Speaker: Kyle Fritz & Alex Sleighter
Topic: Image Manipulation with HTML5: improving the speed of clinical decision making and kicking butt
Abstract: Learn how we leveraged Javascript and HTML5 technologies to build an extremely responsive medical image (DICOM) viewer and reduced the complexity (and load) of our server code by an order of magnitude. Our application is written in C# MVC3. To build the viewer we leveraged razor templates, backbone.js, and jquery templates. On the HTML5 side, we used canvas, webworkers and filestreams. This is not a hypothetical talk. We’ll show you how we used these technologies to make a real application that is used by physicians to save lives today.
Level: Intermediate-Advanced
Bio: Kyle Fritz & Alex Sleighter work at Healthcare IT Startup Vigilant Medical where they are responsible for the ImageShare product currently used by 10 hospitals to send over 1M medical images last year.
Location: Barrett’s in the Hunt Valley Town Center
Date: Wednesday, October 19th, networking begins at 6:30
Sponsors: Barrett’s, LCG Technologies
Speaker: Mark Lindell
Topic: Behavior Driven Development with SpecFlow
Abstract:Test Driven Development is so yesterday! Come learn about the practice of Behavior Driven Development. The presentation will be a short introduction and then full hands on development of a project using BDD practices. The code and tools used with be Visual Studio 2010, C#, Resharper, Moq and SpecFlow. This presentation is fast and interactive with no “Death by PowerPoint”.
Level: Intermediate-Advanced
Bio: Mark Lindell is the Software Architect for Philips/EPIS. Mark has been developing software since 1979 when he fell in love with a TRS-80 at a local Radio Shack. During the day, Mark spends his time evangelizing best practices, patterns, and beautiful code to multiple teams across the EPIS business unit. He hates the term Architect and prefers to be called a “Coding Architect”
Location: Vision Technology Services, 230 Schilling Circle, Suite 200, Hunt Valley, MD 21031
Date: Wednesday, September 21st, networking begins at 6:30
Sponsors: Vision Technology Services
Speaker: User Meeting
Topic: What’s next in Tech in 2011
Abstract: What is the next big thing in technology? Is 2011 the year of the Smartphone, Tablet/Mobile, Social Media, Cloud Based Computing, etc.? What should you be focusing you time on learning to prepare yourself for what is coming next? What strategies do you have for acquiring these skills? How can BaltoMSDN help
Bio :Not Applicable
Level: Intermediate
Location: Red Brick Station, White Marsh, MD
Date: Wednesday, August 17th, networking begins at 6:30
Sponsors: Red Brick Station
Geoff Snowman
Speaker: Geoff Snowman
Topic: Both Amazon Simple DB and Windows Azure Table Storage allow the creation of massively scalable data sets. In both systems, entities don’t have a fixed schema but instead provide key/value dictionaries. These databases support massive loads beyond the capabilities of any relational database. However, this flexibility comes at a price. Traditional data modeling tools like foreign key relationships and table joins aren’t supported by these storage engines. For developers used to working with SQL databases, new skills must be learned.
In this session, you’ll learn:
• Similarities and differences between Microsoft Azure Storage and Amazon SimpleDB.
• How to structure data in table storage.
• How to build web applications that run at massive scale by using table storage.
The code sample is written in ASP.NET MVC running on Azure with an Azure Table Storage database.
Level: Intermediate-Advanced
Bio: Geoff Snowmanis a web architect and independent consultant. From 2001 – 2009 Geoff worked for Microsoft Corporation where he focused on .NET development and BizTalk Server. Geoff’s technical interests include web development, social media, cloud computing, and service-oriented architecture. Geoff is a frequent speaker at developer community events throughout the Mid Atlantic and New York metro areas as well as online.
Location: Maryland Athletic Club, 655 President Street, Baltimore, MD 21202
Date: Wednesday, June 15th, networking begins at 6:30
Sponsors: Maryland Athletic Club
Speaker: Dave Clausen, Cloud Patterns
Topic: “HTML5”
Abstract: I’m a developer/architect with minimal artistic talent.
Some of my end-users are forbidden by Windows Group Policy from upgrading past IE7.
I set out to discover if HTML5 has any relevance to me.
If you can relate, then I hope you can benefit from the insights I picked up.
Topics covered (with some demonstrations):
• HTML5 background & introduction
• Why should I take the time to employ HTML5 if some browsers don’t support it?
• A first HTML5 page
• New elements
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Bio : Dave Clausen, MCSD is cofounder of CloudPatterns, LLC (custom software development), and cofounder of Roadmap (web-based project portfolio tool). He’s thankful for his involvement in some truly interesting projects, both at-present and in the past (example: UPS package tracking). When able to break away from software, he loves spending time with his family, and being involved at his church & with community service.
Level: Intermediate
Location: Maryland Athletic Club, 655 President Street, Baltimore, MD 21202
Date: Wednesday, May 25th, 2011, networking begins at 6:30.
BaltoMSDN is taking a break this month.
Speaker: Kevin Goff
Topic: Maps in SQL Server Reporting Services
Abstract: Do you feel like you need a map, just to create an SSRS map? Then this session is for you. I’ll build 3 different examples of maps in SSRS from scratch, using the SSRS Map Gallery, ESRI shape files, and SQL Server spatial data. I’ll also show how you can create drilldown effects, to navigate from a summary map to a more detailed map, integrating sales data. I’ll also show how to use C# to call a web service to pull geo coordinates into a database.”
Bio: SQL Server MVP 2010-2011
Microsoft .NET/C# MVP 2005 – 2009
SQL Server / Business Intelligence Senior Instructor and Curriculum Lead for SetFocus LLC
Author of Baker’s Dozen Productivity Series in CoDe Magazine
Regular speaker at SQL Saturday, CodeCamp, and User Group Events.
Have authored one book, and contributed MDX chapters to an MS Press SQL Server 2008 BI Book
Level: Beginner ->Intermediate
Location: System Source, 338 Clubhouse Road, Hunt Valley, MD 21031
Date: Wednesday, March 16th, networking begins at 6:30
Sponsors: System Source
Speaker: Randy Hayes
Topic: Sex appeal for your data – Dress it up with SQL Reporting Services
Abstract: So, you’ve got data? Now it’s time to give it a fresh face and show it off. Let Microsoft SQL Reporting Services be your stylist.
At this presentation, we will explore the value that Reporting Services brings to the table. We’ll delve into aspects from setup and deployment to connecting reports to data, data sources, and analytical cubes. We’ll see what are some of the basic steps to getting a report off the ground and how to expand it to make it fit your needs. As well, we’ll take a look at the interface to the services and how you can expose them to your applications, your SharePoint’s and your users.
Bio: Randy is a Microsoft MVP – Visual Developer ASP.NET. He has been in technology and development for over 20 years. From the early days of personal computers to today’s world of .NET, Randy has been involved in promoting best-practices and architecture as well as all-around great ideas for application innovation. He has been involved with .NET since early 2001. He has developed Web, WinForms, WebServices and various other applications with the .NET Framework. Today he is the president of Expert Network Solutions, Inc. and is also the president of the Central Maryland ASP.NET Professionals group.
Level: Beginner ->Intermediate
Location: System Source, 338 Clubhouse Road, Hunt Valley, MD 21031
Date: Wednesday, January 19th, networking begins at 6:30
Sponsors: System Source
Have a happy holiday and we will see you in January.
Speaker: None – Group Meeting
Topic: Windows Phone 7
Abstract: : This month we are planning to have an old school style user’s group meeting. There will be no speaker/presenter but just a bunch of folks with a mutual interest getting together to talk about technology. In this case the technology is Windows Phone 7 development. Windows Phone 7 hardware is here. The final development tools have been released and the product looks impressive. So if you are doing any WP7 development or wish you were please come with other liked minded souls and trade knowledge, dreams and experiences.
Level: Intermediate
Location: ETC, 2400 Boston Street, Factory Building – 3rd Floor, Baltimore, MD 21224
Date: Wednesday, November 17th, meeting begins at 7:00
Sponsors: Emerging Technology Center
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