium.com/ Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/ ORCS Web - http://www.orcsweb.com/rdirects/NEW_padnug_hostby.asp O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com/

Please join us for a terrific combo meeting with PADNUG and PDXSLUG both in the house!

We're starting just a little bit early to allow folks more time to mix and play before the presentations begin.

There will be a couple of Kinect equipped Xboxes set up so we can play before the meeting and between sessions. We have some OUTSTANDING swag, too: A Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN license - with a retail value of almost $12,000 - AND we'll give away a copy of NetAdvantage Ultimate from Infragistics!!

WHERE: Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium 2501 NW 229th Avenue Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?org=aj#/fotw1o04svrqm3xg

WHEN: Tuesday 12/14/2010 5:30 p.m. Burrito Bar AND Kinect Gaming (by Microsoft) 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~9:00 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHO: Mithun Dhar, Ryan Eastabrook, Erik Mork, Kelly White

TOPIC: Getting the Most from SharePoint 2010 Mithun will share some of the latest details on developing SharePoint solutions with the latest versions of SharePoint and Visual Studio.

ASP.NET MVC, Razor, and NuGet Ryan will demonstrate the latest bits shown off at the Microsoft PDC 2010.

Silverlight Version 5 Following on the heels of the Silverlight Firestarter event last week, Erik and Kelly will give the latest details about the new features.

Thanks to our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible: Ascentium - http://www.ascentium.com/ Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/ ORCS Web - http://www.orcsweb.com/rdirects/NEW_padnug_hostby.asp O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com/

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

Please join us Tuesday night for the PADNUG February meet-up!

Chris Tavares will be presenting on CQRS and Windows Azure: A scalable architecture for the Cloud

WHERE: Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium 2501 NW 229th Avenue Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?org=aj#/fotw1o04svrqm3xg

WHEN: Tuesday 2/1/2011 6:00 p.m. Pizza 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHO: Chris Tavares Chris is a Software Development Engineer in Microsoft's Patterns & Practices group. He has helped develop Enterprise Library and the Unity dependency injection container. You can read more about Chris in his blog: http://www.tavaresstudios.com/Blog/default.aspx

TOPIC:

CQRS and Windows Azure: A scalable architecture for the Cloud

CQRS. A confusing jumble of letters? Well, yes. CQRS stands for "Command Query Responsibility Segregation", and is an architectural pattern which is rapidly gaining popularity. It offers clear guidance on how to build highly scalable systems that embrace asynchronous operations.

In this talk we'll look at what CQRS is, how it lives up to the promises, and what kinds of systems would benefit from this approach. And then we’ll take the pattern and see what it takes to implement on top of Windows Azure.

Thanks to our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:

Infragistics - http://www.infragistics.com Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com ORCS Web - http://www.orcsweb.com O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

(Portland Area .NET Users Group)

Please join us Tuesday night for the PADNUG April meet-up!

Josh Smith will be giving us a tour of Mole 2010, the new debugging tool he helped create for Visual Studio 2010 users.

WHERE: Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium 2501 NW 229th Avenue Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?org=aj#/fotw1o04svrqm3xg

WHEN: Tuesday 4/5/2011 6:00 p.m. Pizza 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHO: Josh Smith Josh is a Microsoft MVP who specializes in creating modern user interfaces with the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight. He has published dozens of articles about software development, and self-published a book about software architecture titled 'Advanced MVVM.'
Josh is a co-founder of Molosoft LLC (http://www.molosoft.com), creating tools for .NET software developers that help them be more productive and effective at their jobs. Their flagship product is Mole 2010, a debugging tool that enables powerful new techniques for fixing software defects.

TOPIC: Get a guided tour and behind-the-scenes look at the new debugging tool for Visual Studio called Mole 2010. We will not only see how to use Mole 2010 to make .NET debugging easier, but also get some insight into how the tool was built, what the challenges were, and the solutions to those problems. Along the way we will get a taste for what to expect next from Molosoft.

Thanks to our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:

azad - http://www.azad.com Infragistics - http://www.infragistics.com Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com ORCS Web - http://www.orcsweb.com O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

Please join us Thursday night for the PADNUG May meet-up! It's a week early, so yes, it is not really in May. Also note again that the meeting is on Thursday night.

Dan Wahlin will be giving us the low down on jQuery Templates and how you can use them to make your HTML 5 apps even more awesome.

WHERE: Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium 2501 NW 229th Avenue Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?org=aj#/fotw1o04svrqm3xg

WHEN: Thursday 4/28/2011 6:00 p.m. Pizza 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHO:

Dan Wahlin founded The Wahlin Group (http://www.TheWahlinGroup.com) which specializes in .NET, Silverlight and SharePoint consulting as well as onsite and online training solutions. He has been awarded Microsoft's MVP award for ASP.NET, Connected Systems and Silverlight and is a Microsoft Regional Director. Dan is on the INETA Speaker's Bureau, speaks at conferences and user groups around the world and has written several books on .NET such as Professional Silverlight Development, Professional ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVP Hacks and Tips and XML for ASP.NET Developers. Dan blogs at http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin and writes regular columns for various technical magazines such as DevConnectionsPro and Dr. Dobbs.

TOPIC: Using jQuery Templates in HTML 5 Applications

It’s no secret that jQuery provides a productive and fun way to build client-centric Web applications, but there’s a new player in town called jQuery Templates that takes jQuery to a whole new level and makes building dynamic HTML 5 applications even easier. In this session, Dan Wahlin will discuss how to use jQuery Templates and show how they can be used to significantly reduce the amount of JavaScript code that has to be written (and make your apps more maintainable in the process). In this session you’ll learn about template tokens, how to handle conditionals and loops, and how templates can be dynamically downloaded and rendered.

Thanks to our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:

azad - http://www.azad.com Infragistics - http://www.infragistics.com Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

Scott Hanselman will be presenting WebMatrix, a new free tool from Microsoft that allows you to create, customize and publish websites that can grow with you, from design and installation to deployment and maintenance. It is one of the simplest tools for creating web sites that has come along in a long, long time. To get started you can select an application from the built-in gallery, containing such applications as DotNetNuke, Umbraco, WordPress, Drupal or Joomla. Or you can create your own masterpiece from scratch, written in either PHP or ASP.Net.

Scott has made presentations to the OCCA before, and has always been well received and appreciated.

Scott Hanselman works out of his home office for Microsoft as a Principal Program Manager, aiming to spread good information about developing software, usually on the Microsoft stack. Before this, for over 6 years, he was the Chief Architect at Corillian Corporation, now a part of Checkfree. He was also involved in a few Microsoft Developer things for many years like the MVP and RD programs and he'll speak about computers (and other passions) whenever someone will listen.

Please join us Wednesday night for the PADNUG August meet-up! Note again that the meeting is on Wednesday night.

Scott Hanselman will be presenting on the NuGet package management system.

WHERE: Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium 2501 NW 229th Avenue Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?org=aj#/fotw1o04svrqm3xg

WHEN: Wednesday 8/3/2011 6:00 p.m. Pizza 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHO: Scott Hanselman works for Microsoft as a Principal Program Manager Lead in the Developer Division, aiming to spread good information about developing software, very often on the Microsoft stack. Before this he was the Chief Architect at Corillian Corporation, now a part of Checkfree, for 6+ years. He was also involved in a few Microsoft Developer things for many years like the MVP and RD programs and will speak about computers (and other passions) whenever someone will listen. He's written a few books, most recently with Bill Evjen and Devin Rader on ASP.NET http://www.asp.net/. He blogs at http://www.hanselman.com and podcasts at http://www.hanselminutes.com.

TOPIC: NuGet In Depth: Empowering Open Source on the .NET Platform Join Scott Hanselman as he digs deep into the new open source NuGet package management system. How does NuGet fit into the .NET ecosystem? Learn how to create your own packages that are public and open source or internal ones for the enterprise. By the way, NuGet is an open source project hosted on Mercurial. Microsoft is starting to get serious about open source. We’ll talk about how and why. All this plus random Q&A.

Thanks to our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:

azad - http://www.azad.com Cinetopia - http://www.cinetopia.com Infragistics - http://www.infragistics.com Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

Please join us Tuesday night for the PADNUG September meet-up!

Michael Kennedy will be presenting on asynchronous programming futures for .NET: This session will take a peek into the future and examine some of the features proposed for C# 5.0. This includes studying async methods which are part of C# 5.0 and build on the PFx Task library. We will also briefly look at the PFx Task libraries to gain the necessary background for working with the new language features. Note that Visual Basic 11 will also have these identical features so in essence we'll be covering VB 11 as well.

WHERE: Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium 2501 NW 229th Avenue Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?org=aj#/fotw1o04svrqm3xg

WHEN: Tuesday 9/6/2011 6:00 p.m. Pizza 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHO: Michael is an instructor for DevelopMentor, a .NET enthusiast, an agile pioneer, an entrepreneur, a father of three girls, a husband, a student, and a teacher. His blog is at http://www.michaelckennedy.net/blog.

TOPIC: This session will take a peek into the future and examine some of the features proposed for C# 5.0. This includes studying async methods which are part of C# 5.0 and build on the PFx Task library. We will also briefly look at the PFx Task libraries to gain the necessary background for working with the new language features. Note that Visual Basic 11 will also have these identical features so in essence we'll be covering VB 11 as well.

Thanks to our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:

azad - http://www.azad.com http://www.azad.com/ http://www.azad.com/ Cinetopia - http://www.cinetopia.com http://www.cinetopia.com/ Infragistics - http://www.infragistics.com http://www.infragistics.com/ http://www.infragistics.com/ Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com http://www.microsoft.com/ http://www.microsoft.com/ O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com http://www.oreilly.com/ http://www.oreilly.com/

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

Please join us Tuesday night for the PADNUG November meet-up!

This month, Patrick Cauldwell will be presenting on Mercurial.

WHERE: Intel Hawthorne Farms 3 (HF3) 5200 NE Elam Young Pkwy Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://binged.it/IntelHF3Map

WHEN: Tuesday 11/1/2011 6:00 p.m. Pizza 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHO: Patrick Cauldwell is a Senior Software developer/architect at WebMD, specializing in the design and development of scalable, modular internet applications. He is an experienced trainer and presenter on software and related topics, as well as a Certified Scrum Master with 8+ years of experience on Agile software projects.

TOPIC: Many organizations are moving toward distributed source control systems such are Mercurial and git. These systems use a model that is radically different from more "conventional" systems like SVN or TFS. We'll look at how Mercurial works, how it's different, and some best practices that can be applied to make working with Mercurial easier and more productive.

Thanks to our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:

azad, inc. Technology Consulting | Engineering | Project Management http://www.azad.com/

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Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

Please join us Tuesday night for the PADNUG May meet-up!

This month, Kathleen Dollard will be presenting on MVC extensibility with MEF.

WHERE: Intel Hawthorne Farms 3 (HF3) 5200 NE Elam Young Pkwy Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://binged.it/IntelHF3Map

WHEN: Tuesday 5/8/2012 6:00 p.m. Pizza 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHO: Kathleen Dollard is Technical Evangelist for Digital Folio. She has been a Microsoft MVP since 1998 and has given hundreds of speeches around the world. She has worked extensively with compositional architectures in relation to specific development platforms. Her experience includes HTML5/Javascript, Silverlight, and WPF in both C# and Visual Basic. She’s interested in making core .NET technologies available to all coders to enable them to write better software faster. Her newest adventures include Windows Azure and SQL Azure. Kathleen is also a long-time advocate of generative techniques and is the author of Code Generation in Microsoft .NET (from Apress). She has published numerous articles on a range of .NET technologies. Kathleen is active in the Northern Colorado .NET SIG, the Denver Visual Studio User Group, and the Northern Colorado Architect's Group. Twitter: @kathleendollard | Website: http://msmvps.com/blogs/kathleen

TOPIC: MEF offers a great tool for composition and MVC offers an extensibility model designed for composition. Combining these two demonstrates a great composition design with nearly unlimited flexibility conditionally exposed as you need more features within MVC. You’ll learn how to use dependency injection (DI) to componentize tasks following single responsibility principle for more robust and testable applications. You’ll see how MVC uses custom model binders, value providers, validators, and filters. You’ll see these techniques used to pull almost all code out of the website project, giving you full flexibility in how you organize your website’s code. You’ll also see generic base classes that allow extensive reuse of controller logic and reuse of page elements. This challenging talk offers something for everyone – deeper insight into composed systems using DI, details about MVC internals, and some serious MEF examples.

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Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

Network with other DNN users. Q&A, demos, pizza.

Please join us Tuesday night for the PADNUG October meet-up!

This month, Nick Muhonen will be presenting on Javascript MVC in conjunction with ASP.NET MVC.

WHERE: Intel Hawthorne Farms 3 (HF3) 5200 NE Elam Young Pkwy Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://binged.it/IntelHF3Map

WHEN: Tuesday 10/2/2012 6:00 p.m. Pizza 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHO: Nick Muhonen, a principal software architect and trainer at Useable Concepts Incorporated, spends most of his time researching, writing, coding, and helping peers understand "not-so-understandables". He has helped a wide variety of clients throughout the years, including up and coming small business entities as well as large fortune 500 organizations. Twitter: nmuhonen | Website: http://www.useableconcepts.com/

TOPIC: In this presentation, Nick focuses on a Javascript MVC via ASP.NET MVC - how they are related, how they are not, and how to use them in a complementary fashion. Part II, Nick discuss how to use inversion of control and dependency injection with ASP.NET MVC.

Thanks to our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:

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Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

A serverless approach to computing is one where services required to run a system are managed and automated. Developers don’t need to worry about running server instances and you pay only for the time code is actually executing, instead of servers hosted by the hour. Learn how to build .NET based serverless applications with Amazon Web Services (AWS). We’ll build an ASP.NET Core API and deploy it to AWS’s function as a service, Lambda and API Gateway. Then we'll deploy a single page application (SPA) with AngularJS using AWS’s storage service, S3 and content delivery network, CloudFront. This entire serverless application will be built, deployed and ready to serve at scale during the demo.

Donovan Brown – the Principal DevOps Program Manager from Microsoft - will be repeating his bravura VS Live performance with a no-slide extravaganza. We’ll be building out four – yes four! - DevOps pipelines from scratch in 1 hour. ASP.NET, ASP.NET core, Node.js, and Java to both Docker and Azure App Service. Crazy, crazy stuff – you’ll never get a better start to finish view of building out DevOps in practice for your release management pipeline! Donovan has an active and highly followed blogsite at http://donovanbrown.com/. Donovan is a very heavy hitter at MSFT in DevOps on a worldwide scale – and has a solid national rep of being a very engaging, knowledgeable, and entertaining presenter.

Each December, PADNUG endeavors to put on an event that goes above and beyond the normal. This year is no exception:

We've got Scott Hanselman showing the latest in Microsoft's development tools!
http://hanselman.com/ We have food catered by Qdoba! We will have some amazing swag to give away! How can you not be at this event??

Be There and Be Square!

Geek and Nerd dinners are a great way to get to know your peers in the industry in an informal setting. We always have great food, beverages, and conversation!

We'll look to the RSVPs on here to guide our reservation. Please let us know you are coming!

James Churchill will walk us through an exercise to learn how React, Angular, and Vue differ in coding style. *Come prepared to code!* :) Ask the Experts is an opportunity to bring your issues to the table and get help from industry experts! Each month we will have a different expertise available. Bring your laptop, your ideas, your own expertise and join us for this great new event!

Be There and Be Square!

Feel free to bring your bowling shoes :)!

Geek and Nerd dinners are a great way to get to know your peers in the industry in an informal setting. We always have great food, beverages, and conversation!

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Be There and Be Square!

Geek and Nerd dinners are a great way to get to know your peers in the industry in an informal setting. We always have great food, beverages, and conversation!

We'll look to the RSVPs on here to guide our reservation. Please let us know you are coming!

Be There and Be Square!

Feel free to bring your bowling shoes :)!

Geek and Nerd dinners are a great way to get to know your peers in the industry in an informal setting. We always have great food, beverages, and conversation!

Simple, plain-English explanations accompanied by math, code, and real-world examples. Learn about Erik at: https://www.erikhoward.net/

Yes folks... we're meeting a couple of days late this year. We do, however, have our usual venue! JOIN US!

We look forward to bringing the Portland Microsoft User Groups together including Fabric, Power Platform, and Azure IN PERSON for a lively evening of networking.

Whether you are a new or experienced user, or simply interested in learning more about working with Microsoft's tools and technologies, we'd love to have you join us for food, drinks, and merriment.

Azure Security Controls for Your Startup Journey

Building a secure startup doesn't mean sacrificing speed or burning through your budget. This talk offers practical guidance on implementing the right security controls at the right time along your journey. We'll discuss how to avoid common pitfalls and traps that create security vulnerabilities, and how to prioritize essential security measures without overspending. Leave with a clear understanding of how to build a secure foundation for sustainable growth.

Guest Speaker: Sean Lee Sean Lee, Principal Consultant at Online Business Systems, is an experienced Cybersecurity Professional with over 20 years of experience and a proven track record of leading high-performing teams and driving business growth. Skilled in threat intelligence, compliance, risk management, and incident response. Proven ability to develop and deliver innovative cybersecurity solutions to clients across various industries.

The Portland Azure User Group is a community of people excited about the endless possibilities of cloud computing, data analytics, and security on Microsoft Azure. We believe the Azure platform offers rich possibilities. We keep pace by sharing our learning and doing deep-dive explorations of topics as a community of learners. We run the gamut from new to experienced users and welcome anyone who shares an interest in cloud scalable infrastructure, applications, tools, analytics, identity management, and security.

Some great perks to joining our monthly meetups are networking, knowledge transfer, and community building. We aim to foster a vibrant community that shares success in implementing best practices for Microsoft Azure.

We look forward to bringing the Portland Microsoft User Groups together including Fabric, Power Platform, and Azure IN PERSON for a lively evening of networking.

Whether you are a new or experienced user, or simply interested in learning more about working with Microsoft's tools and technologies, we'd love to have you join us for food, drinks, and merriment.

The Portland Azure User Group is a community of people excited about the endless possibilities of cloud computing, data analytics, and security on Microsoft Azure. We believe the Azure platform offers rich possibilities. We keep pace by sharing our learning and doing deep-dive explorations of topics as a community of learners. We run the gamut from new to experienced users and welcome anyone who shares an interest in cloud scalable infrastructure, applications, tools, analytics, identity management, and security.

Some great perks to joining our monthly meetups are networking, knowledge transfer, and community building. We aim to foster a vibrant community that shares success in implementing best practices for Microsoft Azure.

Session Details: Metadata Driven Pipelines for Dynamic Full and Incremental Processing in Azure SQL

Developing ETLs/ELTs can be a complex process when you add in business logic, large amounts of data, and the high volume of table data that needs to be moved from source to target. This is especially true in analytical workloads involving Azure SQL when there is a need to either fully reload a table or incrementally update a table. In order to handle the logic to incrementally update a table or fully reload a table in Azure SQL (or Azure Synapse), we will need to create the following assets: • Metadata table in Azure SQL ◦ This will contain the configurations needed to load each table end to end • Metadata driven pipelines ◦ Parent and child pipeline templates that will orchestrate and execute the ETL/ELT end to end • Custom SQL logic for incremental processing ◦ Dynamic SQL to perform the delete and insert based on criteria the user provides in the metadata table

This session uses Azure SQL DB as the source and sink databases. However, Azure SQL MI, On-Prem SQL, and Synapse Dedicated Pools (along with Synapse Pipelines) will also be compatible for this solution. As a source, you can use databases like MySQL, Oracle, and others. You will just need to adjust the query syntax/connections to match the desired source.

Guest Speaker: Marc Bushong Marc Bushong, Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, has extensive experience in healthcare and higher education. He excels in Azure architecture, end-to-end solution design, and full-stack Azure development. His career began as a Radiologic Technologist, providing him with a unique perspective on the healthcare industry, from direct patient care to backend data engineering processes.

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!!! Thanks to our generous friends at VanderHouwen, the minimum for the theater is now covered! Still consider bringing a few dollars along in case you want to spend a bit more. We're thrilled to announce our next Geek Movie Night! This time, we're taking it to the next level by hosting it at the luxurious Studio One Theaters. We'll be watching Galaxy Quest! 📽️ Experience the Magic: If you haven't yet discovered Studio One, you're in for a treat! With plush seating and outstanding food, it's an experience you won't want to miss. 💡 Important Info: To make this amazing event happen, there's a small fee involved. Fortunately, April is a slower movie month, so we’ve secured the theater at a more affordable price. Note that purchasing a minimum amount of food and drink will allow us to use the theater at no additional cost! 💸 Cost: Attendees should be prepared to spend approximately $25 on food and drink, assuming we can fill the theater.

The Portland Azure User Group is a community of people excited about the endless possibilities of cloud computing, data analytics, and security on Microsoft Azure. We believe the Azure platform offers rich possibilities. We keep pace by sharing our learning and doing deep-dive explorations of topics as a community of learners. We run the gamut from new to experienced users and welcome anyone who shares an interest in cloud scalable infrastructure, applications, tools, analytics, identity management, and security.

Some great perks to joining our monthly meetups are networking, knowledge transfer, and community building. We aim to foster a vibrant community that shares success in implementing best practices for Microsoft Azure.

Session Details: TBD - See Meetup for more details

Guest Speaker: Carter Rabasa Leading DevRel at DataStax, organizing events for developers at CascadiaJS and being a developer in my spare time. Former Microsoft & Twilio.

The Portland Azure User Group is a community of people excited about the endless possibilities of cloud computing, data analytics, and security on Microsoft Azure. We believe the Azure platform offers rich possibilities. We keep pace by sharing our learning and doing deep-dive explorations of topics as a community of learners. We run the gamut from new to experienced users and welcome anyone who shares an interest in cloud scalable infrastructure, applications, tools, analytics, identity management, and security.

Some great perks to joining our monthly meetups are networking, knowledge transfer, and community building. We aim to foster a vibrant community that shares success in implementing best practices for Microsoft Azure.

The Portland Azure User Group is a community of people excited about the endless possibilities of cloud computing, data analytics, and security on Microsoft Azure. We believe the Azure platform offers rich possibilities. We keep pace by sharing our learning and doing deep-dive explorations of topics as a community of learners. We run the gamut from new to experienced users and welcome anyone who shares an interest in cloud scalable infrastructure, applications, tools, analytics, identity management, and security.

Some great perks to joining our monthly meetups are networking, knowledge transfer, and community building. We aim to foster a vibrant community that shares success in implementing best practices for Microsoft Azure.

The Portland Azure User Group is a community of people excited about the endless possibilities of cloud computing, data analytics, and security on Microsoft Azure. We believe the Azure platform offers rich possibilities. We keep pace by sharing our learning and doing deep-dive explorations of topics as a community of learners. We run the gamut from new to experienced users and welcome anyone who shares an interest in cloud scalable infrastructure, applications, tools, analytics, identity management, and security.

Some great perks to joining our monthly meetups are networking, knowledge transfer, and community building. We aim to foster a vibrant community that shares success in implementing best practices for Microsoft Azure.