Here's where you'll find the code and presentations. Our next meeting will be in March.

Here's Kyle Kelly's presentation on SQLite on Android: Android_SQLite.zip (125.79 kb)

Here's David Cameron's presentation on logging on Windows Phone 7: LogginForWp7.zip (1.07 mb)

Here's Laurie White's presentation on Your CS Teacher: http://goo.gl/VflN6

Others will be posted as they become available. 

The next meeting is on Tuesday (1/17/2012) at 7pm! This will be an Ignite-style meeting with several short presentations. If you want to present, please let me know. Update your social media. (:

So far, the confirmed speakers are:

Zack Moore

Kyle Kelly

David Cameron

The list of unconfirmed speakers are:

Dr. Laura White

Chad Brooks

James  Trimble

The meeting will be held Tuesday the 15th at 7pm in room 204 in the Computer Science building. There will be refreshments and door prizes. Come out and support the group!

Using threads to increase application performance of high latency operations

Description:

Many modern IO APIs feature Asynchronous IO routines which can be used to increase responsiveness and throughput, but sometimes we have to use synchronous interfaces. I'm going to present a simulation of a real problem I encountered communicating with a peripheral device and demonstrate several incrementally improved solutions which result in overlapping much of the latency for each operation. Additionally I will present a special purpose message queue created for this purpose and demonstrate its benefits over other message queues in this application.

Speaker bio:

Nathan Moore (Zack's brother) currently works at Mercer Engineering Research Center (MERC) in the embedded software division. Before that he worked on firmware for Smart Grid devices.

The meeting will be in the Mercer University Computer Science building.

The street address for Mercer is 1400 Coleman AVE, Macon, GA

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=1400+Coleman+Avenue+Macon+GA

or

http://binged.it/nM6xny

That should bring you to the North entrance. From there try using this PDF of campus.

http://bit.ly/mercer-macon-map

The Computer Science building is #14 on the map at the corner of College ST and Elm ST. 

Topic:

Building Applications with jQuery Templates

jQuery has been one of the most successful and popular open source project. Microsoft's ASP.Net team has showed love by contributing support for templates.  In this session we will see how to format and render HTML strings from JSON in the browser. And how to take advantage of templates to build ASP.net applications that are rich, maintainable, responsive and interactive.

Bio:

Ritesh Kothari has over 11 years of professional experience and has assisted companies such as Unisys Corporation, Keane Consulting and BCD Travel in building large enterprise- wide applications. He focuses on high-end consulting in the Atlanta region and specializes in Microsoft technologies. At present, Ritesh is consulting with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as an Architect and Lead Developer building a highly scalable web-based solution.

Outside of work he is very active in local user groups, participates in GiveCamp, and has presented to Atlanta code camp, Gwinnett Georgia Microsoft User Group, Atlanta.net User Group and Microsoft Integration Architect User group on topics such as WCF, jQuery and ASP.net. He enjoys spending time with his wonderful wife and playing with 3 year-old daughter.

The meeting will be on September 20th at 7pm. There will be drinks and snacks.

Tell anyone and everyone that we'll be meeting on Mercer's campus in the Computer Science Building in Room 204.

See y'all there.

Location: Mercer Computer Science Building.

[Update: 19 Sep 2011] 

The meeting will be in the Mercer University Computer Science building.

The street address for Mercer is 1400 Coleman AVE, Macon, GA

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=1400+Coleman+Avenue+Macon+GA

or

http://binged.it/nM6xny

That should bring you to the North entrance. From there try using this PDF of campus.

http://bit.ly/mercer-macon-map

The Computer Science building is #14 on the map at the corner of College ST and Elm ST.

If you aren’t familiar with jQuery it is a very powerful and easy javascript framework.

http://jQuery.com/

In addition, if you are interested in Windows 8, I will have my laptop available to look at and I have it dual booting into Windows 8.

http://www.buildwindows.com/

LINK to the slides: http://www.slideshare.net/ritu_kothari/jquery-templates

It's time to gather again.

We've got a guest speaker coming next Tuesday, July 12th. We'll see you at 7pm in the Computer Science Department at Mercer University.

Joel Ivory Johnsno will give a presentation on Mango. He's an MVP and his website is http://www.j2i.net.

Title: What's new in Mango - a tour through the new features and functionality coming to developers for Windows Phone.

Bio: Joel Ivory Johnson is a native of Georgia and presently works on projects using various Microsoft technologies. He attended school at Southern Polytechnic State University of GA for a Bachelors of Computer Science and a Masters of Software Engineering and is also a Microsoft MVP for the area of Windows Phone.

Location: Mercer Computer Science Building.

Using the map below, the computer science building is immediately North West of the “B”.

Map: http://binged.it/nM6xny

When: 3/15/2011 at 7pm

Where: Mercer University, Computer Science Building, Rm 204

Who: David Cameron

Welcome to your Windows Azure crash course

When: 1/11/2011 @ 7pm

Where: Mercer University, Computer Science Building, Rm 101

Who: David V. Cameron (Rent-A-Tech, LLC)

I'll be discussing the new mobile platform, Windows Phone 7 (WP7). The user group received some extra goodies and information surrounding WP7. There will be hands-on development mixed with a demo or two.

The Atlanta Web Design Group and Glen Gordon from Microsoft have put together a holiday party at {three} sheets in Sandy Springs (http://www.threesheetsatlanta.com/) fortechnology user groups in the Atlanta area on Wednesday, December 15th. Microsoft is going to hook up some Kinects to the TVs for gaming and are also throwing in for some appetizers!

The full details are at http://www.awdg.org/calendar/15613162/ and you need to register at the Eventbrite link on that page (http://atlholidayparty.eventbrite.com/), but you don't have to join AWDG to register or attend.

Please note that the venue asks for business casual attire and an unwrapped toy to donate to Toys for Tots is requested. 

Kyle says - "jQuery is a boon for developers on a budget.  It can be used to produce high-quality, professional GUI effects and masks for free!"

 Remember that we have a .Net User Group meeting next Tuesday (11/9/2010 7pm) at Mercer University's Bear Rock Cafe.