Saturday, January 24, 2004

Presented at the Chattanooga Area .Net User Group   On January 13, I had the opportunity to present at the Chattanooga Area .NET User Group.  This is one of the trips where you are glad to be from Tennessee as Chattanooga is located on the east side of the state and is much prettier than Memphis (which is on the West side of the state).  On top of that, this UG has it going on!   Eric King is the leader and founder of the group.  They have an average of 80 attendees which places them on a list of above average user groups in the U.S.  Plus, Eric is passionate about community efforts and thus is on INETA's UG Relations Committee.   Eric and I had lunch together where we discussed INETA, differences between his UG and the Memphis group, Quilogy, and Atomic.  Afterwards, we had an interview filmed for a upcoming INETA UG leader resource CD.  He asked me several questions about being an RD, on the INETA Speakers Bureau, and running an user group.  It was enjoyable and I appreciate that he thought my opinions are of value in this initiative.   That evening at the UG meeting, I did the first take on a new presentation that I recently created.  Titled the same as our book "Building Solutions with .NET Compact Framework", the presentation is structured just as the book.  We start out looking at the Mobile Development Landscape, then the Architectural Principles of PDA Development, and then explore Developer Challenges.  I believe the topic was well received and hopefully it had an impact towards getting others to look at this type of development.  My big demo of the night is a desktop application that talks to a cradled Pocket PC, enables .NETCF profiling (a little known secret), pulls back the performance report, and displays in a ListView control on the desktop.  It uses a library from OpenNetCF that allows a developer to use RAPI to do several things including a managed interface to CeCreateProcess, CeRegistryXXX functions, and CeFileCopy.  .NET and VS helps me do the rest.   Thanks, Eric, for a wonderful trip.  I don't mind coming back to Chattanooga anytime!  Eric's contact info is below:   Eric C. King Leader / Founder Chattanooga Area .Net User Group http://www.chadnug.org INETA UG Relations Committee http://www.ineta.org   10:41:53 AM    comment []

Free .NET Performance and Scalability Resource An update from Ron Jacobs, Patterns & Practices, Product Manager … As product manager for the platform architecture guidance team I hear a few messages consistently from our customers and partners.  One message we have heard loud and clear is that our customers need help in building high performance, high scale systems with .NET.  I'm happy to tell you that the team which brought you "Building Secure ASP.NET applications" and "Improving Web Application Security" has been hard at work on a new guide called "Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability".  With over 900 pages of in-depth guidance on all major areas of .NET, this guide is sure to become essential reading for every serious .NET developer. As we near the end of our time to work on this guide we need everyone to download the content, take a look and give us your feedback.  You can also download a slide deck suitable for presenting the guide at events and user groups.  Feel free to customize the slides to suit your presentation style.  You can access the content at our workspace http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/perfscal.  Thanks for your support. Ron Jacobs, Product Manager Platform Architecture Guidance   2:12:42 AM    comment []

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