Looking for help in meeting your New Years resolution to get up to speed on the new technology coming down the pipeline? Join us January 13th 2010 as Stuart Celarier, an INETA speaker, presents on Sql Server Modeling Services (formerly "Oslo").
What a great way to kick off the New Year!
We will have FREE food, drinks, courtesy of Improving Enterprises, and lets not forget the prizes for those who attend! The food will arrive by about 6PM which offers plenty of time to socialize before the event start time at 6:30PM.
We have picked up several new sponsors that have generously donated product and/or services to our user group community. Pluralsight is offering a 1 month free subscription to their Pluralsight On-Demand training for unemployed usergroup members and $500 off the subscription price of On-Demand. JetBrains has dontated a ReSharper license. Apress has dontated copies of select titles and are offering discounts to user group members on e-book purchases. Techsmith has dontated copies of their software along with some nice swag! Be sure to swing by this week for your chance to win!
The meeting location has a parking garage where you will need to enter the code 5000# for entry. If you get there before 6:30PM, there is usually plenty of parting out front. The Improving offices are located in building II.
See you there!
Presentation: Modeling with "Oslo" (now SQL Server Modeling Services)
Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Time: 6:00PM
Where: Improving Enterprises, Dallas (15950 Dallas Parkway Suite 500 Dallas, TX 75248)
Parking Code: 5000#
RSVP: rsvp@dfwcsug.com or via Codezone (new users use Access Code 'BizTalk2006' - see Join Us On Codezone for more info!)
Maps: Google
Abstract
Microsoft project codenamed "Oslo" was recently branded as SQL Server Modeling Services, but don't get tripped up by the name. SQL Server Modeling still contains textual and graphical modeling tools and a language for modeling data and creating domain specific languages (DSL) and is still being developed by the Connected Systems team. It is a good choice for building enterprise-level data-driven applications and it is also contains general-purpose technology for raising the level of abstraction for creating other types of systems. We'll explore where "Oslo" has been and where it appears to be going, discuss what it means to model in the first place, and then dive into demos using the November 2009 SQL Server Modeling Community Technology Preview (CTP) and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2.
Bio
Stuart Celarier is a software architect and technical lead in Portland, Oregon. He is a Microsoft MVP on Connected Systems and a member of the INETA Speakers Bureau. He is a director of Portland Code Camp and a chair of the Birds-of-a-Feather track at seven Tech·Ed and PDC conferences. Stuart is passionate about new and emerging technologies that fundamentally transform software systems and how we create them.