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For December’s meeting of the Perth .NET User Group (Thursday, 2nd December), we are running another DevJam community event, where anyone can give a short talk about anything .NET software development related.

• DATE:    Thursday, Dec 2nd, 5:30pm
• VENUE:  Enex100 Seminar Room, Level 3, 100 St Georges Terrace, Perth
• COST:    Free. All welcome

You can talk about any development topic but it must be between 5 – 10 minutes long:

• Anything you’ve done.
• Any new technology you’ve investigated.
• Any tips and tricks, or tools that aid development
• Basically, anything .NET software development related!

How do I enter? You must register by sending an email to mitch.wheat at gmail.com, no later than 20th Nov, with the word ‘DevJam’ in the subject, stating your talk title in the body. Let me know whether you will be bringing your own laptop (preferable). Presenter places are limited, so it’s first come, first served.

There are prizes for the three highest, audience voted talks (with the organisers’ decision as final in case of a tie break). The first prize is a copy of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN subscription, worth approximately $12,000! There will several other prizes which will be announced shortly.

There will be pizza and refreshments provided. If you have any questions, please send me an email.

Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2008 includes new compatibility features with SQL Server 2008 R2, product improvements based on requests from the SQL Server community, and hotfix solutions provided in SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Updates 1 to 8.

You can download here.

I’ve been re-awarded as a Microsoft MVP. Once again, I would like to thank everyone for their support. It’s an honour and I will try to live up to it. Congratulations to all those who were also awarded.

Join us at the Perth .NET User Group for a talk exploring what the Windows Server AppFabric is, looking at both hosting and caching,  and learn how to configure and manage WCF and WF services in AppFabric. We will examine the diagnostic and tracing functionality while building high performance and fault-tolerant applications.

• TOPIC:   So what is the Windows Server AppFabric
• DATE:    Thursday, Oct 7th, 5:30pm – 7:00pm
• VENUE:  Enex100 Seminar Room, Level 3, 100 St Georges Terrace, Perth
• COST:    Free. All welcome

Bill is Mentor with SolidQ Australia located in Melbourne Australia. Bill started his career in IT some 25-years ago with the US Defence as an IBM Systems Programmer. He switched to the Microsoft Windows platform 14-years ago, and has been involved with Windows development ever since. Bill has worked on numerous enterprise projects using Microsoft C/C++, Visual Basic and SQL Server. Most recently, Bill has been driving various application integration projects using BizTalk Server (2000 – 2009) to connect a variety of Microsoft Business Solutions applications with other systems. Bill is also a Microsoft Certified Training and has been actively training BizTalk developers since the release of BizTalk 2004. Bill has been awarded as a BizTalk Server MVP since 2004 and is the leader of the Melbourne .Net User Group.

There will be a door prize of a choice of license from JetBrains (one of ReSharper , TeamCity Build Agent, dotTrace Profiler, RubyMine, IntelliJ IDEA), and several 30-day coupons to Tekpub‘s high-quality, online screencasts for programmers.

Also note: Bill will be presenting a talk on SQL Server virtualisation at the SQL Server User Group on Weds 6th Oct. Details here.

Just a quick reminder that Tonight Dave Thomas is presenting two talks this evening (Thurs 30th Sept). If you haven’t already registered, please register here.

It’s a fact that we sometimes miss out in Perth when it comes to events that make the circuit over East. Well not this time!

Nick Randolph is running a free, 2-day event (14 – 15th October) on developing for Windows Phone 7: Windows Phone 7 Deep Dive Workshop visiting Perth.

As well as founding the Perth .NET User Group, Nick has been working in the mobile space for many years and is a Microsoft Mobile Development MVP. Registrations are open at the above link. Get in quick, this event will fill up fast…

Join us at the Perth .NET User Group, where Bill will explore what is Windows Server AppFabric, looking at both hosting and caching,  and learn how to configure and manage WCF and WF services in AppFabric. We will examine the diagnostic and tracing functionality while building high performance and fault-tolerant applications.

• TOPIC:  So what is the Windows Server AppFabric?
• DATE:   Thursday, Oct 7th, 5:30pm – 7:00pm
• VENUE: Enex100 Seminar Room, Level 3, 100 St Georges Terrace, Perth
• COST:   Free. All welcome

Bill is Mentor with SolidQ Australia located in Melbourne Australia. Bill started his career in IT 25-years ago with the US Defence as an IBM Systems Programmer. He switched to the Microsoft Windows platform 14-years ago, and has been involved with Windows development ever since. Bill has worked on numerous enterprise projects using Microsoft C/C++, Visual Basic and SQL Server. Most recently, Bill has been driving various application integration projects using BizTalk Server (2000 – 2009) to connect a variety of Microsoft Business Solutions applications with other systems. Bill is also a Microsoft Certified Training and has been actively training BizTalk developers since the release of BizTalk 2004. Bill has been awarded as a BizTalk Server MVP since 2004 and is the leader of the Melbourne .Net User Group.

There will be a door prize of a choice of license from JetBrains (one of ReSharper , TeamCity Build Agent, dotTrace Profiler, RubyMine, IntelliJ IDEA), and several 30-day coupons to Tekpub‘s high-quality, online screencasts for programmers.

Dave Thomas, a popular speaker and agile proponent has kindly agreed to present in Perth. He is a founding director of the Agile Alliance and is a Managing Director for Object Mentor a leader in XP, Craftmanship and Lean and Agile in the Large.  Dave is doing the opening keynote for the Agile 2010 Conference.

YOW! Night: An Evening For Software Professionals
Sponsored by Perth.NET and YOW! Developer Conference Australia (formerly known as JAOO)

In recognition of the importance of active software professionals who always seek improvement – YOW! Australia in cooperation with IBM, and your local user groups is pleased to invite you to join us for YOW! Nights. Hear great YOW! speakers and network with other software professionals.

Provisional Schedule of Events (Thurs, 30th Sept)

5.30pm – 5.45pm  Doors Open

5.45pm – 6.45pm  Presentation #1: Envisioning Backlogs

6.45pm – 7.00pm Quick Break

7.00pm – 8.00pm Presentation #2: Functional Programming and NoSQL Data

8.00pm –  Q & A

This event requires registration as we expect places to fill up fast. Please register here (where there are more details).

Via an interesting article from Joe Celko on bad practices in database design and the horrors of EAV (Entity-Attribute-Value) tables, there is a link to a great read on the ultimate ‘One table to Rule Them All’!  I find this tale very pertinent as I once did a short stint at a company with ‘start’ in their name, that had created a design with a single table for static data (although no where near as bad as the one described in ‘Bad CaRMa’).

Dave Thomas, a popular speaker and agile proponent has kindly agreed to present 2 talks in Perth. He is a founding director of the Agile Alliance and is a Managing Director for Object Mentor a leader in XP, Craftmanship and Lean and Agile in the Large.  Dave is doing the opening keynote for the Agile 2010 Conference.

YOW! Night: An Evening For Software Professionals
Sponsored by Perth.NET and YOW! Developer Conference Australia (formerly known as JAOO)

In recognition of the importance of active software professionals who always seek improvement – YOW! Australia in cooperation with IBM, and your local user groups is pleased to invite you to join us for YOW! Nights. Hear great YOW! speakers and network with other software professionals.

Provisional Schedule of Events (Thurs, 30th Sept)

5.30pm – 5.45pm  Doors Open

5.45pm – 6.45pm  Presentation #1 Envisioning Backlogs

6.45pm – 7.00pm Quick Break

7.00pm – 8.00pm Presentation #2 Functional Programming and NoSQL Data

8.00pm –  Q & A

This event requires registration as we expect places to fill up fast. Please register here