When: Tuesday March 21, 2006 - 6:00pm  Where: Map/Directions to the meeting at Greenville Technical College Agenda: 6:00 PM Pizza and networking  6:30 PM Announcements 6:45 PM Presentation - "ASP.NET Caching Best Practices" 8:15 PM Prize drawings 8:30 PM Wrap-up ASP.NET Caching Best Practices Steven Smith, INETA Caching can provide truly tremendous performance gains for many .NET applications. In this session, you will learn about the caching features available in ASP.NET (v1 and v2) as well as best practices for designing applications with caching in mind and proper code patterns to use for cache access. Steven Smith, President, ASPAlliance.com Steven Smith is president of AspAlliance.com and AspAdvice.com. He is a Microsoft Regional Director, an ASP.NET MVP, and an ASPInsider Board Member. He is an INETA Speaker Bureau member, and author of two books on ASP.NET. He lives in Kent, Ohio with his wife and business partner Michelle and their daughter I ...

Whether you are looking for that dream job or are just trying to get a pay raise or promotion, there are 10 things you can do to improve your chances. In general these 10 things fall into 2 categories; the first is building your portfolio and the second is in building your network. While technology is causing rapid change in most industries and for many jobs, it is changing even faster for  Information Technology (IT) workers. You may not want to hear this, but as a result of this rapid change, you may need to put in more work and effort than you can squeeze into a 40 hour work week. Are you already putting in long hours? If not, would you be willing to if it could help you find that dream job, get promotions, and pay raises? If you aren’t willing to put in that extra effort and time, you might need to rethink your career path as you won’t be able to keep up with the changing technology. 1. Get involved  This is a big one.  Find out what professional IT orga ...