David McCollough

MSDN Events Presents: Windows Azure 2-Day Boot Camp - Tulsa

dmccollough — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:50:00 GMT

Want to learn more about Windows Azure ?

If so, click here and sign up for the 2 day boot camp in Tulsa, Oklahoma. February 8th and 9th.

Encrypted files and IIS 7 don’t mix

dmccollough — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:19:10 GMT

So today I received some front end components (images, JavaScript, css files) from our design team for a new version of our external web site.

Basically they sent me working wireframes. I have always liked taking the working wireframes and putting them into IIS so that other members of our development team and project management staff can see the progress on the wireframes and so that we have an easy way of comparing the SharePoint site to the wireframes.

One of the things I noticed when I unzipped the files was that the file names for all of the images, JavaScript and css files were green. I have been using a computer with a Windows operating system since Windows 3.0 and I have NEVER seen a file name colored green.

Not really wanting to spend a bunch of time learning why they were green I proceeded on to setup a web site on our staging server in IIS 7. This was all pretty simple and I have done it so many times I have lost count.

It was supposed to be simple, take the files and put them into a directory, create a web site using the IIS manager, ensure that the application pool identity account had read access to the directory and it should be done.

Much to my surprise I found that when I browsed to the web site, I was repeatedly prompted for my credentials.

At first I thought I missed something in my rush to configure the web site and move on to something more important, I hadn't, well I had I just didn't realize what the simple part I missed was.

So after approximately 6 hours, I asked one of the other guys in my office if he had ever seen a file with a green file name, he hadn't. We were both poking around the files and found that if you selected one of the green files, did a right click properties and clicked the advanced button that the files were ENCRYPTED.

So apparently IIS doesn't like serving up files that have been encrypted and will repeatedly ask you for your credentials.

This post is mainly for me so that if I ever run across the little evil green files again it won't take me quite so long to figure out why they are green.

Hopefully it will also help others as well.

Power Shell Basics for SharePoint 2010 – Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group

dmccollough — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:19:22 GMT

Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group
July Monthly Meeting

Topic: PowerShell Basics for SharePoint 2010

Speaker: Corey Roth

When: Monday July 12 2010
Where: TulsaTech Riverside Campus
Room: A-144
Address: 801 East 91st Street
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74132-4008
Time: 6:00 PM

Here is a link to a map to get you there.

Here is a link to a map of where to park and where to enter the building.

Prizes, Prizes, Prizes

We will be giving away some great prizes at this event, including:

Infragistics NetAdvantage for .NET Platform valued at $1,195.00

SQLSets valued at $149.00

Axosoft OnTime valued at $395.00

64 Bit Windows 7 Ultimate

XBOX 360 - Forza Motorsport 3

A couple of books

Microsoft Office Professional 2010

There will be a SharePint after the meeting at McNellies courtesy of a Microsoft gift card.

Please RSVP for the meeting at this link.

Tulsa Azure Boot Camp

dmccollough — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:00:08 GMT

Windows Azure Boot Camp presented by HyperVize & TulsaTech

When: Thursday July 1st and Friday July 2nd

Registration: Click here.

Where:

TulsaTech

Riverside Campus

801 East 91st Street

Tulsa, Ok 74132-4008

Click here for a map.

Summary

Tulsa Windows Azure Boot Camp is a comprehensive 2 day training program for members of the development community in Tulsa Oklahoma. At the conclusion of this program, the attendees should have a deep understanding of Azure, BPOS, and advanced development techniques for both platforms.

Who should attend:

Web Developers, Backend Developers, SQL DBAs, Consultants, & IT Leaders who are interested in using Azure for development, data storage, or processing.

Both days is suggested, but if you can't attend both days, contact us for a special one day pass.

Schedule:

Day one of the training sessions will be held from July 1^st 2010 between the hours of 9AM and 4:30PM. Topics covered on day 1: Azure Basics, Web Development, & Data Storage.

Day two of the training sessions will be held from July 2^nd 2010 between the hours of 9AM and 4:30PM. Topics covered on day 2: Architecture, Business Value, SOA Development, SQL Azure, & Advanced Development.

Pre-requisites:

If you want to stay up to speed on the Windows Azure Labs you will need to install the tools and updates listed on the Windows Azure Boot Camp website: http://windowsazurebootcamp.com/whattobring

Boot Camp Agenda

Day 1 – July1^st 2010:

· 8:30 – 9:00 - Registration

· 9:00 – 10:00 - Module 1: Intro to Azure & Cloud Computing

· 10:00 – 11:00 - Module 2: Using Web Roles

· 11:00 – Noon - Lab 1 & workstation configuration

· Noon – 1:00 - Lunch

· 1:00 – 2:00 - Module 3: Blobs

· 2:00 – 3:00 - Module 4: Tables

· 3:00 – 4:00 - Module 5: Queues

· 4:00 – ? - Q&A / Open Discussion

Day 2 – July 2^nd 2010:

· 9:00 – 10:00 - Module 6: Building a business with Azure

· 10:00 – 11:00 - Module 7: Cloud Scenarios

· 11:00 – Noon - Module 8: SQL Azure

· Noon – 1:00 - Lunch

· 1:00 – 2:00 - Module 9: Basic Worker Roles

· 2:00 – 3:00 - Module 10: Advanced Worker Roles

· 3:00 – 4:00 - Module 11: Azure Diagnostics

· 4:00 – ??? - Module 12: App Fabric

Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group – SharePoint 2010 Mini-Launch Event - Review

dmccollough — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:04:00 GMT

The Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group set a record for attendance last night at our SharePoint 2010 Mini-Launch Event. Approximately 40+ people showed up to listen to SharePoint MVP Eric Shupps, The SharePoint Cowboy to discuss all of the new features for both administrators and developers.

All of the Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group Officers worked very hard to ensure that this event happened.

We hosted our event at our local Dave & Busters and it was a great location with good food and great service.

All of the officers of the Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group would like to extend a big Thank You to all of our sponsor that helped us in making our SharePoint 2010 Mini-Launch Event a reality.

Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group – SharePoint 2010 Mini-Launch Event

dmccollough — Mon, 03 May 2010 17:34:00 GMT

Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group

Presents a

SharePoint 2010 Mini-Launch Event

featuring

Special guest speaker Eric Shupps, The SharePoint Cowboy

A GREAT big Thank You to our sponsors for making this happen.

Please take a minute and visit their websites.

Note: We have limited seating available for this event so please sign up now by clicking here.

When: Thursday May 13th 2010

Where: Dave & Busters

6812 S. 105th East Ave

Tulsa, Oklahoma 74133

Click here for directions

Time: 6:00 PM

Prizes, Prizes, Prizes

We will be giving away some great prizes at this event, including:

Studio for SharePoint (Enterprise license) valued at $6,500.00

Telerik Premium Collection valued at $1,299.00

Infragistics NetAdvantage for .NET Platform valued at $1,195.00

64 Bit Windows 7 Ultimate

DevExpress CodeRush and Refactor! Pro valued at $250.00

JetBrains ReSharper valued at $199.00

Microsoft Arc Mouse

Xbox 360 Game – Halo 3 ODST

Xbox 360 Game – Forza Motorsport 3

Note: We have limited seating available for this event so please sign up now by clicking here.

Microsoft 2010 Product Tour

dmccollough — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:15:00 GMT

Randy Walker, Co-Founder of the Northwest Arkansas .Net User Group and Microsoft MVP has arranged for a couple of Microsoft experts, Sarika Calla Team Lead on the IDE Team and Kevin Halverson to give presentations on newly released Visual Studio 2010.

June 1 – Bentonville, Arkansas
Wal-Mart .Net User Group

June 1 – Rogers, Arkansas
Northwest Arkansas SQL Server User Group (lunch meeting)

June 1 – Springdale, Arkansas
Tyson devLoop

June 1 – Fayetteville, Arkansas
Northwest Arkansas .Net User Group

June 2 – Fort Smith, Arkansas
Datatronics

June 2 – Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock .Net User Group

June 3 – Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth .Net User Group

Please contact Randy Walker with questions at randy.walker@harvest-it.com.

Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group – Meeting Reminder

dmccollough — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:30:00 GMT

Just a quick reminder that the Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group is having it’s monthly meeting this coming Monday April 12th @6:00 PM.

Please come see Corey Roth’s presentation on SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services

We are going to be giving away some GREAT prizes

XBox 360 – Halo 3 ODST

Telerik Premium Collection ($1,300.00 value)

ReSharper ($199.00 value)

SQL Sets ($149.00 value)

64 Bit Windows 7

Infragistics NetAdvantage for .NET Platform ($1,195.00 value)

You can click here for more information.

You can click here to RSVP for the meeting.

NorthWest Arkansas TechFest

dmccollough — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:15:00 GMT

David Walker is taking Tulsa TechFest on the road to NorthWest Arkansas

When

Thursday, July 8th 2010

Where

Center for Nonprofits @St. Mary’s

1200 West Walnut Street

Rogers, Ar 72756

479-936-8218

Map it with Bing!

What is NorthWest Arkansas TechFest ?

It is a technical conference with a primary focus to provide training/teaching sessions that are immediately beneficial to the broadest range of IT professionals in their day-to-day jobs. We can accomplish this with numerous national and international speakers delivering 75 minute sessions.
A charitable non-profit event organized by local area volunteers. Even though it its a free event, we ask that you support the community and PLEASE bring TWO CANS or TWO BUCKS. All canned food will be donated to the NWA Food Bank and all proceeds will be donated to the The Jones Center.

Since our first event in the Tulsa area back in 1996, many other communities have been following our example by hosting their own TechFest events: Vancouver TechFest, Houston TechFest, Dallas TechFest, Alberta TechFest and Indy TechFest. We are very PROUD to now bring the event to NorthWest Arkansas!

Who should Attend?

Every IT Professional
IT Job seekers and IT Recruiters and Hiring Managers
Developers of all languages
Graphic and Web Designers
Infrastructure, IT and System Administrators
eMarketing Professionals
Project Managers
Compliance Managers
IT Directors and Mangers
Chief Compliance Officers
Chief Security Officers
CIOs/CTOs
CEOs/Executive Officers

With this many hours of training, anyone in the or wanting to get into the IT Industry will definitely find interesting and instructional presentations by professional speakers.

Want to keep informed?

More information can be found here.

Tulsa Dot Net Rocks

dmccollough — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 22:00:00 GMT

Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell of .NET Rocks are taking their show on the road and are going to make a stop in Tulsa Oklahoma on Wednesday April 28th, 2010.

This event will be from 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM.

This is a FREE EVENT, with FREE FOOD and FREE SWAG.

They are also going to be bringing a special surprise guest speaker (It could be Scott Hanselman, Scott Guthrie, Don Box, Billy Hollis, Dan Appleman or …)

Broken Arrow North Auditorium

808 East College Street

Please visit the Tulsa Developers .NET web site for updated information as it becomes available.

Tulsa - Launch 2010 Highlight Events

dmccollough — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:15:00 GMT

Tuesday May 04, 2010

Renaissance Tulsa Hotel and Convention Center

Seville II and III

6808 S. 107th East Avenue

Tulsa Oklahoma 74133

For the Developer

1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Event Overview

MSDN Events Present: Launch 2010 Highlights

Join your local Microsoft Developer Evangelism team to find out first-hand about how the latest features in Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 can help boost your development creativity and performance. Learn how to improve the process of refactoring your existing code base and drive tighter collaboration with testers. Explore innovative web technologies and frameworks that can help you build dynamic web applications and scale them to the cloud. And, learn about the wide variety of rich application platforms that Visual Studio 2010 supports, including Windows 7, the Web, Windows Azure, SQL Server, and Windows Phone 7 Series.

Click here to register.

For the IT Professional

8:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Event Overview

TechNet Events Present: Launch 2010 Highlights

Join your local Microsoft IT Pro Evangelism team to find out first-hand what Microsoft® Office® 2010 and SharePoint® 2010 mean for the productivity of you and your people—across PC, phone, and browser. Learn how this latest wave of technologies provides revolutionary user experience and how it takes us into a future of greater productivity. Come and explore the tools that will help you optimize desktop deployment.

Click here to register.

Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group - How SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services could change your life - The New BDC

dmccollough — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:56:00 GMT

Bio:
Corey Roth is a consultant at Stonebridge specializing in SharePoint solutions in the Oil & Gas Industry. He has ten plus years of experience delivering solutions in the energy, travel, advertising and consumer electronics verticals. Corey has always focused on rapid adoption of new Microsoft technologies including Visual Studio 2010, SharePoint 2010, .NET Framework 4.0, LINQ, and SilverLight. He also contributed greatly to the beta phases of Visual Studio 2005. For his contributions, he was awarded the Microsoft Award for Customer Excellence (ACE). Corey is a graduate of Oklahoma State University. Corey is a member of the .NET Mafia (www.dotnetmafia.com) where he blogs about the latest technology and SharePoint.

Abstract:
How SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services could change your life - The New BDC
How many hours have your wasted building simple ASP.NET applications to do nothing more than simple CRUD operations against a database. Many tools have made this easier, but now it's so easy, you'll be up and running in minutes. This session will show you hot easy it is to get started integrating external data from your line of business systems in SharePoint 2010. You will learn how to register an external content type using SharePoint Designer based upon a database table or web service and then build an external list. With external lists, you will see how you can perform CRUD operations on your line of business directly from SharePoint without ever having to do manual configuration in XML files. Finally, we will walk through how to create custom edit forms for your list using InfoPath 2010.

Agenda:
6pm - 6:30 Pizza and Mingle - Sponsored by TekSystems
6:30 - 6:45 Announcements
6:45 - 7:45 Presentation!
7:45 - 8:00 Drawings and Door Prizes

Location:
TCC (Tulsa Community College) Northeast Campus
3727 East Apache
Tulsa, OK 74115
918-594-8000
Campus Map | Live | Yahoo | Google | MapQuest

Door Prizes:
We will be giving away one of each of these:
XBox 360 - Halo 3 ODST
Telerik Premium Collection ($1300.00 value)
ReSharper ($199.00 value)
SQLSets ($149.00 value)
64 bit Windows 7

Introducing Windows 7 for Developers
Developing Service-Oriented AJAX Applications on the Microsoft Platform

Sponsors:
Thanks to our sponsors:

TekSystems - Thanks for purchasing the Pizza for our meetings.

ISOCentric - Thanks for providing us hosting for the groups web site.

Tulsa Community College - Thanks for providing us a place to have our meetings.

NEVRON - Thanks for providing us prizes to give away.

INETA.org - For allowing us to be a Charter Member and providing awesome Speakers!

PERPETUUM Software - Thanks for providing us prizes to give away.

Telerik - Thanks for providing us prizes to give away.

GrapeCity - Thanks for providing us prizes to give away.

SQLSets - Thanks for providing us prizes to give away.

K2 - Thanks for providing us prizes to give away.

Microsoft - For providing us with a lot of support and product giveaways!

Orielly books - For providing us with books and discounts.

Wrox books - For providing us with books and discounts.

Have any special requests? Let us know at this link: http://tinyurl.com/lg5o38.

RSVP for this month's meeting by responding to this thread: http://tinyurl.com/yafkzel .
(Must be logged in to the site)

Be SURE to RSVP no later than Noon on April 12th and you will get an extra entry for the prize drawings! So, do it now, before you forget and miss out!

Show up for the first time or bring a new buddy and you both get TWO extra entries!

Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group – Building workflows with AgilePoint – March 8th

dmccollough — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Please join the Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group on Monday March 8th

Bio:
Kindler Chase is an application developer for Cimarex. Early on in his career he built several e-commerce and cms systems in old schoolASP and eventually VB.NET before morphing into a C# desktopapplication developer.

Kindler is currently building WPF basedapplications built around the AgilePoint BPM server. He is a recovering MS Certified MOSS admin and developer who also happens to have experience in administrating and developing on top of Livelink.

Abstract:
Building workflows with AgilePoint.

Depending on time constraints:

- we'll *briefly* review AgilePoint
- review how AgilePoint has helped Cimarex
- build a basic workflow in AgilePoint's visual designer
- deploy the workflow to SharePoint and/or an out of the box website
- connect to the workflow using the API and a WinForm

Registration:

RSVP for this month's meeting by responding to this thread: http://tinyurl.com/yds5uvh.
(Must be logged in to the site)

Be SURE to RSVP no later than Noon on March 8th and you will get an extra entry for the prize drawings! So, do it now, before you forget and miss out!

Show up for the first time or bring a new buddy and you both get TWO extra entries!

Agenda:
6pm - 6:30 Pizza and Mingle - Sponsored by TekSystems
6:30 - 6:45 Announcements
6:45 - 7:45 Presentation!
7:45 - 8:00 Drawings and Door Prizes

Location:
TCC (Tulsa Community College) Northeast Campus
3727 East Apache
Tulsa, OK 74115
918-594-8000
Campus Map | Live | Yahoo | Google | MapQuest

Door Prizes:
All the normal swag and giveaways! Free Stuff! How cool is that?

Sponsors:
Thanks to our sponsors:

TekSystems - Thanks for purchasing the Pizza for our meetings.

ISOCentric - Thanks for providing us hosting for the groups web site.

Tulsa Community College - Thanks for providing us a place to have our meetings.

NEVRON - Thanks for providing us prizes to give away.

INETA.org - For allowing us to be a Charter Member and providing awesome Speakers!

PERPETUUM Software - Thanks for providing us prizes to give away.

Telerik - Thanks for providing us prizes to give away.

GrapeCity - Thanks for providing us prizes to give away.

SQLSets - Thanks for providing us prizes to give away.

K2 - Thanks for providing us prizes to give away.

Microsoft - For providing us with a lot of support and product giveaways!

Orielly books - For providing us with books and discounts.

Wrox books - For providing us with books and discounts.

Have any special requests? Let us know at this link: http://tinyurl.com/lg5o38.

SQL Saturday – Baton Rouge

dmccollough — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:00:05 GMT

Free SQL Server and .Net training! Chance to win great prizes! What more could a SQL Server Professional ask for? If this sounds good to you then don’t miss your opportunity to attend SQL Saturday! #28, the largest FREE training event dedicated exclusively to SQL Server, .Net, Development and Business Intelligence to hit Baton Rouge.

SQL Saturday! #28? What is it? When is it? Where is it? How do I get involved? Let me fill you in.

What:

An all day FREE training event with SQL Server and .Net sessions spread out over six tracks of Business Intelligence, Database Administration, SQL Development, and .Net.

When:

Saturday, August 14, 2010. Online registration is now open, but it is filling up fast so reserve your spot now. Attendee check-in will begin at 8:00am until 8:45am with opening comments from 8:45am to 9:00am and the first sessions beginning at 9:15am. A full list of session tracks and schedule is available.

Where:

Louisiana State University, College of Engineering

1109 Patrick F. Taylor Hall

Baton Rouge, La. 70803

We've posted a Google map on the Location page, but just in case here is the location and text directions!

Link to directions: http://www.eng.lsu.edu/misc/directions.html

Lodging:

The Cook Hotel

3848 West Lakeshore Drive

Baton Rouge, LA 70808

Contact: Julie Van Scotter Reservations Manager

(225) 388-1007

Note: Mention SQL Saturday when making reservations for event rates.

www.thecookhotel.com

Hotel Map:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=3848+West+Lakeshore+Drive,+Baton+Rouge,+LA+70808&sll=30.40634,-91.179914&sspn=0.010623,0.02311&ie=UTF8&ll=30.414261,-91.175516&spn=0.010622,0.02311&t=h&z=16&iwloc=A

How: All you have to do to get involved is register online to reserve your spot. Show up and attend the sessions that you like.

Still Not Convinced: How about a chance to win Telerik and Red Gate Software and other great prizes just by visiting our sponsors and having them stamp your Sponsorship Stampede card for drawings to be held at the end of the day.

So what are you waiting for? Register today to be a part of SQL Saturday! #28!

.NET Rocks Tour Stop

dmccollough — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:12:48 GMT