Sparkling Client in Minneapolis – Nerd Dinner
Erik is in Minneapolis teaching the Silverlight Tour class. Interested in a Nerd Dinner tonight (Monday 3.1.2010)? We’re meeting at Schuller’s Tavern in Golden Valley at 6pm.
Add comment March 1st, 2010
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Nerd Dinner in Portland February 2010
There’s going to be a Nerd Dinner tonight 2/23 at 6pm. We’re going to meet in the food court at Pioneer Place Mall (bottom floor – http://www.pioneerplace.com/).
Who’s going to be there?
- Erik Mork/Kelly White – Portland Silverlight User Group/Sparkling Client folks.
- Jason Mauer – Newly independent developer. Hopefully, he’ll bring his new “Troll Video” he plans to show at Ignite Portland.
- Mithun Dhar – Microsoft Evangelist/Azure aficionado/good person to know
- Lots of other good company
I’ve got to stop by the Genius Bar shortly before and get the lint cleaned out of my iPhone.
1 comment February 23rd, 2010
Shawn Wildermuth – Portland Silverlight User Group
Silverlight QA and Conversation with Shawn Wildermuth
Feb 19th at Webtrends 6pm – *This is a Friday (not our usual day)*
Do you have questions about Silverlight? Shawn’s the person to ask. He’s full of Silverlight knowledge, and he’s coming to Portland to have a conversation with us. Shawn is extremely well known and respected in the Silverlight community, and it’s going to be a real treat to have him. If you want to have a complex and nuanced discussion about Silverlight, join us for this meeting.
Shawn Wildermuth
Shawn Wildermuth is a Microsoft MVP (C#), member of the INETA Speaker’s Bureau and an author of six books on .NET. Shawn is involved with Microsoft as a Silverlight Insider, Data Insider and Connected Technology Advisors (WCF/Oslo/WF). He has been seen speaking at a variety of international conferences including SDC Netherlands, VSLive, WinDev and DevReach. Shawn has written dozens of articles for a variety of magazines and websites including MSDN, DevSource, InformIT, CoDe Magazine, ServerSide.NET and MSDN Online. He has over twenty years in software development regularly blogs about a range of topics including Silverlight, Oslo, Databases, XML and web services on his blog (http://wildermuth.com).
Warmup: Operating System in Your Browser Window
At the beginning of the meeting (6pm), Marc Schulper will show us how to write Silverlight applications for a web based operating system.
WHEN: Friday 02/19/2010 – *This is a Friday (not our usual day)*
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Vertigo) 6:30 p.m. Presentation
~9:00 p.m. Afterwards at TBD
WHERE: Webtrends (map)
851 SW 6th Ave.
Portland, OR 97204-1337
Sponsors: While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:
* Vertigo – http://www.vertigo.com
* Webtrends – http://www.webtrends.com
Getting There:
Trimet. I recommend taking Trimet to this event. Check out the map to see the tons of Max/etc. stops nearby.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=webtrends+in+portland&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=52.77044,117.949219&ie=UTF8&hq=webtrends&hnear=Portland,+OR&ll=45.518113,-122.678565&spn=0.00557,0.014398&z=17&iwloc=A
Parking. I recommend Smart Parks:
http://maps.google.com/maps?near=851+Southwest+6th+Avenue,+Portland,+OR+97204-1307+(Webtrends+Inc)&geocode=CZtaax3F1n_AFfqMtgIdhxCw-CFZtU_2hrTHig&q=%22Smart+Park%22&f=l&dq=webtrends+loc:+portland&sll=45.518074,-122.679161&sspn=0.011831,0.006499&ie=UTF8&ll=45.519218,-122.67643&spn=0.022281,0.057592&z=15
3 comments February 2nd, 2010
Portland Silverlight User Group
The Portland Silverlight User Group is off to a great start! It’s been an amazing group to be a part of, and for the first 2 meetings, we’ve had 70+ people. This, perhaps, makes the Portland Silverlight User Group the largest Silverlight UG in the world 
We’ve had rocking great speakers like Scott Stanfield and Mike Downey and stupendous sponsors amazing sponsors like Vertigo and Webtrends and FiServ.
Upcoming we have a hackathon in January and Shawn Wildermuth coming in February!
People are talking about how 2010 is going to be the year of Silverlight. Come to one of our meetings, and you’ll find out what the fuss is about.
Scott Stanfield on the awesomeness of Silverlight
Mike Downey on Flash and Silverlight
Add comment January 20th, 2010
How to pick the right frameworks for building Silverlight Applications
If you’re at the PDC conference in LA, I’m doing a Birds of a Feather session on Thursday at 8:30am. It’s going to be a community talk about the right tools to use in Silverlight. Data Access, Prism, Unity, MEF, RIA Services, Unit Testing, are the sort of things we’ll be talking about. It’s going to be a fun discussion!
Add comment November 18th, 2009
Scott Stanfield from Vertigo – PSLUG First Meeting
The first meeting of the Portland Silverlight User Group is happening on Tuesday December 8th, 2009!. Scott Stanfield from Vertigo is our first speaker! Interested in how Silverlight is used in some of today’s best applications (Think Olympics, Sunday Night Football, Hard Rock Cafe)? Scott’s group made them. It’s going to be a great chance to see Silverlight in action.
It’s also a great night to invite designers and manager types. I think Scott’s talk is going to be a good way of introducing people Silverlight.
details: Tuesday December 8th, 2009 Fiserv Cafe
Add comment November 6th, 2009
Silverlight Tour Seat Winner – Portland Code Camp
Congratulations to Jonathan Hornberger who won the Silverlight Tour seat giveaway at Portland Codecamp. Thanks to everyone who came and participated! It was one of the best Code Camps yet.
Add comment June 3rd, 2009
Silverlight Tour Comes to Washington DC
The Washington DC stop on the Silverlight Tour is coming up. It’s June 16th-18th!
More and more employers are looking for Silverlight experience, and this is a great way to learn Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3.
Add comment May 21st, 2009
Silverlight Tour Seat Giveaway – Portland Code Camp 2009
The Silverlight Tour is sponsoring Portland Code Camp 2009 by giving away a free seat! Register and show up to have a chance to win.
This year’s Code Camp is May 30, 2009 at Reed College. It’s looking like a great event. There are already 409 registered users and 54 sessions.
I’m going to be there, and I’m giving a talk on Prism. There are also other Silverlight talks (MVVM, debugging Silverlight, LOB apps), and lots of non-Silverlight talks (iphone, accessibility, client side rendering, lean software development, SEO, etc.) as well.
Add comment May 17th, 2009
New Screencast: Silverlight Best Practices – Model-View-ViewModel in Silverlight
There have been a lot of requests for us to do screencasts. Good news: we’re kicking off a series of videos about MVVM in Silverlight.
The first video is here and covers how to do MVVM in Silverlight without extra helpers (like Prism, etc.). It’s based on Shawn Wildermuth’s MSDN article. If you’re interested in best-practices in Silverlight, this is a video for you.
Add comment April 18th, 2009
