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Matt Penner
Robby Thompson
Volkan Uzun
Dennis Palmer
Sean Dorsett
Kevin Menezes
Dave Cortez
Henry Vander Leest
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The Inland Empire .NET User’s Group promotes the learning of all the .NET Framework has to offer, as well as, exploring development methodologies, databases, and desktop and web applications.

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January 2009 Meeting
January 13, 2009
Matt Penner - Val Verde School District. Discussions on Developing with Passion and Creating High Quality Applications
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We meet on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at
Riverside Medical Clinic

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Next User Group Meeting

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Riverside Medical Clinic from 6:30 to 9:30 pm.

Matt Penner, Discussions on Developing with Passion & Creating High Quality Applications

As we begin 2009 it's a good time to reflect on how we're doing as a software development industry and as an individual. Have your glory days of developing past you by? Have your fantasies about fun and exciting programming lost their fizzle? What ever happened to those dreams we had as wide-eyed children (young and old) when we first discovered we loved computers? How do the users of our products feel about what we deliver?

This meeting is two-fold. The first half aims to be a directed discussion on how to regain and stay passionate about software development. Topics will include areas of development, work environment, people (co-workers, management, vendors and clients), physical resources, software tools, over-all strategies from development and deployment to maintenance, including all those areas in between. Feel free to speak your mind. If you are struggling in this area bring your questions, angst, worry and sob stories. If you love any part, or all parts, of your current career bring your heartfelt stories of fun and passion.

Hand in hand with being a passionate developer is the quality of our work. Our best passions tend to produce great results and, conversely, working on projects that are ill received (for whatever reason) tend to bring down our love of what we do. During the 2nd half we will touch on what it means to produce high quality results (this tends to be a roving definition at best) and how to do that. Again, feel free to bring the great ideas that have worked in your experience along with those that haven't. We'll try and touch on what can and can't be managed from the developer's end and how to offer the best results within the requirements.

Matt is a database engineer and the GIS Administrator for the Val Verde Unified School District in Perris, CA. He has been an avid developer since the days of Basic on an old XT and loves to be involved with technology on the cutting edge. As an officer in the Inland Empire .NET User's Group he enjoys regular discussions with fellow colleagues and presenters about development strategies and the future of technology. He has been an administrator of Microsoft SQL Server since version 6.5 and a .Net developer since 1.0. As a GIS developer for the last couple of years his "daily work" projects often include managing and manipulating spatial data.

2007/2008 Most Valuable Member Awards

It took a while for the idea to catch on, and I had fears it just wouldn't take. Boy was I wrong! The sponsors started to see what was happening, a buzz started developing and more and more members started participating. Points accumulated started to soar. In March, the highest point total was 7,900. When point collection for this year was stopped on July 3, the highest total was 19,400!

 

Most Valuable Member 2007/2008. 42 entries and total points of 19,400 - Volkan Uzun

Volkan has been coming to the meetings for several years, working in several levels of the group, most recently developing and teaching a 12 week Beginner’s ASP.NET course affiliated with the IEDOTNET, writing several blog postings per month, and recently received two Microsoft Certifications. He must stay up nights, thinking of new ways to give back to the development community.

MVM Runner Up. 21 entries and total points of 17,840 - Michael Roth

Mike has a ton of great ideas, and will someday make his fortune on the interwebs. He is diligent about submitting his points early, and loves to donate a previously won raffle prize to someone else.

MVM Second Runner Up. 23 entries and total points of 16,110 - Paul Chu

Paul makes the trek from San Gabriel every meeting. He is always here early to help setup, stays late to help tear down, actively participates in discussions during the meetings, and offers to help where ever he can.

Congratulations to all!

And a really big "Thanks!" to the sponsors who came through to help me with this. Rachel Hawley at Red Gate, Britt King at JetBrains, Janine Rood at InnerWorkings, Joseph Anderson at telerik, Marsee Henon at O’Reilly, and Woody Pewitt at Microsoft

See pictures of the MVM event on Flickr

The TechZulu video of the Most Valuable Member event is online! Check it out here.

Free Training from InnerWorkings!

InnerWorkings began with one small aim: to radically transform how software developers learn! Many developers discover new techniques by reading books, shadowing senior colleagues, or listening to instructors. But this means constant study! We want developers to go beyond pure theory and move headlong into practice. In short, we want them to learn by doing. To help get the word out about their pheonominal training techniques, InnerWorkings has worked out a deal to allow IEDOTNETUG members free training on .NET 3.5. All it takes is a simple signup process and away you go. Click here to sign up.

A big THANK YOU to InnerWorkings for this great opportunity!

How'd you like free server space for hosting a website?

Verio has teamed up with the Inland Empire .NET User's Group and INETA to provide all members with free web hosting space. The deal includes 100 MB of disk space, 25 MB of SQL Server space, and un-metered bandwidth. Verio wants to start getting developers valuable experience in dealing with web servers and this is how they're gonna do it. All you have to do, is 1) provide your own domain name, and 2) be a registered member of the IEDOTNETUG, and 3) not use your website for any nefarious dealings. The servers have .NET frameworks 1.1, 2.0, and 3.0 and are integrated with all the Microsoft Visual Studio Editions. They do not come with email servers, but for free, you have the full ability to setup a playground with the latest technology and learn, learn, learn.

Are you interested? I know you are. If you want your free website and hosting space, just send a message.

See you soon!

James