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Announcements: Geek Dinner, TDD workshops and upcoming lectures schedule

Yes I know. been *real* busy. Hope to get back at you soon soon. Meanwhile, some community stuff I've been wanting to do and some stuff I've been asked to do. Also - I wanted to say thanks for the large amount of congratulations I got on my MVP post. It means a lot to me.

SO, here goes:

You can download the presentation slides from the last “XP and Agile concepts“ talk I did.

Mind you: this is all in Israel.

Announcing: Geek Dinner codename “Memory Leak” this month - the 19th

Announcing: TDD Workshop (beginners): this month - the 28th 

Announcing: TDD Workshop(Advanced): next month - the 8th

(See the full schedule here: http://dev.magen.com/Agile/)

Upcoming lectures (more specific information will be posted as the dates approach):

ADO.Net Best Practices and advanced Concepts  (XP talk is being rescheduled)

When: 21st of this month 17:30

Where: C# user group

What:

ADO.Net allows you to do many different things in many different ways.In this talk we'll discuss some of the most recommended ways of doing things, and things you should *not* do as well. Among the topics:

  • Data Application Block – features, benefits and usage
  • Concurrency Management - handling dataset conflicts
  • Performance tips and tricks
  • Error Handling

And a few more important and interesting things you should know when going deep into your Data Access Layer.

 Required knowledge: ADO.Net basic usage and working experience

 

Regular Expressions Deep Dive

When: 4th of august, 17:30

Where: VB.Net user group

What: 3 hours of working with Regex and showing some absolutely cool stuff you can do with them. Mind opener - guaranteed. Including Regex Groups, replaces and introducing The Regulator behind the scenes.

What a typical user group looks like

User group meeting today: Intro to SQL reporting services