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New Meeting Location
After meeting monthly at Microsoft's office in Waterfront Place for over 12 years, we have moved. Actually, Microsoft have moved and have kindly agreed to allow user groups to continue meeting on their premises.
From May 2011, our meetings are held in their new office at
Level 28, 400 George St
(cnr Turbot St).
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QMSDNUG is the first contact point for Brisbane and Queensland .NET developers dedicated to sharing knowledge with and learning from each other. We primarily work with Microsoft technologies and acknowledge the support we receive from Microsoft.
QMSDNUG has operated continuously since 1998, before .NET!
Meeting Dates: Meetings are generally held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month, apart from December where that's a bit late in the month. See below for details of our upcoming meetings.
Location and Time: Meetings are held at Microsoft's Brisbane Office, Level 28, 400 George St, Brisbane. Most arrive around 5:30pm for a 6pm start and we are normally finished around 7:30. It is important to arrive before the building lifts are locked at 6pm. Late arrival procedure: see Monthly Meetings.
All welcome; bring your friends and colleagues. Whenever possible, pizza and drinks are supplied.
May MeetingTuesday 15 May 2012
Last month's two talk format was successful, so we're doing it again!
Start writing games for Windows 8 using HTML5 and CreateJS
Patrick Klug
Having spent the last six years focusing on WPF development I've recently (rather grudgingly) started diving into the world of HTML5/JS. In this short talk I want to share how surprisingly easy it is to get started with HTML5 game development using a collection of open source tools called CreateJS.
About Patrick Klug
Patrick is one of the guys behind the Windows version of the mind mapping software NovaMind (www.novamind.com). Coming from a pure C#/GDI/WPF background he has recently started to develop apps and games using HTML5 and Javascript.
Glimpse into ASP.NET - Firebug for your web server!
Anthony van der Hoorn
Glimpse is for your server what Firebug is for the client. After releasing Glimpse at Mix11, Glimpse has become a tool that is used daily by 1000's of developers around the world. Learn how to use Glimpse to reveal what is happening within your ASP.NET MVC and WebForms sites. See what tools are included out of the box and see how you can easily extend it to suit your needs.
For more information on the Glimpse Project, see http://getglimpse.com
About Anthony van der Hoorn
Anthony is one of the co-founders of Glimpse. He has spent the last 2 years living and working New York City, and is now back has home town of Brisbane. During that time he worked in the Financial Services sector developing high frequency trading systems. In his spare time, Anthony can be caught out and about taking photos, and working on other Open Source projects.
Follow Anthony on twitter at @anthony_vdh.
| Date: |
Tuesday 15 May 2012 |
| Time: |
17:30 for an 18:00 start, finishing approx 19:30. |
| Location: |
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 28, 400 George St, Brisbane |
| RSVP: |
All welcome, bring your colleagues
Registration via EventBrite is essential |
Previous Meetings
Thanks to Robert Wagner and Russ Blake for their sessions in April
Thanks to Andrew Harcourt for his session Mock the Universe: Unit testing the easy way
Follow Andrew on Twitter at @uglybugger.
Andrew has made UniMock available via bitbucket.
Thanks to Damian Brady for his session, From Desktop to Everywhere with ASP.NET MVC 3 and 4
Follow Damian on Twitter @damovisa or his blog at http://www.damianbrady.com.au/.
Thanks also to Anthony Borton for his session, What's new in Visual Studio ALM vNext?
All of the demo scripts used by Anthony are available in a Hyper-V virtual machine containing Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview ALM. Detailed instructions for downloading the VM as well as 6 hands-on-labs are available on Brian Keller's blog post Visual Studio 11 Application Lifecycle Management Virtual Machine and Hands-on-Labs / Demo Scripts.
Many thanks to Bronwen Zande & John O'Brien for their September session, Kinecting The Dots – Developing with the Kinect SDK
John and Bronwen have a blog post listing links to their Favourite Kinect SDK resources. Channel9 has a video of their DEV202 session at Tech.Ed Australia 2011.
Resources from all previous meetings, where available, are on the Previous Meetings page.
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