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Developer’s Contest hosted by UCLA Anderson School of Management
Feb 5th
WHAT:The Developer’s Contest hosted by the Entrepreneur Association @ the UCLA Anderson School of Management
HOW IT WORKS:You and a team (up to three people) develop a business idea from scratch over a single weekend to win cash prizes.
WHEN:February 24 – February 26
WHY:
- Develop a business idea from inception
- Show off your programming talent
- Meet potential employers and aspiring entrepreneurs
- Develop your resume
Format in brief:
Up to 10 UCLA Anderson students will give a 1-minute pitch of their business idea to a group of developers at the Developer Contest kickoff on Friday. After the developers have heard all 10 pitches, they will then vote for the idea that they want to develop that weekend.
After the vote, the pitching Anderson student who received the most votes will have 20-30 minutes to answer Q&A with the developers about the idea and go into further detail. The developers may form teams of up to 3 members, with the option of selecting an Anderson student as a consultant.
The developer teams are given the weekend to develop a prototype and to prepare a presentation of their final product. Sunday evening each developer team will present to a board of judges. The winning team/developer will be selected by the judges and will receive cash and/or other prizes.
UCLA Anderson School of Management, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095
MORE INFORMATION AND RSVP ONLINE: http://bit.ly/
Session Notes – Practical AppFarbic @ Southern California .NET Developers Group
Feb 2nd
Last night I presented on appfabric at Southern California .NET Developers Group in Buena Park. This talk was an expanded version of my earlier talk in the code camp talk last weekend. I get a chance to talk a little more about network topology and enterprise load balancing scenarios where appfabric caching and session management really helps. I also touched upon few topics including AppFabric Caching Admin tool, Concurrency Models (Windows Server AppFabric Caching), Windows Server AppFabric Caching Concepts, Windows Server AppFabric Caching Logical Architecture, Windows Server AppFabric Caching Physical Architecture and Concepts and Architecture for app fabric design and deployment. My recently submitted tip on code project regarding Windows Server AppFabric Service Validation was also demonstrated.
Last but not least, one of the attendees brought up an excellent question of how to handle HIPAA and PCI compliant data in the cloud. To the best of my knowledge, based on my last conversations at the cloud summit in LA, the best approach is to do a hybrid cloud implementation i.e. public cloud CDN Style for the public facing sites while keep the sensetive data in-house where your internal data center is PCI/HIPAA compliant. Feel free to check with Lynn since she has been following this area closely.
Thanks to the great audience including celebrities like Jeremy Clark . Special thanks to Art Villa and Janet Chung for the speaking opportunity. For links and code sample, please see my previous talk.
Session Notes – Practical AppFarbic @ SoCal Code Camp Fullerton
Jan 30th
One of the great benefits of speaking to a group of peer developers and engineers is the valuable feedback and learning. In my yesterday’s session on Practical AppFabric Caching, there were various great questions from audience pertaining to app fabric development, deployment and configuration in the wild. The questions were about use of local cache, appfabric security model, local cache vs. global cache scenarios, high availability, performance monitoring and health monitoring / SCOM in appfabric. I am planning to do detailed blog posts on these topics in near future; but for now, these links should answer the immediate concerns.
As discussed, AppFabric 1.1 can be downloaded from here which introduces read-through and write-behind provider support, graceful shutdown, domain account support, new ASP.NET session state and output caching providers, compression and multiple cache client application configuration sections to the existing appfabric feature-set. The sample app can be downloaded from here. CacheWebAppSample.
Links
- AppFabric Home @ Microsoft
- Caching Algorithms
- Installing, Configuring and Using Windows Server AppFabric and the “Velocity” Memory Cache in 10 minutes
- Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook
- AppFabric Cache Feature Comparisons
- Velocity vs. HA Velocity
- Windows Server AppFabric Introduction
- AppFabric Client API
- Windows Server AppFabric Learning Center
MicroConf 2012: The Conference for Self-Funded Startups and Single Founders
Jan 27th
A shot out to te MicroConf 2012: The Conference for Self-Funded Startups and Single Founders to be held April 30 / May 1 at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, NV and Hosted by Rob Walling and Mike Taber
The Speakers Include Peldi from Balsamiq, Hiten Shah of KISSmetrics and CrazyEgg, Rob Walling, author of Start Small, Stay Small, Patrick McKenzie of Bingo Card Creator, Mike Taber of Single Founder and many others…
Anyone launching a startup with no outside funding who wants to hang out with and learn from 128 of today’s leading founders and entrepreneurs.
I have heard great feedback from attendees. So if you can, go!
Six years of San Gabriel Valley .NET Developers Group
Jan 26th
About six years ago, Rob Walling and I started San Gabriel Valley .NET Developers Group to facilitate the needs of developers and IT professionals of the San Gabriel Valley area. We quickly joined INETA and had been a member ever since. I recently receive this recognition certificate from INETA on completion of our six years of membership. Time does fly!
I would like to thank every one who made it possible; including my partner in crime Richard Trinh for his tireless efforts and consistent help, Green Dot Corporation for it’s constant support and sponsorship of the user group and to all our members who make this wonderful user group possible, month after month. This award is for all of you.
SoCal Code Camp Fullerton – Practical AppFabric Caching and Session Management
Jan 18th
SoCal codecamp Jan 28th – 29th is only couple of weeks away. Like always, there is a great list of sessions and speakers.
I’ll be presenting on AppFabric; Being a technical editor for an upcoming book on AppFabric, it’s a great opportunity for me to test out the specific interests around this area. Following is the abstract.
Would you like to learn about high availability, scalability and distributed cache management using Microsoft platform without getting all cloudy? Windows Server AppFabric is a set of application services focused on improving the performance and management of Web, Composite, and Enterprise applications. AppFabric provides a highly scalable in-memory application cache for all types of data. With the caching features of AppFabric you get Scalable in-memory, distributed cache for any serializable data, Seamless integration with ASP.NET, High availability and dynamic scale-out of cluster nodes, Optional local cache with eviction policies and cache change subscriptions and notifications.
In this demo-centric session, we will cover end-to-end implementation of a web solution using AppFabric for caching and session management. Intended audience include web developers who want to build high performance applications leveraging web programming techniques (e.g.ASP.NET, MVC, RESTful services, etc) and enterprise developers who create service oriented middle tier applications using .NET.
Please do try to come, it’s a great event for developers to get together and learn about new (and existing) technologies from their peers.
Caltech-MIT Enterprise Forum – Venturing in the Privacy Tug-Of War
Jan 14th
Venturing in the Privacy Tug-Of War: Opportunities in Controlling Personal Data
Great event tomorrow morning @ Caltech. Details below.
Saturday, January 14, 2012
at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Registration and Continental Breakfast: 8:00 a.m. Baxter Lecture Hall
Program: 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at Baxter Lecture Hall
Networking: 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at Baxter Lecture
Jan 18th – Parallel Essentials – Using .Net TPL w/ Nuri Halperin and Steve Bearman
Jan 12th
Abstract: Essential multithreading guidance on using .NET parallel features. We will explore the what, why and especially HOW to use the newly available parallel and multithreaded features of the .NET framework. Whether you are writing server code, website code, Silverlight or desktop apps.
About the Presenters: Nuri Halperin: Principal for +N Consulting Inc (Santa Monica, CA), Nuri brings over 15 years of development and leadership experience in internet, E-Commerce and corporate space. He currently serves as Solution Architect focusing on .Net technologies and platforms. Nuri has successfully championed initiatives in ASP.NET, database, data mining, E-commerce, integration projects and custom component development for specific business needs. In recent years Nuri has been active in the coding community, providing training, mentoring and contributing to the coding community, focusing on cutting edge technologies, C# and core framework programming. His passion for efficient computing and his SDLC perspective bring a unique and valuable contribution to every project he engages in.http://www.plusnconsulting.com
Steve Bearman is an independent software developer with his company, Suzy B Studios. He innovates and develops web and client software for all sectors from science and engineering through business and finance–especially the thorny, complex problems where architecture, algorithms, mathematics, innovation, and performance are critical. Always available to help develop software, he often leads development teams. Along the way he has managed both marketing and operations for a manufacturing corporation, taught graduate computer science, and published technical papers dealing with data. He has a special fondness for good algorithms and appropriate technology.
Meeting Agenda
* 6:00p Mixer/Networking/Pizza
* 6:30p Presentation Starts
* 8:00p Raffle
Directions: Park in parking structure at 570 E Huntington Dr, Monrovia, CA 91016 . Meeting is across the street in 605 E Huntington Dr. Once parked, use the overhead walk way to get to the building. The meeting will be right inside the door after the walk way.
Bayesian Inference, Prediction and Decision-Making II Short Course
Oct 26th
The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Statistical Association Sponsored One Day Short Course
Bayesian Inference, Prediction and Decision-Making II
November 6, 2011
Lecturer
Professor David Draper
Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Baskin School of Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz
Lecture notes:(PDF format)
Architectural Considerations for ASP.NET MVC Migration @ SoCal Architecture Group
Feb 15th
I will be speaking at the next SoCal IASA chapter meeting on Thursday February 17, 2011 at Rancho Santiago Community College District, 2323 N. Broadway, Santa Ana. Meeting starts at 7:00 pm; RSVP by emailing to mike.vincent@mvasoftware.com if you plan to attend.
Architectural Considerations for ASP.NET MVC Migration
The Model View Controller (MVC) architectural pattern separates an application into three main components: the model, the view, and the controller. The ASP.NET MVC framework provides an alternative to the ASP.NET Web Forms pattern for creating MVC based Web applications. The applications created with ASP.NET Web Forms follow specific design patterns and adopt similar architectural decisions. It may not always be an optimal course of action to directly migrate these architectural patterns to the new MVC framework, but it will clearly show the difference of the new model and what challenges and efforts are to be expected with moving to the new framework. The talk elaborates on how does ASP.NET MVC represents general web application development concepts such as page lifecycle, server controls, event driven model and postback mechanism, persistence, user controls, view state, separation of markup and logic , route handlers, controller factories and view engines.
In this code centric presentation, I will discuss each of those ASP.NET WebForms design patterns and show whether and how they can be transferred and implemented in the new framework. At the end of this session you would have a better understanding of the architectural differences of those two frameworks and what amount of changes, reengineering and learning curve you should expect if you decide to go along with migration of your projects from ASP.NET WebForms model to ASP.NET MVC framework.
Further details and directions on SoCal Architecture Group website.
