Meetings held the first Tuesday of each month at 5:30 PM- University of Northern Iowa - Business and Community Services building.
CVINETA presentations will alternate between more traditional .NET topics geared towards developers and broader foundational presentations with project managers, architects, and IT professionals that support and work with the .NET infrastructure (SQL Server, IIS, security, etc…).
To see more about CVINETA's mission see our FAQ
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| March 2nd meeting rescheduled for March 9th. - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 All other details related to the meeting are the same.
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| March 2nd Meeting - Sunday, February 21, 2010The March 2nd meeting on ugPDC will be at Team Technologies.
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| Death of founding CVINETA officer. - Friday, February 12, 2010 OELWEIN - Todd VanDenHul, 42, of Oelwein died suddenly at his home on Tuesday morning (Feb. 9, 2010).
Funeral services will be held 2:30 p.m. Saturday Feb. 13, at Zion Lutheran Church in Oelwein with the Rev. Charis Combs-Lay officiating. Inurnment at a later date.
Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday and after 1:30 p.m. on Saturday at Zion Lutheran Church, Oelwein.
Jamison-Schmitz Funeral Home has been entrusted to care for Todd and his family.
A memorial fund has been established in his name.
Online obituary can be found at www.jamisonschmitzfuneralhome.com.
Todd Micheal VanDenHul was born on July 6, 1967, at Mason City, the son of Max "Mike" and Sandra Kay (Graff) VanDenHul Jr. He graduated from Thompson High School in 1985 and then attended the University of Northern Iowa at Cedar Falls for three years.
Todd was united in marriage to Tina Marie Bilden on Aug. 11, 1990, at Thompson. Todd worked at M.C.P. Computer Project at UNI for 10 years and then at A.S.I. Computer Systems Inc. at Cedar Falls for the past 15 years. Todd and his family moved to Oelwein in 1996.
He was a member of Zion Lutheran Church in Oelwein. In 2009 Todd was a founding officer of the CVineta Computer Networking Group in the Cedar Valley.
Todd is survived by his wife, Tina VanDenHul of Oelwein; children, Keisha (Alex) Mahoney of Oelwein, Micheal, Tyler and Ariana VanDenHul, all at home; his mother, Sandra VanDenHul, of Mason City; four siblings, Kim (Scott) Norstrud of Thompson, Chad VanDenHul of Mason City, Staci (Ray) Stump of Mason City and Michele (Lonnie) Hahle of Mason City; numerous nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.
Todd was preceded in death by his father, maternal grandparents: Marcus and Florence Graff and paternal grandparents: Max and Nellie VanDenHul.
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| Source Control Meeting on January 12th - Thursday, December 31, 2009Our January meeting will be a two part meeting covering Source Control topics!
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| Next Meeting, December 1st on Sharepoint - Tuesday, November 24, 2009Speaker: Todd Klindt
Topic: What can SharePoint 2010 do for me?
Topic Description: Writing web applications can sometimes cause a lot of pain if you're looking to add a rich and dynamic user interface.
SharePoint 2010 is all the buzz right now. How is it an improvement over SharePoint 2007? I'll give you a crash course in SharePoint 2010 from the Admin and end user angles. I'll show you the new functionality as well as what's improved on existing functionality. We'll spend a lot of time in the SharePoint 2010 interface poking around and seeing what's in there.
Speaker Bio: Todd has been a professional computer nerd for 15 years, specializing in SharePoint for the last five years. His love affair with SharePoint began one slow day at the office when he discovered SharePoint Team Services 1.0 on the Office XP CD and decided to install it. The rest is history. In 2006 he was honored to be awarded the MVP award from Microsoft for Windows SharePoint Services. He has had the pleasure of working with SharePoint farms both large small. He has written several books and magazine articles on SharePoint. Todd has presented sessions on SharePoint at many major conferences both in the United States as well as Europe and Asia and does the user group circuit as well. He chronicles his SharePoint adventures on his blog.
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| Microsoft Professional Developer Conference Underway and ugPDC on the Way!!! - Tuesday, November 17, 2009As you probably know, the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference has kicked off in Los Angeles today. For three days, the latest Microsoft developer technologies will be on display and the future of the platform will be laid out. PDC is a great conference, but not everyone can make it, but that doesn’t mean you have to be left out! There are two exciting ways you can participate in PDC and keep up to date on the latest and greatest information regarding things like .NET, Visual Studio, Silverlight, and more.
First, you can watch many of the PDC keynotes and sessions online via the PDC website. Just check out http://microsoftpdc.com for a complete listing of keynotes, sessions, and more that will be made available either live or on demand following the conference. This is a great way to get all of the detailed information that is being covered at the conference.
But what if you can’t take the time during the day to watch a session or a keynote? Or maybe you aren’t sure of what you should check out and wish there was a way to just get the more important highlights? Lucky for you, the Cedar Valley .NET User Group will be hosting a user group PDC event in March 2010. This “ugPDC” event will provide you a great way to spend an evening networking with fellow developers while seeing the highlights of the PDC conference.
Our local ugPDC event is delivered in partnership with Microsoft and more details concerning the agenda, registration, and cool prizes will be coming as we get closer to the event. Make sure to put it on your calendar and we look forward to seeing you there!
Tell a friend about these other great ugPDC events:
Cedar Rapids .NET User Group March 2010
Des Moines .NET User Group January 2010
Dubuque .NET User Group January 2010
Jefferson City .NET User Group January 2010
Kansas City .NET User Group January 2010
Lincoln .NET User Group January 2010
Mankato .NET User Group February 2010
Minneapolis .NET User Group February 2010
Omaha .NET User Group January 2010
Saint Louis .NET User Group November 2009
Springfield .NET User Group November 2009
Dallas .NET User Group February 2010
Dallas ASP.NET User Group February 2010
Fort Worth .NET User Group January 2010
Knoxville .NET User Group December 2009
Findlay .NET User Group December 2009
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| Microsoft Professional Developer Conference Underway and ugPDC on the Way!!! - Tuesday, November 17, 2009As you probably know, the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference has kicked off in Los Angeles today. For three days, the latest Microsoft developer technologies will be on display and the future of the platform will be laid out. PDC is a great conference, but not everyone can make it, but that doesn’t mean you have to be left out! There are two exciting ways you can participate in PDC and keep up to date on the latest and greatest information regarding things like .NET, Visual Studio, Silverlight, and more.
First, you can watch many of the PDC keynotes and sessions online via the PDC website. Just check out http://microsoftpdc.com for a complete listing of keynotes, sessions, and more that will be made available either live or on demand following the conference. This is a great way to get all of the detailed information that is being covered at the conference.
But what if you can’t take the time during the day to watch a session or a keynote? Or maybe you aren’t sure of what you should check out and wish there was a way to just get the more important highlights? Lucky for you, the Cedar Valley .NET User Group will be hosting a user group PDC event in March 2010. This “ugPDC” event will provide you a great way to spend an evening networking with fellow developers while seeing the highlights of the PDC conference.
Our local ugPDC event is delivered in partnership with Microsoft and more details concerning the agenda, registration, and cool prizes will be coming as we get closer to the event. Make sure to put it on your calendar and we look forward to seeing you there!
Tell a friend about these other great ugPDC events:
Cedar Rapids .NET User Group March 2010
Des Moines .NET User Group January 2010
Dubuque .NET User Group January 2010
Jefferson City .NET User Group January 2010
Kansas City .NET User Group January 2010
Lincoln .NET User Group January 2010
Mankato .NET User Group February 2010
Minneapolis .NET User Group February 2010
Omaha .NET User Group January 2010
Saint Louis .NET User Group November 2009
Springfield .NET User Group November 2009
Dallas .NET User Group February 2010
Dallas ASP.NET User Group February 2010
Fort Worth .NET User Group January 2010
Knoxville .NET User Group December 2009
Findlay .NET User Group December 2009
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| October 6th Meeting article in Courier - Thursday, October 08, 2009 |
| November 10th Meeting - Thursday, October 08, 2009 Chris Missal will present on using jQuery to Create Rich Internet Applications.
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| October 6th presenter announced - Tuesday, September 22, 2009 |
| September 1st presentor announced - Tuesday, August 25, 2009Continuous Integration (CI) is a foundational process for any software development team. In Joel Spolsky's "12 Steps to Better Code" it occupies steps 2 & 3. Martin Fowler describes it as one of the core XP practices, alongside Unit Testing and Refactoring. He has also written one of the classic CI papers called "Continuous Integration" that clearly builds the case for CI. Steve McConnell also recommends it as a best practice for development teams.
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| Meeting August 4 on Unit Testing - Monday, July 20, 2009 Do you feel left behind by the talk of unit tests. This introductory crash course in unit tests will get you up to speed quickly on unit testing theory, the common frameworks available for you to use, other helpful tools, and how to get started your next day back at work. We'll take this newly formed knowledge and use it to write some tests against some previously untested code. After this session you will not only have a better grasp of why you would want to unit test your code but also how you do so.
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| SQL Saturday Schedule For This Fall - Sunday, June 28, 2009 |
| Topic for July 7th meeting - Monday, June 08, 2009Thanks to ACES for Sponsoring July's meeting.
Our speaker is: Javier Lozano
Topic: The Zen of ASP.NET and MVC
Topic description:
The Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern has been around for over 20 years and has predominantly been the pattern-poster-child for web frameworks, such as Ruby on Rails, Struts, SpringMVC and recently ASP.NET.
In this session will we cover how Microsoft's implementation of this pattern on the .NET platform, ASP.NET MVC, changes and enhances the way we approach web development by making it more specific, yet simple at the same time.
If you're a web developer that's either curious or seasoned on this old new thing, this session is definitely worth checking out.
Spearker Bio:
Javier is an ASP Insider and MVP that specializes in ASP.NET, system architecture, and training. During the day, he enjoys helping Imagetek, an enterprise content management provider based in Grimes, Iowa, to deliver quality products and services to their clients.
Outside of work, Javier has helped co-found the Iowa .NET Users Group as well as the Iowa Code Camp along with communities and open source projects.
On his blog, http://blog.lozanotek.com, you can find posts on ASP.NET, development practices, architecture, and design patterns just to name a few topics. Javier is an avid supporter of the community and likes to give back by speaking at user groups, local/regional .NET events, participating in forums, and by writing articles.
In his spare time, Javier loves spending time with his family and enjoys writing about himself in the third person.
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| Michelle Ufford will present at our June 2 meeting. - Wednesday, May 13, 2009Our speaker is: Michelle Ufford
Topic: SQL Server for the .NET Developer
Topic description:
Most .NET developers will inevitably work with SQL Server in some form or another. Many will even be asked to create tables and stored procedures to support their applications. This session will focus on what every .NET developer should understand about SQL Server. We'll cover the basics, such as good table design and efficient queries, and we'll touch on some indexing concepts, too. Then we'll wrap up with some strategies for developing high volume SQL Server applications.
Spearker Bio:
Michelle Ufford is a Sr. SQL Server DBA for GoDaddy.com. She has over a
decade of experience in a variety of technical roles and has focused on
SQL Server for the last 6 years. She enjoys performance tuning, indexing
strategies, and (most recently) SQL internals. She's President of the
local PASS chapter, a member of the PASS Performance SIG, & maintains an
active SQL Server blog at http://sqlfool.com.
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| Join us on Facebook! - Thursday, May 07, 2009Join CVINETA's Facebook group. We will use this group as a way to notify people of announcements.
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| Jeff Brand discusses topics from Mix '09 - Tuesday, May 05, 2009Meeting Agenda:
The Fifth Cedar Valley .NET User Group meeting will be held Tuesday, May 5th at 5:30 PM.
Featured Topic:
Join us for a special event at this month’s .NET UG event – ugMIX!
If you were unable to attend MIX09, this will be a great opportunity to get highlights from the MIX09 conference at a location that is closer to home.
You’ll get detailed information and in-depth demonstrations on the upcoming release of Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3 as well as see some of the great new technologies that were introduced at MIX09.
presented by Jeff Brand - Microsoft Evangelist/Developer
If you have any specific questions or areas you would like covered please feel free to email info@cvineta.org with your request.
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