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Check out the new job listings on our job listing page.

One for DBA, one for Developer. The are from Noah Subrin who presented at our very first meeting.

Operation Silverlight (our game contest) is well underway. Someone is going to win a Zune, so get cracking!

I've poked around the dark corners of the Internet and found some Silverlight Game Tutorials that might help you out.

I'm not ranking them or judging them, just listing them for your enjoyment.

http://www.ddjsilverlight.com/

http://silverlightrocks.com/Community/blogs/silverlight_games_101/

http://laumania.net/post/PopTheBubble-Silverlight-game.aspx

Here's a great link that points to a bunch of Silverlight games:

http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/2007/06/29/index-of-silverlight-games-most-with-source.aspx

Good luck and have fun!

Microsoft Developer Evangelist Glen Gordon was on hand at last night's meeting and told us about the upcoming ASP.Net University to be held at their office over in Alpharetta.

This is a great opportunity to spend a day learning about ASP.Net directly from Microsoft. Did I mention the price? Free. Better than free, they will feed you and give away some prizes.

Check out Glen's blog for details here.

Great meeting last night!

Cliff Jakobson gave us a nice overview of what's new in .Net 3.5, Visual Studio 2008 and IIS 7.

You can get his powerpoint here: Whats_New_in_NET_3_5.ppt (1.29 mb)

We also started a new segment at the beginning of having a more basic topic done in a short format. Jeff Ammons spoke about table partitioning in SQL Server 2005.

You can read about Jeff's adventures in partitioning here and here. 

Here are a couple of pics: 

The meeting will be held at the usual time and place: 6:30 PM meet and greet followed by 7:00 PM meeting in Room 401 of Building 100 at Gwinnett Technical College in Lawrenceville.

For more information including directions, see our website: ggmug.com.

Heard about the new 3.5 version of .Net, but not sure what's really new? Come learn all about it this month as we hear from Cliff Jacobson, Senior Developer at Visioneering Games.

Cliff delivered this talk back in March at the Atlanta Code Camp.

Cliff is a great speaker and very knowledgeable about .Net.

Cliff Jacobson

Cliff is a local developer focused on web development doing both ASMX and ASP.NET plus AJAX development.  Cliff currently works for Visioneering Games, an Atlanta company building skill-based games including their prizewagon.com website that offers free Texas Hold'em poker.  Cliff was an MCT years ago and challenges himself with how to best present technical topics in a meaningful way to his audience.  Cliff can be found attending many of the local .NET groups, and presented at the code camp this last spring.

We're also proud to say that Cliff is one of our founding members at GGMUG

Operation Silverlight

At the last meeting we decided to extend our "Write-A-Silverlight-Game-To-Win-A-Zune" contest. The new deadline will be the September meeting. Everyone agreed that one month would be too little time, so hopefully the extension will encourage more people to enter.

The rules will be posted on the website, but the short version is here:

• You must attend TWO meetings in order to enter.
• You must be present at the September meeting(September 11, 2008) to win.
• You must submit an original game written in Silverlight that can be played by members in attendance at the September meeting.
• You must submit your entry to info@ggmug.com at least one week prior to the meeting.

Have a great week, and we'll see you next Thursday at Gwinnett Tech!