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To enroll, email Roy Lawson with "RSVP" in the subject or register online using through our posted events. Note: I will not respond so consider yourself registered if you send an RSVP or register online. I use the the count to determine how much food, drink, and books to bring.

Location:
University of South Florida Polytechnic
3433 Winter Lake Road
Lakeland, FL 33803

Room: LTB 2117 (This is a large campus, so look at this image to locate building LTB)

When: Third Tuesday of the month at 6:30 pm

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Blog Entries

TRAC plugin for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008

By Roy Lawson on 4/22/2009 10:16 AM

At last nights user group meeting which David Hayden spoke on, we got into an interesting discussion regarding TFS, Subversion, and ultimately TRAC. My main concern with TRAC was that it wasn't integrated with the IDE where you are able to manage work items quite easily in TFS.

There may be a solution to this problem.

Roy Lawson's .NET Ramblings

March Lakeland .NET User Group Meeting – Featuring Paul Jackson on Parallelism

By Roy Lawson on 3/17/2009 6:28 PM

The March Lakeland .NET User Group is off to a great start! I've decided to live-blog our meetings so...

Roy Lawson's .NET Ramblings

March Bass Fishing in Central Florida + Photos

By Roy Lawson on 3/15/2009 11:35 AM

Florida, and especially Polk County, is home to some really good lakes and if you know when and where...

Roy Lawson's .NET Ramblings

Basic Software Design Principles

By Roy Lawson on 3/14/2009 2:11 PM

One thing I feel we (the developer community) do is focus heavily on the more advanced topics. After...

Roy Lawson's .NET Ramblings

Unhealthiest job in the world

By Roy Lawson on 3/11/2009 9:51 PM

Unless there is a twinky taster out there, I would venture that software developer tops the list of unhealthy...

Roy Lawson's .NET Ramblings

I.M. Wright’s “Hard Code”

By Roy Lawson on 3/10/2009 9:36 PM

Thank you Microsoft (Joe Healy) for the I.M. Wright's "Hard Code" book which is probably going to become...

Roy Lawson's .NET Ramblings

Domestic Outsourcers Now Favored By Most Tech CFOs

By Roy Lawson on 3/9/2009 7:36 PM

In an interesting twist, American CFOs appear to favor American outsourcers over foreign firms. The lay...

Roy Lawson's .NET Ramblings

Silverlight a black eye for Netflix – or Netflix a black eye for Silverlight?

By Roy Lawson on 3/4/2009 11:39 PM

First, let me say that I am a big fan of Silverlight. It's a great technology and in my view it is going...

Roy Lawson's .NET Ramblings

WCF: REST or SOAP?

By Roy Lawson on 3/4/2009 9:44 AM

After my last post, I wandered over to Brian Noyes' blog and read some of his comments from earlier this...

Roy Lawson's .NET Ramblings

Roy’s Soap Box – Who is the Best Developer in the World?

By Roy Lawson on 3/3/2009 11:06 PM

How can you identify the best software developer in the world (or at least your office)? Truth be told,...

Roy Lawson's .NET Ramblings

Lakeland .NET User Group

Central Florida Microsoft Speaker Idol Regional Competition

Come and join us for the second part of the Florida Microsoft Community Speaker Idol Competition.

We are joining forces with the Orlando .NET User Group and the Orlando DotNetNuke User Group to put together this fun Saturday event on February 20th! Instead of holding our February User Group meeting on February 16th, we are asking that Lakeland .NET User Group Members attend the Central Florida Regional competition on Saturday, February 20th @ 5pm. The Lakeland User Group meeting will be combined with the Regional Speaker Idol competition for some guaranteed fun!

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

The Regional competition is the second phase in the competition and will be held at Tatame Tea & Sake Lounge, in Winter Park. User groups around Central Florida selected their local contestant to compete in this event. We will select a regional Speaker Idol and a runner up. The regional winner will win a $200 pre-paid credit card and will move on the the State finals where contestants will compete for great prizes such as an XBox, Zune, and the pride of being Florida's Microsoft Speaker Idol.

We are also putting together a .NET Jeopardy contest where all attendees will be able to win prizes and have lots of fun showing off your .NET knowledge!

So come and join us for an afternoon full of .NET fun! There will be food, drinks, and prizes to win! I'll be bringing my smoker so come by and try the best smoked chicken and ribs on the planet.

Lakeland is proud to be sending the Pride of Lakeland and our User Group Speaker Idol Winner - Ty Seddon. Good Luck Ty!

Ty Seddon
Lakeland .NET Speaker Idol

User Group Event Survey - Login to Vote

1. If the Lakeland .NET User Group were to host a training event, what would you be most interested in learning?

.NET RampUp - Covers the basics of .NET, object oriented programming, and programming fundamentals. (2)

18%

.NET Architecture "For Developers" - this would provide developers with the information they need to better design their applications. (5)

45%

Silverlight for Business Applications - Covers Silverlight basics and prepares developers to build Silverlight business applications. (4)

36%

2. What is your preferred training format?

Day-Of: A full day focused on a single topic (7)

64%

Weekend Bootcamp - Every Saturday until the topic is complete. (1)

"Lock-in" Bootcamp - One hardcore weekend where the entire training is conducted. (2)

18%

During the week, after work. (1)

3. Would you be interested in participating as:

Speaker (4)

25%

Student (8)

50%

Event Volunteer (4)

25%

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