The Legend of Lambda Tuesday Jan 17th, Chris Eargle will be presenting "The Legend of Lambda. Lambda expressions are a powerful feature of C#, one that can be wielded for good or evil. Attend this session for an adventure through the evolution of the C# language, from the depths of the delegate keyword to the expressiveness of the lambda expression. Chris will show you how anyone can easily learn to wield and empower code with lambda expressions. It's dangerous to go alone! Take this: =>.

As I mentioned at our last meeting, we were going to get together for a holiday celebration some time in Dec. We decided to get together Dec 6th, along with the SQL Server Innovators guild, at Bailey's Pub & Grille and have some fun.  If you plan on coming please register at http://gspdevssig1112.eventbrite.com/  . Note that this is the Tuesday before we normally meet.   It starts at 6:30ish and ends at whenever.   Special thanks to FGP for sponsoring this event.

The following zip file contains the info from Al Gonzalez's presentation on 11/14/2011.

Al Gonzalez will be presenting at the Nov. meeting. The presentation will provide a veritable smorgasbord -- wait, it’s almost Thanksgiving so a veritable cornucopia -- of Visual Studio extensions, libraries, links, tools and other miscellaneous items of interest to the software developer. Hopefully everyone will discover at least a couple of items that they haven’t seen before and find compelling or useful. Bio: Al Gonzalez is a long time member of the guild who has been working with computers since the 80s and who unfortunately has more tech interests than time (some blame Twitter others blame Denny, his Greyhound). Professionally, he is Co-Owner and Senior Software Developer of Progressive Software Solutions, Inc., a local custom software development company that concentrates on the Microsoft technology stack. The company is in its seventh year doing business in the Upstate.

The 10/18/2011 GSP Developers' Guild meeting is cancelled because I could not line up a speaker in time. I'll see you at our next meeting Nov 15th.

Glen Gordon from Microsoft will be presenting "What’s New in Windows Phone Mango" Windows Phone is the hottest new mobile application platform. With lots of devices on all the major carriers, plus Microsoft’s strategic partnership with Nokia, there’s no better platform to target development for than Windows Phone. Microsoft’s first major revision to the platform is on the horizon. Windows Phone code-named Mango brings new power to developers with new APIs, tools and capabilities. In this session we’ll take a look at what’s coming for Windows Phone developers in the Mango release, including background tasks & agents, emulator improvements, new tile and search integration capabilities, and more. Glen Gordon, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Glen Gordon is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft. He presents to developer audiences around the country at user groups and conferences, and supports the developer communities in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. Originally f ...

Hi, This Tuesday, 8/16, I will be doing a "Fun With LINQ" presentation at the GSP Developers' Guild meeting. This presentation will start out with the basics of LINQ and show you why I keep saying that it is a technology all .NET developers need to learn. I will also be covering, LINQPad, a cool tool that I now find invaluable. For much of the presentation I will be running LINQ or .NET code in LINQPad. During the presentation, we will try out a wide variety of different LINQ providers. Schedule ·         6:00 PM Pizza and networking ·         6:30 PM Announcements and reviews ·         6:45 PM Presentation ·         7:45 PM Second presentation ·         8:15 PM Prize drawings ·         8:30 PM Wrap-up The pizza and meet ...

Devlink – August 17th- 19th HTML 5 Web camp in Alpharetta – Aug 4th ReMIX South in Atlanta – Aug 6th Rest Fest in Greenville- Aug 18-20th

"Distributed Version Control with Mercurial: A new way to work" by Alan Stevens   What's wrong with the way we've been using source control? Nothing actually, but new tools have come along which empower developers and enable workflows that were not possible before. In this session, we'll examine the reasons that distributed version control systems (DVCS) were created. We will step through the flow of changes when using a DVCS. We'll discuss the DVCS alternatives available with demonstrations using Mercurial. Alan Stevens is a father, geek, vegan and software artisan living in Knoxville, TN. Alan regularly speaks at conferences and user group meetings about how to be a better software developer. Alan is an Open Space Technology facilitator. Alan received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in C# in 2009, 2010 & 2011. Alan is a member of ASP Insiders. When Alan is not hanging out with his family, posting on Twitter, singing or playing his acoustic guitar, he occasionally updates h ...

Friday June 17th, 2011 there will be a Windows Phone Garage event. It will be held at Immedion at 78 Global Drive, Suite 100, Greenville, SC. There are only 40 spots, so register now at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1792690987/ The idea behind the Windows Phone Garage is simple. Come out, install the tools, learn how to write a Windows Phone application, then build one. Best of all, it's free, and everyone is invited! The second half of a day is an open lab, and assistance will be available. It's a great way to get familiar with the platform and walk away with a completed application!