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.

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 ...

"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 ...

Our June 21st meeting will be Using jQuery Mobile with ASP.NET MVC by Peter Mourfield In this session we’re going to take a look at how we can start using jQuery Mobile to deliver mobile device friendly view using ASP.NET MVC. We’re also going to take a look at how we can leverage existing ViewModels to provide a rich user experience on the mobile device. Finally, we’re going to take a look at how we can extend the ASP.NET MVC ViewEngine to easily integrate mobile views into an existing ASP.NET MVC site.

With Tech Ed going on this week, I was unable to get a speaker. Since I had so much going on in my life these last couple weeks, I didn't have time to prep something myself. By the way, my son graduated from Clemson University Friday!!! If anyone is looking for a super, sharp developer with experience at entry level pay, let me know by leaving a comment below or by sending an email via the contact us page and I'll have him contact you. You'd be hard pressed to find a better prepared new college grad in Computer Science than him.

I have known several developers start playing with Silverlight who quickly decided it was more trouble than it was worth. At the March 15th meeting Dave Hammond will give a practical demonstration on how to get a Silverlight app up and running with minimal effort.