MDNUG: Melbourne MS Developer Group - Meeting Review - 24 August 2004
Last night we had the monthly MDNUG meeting at Microsoft's offices in Melbourne.
Thank-you everyone for an excellent meeting. A special thank-you to Jill Martindale for hosting the meeting, Brett for his impromptu talk on TechEd 2004, Todd Mitchell for his thoughts on WSE 2 and Reflector, Will for his list of links and information about blogging, Adrian for his information about Reflector plugins, Matt Cosier for his AU TechEd 2004 photos, and to the ten people that gave us a one minute ‘Who am I?’ talk.
We had about 40 people present last night and did some ‘hands up polling’. Here are the (very) approximate results:
'What do you do?' Statistics
Mostly C# developers – 15
Mostly VB developers – 10
Mostly ASP.Net developers - 15
Mostly Win forms developers – 15
Mostly Back-end developers – 10
‘Why didn’t you attend TechEd?’ Statistics
Attended – 1
Didn’t attend – 39
Couldn’t afford the cost – 10
Couldn’t afford the time – 4
Time and cost – 5
Not interested – 6
Topics too wide in focus – 3
Would have gone if it was MSDN/Developer specific – 4
Further Information About Topics
Please see William Luu's list and the addition list of links below for further information on the topics we discussed:
'Top Ten .Net Developer Tools' List
https://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/07/MustHaveTools/default.aspx
Developer Education/Information Videos
The Indigo building tour video - https://www.theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=28161
TheServerSide.Net tech talks - https://www.theserverside.net/talks/index.tss
Microsoft Reality TV - MSDN's Channel 9 - https://channel9.msdn.com/
Channel 9 Videos via RSS - https://channel9.msdn.com/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=14
Enterprise Developer News and Information
https://www.theserverside.net/
Object Relational Mappers
NHibernate - https://www.theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=28038
OJB.Net - https://ojb-net.sourceforge.net/
WinFS (Longhorn) - https://msdn.microsoft.com/Longhorn/understanding/pillars/WinFS/default.aspx
Data Access Layer Generators
LLBLGen - https://www.llblgen.com/
CodeSmith - https://www.ericjsmith.net/codesmith/ (See also: https://www.codegeneration.net/)
WSE 2.0
WSE 2 Home - https://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/building/wse/default.aspx
DotNetRocks on WSE 2 - https://www.franklins.net/fnetdotnetrocks/dotnetrocks.aspx?showid=69
MS RD
Benjamin Mitchell - https://benjaminm.net/
MS RD
John Bristowe - https://bristowe.com/blog/
WSE 2 Trace Tool - https://www.theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=28219
Mitch Denny on WSE 2 - https://notgartner.com/category/62.aspx
Reflector Plugins
Dump to files - https://www.denisbauer.com/NETTools/FileDisassembler.aspx
Reflector graph - https://blog.dotnetwiki.org/archive/2004/06/12/411.aspx
Random
Microsoft Business Framework (for Paul) - https://weblogs.asp.net/chrisgarty/archive/2004/05/24/140059.aspx and https://blogs.msdn.com/timbrookins/archive/2004/05/10/129124.aspx
NUnit (Unit Testing) - https://nunit.org/
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Next month's meeting will be on the 28th of September. See you all there!
Update: added links to Will's meeting write-up.
Comments
- Anonymous
August 25, 2004
Hi Chris, thanks for the write-up on the meetings. I've been trying to do the same with the Melbourne SQL Server SIG (it didn't happen this month though).
It's good to keep an eye on the MDNUG meetings even if I don't attend them...I've allowed myself one meeting a month, with support from my boss (a car, time off from work) and at the moment the SQL Server SIG is it. Cheers! - Anonymous
August 25, 2004
"LLBLGen - http://www.llblgen.com/"
That's LLBLGen Pro's URL, which is an O/R mapper :) LLBLGen 1.x is a dal generator. It's URL is: http://www.sd.nl/software -> llblgen section. :) - Anonymous
August 25, 2004
Sorry Frans. I did indeed get them mixed up. Thanks for clarifying and providing the additional link!