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This month we are having two presentations.

Distributed Version Control with Mercurial (Jim Christopher)

CVS and its successor Subversion are good SCM solutions; but they solve the wrong problem for today's distributed and open development environments. Come learn what the real problems are, and how DVC systems like Mercurial address them. Focus will be on real world usage of Mercurial for distributed teams and open-source projects.

Dynamic Dashboards in Silverlight 4 (Matt Duffield)

Building a dashboard and supporting it can sometimes be very a time consuming and tedious for any IT department. Many systems have been put into place to support reporting off of cubes and systems such as Hyperion, Business Objects, and Microsoft Analysis Services/Reporting Services. If what you need is the ability to let your business build a dashboard based on the data that they already know then perhaps providing a custom simple system is all you need. Here is where Silverlight comes to the rescue coupled WCF Services. With these two technologies a simple intuitive dashboard system can be put into place where the ownership and maintenance of the dashboard belongs to the business and not IT.

Food will be provided.
When: May 20th, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Where: Microsoft Charlotte Campus
Questions: email me mjlefevre (at gmail.com)