Ahoy! 

The April 2023 Meetup of Global App Dev User Group is scheduled for April 10th from 6-7:30 PM EST. Our meetup is virtual. Same wonderful content, awesome speakers & great interactions – just online. We livestream the talk on Twitch & encourage engaged conversations. Please see details below & kindly RSVP.

Topic:
Introduction to Game Design

Abstract:
Every developer secretly (or not so secretly) wants to develop games. However, most developers think there just is not enough time to learn the tricks needed to makes games. This session will show the you how to leverage your existing development knowledge to create games.

Speaker Bio:
Chris Gardner is a Senior Products and Platform Engineering Manager for Accenture, the Chairman of the DevSpace Technical Conference and a regular coder. Tortured by years of contracts that valued buzzwords over results, Chris has developed a true passion for finding solutions that fit the problem, not the technology of the week. Chris received his M.S in Computer Science, B.S. in Mathematics, and B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and is currently a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer, Professional Developer, Information Technology Professional and Trainer.

Please RSVP on Meetup @ https://www.meetup.com/columbusappdevug/.
Livestreamed @ https://www.twitch.tv/codeitlive.

Ahoy! 

The March 2023 Meetup of Global App Dev User Group is scheduled for March 27th from 6-7:30 PM EST. Our meetup is virtual. Same wonderful content, awesome speakers & great interactions – just online. We livestream the talk on Twitch & encourage engaged conversations. Please see details below & kindly RSVP.

Topic:
Cache Rules Everything Around Me

Abstract:
Caching can bring speed to the slow systems in your enterprise. In this session, we’ll explore how to avoid expensive computations and reduce database (or other systems) load with caching. Considerations include when to cache (cache policy), how to cache, and when/how to evict. This session will also explore and discuss problems and gotchas like cache sizing, eviction mistakes, and where your cache should live. Finally, we’ll look at how caching is implemented in the “memory-first” Couchbase architecture.

Speaker Bio:
Matthew D. Groves is a guy who loves to code. It doesn’t matter if it’s C#, jQuery, or PHP: he’ll submit pull requests for anything. He has been coding professionally ever since he wrote a QuickBASIC point-of-sale app for his parent’s pizza shop back in the 90s. He currently works as a Senior Product Marketing Manager for Couchbase. His free time is spent with his family, watching the Reds, and getting involved in the developer community. He is the author of AOP in .NET, Pro Microservices in .NET, a Pluralsight author, and a Microsoft MVP.

Please RSVP on Meetup @ https://www.meetup.com/columbusappdevug/.
Livestreamed @ https://www.twitch.tv/codeitlive.

Ahoy! 

The February 2023 Meetup of Global App Dev User Group is scheduled for February 20th from 6-7:30 PM EST. Our meetup is virtual. Same wonderful content, awesome speakers & great interactions – just online. We livestream the talk on Twitch & encourage engaged conversations. Please see details below & kindly RSVP.

Topic:
Build & Ship It!

Abstract:
If you are like me, you have many libraries, helpers, utilities that you have built over time that you use for multiple projects. You’ve thought about publishing them to NuGet so you can share them with other projects or your team but didn’t because they contain secrets, intellectual property, or aren’t well documented. With Azure DevOps, you can set up an Azure DevOps Artifact repository, private to you or your team, to securely store your packages and make them available to other projects and teams.

In this talk, we’ll take a small .NET library, and it doesn’t just work with .NET, and build an Azure DevOps Pipeline to publish it in our Artifact directory. With this pipeline, we will build the library, execute unit tests, sign the code using a Code Signing certificate, and deploy it to our Artifact repository.

And at the end of the talk, you’ll have a pipeline that you can add to the library, utility, and helper packages with some minor tweaks, when you are ready, to NuGet.

Speaker Bio:
Joe Guadagno is a Director of Engineering at Rocket Mortgage, the nation’s largest mortgage lender, which is based in Detroit, Michigan. He has been writing software for over 20 years and has been an active member of the .NET community, serving as a Microsoft MVP in .NET for over 10 years. At Rocket Mortgage, I lead three software development teams building and modernizing our internal services. He has spoken through the United States and at international events on topics ranging from Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Azure, Ionic, Bootstrap, and many others. You can see the complete list at https://www.josephguadagno.net/presentations. When not sitting at a computer Joe loves to hang out with his family and play games. When not playing games with the family, Joe is checking out the latest in Home Automation. You can connect with Joe on Twitter at @jguadagno, Facebook at JosephGuadagnoNet, and on his blog at https://www.josephguadagno.net.

Please RSVP on Meetup @ https://www.meetup.com/columbusappdevug/.
Livestreamed @ https://www.twitch.tv/codeitlive.