SVNUG Video Channel

Agile Development in .NET

presented by Jim Daugherty

Can't Get Enough .NET?

If you are a .NET developer or an information technology professional with a thirst for knowledge and you live in the Springfield, Illinois, area, then the Sangamon Valley .NET User Group (SVNUG) is for you! SVNUG offers local Microsoft technologists the opportunity to connect with other local technology professionals in a fun and engaging environment that emphasizes the power of the group's collective knowledge and experience. SVNUG also provides local .NET professionals with the opportunity to present on technology topics near and dear to them—from EF4 and WCF to MEF to Silverlight 4, WPF, and ASP.NET MVC and much more. Presentations are a great way for members to build their industry knowledge, skill sets, and resumes.

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Stuff Not Fluff

The Sangamon Valley .NET User Group is about working together to explore new and facinating .NET technologies using real-world knowledge and expertise—no more, no less. SVNUG will never be about vendors selling you third-party components or recruiters soliciting you to join their ranks. You will never be sold anything at SVNUG—except the opportunity to explore .NET technology in an open and collaborative environment. SVNUG is about stuff, not fluff.

NoSQL in .NET—March 2012

What: "NoSQL in .NET" presented by Jose Arce
When: Tuesday, March 6th, 2012, from 6:00 to 9:00 PM
Where: Plaza Room 1, Hilton Downtown Springfield (directions)

Join the Sangamon Valley .NET User Group (SVNUG) on Tuesday, March 6th, 2012, from 6:00 to 9:00 PM in Plaza Room 1 of the Hilton (downtown Springfield) for our monthly member meeting! Jose Arce will present "NoSQL in .NET." Learn how industry leaders like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit use NoSQL-based technologies like MapReduce, Hadoop, BigTable, HBase, SimpleDB, and Windows Azure Table Storage to read and write massive amounts of semi-structured data in real-time in order to surface large amounts of content to many end users concurrently. Discover how NoSQL can enable you to build highly visible, highly scalable, highly available next generation applications in today's competitive business environment.

The presentation will start at 7:00 PM. Please join us if you are able! Refreshments will be provided! Also, for members that do not have other parking arrangements downtown, vouchers will be provided for the Hilton parking garage (off of Monroe between 7th and 8th).

Loot, Swag, and Goodies—March 2012

Thanks to our product sponsors JetBrains, Perpetuum Software, and Red Gate Software, we will be raffling off some oh-so-delicious loot, swag, and goodies at our monthly member meeting on Tuesday, March 6th, 2012: