MIX10 last month had a plethora of amazing announcements for the .NET world, including Windows Phone 7 development with Silverlight and XNA, Internet Explorer 9 with support for HTML5, the Open Data Protocol (OData), new developments with Windows Azure, and more. Come check out the latest and greatest with plenty of demos!

WHO: Corrina Black Corrina Black grew up sketching pictures and cartoons, but didn’t turn to design until she discovered the Web and taught herself to design and code simple websites. She focused instinctively on user flow, interaction, and attractive solutions. Corrina is currently a UX Designer on the Microsoft Developer Division team. To broaden her impact, Corrina pursued a software engineering degree to combine with her passion for user experience design. For Corrina, user experience is what matters. A product that doesn’t solve a problem, is difficult to use, and doesn’t draw the user in, regardless of how amazing the technology, will fail.

TOPIC: Creating Great UX with Expression Blend Corrina will do an intro to Blend and walkthrough the process of creating a great user experience; this will involve SketchFlow because detailing and iterating on user flow, layout, and animations and transitions prior to full-scale implementation is key to great UX design and this is done in tools like SketchFlow. She will also likely walkthrough the process of building a simple application in Blend to show the core functionality of Blend (maybe create a phone application).

Warmup - The Reactive Framework (Rx) in Silverlight At the beginning of the meeting (6pm) our own Eric Sterling of Vertigo will be giving a short introduction to Rx. Have you had trouble writing asynchronous code (including unit testing code)? If so, Rx offers a compelling and syntactically attractive way of handling events.

Andrew Hay: Making a Mockery of .NET

Andrew Hay is a developer, speaker, author, dad, husband and Chief Belly Scratcher of the family dog. He started over 15 years ago by supporting mainframe assembly language programs which exceeded his own age. A few years after this initial shock treatment, he hooked his wagon to something called Active Server Pages and has been riding the gravy train on the Microsoft platform ever since. Andrew has been an active member of PADNUG since moving from Chicago to Portland in 2002 and he currently works as a developer at Vertigo Software, Inc.

TOPIC:
Making a Mockery of .NET In a return to showing some good ol' code in Visual Studio, Andrew will present a blend of unit testing topics. First, a quick level-set with a sampling of seasoned and fresh unit test frameworks. Next, the discussion will advance to mock object frameworks, and then round out the evening with parameterized unit test frameworks. You'll examine tools like NUnit, Rhino Mocks, MOQ, Typemock Isolator, as well as some Visual Studio 2010 tools including Pex and Moles, two clever incubation projects from Microsoft Research.

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WHEN: Tuesday 07/06/2010 6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium) 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at Cornelius Pass Roadhouse

WHO:
Chris Goldfarb Chris Goldfarb is a dev for the Intel Information Technology group, and has been writing software for 14 years. .NET has been Chris' main focus since the pre-beta bits were released, and has both developed applications and trained others on the framework. Chris has presented software engineering topics at technical conferences such as the Microsoft Professional Developer's Conference, Intel Developers Group and the Portland Area .NET User Group, which he founded.

He has held positions as board member of the Intel e-Business Group .NET Taskforce and the Technical Infrastructure committee of the International .NET Association (INETA). Chris is Microsoft Certified in .NET and has been Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Visual C# for 4 years.

Prior to joining Intel in January 2001, he engineered mission-critical applications for the United States Air Force, United States Strategic Command. Primarily using Java, C++, and Ada, these applications included early-warning, ballistic missile flight path, and nuclear readiness assessment systems.

TOPIC:
MEF?!? Another 3-char acronym out of Microsoft? What is it and why should you care? How does it help deliver extensible applications? How is it different than traditional IoC containers, and what are some scenarios where you would use one over the other, or even both at once? How do you use MEF, and what are some potentials gotchas and considerations for implementation?

In this session learn all this and more. In fact, since nothing beats writing code to learn, bring a laptop with VS2010 RTM installed and help me build a composite application in real-time!

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Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Details to follow, but do you really need to know anything else? I mean really - Karl Shifflett! If you have any interest at all in WPF, I'd show up for this one.

See Karl's blog at http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/

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.

Please join us for Paul’s talk on WPF data binding!

WHEN: Tuesday 9/7/2010 6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium) 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at TBD

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

WHO: Paul Sheriff Paul D. Sheriff is the President of PDSA, Inc. (http://www.pdsa.com), a Microsoft Partner in Southern California. Paul acts as the Microsoft Regional Director for Southern California assisting the local Microsoft offices with several of their events each year and being an evangelist for them. Paul has authored several books, webcasts, videos and articles on .NET, SQL Server and SharePoint. Paul can be reached via email at [email protected] or at Paul Sheriff's Inner Circle (www.PaulSheriffInnerCircle.com).

TOPIC: WPF Data Binding from A to Z There are many ways to bind controls in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) to the data from your database, xml files or your own classes. This seminar will explore many ways to retrieve and present data using data binding. You will see examples of loading data into combo boxes, list views, and how to filter data using the ObjectDataProvider. You will learn how to populate WPF controls using a DataTable, Collection Classes, XML, LINQ to SQL and the Entity Framework. In addition a simple add, edit, delete form will be presented.

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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?

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Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

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.

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Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

TOPIC: Mobile: The Market, The Web, and Windows Phone’s Future There are few things more frustrating than reading the tech press in the United States try to cover the mobile market. First Microsoft’s mobile efforts are going nowhere. Six months later, it will be bigger than the iPhone by 2015. Say what?

Let’s back up for a moment from the day-to-day horse race coverage of Android versus iPhone and look at what the big picture trends are in the mobile market. What makes mobile unique? What makes a mobile product successful? And finally does Microsoft have a chance to get back into the mobile game?

Jason Grigsby was one of the project leads on the Obama iPhone Application and helped design the user inferface for the Wall Street Journal's Blackberry application. He founded and organizes Mobile Portland, a local mobile group.

Jason is a co-founder of Cloud Four, a small start-up focused on mobile and web development. He blogs at http://CloudFour.com/blog and provides frequent updates about mobile as @grigs on Twitter.

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.

Presented by Michael Kennedy.

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.

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Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

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

Despite some civic event going on this coming Tuesday, we've got some of your favorite presenters coming to bring you highlights from the //build/ Conference!

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

WHEN: Tuesday 11/06/2012 6:00 p.m. Pizza 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHO: Stuart Celarier Darren Freimuth MJ Johnson Chris Sells Kelly White

TOPIC: //build/ is happening RIGHT NOW and not everyone in the group went :(. So, what we can do is bring several of the folks that are going to //build/ in to the meeting and get everything out of their brains that we can!

We'll start with each panelist giving a brief description of what he found that was 'cool'. Then, we will open up the floor to questions and interaction with the audience! I fully expect some demos, too!

This should be a great lead-in to our "Code with the Experts" event on Saturday, November 10! It was a great event in Redmond so sign up to attend here in Portland: http://bit.ly/CodeWTExpertsPDX

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TEKsystems People you can trust. Results you can count on. http://www.teksystems.com/locations/teksystems-united-states/portland

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Vircon, Inc. Technical Solutions That Mean Business http://www.vircon.com/

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Rich (Jesse is at //build/ :)) PADNUG President

As we normally do in December, we will be having a little bit of EXTRA fun for the meeting!

First, we will be having a much broader food choice than our normal pizza! We'll have a selection of pastas and salads to make your mouth water. Don't worry, though - we'll have a few token pizzas for the die-hards among us :).

Second, Kelly White will be presenting "WinPhone 8 In-App Purchases". This is the critical monetization mechanism for developers today on mobile devices. Windows Phone 8 adds comprehensive support that opens a new world of opportunity to developers. He'll discuss this feature in depth during this session, including demos for implementation and testing!

Third - and I'm really excited about this - our swag pile this month includes a BRAND NEW MICROSOFT SURFACE!!! Seriously!

Finally, we’ll wrap up our evening with After Words at the new BJs Restaurant and Brewhouse at the corner of Cornell and Cornelius Pass Road.

Do NOT miss out on this meeting!

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

WHEN: Tuesday 12/04/2012 6:00 p.m. Italian Buffet 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at BJs Restaurant and Brewhouse

As usual, thanks go out to our Premium Sponsors that help make these meetings possible:

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EnGn A Generator Group Company http://www.theengn.com/

Infragistics Design / Develop / Experience http://www.infragistics.com/

jenkon New World. New Solution. http://www.jenkon.com/

Microsoft Helping you realize your full potential http://www.microsoft.com/

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OrcsWeb Remarkable Service. Remarkable Support. http://www.orcsweb.com/

O'Reilly Spreading the knowledge of innovators. http://www.oreilly.com/

pluralsight Hardcore developer training http://pluralsight.com/training/

TEKsystems People you can trust. Results you can count on. http://www.teksystems.com/locations/teksystems-united-states/portland

Telerik Deliver more than expected http://www.telerik.com/

VanderHouwen & Associates, Inc. VHA specializes in the placement of Software Developers. http://www.vanderhouwen.com/

Vircon, Inc. Technical Solutions That Mean Business http://www.vircon.com/

It's Nerd Dinner time again! We'll gather at Washington Square Mall in the food court. Be There and Be Square!

It's Nerd Dinner time again! We'll gather at Washington Square Mall in the food court. Be There and Be Square!

It's Nerd Dinner time again! We'll gather at Washington Square Mall in the food court. Be There and Be Square!

• The outstanding Walt Ritscher presenting!
• Qdoba Oregon is catering the event!
• Sponsored After Words at the NEW Thirsty Lion Pub & Grill - Tanasbourne!
• Giving away a Xbox One Day One Edition!!!

Pure AWESOME! NOTE: We're meeting in a different venue than normal

Presentation: WPF is the go-to UI tool for building stunning, interactive Windows desktop application. Sure, HTML 5 and Windows Store Apps (aka Metro) get most of the publicity nowadays, but corporate developers across the world are quietly building impressive LOB apps with WPF.

Microsoft implemented a lot of new features in WPF 4.5. Join Walt for an information packed session showcasing many of these improved features. Topics include the new Visual Studio 2013 XAML editor enhancements, threading and collection changes. Live Shaping of bound data, weak events, and data-binding improvements.

Schedule

6:00 p.m. Qdoba Burrito Bar
6:30 p.m. Business and Intro
7:00 p.m. Presentation
8:15 p.m. Swag drawing including the Xbox One
8:45 p.m. After Words at the new Tanasbourne Thirsty Lion
- Brought to you by I.T. Motives, TEKsystems, and VanderHouwen & Associates

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Microsoft | Helping you realize your full potential

New Relic RPM | A developer's best friend

O'Reilly Media | Spreading the knowledge of innovators.

ServerLogic | We're Passionate About IT!

TEKsystems | People you can trust. Results you can count on.

Telerik | Deliver more than expected

VanderHouwen & Associates, Inc.| VHA specializes in the placement of Software Developers

Welch Allyn | Experience what a career should feel like.

It's Nerd Dinner time again! We'll gather at Washington Square Mall in the food court. Be There and Be Square!

It's Nerd Dinner time again! We'll gather at Washington Square Mall in the food court. Be There and Be Square!

It's Nerd Dinner time again! We'll gather at Washington Square Mall in the food court. Be There and Be Square!

Welcome to the PADNUG Not-West meeting! We've had people clamoring for some content on the other side of the hills and there are now people who can help make that happen! This is an experiment, for sure, but one we hope can be a regular feature.

If you love C# and .NET, you may be surprised to see how many of the features you love also exist in Python (often first). Python is a wonderful language. It is a clean high-level language which values readability over many trade-offs. You can build web applications serving billions of monthly page views. You can build cross-platform GUI applications such as DropBox. You can access amazingly powerful database servers such as MongoDB and SQL Server. But did you know many of the things you absolutely love about C# also exist in Python? Lambda expressions - check. foreach loops - check. Rich class library - check. Iterators - check. And there is more. Come learn about all the things you love from C# and see how they are accomplished in Python.

• WHERE: Microsoft Portland Office (Pearl District) 1414 NW Northrup St Portland, OR 97209-2798

• WHEN: Thursday 02/20/2014 6:00 p.m. Pizza 6:30 p.m. Business and Intro 7:00 p.m. Presentation 8:45 p.m. After Words TBD

---- SPONSORS: ----------------------------------- Thanks to our Premium Sponsors that help make our meetings possible:

azad Technology Partners | Technology Consulting - Engineering - Project Management | Committed to Your Success

Cinetopia | Why watch a movie in coach when you can see it in first class?

Infragistics | Design / Develop / Experience

ISITE Design | a digital agency

Microsoft | Helping you realize your full potential

New Relic | A developer's best friend

O'Reilly | Spreading the knowledge of innovators.

ServerLogic | http://serverlogic.com/ | We're Passionate About IT!

TEKsystems | People you can trust. Results you can count on.

Telerik | Deliver more than expected

VanderHouwen & Associates, Inc. | VHA specializes in the placement of Software Developers

Welch Allyn | Experience what a career should feel like.

It's Nerd Dinner time again! We'll gather at Washington Square Mall in the food court. Be There and Be Square!

It's Nerd Dinner time again! We'll gather at Washington Square Mall in the food court. Be There and Be Square!

It's Nerd Dinner time again! We'll gather at Washington Square Mall in the food court. Be There and Be Square!

It's Nerd Dinner time again! We'll gather at Washington Square Mall in the food court. Be There and Be Square!

It's Nerd Dinner time again! We'll gather at Washington Square Mall in the food court. Be There and Be Square!

It's Nerd Dinner time again! We'll gather at Washington Square Mall in the food court. Be There and Be Square!

It's Nerd Dinner time again! We'll gather at Washington Square Mall in the food court. Be There and Be Square!

It's Nerd Dinner time again! We'll gather at Washington Square Mall in the food court. Be There and Be Square!

It's Nerd Dinner time again! We'll gather at Washington Square Mall in the food court. Be There and Be Square!

It's Nerd Dinner time again! We'll gather at Washington Square Mall in the food court. Be There and Be Square!

Come join us to watch the keynote address of the Microsoft Build 2015 Conference Day 1, streamed live from San Francisco!

Microsoft has been getting a lot of press lately for revitalizing their business and taking a leadership role in innovation in many key areas [0]. There have been several announcements in the run up to the Build 2015 Developer Conference, from Docker support and Nano Servers [1], to Surface 3 and Azure Service Fabric. Whether your interest is in Windows 10, cloud computing, developer tools, open source, or DevOps -- it is safe to say that Microsoft has more than likely saved up some exciting announcements for the Day 1 keynote at Build [2]. Come join your peers and watch the live stream at the Microsoft Portland office. Stay after the keynote for a free box lunch, discussion, and conversation.

And, of course, there is free wi-fi so you can stay connected with your day job back in the office.

Coffee and morning treats sponsored by Neudesic. Box lunch sponsored by the Microsoft Regional Directors program.

This event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited so please RSVP today.

Agenda 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM : Registration, coffee, morning snack 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM : Build 2015 Keynote streamed live 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM : Lunch and discussion

In this course Microsoft's Jeremy Foster gives an introduction to the world of IoT - the Internet of Things. We’ll get definitions for various IoT terms and some bold predictions of the future where the internet is not so much a collection of devices as it is a collection of sensors and gadgets attached to people, vehicles, houses, and a lot more. And we’ll also get the basics of how to write software for these devices using the familiar and rather high level JavaScript language on Node.js. This means that instead of writing difficult code in languages such as C or Wiring, modern IoT hackers can write easy code and have access to the vast number of node modules that already exist. As an example project, you’ll meet Tweet Monkey and see what little it takes to put together your own maker project.

• WHERE: Intel Hawthorne Farms 3 (HF3)
  5200 NE Elam Young Pkwy
  Hillsboro, OR 97124
  Map: http://binged.it/1s9UR5T
  

• WHEN: Tuesday 06/02/2015
  6:00 p.m. Pizza and Networking
  6:30 p.m. Business and Intro Presentation
  7:00 p.m. Main Presentation
  ~8:30 p.m. After Words at Thirsty Lion

Jim Calder is the Data Center Hosting Manager at Daimler Trucks North America. Daimler has had some unique challenges in modernizing their onprem data center and leveraging their skills as they migrate their telematics/IoT workstreams to the cloud. Jim’s team has some interesting insights from an IT point of view that the developers in the audience may find both enlightening and a little shocking!