• You can clean up your code by encapsulating mundane stuff like auth and exception handling into classes that you then apply with .Net attributes.
• You can follow that cool Ruby principle of not repeating yourself, in .Net.
• Your whole team can use the same attributes to standardize practices and frameworks.
• Your team doesn’t have to completely understand more complex procedures in order to use them as aspects.

Chad England has clearer explanations, and code samples he’ll be showing at his presentation on Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) at our February Group meeting. This presentation will also kick off our introduction of newest Friends of the Community, Sharpcrafters, makers of the PostSharp AOP tool.

PostSharp is in use at such enterprises as Siemens, Intel, eBay, Deutsche Bank and Telligent. People in attendance at Group will be eligible to win the raffle of a Postsharp Developer license at each meeting starting with February, 2012, until however long it lasts.

Polaris Center is at 1265 Creekside Parkway, Naples at the conjunction of Goodlette and Immokalee Roads. We generally meet in the 4th floor training room there.

Sorry – I’ve been hammered with everything.

YES, there is a meeting – tomorrow, in fact. I, your humble President, am going to relate my experience at the two-day developer conference in Ohio I attended, Codemash.

It’s at the Polaris Center, 4th Floor, 1265 Creekside Parkway in north Naples, FL. Meeting starts at 6:30pm.

Thanks,

John

The Introduction of Producing an Open Data Protocol (OData) feed for Data Access

The Open Data Protocol (OData) is an open protocol for sharing data. It provides a way to break down data silos and increase the shared value of data by creating an ecosystem in which data consumers can interoperate with data producers in a way that is far more powerful than currently possible, enabling more applications to make sense of a broader set of data. Every producer and consumer of data that participates in this ecosystem increases its overall value.

In this talk Chris will provide an introduction to this protocol, how to produce a OData service and finally how to implement an OData service on Windows using the WCF Data Services product.

Bio

Chris Woodruff (or Woody as he is commonly known as) has a degree in Computer Science from Michigan State University’s College of Engineering.

Woody has been developing and architecting software solutions for almost 15 years and has worked in many different platforms and tools. He is a community leader, helping such events as Day of .NET Ann Arbor and West Michigan Day of .NET. He was also instrumental in bringing the popular Give Camp event to Western Michigan where technology professionals lend their time and development expertise to assist local non-profits. As a speaker and podcaster, Woody has spoken and discussed a variety of topics, including database design and open source. He is a Microsoft MVP in Data Platform Development. Woody is the co-host of the popular podcast “Deep Fried Bytes <http://deepfriedbytes.com> ” and blogs at www.chriswoodruff.com. He is the President of the West Michigan .NET User Group and also is a co-founder of the software architecture online portal nPlus1.org.

At press time, it is unknown whether our customary spot on the 4^th floor will be fully remodeled and ready to host. If it is not, we’ll use the conference center on the 3^rd floor, which worked great for the 15 of us who turned out to hear Russ Fustino this month. You know for sure it’s at 1265 Creekside Parkway, and doors should be open around 6:00pm, so show up there, stay tuned for Adam’s sign, and stay frosty. Josef has already garnered many positive reviews of his presentation, and I’m sure this time will be highly enlightening and entertaining, as well.

See you there!

John

2/12: South(east) Florida Code Camp is in Davie, FL this year at Nova Southeastern University. http://www.fladotnet.com/codecamp for registration.

2/15: Chris Eargle reveals “Secrets of a .Net Ninja” at Group, 6:30pm, at the Harmon – Building F, 3299 Tamiami Trail E., Naples, 34112 – 5th floor. Free parking next door in the garage.

1/18 SWFL SQL User Group at Harmon: Kevin Kline, 10 Things About SQL Server that .Net Devs Should Know

1/20 .Net Group at Harmon: Jay Kimble, Intro to Silverlight Development on the Windows Phone 7

Harmon is the Harmon Administrative Building of Collier County Government, located at the southern terminus of Airport-Pulling Road, where it intersects with East Hwy 41 (Tamiami Trail). The street address is 3301 Tamiami Trail East, Naples, FL 34112. The Building is designated F, and the Training Room is on the 5th Floor. Parking is available in the Parking garage next door.

February kicks off the Code Camp season. Southeast Florida .Net Code Camp February 12^th at Nova University in Fort Lauderdale.  The week after that for our February meeting, we’re efforting Chris Eargle, freshly minted .Net Ninja at Telerik and an MVP from Columbia, SC. His presentation is aptly titled, ‘Secrets of a .Net Ninja’, and we’ll have a few of the Ninja style coosh balls on hand from Telerik. I may even bring a camera so that we can get a picture of the coosh ball and the real .Net Ninja at the same time.

March is the month of Orlando Code Camp, March 26^th at Seminole Community College in Lake Mary (on the east side of the city). ONETUG has done this camp for a long, LONG time, and it’s extremely good. Scott Klein will be here for the SQL Group, and we’re efforting David McNamee from Microsoft.

Our regular User Group meetings resume with the triumphant return of Max Trinidad to SW Florida, giving us a digestible, accessible tour of some excellent technology in “Working with Powershell,” coming to our usual spot at 2210 Vanderbilt Beach Road, Naples on Tuesday, October 26th, at 6:30pm. Doors will open at 6pm.

Max, for those of you unfamiliar, is a Microsoft MVP for Powershell and the foremost expert on that topic in the Florida .Net developer community. MVP profile

Best idea for a Windows Phone 7 Application (non-corporate owned) for the Marketplace, as voted on by those present at the August Group Meeting (on 8/17/2010, at Ingage Networks, 2210 Vanderbilt Beach Road, Naples – doors at 6pm, presentation starts at 6:30pm), gets:

• an MSDN Ultimate Subscription
• the last half of Kevin Wolf (@bytemaster)’s presentation devoted to getting you started.

Must be present to win. Can, however, think it up on the fly during the first hour, but do not interrupt Kevin with questions about your idea. And I can tell who’s come to Group, and who’s just there to stack the vote.

Decisions of the President are final.