October 4 Meeting - Two Topics - SubSonic & WCF Web API

Our October 4 meeting will again be hosted by Morehead Associates. We're going to have two topics on October 4, as well as a few topic introductions and snacks at the beginning of the meeting. 

6:00-6:30
Snacks, sponsor introduction (none yet, wink wink), introduction to GiveCamp projects and plans. GiveCamp is coming up soon and Chris Dix has the details on some projects that need your contribution. 

6:30-7:15
An Introduction to SubSonic by Nick Spiers from WebStation. Nick will walk us through the use of SubSonic as an ORM and will present some real-world examples from which you can get up and running in no time with SubSonic. Nick will also have some comparisons to other popular ORM approaches. 

7:15-8:00
WCF Web API by Matt Duffield. Microsoft likes big stacks! Look at Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) or, better yet, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). With either of these "foundations", you start out a noob and you come out the other side a freak'in Ph.D in Quantum Physics. It doesn't have to be that hard! I know I have criticized third-party vendors for sometimes over-engineering their products, Infragistics but there has to be a better way.

Well, Microsoft is trying to make things better and they took their MEF champpion, or should I say "pusher", Glenn Block, and have him and team working on a new WCF Web API. From what I see, it is awesome. Just when you thought DLL hell was over you had Web.config hell with WCF. Those days are over and you will be surprised at how nice the new stack is. We will take a look at the new API and some of the features as well discuss the new drop announced at the Build conference.

8:00-end
Schwag giveaway, open discussion