Join us Thursday, May 9, 2013 for a great evening of learning and connecting with other developers. Free food and socializing starts at 6:00 PM, the lecture begins at 6:30 PM, followed by a drawing for free stuff. Everybody likes free food and free stuff, right?

Location: Vaco Training Room, 5410 Maryland Way, Suite 110, Brentwood, TN 37027

Topic: AOP for You and Me

Cross-cutting concerns are everywhere: caching, logging, transactions, and more. These can make your code a tangled, scattered mess.

In this presentation, I will define cross-cutting concerns, and show you techniques to refactor cross-cutting concerns, including dependency injection; the decorator pattern; and Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) tools like Castle DynamicProxy and PostSharp. I’ll explain the benefits and trade-offs of each design decision so that you will be confidently prepared to master cross-cutting concerns.

Speaker: Matthew Groves

Matthew D. Groves is a guy who loves to code. It doesn’t matter if it’s “enterprisey” C# apps, cool jQuery stuff, contributing to OSS, or rolling up his sleeves to dig into some PHP. He has been coding professionally ever since he wrote a QuickBASIC point-of-sale app for his parent’s pizza shop back in the 90s. He currently works from home on the Telligent product team, and loves spending time with his wife and 2 kids, watching the Cincinnati Reds, and getting involved in the developer community. He is the author of Aspect-Oriented Programming in .NET (published by Manning), and also teaches at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. You can find him on Twitter as @mgroves, LinkedIn, and Google+.

Join us Thursday, April 11, 2013 for a great evening of learning and connecting with other developers. Free food and socializing starts at 6:00 PM, the lecture begins at 6:30 PM, followed by a drawing for free stuff. Everybody likes free food and free stuff, right?

Vaco in Brentwood is our meeting location winner. Given that more and more .NET jobs are located in the Brentwood/Franklin area, Vaco would be a better location long-term. I know for some of you it has been frustrating fighting traffic into downtown Nashville, especially when there are other events taking place downtown.

Location: Vaco Training Room, 5410 Maryland Way, Suite 110, Brentwood, TN 37027

Topic: Windows Azure Platform

Microsoft’s Windows Azure is the computing and storage platform that lets you build and run applications in the Microsoft Cloud, launch them in minutes instead of months and code them in multiple languages and technologies including .NET languages such as VB.NET and C#, Node.js, Java, PHP and Python.

This presentation will provide an overview of the key features of the platform and the tools used to develop applications that run on the platform. It will also cover determining the applications that are appropriate to move to the cloud and will discuss Cloud implementation models such as Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS).

Speaker: Bill Zack

Bill Zack is currently an independent Consultant specializing in Cloud Computing and Microsoft .NET technologies. He has acted as a Senior Architect and Consultant with a major New York consulting firm where he drove Cloud strategy, architecture and execution for customers on both Windows Azure and Amazon Web Services. Previously, as a Principal Architect Evangelist for Microsoft, he worked extensively with customers and partners to help them design, build, and move applications to the Windows Azure Cloud Platform. He is an author and a frequent public speaker at conferences and user groups on Cloud and .NET technology. He also is one of the leaders of the NYC/NJ Windows Azure User Group, the NYC .NET Developers Group, and the New York Chapter of the International Association of Software Architects.

Join us Thursday, March 14, 2013 for a great evening of learning and connecting with other developers. Free food and socializing starts at 6:00 PM, the lecture begins at 6:30 PM, followed by a drawing for free stuff. Everybody likes free food and free stuff, right?

Location: 5410 Maryland Way, Suite 110, Brentwood, TN 37027

Test-Driven Development

Test-Driven Development is a software development process which lends itself to building highly flexible and maintainable code. For this lecture we’ll cover the following topics:

• Tools
  • Mocking frameworks
  • Test frameworks
  • Code refactoring and productivity tools
  • Dependency Injection / IoC frameworks
• Writing a test in MSTest with the Arrange Act Assert test pattern
• Red, Green, Refactor
• Refactoring your test
• BDD
• Writing a BDD style spec in MSpec
• Pairing with TDD/BDD
• Wiring it all up with your favorite DI framework

About Colin Callahan

Colin Callahan is the CEO of Acklen Avenue, an agile software development company focused on delivering flexible code through an iterative process. For 12 years Colin has been building software for clients around the Nashville area. He is also the co-founder of Nashville’s Geek Jam were software developers and other geeks get together and play music.

About David Sulpy

David Sulpy, the CISO of Acklen Avenue, moved to Nashville from Atlanta to study Computer Science and Information Systems. After undergraduate school, he began his career immediately as a software engineer building experience before returning for a Master’s Degree in Information Security. Taking an interest in information security and best practices as they relate specifically to software engineering has become Sulpy’s passion. Outside of work, he enjoys coaching and playing ice hockey, supporting the Preds, playing ultimate frisbee, and all things neuroscience related.