• 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.

Chad is a Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist in Silverlight 4 Development. Chad currently serves as one of the primary developers at ASG (www.asg.com) working on Energy Management solution for the Data Center built on top of WCF and Silverlight.  Chad takes an active interest in the local and online development communities and can be reached via his blog at: www.chadengland.com .

That’ll go down at our now usual spot, the Polaris Center – 1265 Creekside Parkway, Naples.

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

Many of you knew Russ Fustino as the Guy with the Toolshed. He’s now working for our newest Friend of the Community, GrapeCity.

He’s also toting around FlipCam and becoming the historian of the Florida .Dev Community. http://gvtv.gcpowertools.com/ has all of it – it’s a great site and you can keep an eye on what the community is up to.

He’ll do Silverlight Reporting on Thursday, 8/11 at the Polaris Center. We’re extremely happy to have him back.

We’ll see you there – Polaris Center is 1265 Creekside Parkway – Naples. We meet on the 4th Floor.

Follow after the jump for the bio and synopsis:

Topic: Reporting in Silverlight.

Join Russ Fustino as he takes a tour of the new ActiveReports 6 Silverlight Report Viewer.

He will show how this component is designed for reporting in Microsoft Silverlight 4 and higher. See how the Silverlight Report Viewer is simple, lightweight, flexible, localizable, and easy to customize for quick end user deployment. It includes these features:

• Preview reports loaded from a file, document stream, ASPX page, RPX Handler, or WCF service.
• End-user toolbar with Table of Contents (TOC), Thumbnails, Print, Search, Zoom, and Navigation buttons, plus you can add your own custom buttons.
• Printing support with an extra print-to-PDF option.
• Full UI customization with Themes. Use Silverlight Viewer XAML template to customize the look of the UI. We provide pre-customized templates in six useful themes.
• Localization support. Use resource files (*.resx) to create custom localizations of all text in the UI. We provide pre-localized satellite assemblies for Chinese, Japanese, and Russian.
• Out-of-browser support

Russ Fustino is a highly experienced software developer with a passion for conveying relevant, current, and future software development technologies and tools through live seminars, teaching, and internet video productions.  He enlightened, entertained and educated 100’s of Thousands of developers nationwide as a former Developer Evangelist for Microsoft. Russ now heads up Developer Evangelism at GrapeCity PowerTools Group as a Senior Developer Evangelist.

We’re not going to have a presenter. Instead, we’re just going to get together and help each other. We’ll have a projector, wifi, power, swag and food at the Polaris Center, 6:30pm.

Any issue, any question, any nerd problem that’s on your mind, come on down and we’ll try to work it out. Then we’ll have our usual social.

See you there!

Sorry for the lateness of the post, but it’s still a week to go before Kevin Wolf, Joe Healy, and SW Florida’s Windows Phone Developers convene at the Polaris Center for some good content and the power of community, centered on developing applications for Windows Phone 7, fun, and profit. Be sure to be at 1265 Creekside St in Naples, as soon as you can after work on Thursday, 6/23 – the Phone Garage will get underway early. Oh, yeah – someone will walk away from this Phone Garage in possession of an unlocked Dell Venue Pro WP7 phone for developing against. There are also smaller prizes for the rest of you.

Afterwards, be sure to join us at the Pub Naples, located in the Mercato, one Naples urban sprawl megablock away from the Polaris Center.

Looking forward to it!

- John

Greetings, Devs!

Sorry I’ve neglected the site this past month – April’s been busy. We Geek Dinnered last month, so this month will resume meetings. And we’ve got a good one going for this month, at the very end of it: Joe Healy will talk about what happened at Mix 2011 on Tuesday, May 31st.

We’ll also be breaking in a brand new meeting spot for May that’s a little more centrally located to our community. It’s about a half-hour north of our previous spot, and we predict great things.

This next meeting, and the rest of them for the foreseeable future, will all come to you courtesy of Arthrex, and will happen at the Polaris Center, 1265 Creekside Street, Naples, 34108 (actually the corner of Immokalee and Goodlette-Frank). Our meeting room is on the Fourth Floor.

Joe blogs at Devfish.

See you there!

Thanks, and welcome, new members!

John

Lots going on for March. We’ll break it down for you in order:

March 10th: SWFLPASS meets, 6:30pm – The Chapter will replay some of SQLPASS Summit’s Greatest Hits.

March 17th: SWFLDEV meets, 6:30pm – Group will host John Dunagan, presenting Bing Maps for the Web.

Both of those meetings will go at the W. Harmon Turner Administrative Building, 3299 E. Tamiami Trail, 5th Floor, Naples, 34112. It’s at the corner of Airport Road South and US Hwy 41. Parking is free and nearby.

Later in the month, our Code Camp season continues:

On March 19th, Tampa’s having an IT Pro Camp. If MCSE and servers are closer to what you do, head over here: Tampa IT Camp This hasn’t been done before that I know of, so check it out.

The following Saturday, 3/26, the mighty Orlando Code Camp goes. There’s still room to sign up if you haven’t, but do it quick: Orlando Code Camp. This is almost as big as South Florida, and every bit as fun. You should go.

We’re also starting planning for our Fourth Annual SW Florida Code Camp. If you want to help out with that, drop John a line.

Thanks so much for your support of Group and our development community!