We DO in fact have enough people registered for the Speaker Idol contest to take place at the October meeting, but there is STILL TIME TO REGISTER if you would like to compete as well.
If you would like to take part, just send me an email. Remember that you MUST have attended at least one prior GGMUG meeting, the time limit is 5 minutes for your talk, and the decision of the judges is FINAL (patented If-You-Enter-You-Agree-To-No-Whining EULA Rule).
Silverlight is a hot topic these days and our speaker for September is none other than Sergey Barskiy, Principal Consultant with Magenic, who will be talking about accessing data in n-Tier systems that use Silverlight for the UI.
Meeting stats will be the ususal:
We officially have enough contestants to hold our Speaker Idol contest in October! That doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't sign up, just that the contest will actually happen...
If you are interested in presenting a MAXIMUM 5 minute talk about a technical topic and possibly winning FABULOUS prizes, shoot me an email with your name and topic. You must have attended at least ONE GGMUG meeting prior to the October meeting to be eligible to win.
Also coming up in October will be SQL Saturday at Gainesville State College.
Even if you aren't a DBA, I'll bet you spend a good bit of your time working with databases, so make a point of attending this great event!
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As always I'm convinced I'm forgetting something important that I probably promised someone to put in this blog post/email. If so, just send me an email and I'll rectify the situation.
See you Thursday!
jeffa
Shoot an email to info@ggmug.com (or click Contact Us link) and let me know that you want your shot at fame, fortune and glory, GGMUG style!
Did I really say that? Yikes.
Seriously, we have some cool prizes and all you have to do is present a 5 minute technical topic that impresses our world reknowned panel of judges.
Basic rules are as follows:
So far we have ZERO contestants signed up, so your odds are GREAT of winning (assuming 4 other people sign up...).
Sign up TODAY or forever rue the day you failed to take your shot and swing for the bleachers, eat the peach, and drink life to the lees.
Silverlight is one of the hottest technologies from MS, so of course it is starting fires. Metaphorically, of course. This is not an actual pyromania day, even though that might be cool.
Sounds like a good time, so I've signed up.
The website seems to be down at the moment, but it is usually found at http://www.silverlightatlanta.net/Firestarter/minisite.html.
Welcome is at 8:00 am and the agenda kicks in at 8:30.
Speaking of the agenda, here it is:
I hope everyone can come to this one since the speaker will be me...
The topic will be "MVC In A Webhosted Environment".
Living within the constraints of a hosted world are radically different than having full control of your own servers. My examples will come from GoDaddy.com since that's who I use for my websites (which, ironically, I haven't yet converted to MVC, but I'm working on it!). My example code will come from the blogging engine I am writing in MVC (see, I told you I'm working on it!). Folks who were at the July meeting got a taste of the direction I'm heading with the Linq To XML short session I did.
Regular meeting time and place: Gwinnett Tech, Building 100, Room 401 @ 6:30 PM.
See the previous blog entry at GGMUG website for more details.
